City festival and obituaries mark New York week
The People Yes festival in Central Park drew thousands as inflation sparked complaints over high prices. Mayor Lindsay sampled pizza with Rome’s Signora Durida. Musician Phil Spitalny, age 80, died in Miami after major surgery. Secretary Paul Powell died at 58 in Rochester. Daladier, Paleihan, Williams, and Ruskin also noted as figures pass away.
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Dore Sehary
New York
Central Park
Millary Schwartz
John Y. Lindsay
Signora
Clelio Durida
Rome
Phil Spitalny
Miami
Linois
Paul Powell
State House
Rochester
Minn
Edouard Daladier
Czechoslovakia
Paris
France
Stanford Medical Center
Samuel W. Wiliams
Atlanta
Martin Luther King
Gertrude Ruskin
Swimmers Pull Father’s Body From Hawaii Waters After Boat Sinks
Joseph Kanewa and his father were dumped into waters near Oli 15yard at 2 am when their 14 foot boat sank after an anchor snagged a reef. Kanewa, recovering from exposure, swam seven hours towing his father’s body until rescue at about 10 am. He reports his father died about an hour after entering the water. cause believed heart attack as the boat’s stern went under due to current.
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Joseph AH. Kanewa
Kanewa
Flosuiha
Kunewa
Williams Denies Rumors of Impending Death in Bangkok
Tennessee Williams addresses Bangkok rumors claiming he came to die. He jokes he would go to Rome to die after arriving last weekend. He denies seeking medical care from the king's physician and says he only needed a rest after two heart attacks last year while finishing a long play hoped for production this year.
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Tennessee Williams
Williams
Bangkok
Rome
Solzhenitsyn Refuses Interview After Prize Row
Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn refuses to answer four reporters and slams a door after the Russ Prize incident. He is reportedly working on a novel near Moscow in a residence linked to famed cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, amid tensions with the Soviet Writers Union which expelled him for criticizing the system.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Bolzhenitsyn
Moscow
Mstislav Rostropevich
Galina Vishneveskaya
Ivan Dentsovich
Wirst
Solahenitskyi
Soviet Writers? Union
Writers’ Union
Stockholm
US troop pullout ahead of Nixon timetable in Vietnam
Saigon reports U.S. forces are more than a week ahead of Nixon's plan to cut troops. Official figures show about 384,600 U.S. personnel in Vietnam, with declines past Oct 15 ceilings. Recent withdrawals include Marine units from the 1st Division, plus deactivations of 3rd Brigade 9th Infantry and 6th Infantry Brigades as combat divisions redeploy inland. A Cambodian outpost 20 miles north of Phnom Penh faced a daytime assault by Cambodian forces with several killed or missing, amid Mekong River area fighting.
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Nixon
Vietnam
U.S
Saigon
South Vietnam
11Th Marine
9Th Infantry Division
190Th Infantry Brigade
Is. Cavalry
1St. Marine Division
Camp Pendleton
6Th Infantry Brigade
Army
Navy
Marines
Air Force
Coast Guard
7Th Fleet
Phnom Penh
Mekong Rivers
Robbery Strikes Sophia Loren Jewelry Worth $600000
An armed four man crew robbed film star Sophia Loren at the Hampshire House on Central Park South while she slept. They seized jewelry valued at $40000 personally and $100,100 on loan from Van Cleef & Arpels, then fled as staff were restrained. Two teens later found a bag with Loren’s passport and other items.
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New York
Sophia Loren Sonday
Miss Loren
Fourman
Hampshire House
van Cleef & Arpels
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Waldorf Towers
Loren
Cental Park South
Hell
Tnez Bruscia
Nearly a Third of U.N. Guards Call in Sick
United Nations security force faced a one day sick out as 69 guards called in sick two days before the 40 state leader anniversary session. Rumors had circulated of a pay protest aimed at higher compensation.
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U.N
United Nations
UPI
Nixon peace plan rejected by Viet Cong envoy
Viet Cong foreign minister Madame Binh told L Humanite that President Nixon's five point peace plan is unacceptable. She critiqued the plan as failing to advance Paris talks or a peaceful settlement and argued it centers on deadlines and withdrawal while endorsing a provisional Saigon coalition for democratic elections.
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Paris
Nguyen Thi Binh
Viet Cong
Nixon
L'Humanite
Omar
Saigon
Cattle Sales Report From Local Fair Quietly Noted
A fragmentary Oct 1970 press page notes cattle sales at a local fair. The readable items reference buyer activity, prices, and animal counts, with limited names or locations legible. Further details are obscured by OCR damage, but the event centers on cattle trading and fair day outcomes.
Laird Sees Boost in Defense Costs if Talks Fail
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird warned that a failure of U S Soviet arms talks could lift U S military outlays within a year. He and Secretary of State Rogers, speaking on ABC, pressed a hard line on Soviet attacks while cautioning delays in SAT negotiations.
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Wallington
Melvin R. Laird
William P. Rogers
U.S
Indochina
Middle East
Vienna
United States
Rogers
Moscow
Mideast
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Carlo Ponti
Milan
Italy
Brian
Gary Sullivan
Thomas Sullivan
Sullivan
USN
Press-Telegram
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Reid Meredith
Betsy Deiz
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Clark Ave
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