New Mexicans Honor War Dead During Memorial Weekend
The Associated Press reports New Mexicans mark Memorial Day with trips and observances. In Albuquerque at Bataan Park Mel Madero honors the Spanish American War veteran George Warren Lambert. Veterans leaders urge Congress to restore May 30 as Memorial Day. Highlands University airs The Song Goes On about wars from Civil War to Vietnam.
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Associated Press
Congress
Albuquerque
Bataan Park
Mel Madero
United Veterans Council
George Warren Lambert
New Mexico
McAfee
Las Vegas
Highlands University Division of Mass Communications
Kissinger Faces Syrian Talks as Troop Exit Hints Unclear
Secretary of State Kissinger conferred with President Assad in Damascus amid talks on Israeli Syrian disengagement with no clear progress toward a final settlement. Kissinger planned more sessions before returning to Israel and Washington. Gromyko arrived as Tass reported.
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Syria
Henry A. Kissinger
Hafez Assad
Kissinger
Assad
Israel
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyko
Washington
Giscard d Estaing inaugurated as France's new leader
Valery Giscard d Estaing was sworn in as the 20th president of France, ending Gaullist rule and naming Jacques Chirac as premier. A 21 gun salute marked the ceremony at the Elysee palace as Chamson handed him the grand master insignia of the Legion of Honor. Giscard d Estaing, 48, aims to continue Gaullist foreign policy while distancing from old Gaullist leadership.
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Paris
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
France
Jacques Chirac
Giscard d’Estaing
Elysee Palace
Andre Chamson
Legion of Honor
Order
Chirac
Georges Pompidou
Old Guard
Gaullist
National Assembly
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Francois Mitterrand
Roswell Veterans Honored with Flag Ceremony at South Park
Loretha Smith placed an American flag at a veteran’s grave while 1100 flags decorated South Park Cemetery. Roswell Boy Scouts Girl Scouts American Legion Disabled American Veterans Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliaries and Roswell and Goddard high school ROTC units participated in Memorial Day services. Services were also held at Memory Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
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J. C. Smith
N. Richardson Ave
Roswell Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Roswell and Goddard High School
South Park Cemetery
Miss Smith
Memory Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery
Girl Scouts, Veterans Organizations
Palm Beach Banks Targeted by Forgery Ring
Police and bankers say an expert forger using the alias John A. Smith swindled Palm Beach County banks out of as much as 150000 by stealing blank checks and forging signatures to cash bogus checks. Officials note 14 of 29 banks and savings institutions may have been affected.
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Palm Beach, Fla
John A. Smith
Palm Beach County
Palm Beach
John B. Nora Jr
Nora Construction Co
Home Federal Savings and Loan
H. Loy Anderson
Federal Savings and Loan
54 Indicted in S Korea for Anti Government Demonstrations
South Korean prosecutors indict 54 persons for violating the April 3 emergency decree banning anti government demonstrations and for related offenses. The group includes two Japanese and is linked to the National Democratic Youth-Student Federation. Up to 1,024 people have been questioned. The maximum penalty cited is death.
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Seoul
South Korea
Chung Hee Park
National Democratic Youth-Student Federation
Park
Youth- Student Federation
Chosoren
Japan
Seoul National University
Tradition honored as Memorial Day services held in Roswell
American Legion official O R Johnson of Roswell defended tradition over moving Memorial Day to a Monday. He urged returning to the May 30 holiday while services at South Park Cemetery honored war dead and decorated Unknown Soldier graves. Roswell VFW Post 2575 planned similar observances at Memory Lawn Memorial Park with Frank Barnes as speaker.
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Louis Davies
American Legion
New Mexico
O. R. Johnson
Roswell
South Park Cemetery
Johnson
America
Roswell Area Forecast Calls for Warm, Scattered Showers
Roswell and vicinity expect widely scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly in the late afternoons with otherwise fair and warm weather. Highs near 94 today and 96 Tuesday, nights around 52.
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Roswell
New Mexico Voters Hear From Governor Candidates
A survey shows New Mexico voters warming to governor nominees as campaigns mix playground talk with policy. Voters in Las Cruces Artesia Farmington Santa Rosa Pecos and Columbus name preferences for Apodaca Chavez Skeen and Witt, noting impressions from TV and local outreach.
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Ann Anaya
Las Cruces
Jerry Apodaca
W.R. Phillips
Artesia
Tibo Chavez
Belen
Chavez
Farmington
Joe Skeen
Politicians face ire over Anapra port proposal in Columbus
Adams, co-owner of Columbus Stockyard, says residents oppose the Anapra port plan. He notes it would not benefit Columbus or New Mexico and could funnel revenue to the El Paso area. The Anapra issue has lingered for about 20 years as candidates discuss its fate.
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Drew Cloud
Cloud
Eva Biddy
Santa Rosa
Boston Witt
Kevin Moty
Pecos
Law and Order
Moty
New Mexico
Tiny Columbus
Floyd Adams
Jerry Aca
Columbus
Adams
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