Biafra General Quits as War Ends Near
Reports detail efforts to halt hostilities after Gen Effiong broadcast from Cantonou and Ojukwu seeks peace. Nigeria and Biafra carry on sporadic fighting in central region while international powers discuss aid and cease fire terms. Effiong says a commission will meet federal representatives to negotiate. Ojukwu allegedly prepares to sue for peace within 48 hours as surrender nears.
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Harold Wilson
Nixon
Effiong
Cantonou
Dahomey
Eyoma
Copenhagen
Biafra
Owerri
Odumegwu Ojukwu
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Nigeria
Ojukau
Vane
Ojukwu
Yakubu Gowon
Wives seek help in Russia over missing husbands
Four California women, unable to meet Soviet officials in Moscow, plan to visit New Delhi to press Indira Gandhi for aid, then travel to Vietnam and Tokyo. They seek information on husbands missing in Vietnam and are detained at an airport hotel without visas.
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Moscow
California
Vietnam
Andrei A. Gromyko
Soviet Red Cross
Valentina Nikolayeva- Tereshkova
Arthur 8. Mearns
Los Angeles
New Delhi
Indira Gandhi
Mearns
Roosevelt Hestle
Stephen Hanson
el Toro
John Hardy
Azusa
Vientiang
Laos
Hanoi
Tokyo
Nixon Plans Gradual End to Draft Deferments Policy
President Nixon proposes a phased end to draft deferments, with debate centering on whether education and job exemptions favor the affluent. The article notes past actions by Johnson and current statements from Laird on troop withdrawals, Vietnam unit identifications, and ABM deployment discussions. It mentions local draft boards and varying deferment practices amid national security concerns.
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White House Congress
Pentagon
Burke’ Marshal
Kennedy
Johnson
Congress
Laird
Vietnam
Nixon
National Security Council
Gunman Fires at Crowd in Union Hall
In New York the gunman fired seven shots at a garments workers muster in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union Local 10 hall injuring four people. One victim was listed in critical condition as police pursued the heavyset gray haired man in a black raincoat who fled down the stairs.
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Union Hall
New York
UPI
Interna
Tional Ladies Garment Workers Union
Action lines on Fed influence and camping gear questions
A reader asks where to rent warm clothing and camping equipment for a snow trip. Alpine Ski and Sports in Los Angeles offers ski pants parkas boots and camping gear plus Pat’s in Redondo Beach and Huntington Beach provide rental options.
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Action Line
R. G
Long Beach
Sepulveda Blvd
Los Angeles
Pat’s Ski and Sport Shop
Redondo Beach
Palos Verdes
Huntington Beach
Beach Blvd
Action Lines on Mail-Order Complaints
The letter argues mail order purchases are risky with potential nondelivery refunds problems. Readers are urged to beware buying by mail and to seek local redress when possible. The editor notes mail fraud prosecutions are unlikely for nondelivery. Local merchants offer direct recourse for grievances.
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Action Line
Woman, 32, Slain in Bar After Sailor Held
A Long Beach woman Sonja Sue Myers, 32, was shot once in the chest while sitting on a bar stool at the Bi Ho Club on Santa Fe Avenue. Stanley Allen, 28, a sailor on the USS Mean, was booked for investigation of murder after the 10:20 p.m. shooting as witnesses looked on.
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Long Beach
Sonja Sue Myers
Harbor Ave
Santa Fe Ave
Stanley Allen
Mean
Allen
Homicide
D. EE. Bastard
Indictment Alleges McCormack Aide and Lawyer
A federal indictment accuses Voloshen and Sweig of using Speaker Voloshen’s offices and connections to influence government agencies including the Bureau of Prisons and the SEC in a Parvin-Dohrmann case. It cites a $50,000 payment for services, a $500,000 finder’s fee, misleading press releases, and multiple perjury counts plus alleged lies about meetings with SEC and other officials. The special grand jury, led by Judge Edward C. McLean, investigated seven months into Parvin-Dohrmann financial dealings and influence-peddling.
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Voloshen
House
Bureau of Prisons
U.S. Attorney For
District of Columbia
Securities and Exchange Commission
Swelg
Parvin-Dohrmann Co
SEC
Chicago
Sidney R. Korshak
Parvin-Dohrmann
Stardust Hotel
Las Vegas
Nev
Sweig
McCormack
Salvator Granello
Edward M. Gilbert Or
Joseph Maizlish
California
Emanuel Bello
New England
Jack McCarthy
New York
Granello
Irving Helfort
Dayton
Ohio
Edward C. McLean
McCarthy Aide Talks With Viet Cong Chief in Paris
Sen Eugene J McCarthy D Minn met with Mrs Nguyen Thi Binh chief Viet Cong negotiator at her Paris residence to exchange views on South Vietnam. The brief statement gave no duration. McCarthy had just arrived from Moscow after meeting Soviet Premier Kosygin.
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McCarthy
Moscow
Alexei Kosygin
Planes search forest for Bellflower couple after crash
Three Civil Air Patrol planes launched a search for William E Hallemeyer and Candice Hallemeyer of 9719 Ramona Ave in Bellflower after their Cassna 150 disappeared from Long Beach Airport en route to Van Nuys. Witnesses reported wreckage in the Angeles National Forest between Saugus and Castaic as deputies and FAA investigated.
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Civil Air Patrol
Long Beach
van Nuys
William E
Candice Hallemeyer
Ramona Ave
Saugus
Castaic
Angeles National Forest
Hallemeyers
al Head
E. 23Rd St
Hawthorne
Head
Haw
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