Vietnam lists 106 American prisoners for release this weekend
Saigon reports North Vietnam turned over a list of 106 U S POWs and two Thai POWs to be freed over the weekend. Viet Cong still has 30 Americans to release from South Vietnam. The pace and timing depend on terms about civilian detainees and end to harassment, as U S military withdrawals and mine-clearing shift.
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Saigon
United States
South Vietnam
U.S
North Vietnam
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Provisional Revolutionary Government
Bui Tin
Washington
North
South
Laos
Hanoi
License Bureau Faces Friday Deadline Jam in Chaves County
The Motor Vehicle Department in Chaves County is clogged as about 2,000 people still need vehicle license plates ahead of the 5 p.m. Friday deadline. Officials expect the line to lengthen as more residents arrive.
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Chaves
Motor Vehicle Department
Senators Abourezk and McGovern Fly to Wounded Knee
South Dakota's two senators arrived near Wounded Knee to aid negotiations in a two day hostage siege. About 200 American Indian Movement members hold 11 residents, demanding a Senate probe of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Gunfire was reported with no injuries. Federal agents and police cordoned off the town as negotiations were pursued.
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Wounded Knee
S.D
South Dakota
George McGovern
James Abourezk
Ellsworth Air Force Base
Abourezk
Washington
Senate
Bureau of Indian Affairs
FBI
BIA
Pine Ridge
SHD Spends Half Million On U S 285 Overlay Work
The State Highway Department spent about 500000 since July 1 1971 using its own crews to overlay 89 miles of U S 285 from Roswell to Vaughn. A Senate Finance Committee hearing will consider a bill to cap SHD projects at 10000 each by SHD forces. The bill is sponsored by Sen William Sego.
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Fred Buckles
Santa FE
State
Roswell
Vaughn
Senate Finance Committee
SHD
William Sego
R-Bernalillo
Albuquerque
William Botwinis
Associated Contractors of
New Mexico
U.S
N.M.-120
Chaves
Eddy, Lea
Otero
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Guadalupe
DeBaca
Torrance
Vaughn- Roswell
Sego
State Highway Commission
Highway Commission
Sens
R. E. Thompson
D-Chaves
SFC
Dollar markets face pressure as central banks intervene
The U S dollar weakened on European exchanges with West German central bank buying over a billion dollars to defend the floor. Nixon and Golda Meir meet to press Middle East diplomacy as 12 foreign ministers endorse a Vietnam peace push and outline enforcement steps.
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London
U. S
Zurich
Brussels
Milan
Washington
Nixon
Golda Meir
Israel
Middle East
United States
Tessier plot case: Roswell pair defer sentence
In Roswell Fifth Judicial District Court Judge Paul Snead deferred sentencing for one year for Sandy Schwartz Tessier and Earl J. Litherland who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a plot to murder Tessier. Psychiatric evaluations, quarterly reports, and a final assessment at year end govern the outcome.
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Roswell
Rowland Tessier
Fifth Judicial District Court
Paul Snead
Sandy Schwartz Tessier
Avenida del Sombre
Tessier
Earl J. Litherland
Ninth St
Litherland
Fulbright Offers Help on Wounded Knee Situation
Sen J W Fulbright said he would do anything to help clear up the Wounded Knee crisis but has not yet received a formal request for aid. He noted he is not well versed in Indian affairs and would seek guidance from officials before acting. He would welcome a formal application from the Indians to be heard.
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Little Rock
Ark
J. W. Fulbright
D—Ark
Wounded Knee
S. D
Fullbright
British hospital strike hits care nationwide
UK hospital workers joined a broad strike demanding higher pay exemptions, affecting over 200 of 2,250 hospitals with meals, laundry and cleaning disrupted. Emergency services pledged but staffing deemed inadequate as 750,000 workers across sectors walked out and rail, gas and Ford plants saw stoppages.
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London
Britain
Merseyside
Ford Auto
Ford
Heath
Area survey in central Chaves County underway
About 1 200 acres east of the Pecos in Chaves County are undergoing a reconnaissance geophysical survey for Seismic and Digital Concepts Inc of Houston. United Geophysical Corp of Pasadena contracts the main seismic work. The project spans four to six months with 20 workers on site and more to be hired locally.
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Chaves
Pecos
Reconnaisance Geophysical Survey
Seismic and Digital Concepts, Inc
Houston
Tex
United Geophysical Corp
Pasadena
Calif
Roswell
Floyd B
Pete’’ Graham
Graham
United
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D-Mass
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D-Ark
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Fulbright
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Asst. Dist. Atty
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