Nixon names Kennedy NATO ambassador at summit
President Nixon announced David Kennedy will become the U S ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Kennedy, former secretary of the treasury, succeeds Robert Ellsworth and underscores U S commitment to NATO amid talks with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt at the Florida White House. Brandt praised U S cooperation as the two leaders closed their two day summit, with invitations and a pledge to maintain close Washington Bonn partnership.
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Richard M. Nixon
Willie Brandt
Florida White House
Key Biscayne
Fla
Nixon
Peking
Moscow
Willy Brandt
David Kennedy
U.S
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Kennedy
Treasury
Robert Ellsworth
NATO
Brandt
Europe
Bank robbers cornered in Cologne hold up
Police cornered three men who robbed a Cologne bank of 97000 dollars, wounded one robber, and arrested the other two. They seized a 21 year old hostage who was rescued unharmed. In Carlsbad a 32 year old man James E. Rogers of Jal died in a single vehicle crash on U S 285 when his car overturned multiple times.
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Associated Press
Saakbruecken
Germany
Cologne
Carlsbad
James E. Rogers
Jal
U. S. 285
Rogers
Brown Berets Ordered Out of West Las Vegas High School
State officials demanded the Brown Berets vacate West Las Vegas high school by 9 a.m. Thursday after a tense stand with local administrators. Principal Joe Robert Sanchez said they would leave by 4 p.m. and relocate to the old Flores Pharmacy in West Las Vegas.
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Santa FE
Leonard DeLayo
West Las Vegas
Brown Berets
Joe Robert Sanchez
DeLayo
Flores
Public Schools
Harry Wagaker
Atty
David Norvell
State Board of Education
DeLayo and
Wagakter
Norvell
West
Ray Leger
Arthur Tenorio
Donald A. Martinez
Las Vegas
Berets
Martinez
West Las Vegas School Board
West Las Vegas High School
U.S. Jets Press North Vietnam in Heavy Bombing Campaign
U S planes mounted their fourth straight day of heavy air strikes on North Vietnam with about 350 aircraft massed, while Hanoi claimed seven American planes shot down in prior raids. Reports cited civilian casualties at Thanh Hoa and a clash near the Cambodian border as U S air power supported ground operations in Laos Cambodia and South Vietnam.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Vietnam
Quang Vinh
Ngho An
Constellation
Tonkin Gulf
Coral Sea
South Vietnam
Thailand
Radio Hanoi
Quang Binh
Demilitarized Zone
Thanh Hoa
U.S. Defense Department
Lyndon B. Johnson
North
Pentagon
Jerry W. Friedheim
Washington
Johnson
Friedheim
Friedhei
Barthelemy and
Mu Gia
Laos
Cambodia
Plain of Jars
Panhandle
Triborder
Central Highlands
Bar owner fined for Sunday sale in Cimarron
A Colfax County bar owner, El Redondo Bar's R K Wooten, was fined 225 by state Liquor Director Carlos Jaramillo after informal hearings. The local option vote in Colfax County had rejected Sunday liquor, while Jaramillo faces temporary court orders not to block Sunday sales at other counties.
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Otero
Dist
Lyle Teutsch
Roswell Seminar to Discuss Airlifting Livestock
Mayor William F Brainerd announced a Roswell seminar on January 7 at the Roswell Inn about airlifting cattle. The event will feature Boeing American Airlines World Airlines Seaboard World Flying Tiger Pan American and discuss the 747F freighter for live cattle transport. Boeing will test takeoffs and landings at Roswell Industrial Air Center January 5 to 12.
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William F. Brainerd
City of
Roswell
Bill Brainerd
Chaves County
Riac
Boeing
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Roswell Area Weather Forecast Update
Scattered showers today diminish tonight with a 20 percent rainfall chance. Partly cloudy Thursday, cooler today and tonight. Highs near 56 today and 53 tomorrow with lows around 35.
Ashbrook challenges Nixon for the presidential bid
Rep John M Ashbrook launches a conservative challenge to President Nixon arguing the 1968 campaign promises were abandoned He names New Hampshire and Florida primaries as starting points and accuses Nixon of risks to national security expanding deficits and propping up welfare as a guaranteed annual income proposal He says a strong showing could push for policy change despite not expecting to win the primaries
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Washington
Nixon
John M. Ashbrook
Ohio
New Hampshire
Florida
Ashbrook
U.S
Red China
Soviet Union
Democratic Party
United States
Paul Revere
NM teachers now due pay increases
Public School Finance Chief Harry Wugalter will send notices to 88 New Mexico districts directing payment of salary increases withheld during the national wage price freeze. Judge Campos ruled the Albuquerque Board could release funds, prompting Wugalter to authorize nationwide payment as guidance from the IRS is pursued. About $2.4 million in raises and benefits will be released statewide.
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Santa FE
N.M
Harry Wugalter
New Mexico
Wugalter
Santa Fe District Court
Dist
S. E. Campos
Albuquerque Board of Education
Albuquerque Classroom Teachers Association
Wagaker
Campos
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Nixon
Waygaster
Albuquerque
Internal Revenue Service
Wagakter
State of
Wayaker
Maryland Hails January 14 Independence Day Tradition
Annapolis marks the end of the Revolutionary War with ratification of the Treaty of Paris on January 14 1784. A 13 star flag flies over the State House display honors the ratification and delegates gather for a Maryland Line drill and a Revolutionary War era dinner for delegates from the original colonies.
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Associated Press
Annapolis, Md
Maryland
U.S
Britain
Continental Congress
Connecticut
Annapolis
South Carolina
Senate
John Jay
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
United States
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