Norway votes no to Common Market. Bratelli to resign
Norway rejected joining the European Economic Community by 53.9 to 46.1 percent in a nationwide referendum. Prime Minister Trygve Bratelli and his cabinet announced their resignations, leaving a political vacuum as Parliament weighs the outcome and Denmark prepares a separate binding referendum. Antimarket protests erupted in Oslo while Brussels trod warily at the setback.
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Norway
Trygve Bratelli
Per Borten
Oslo
Bratelli
France
Italy
West Germany
Belgium
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Denmark
Britain
Ireland
Jens Otto Krag
Brussels
Norbert Schmelzer
Communist
Socialist Peoples
U S proposes sweeping reform of world money system
The United States presented a broad plan to overhaul the global monetary order. It calls for flexible exchange rates, US intervention in currency markets, elimination of gold as an reserve asset, and a shift to valuing all currencies by Special Drawing Rights.
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Washington
United States
Treasury
George P. Shultz
International Monetary Fund
Shultz
U.S
Nixon
United
China and Japan seek broad ties at summit
The China Japan summit resumes talks after a shared start, with Ohira and Chi Peng-fei drafting concrete steps to establish diplomatic relations. Premiers Tanaka and Chou En-lai reinforce a mood of reconciliation as trade nears a billion dollar yearly scale.
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Associated Press
Peking
Tokyo
Masayoshi Ohira
China
Chi Peng-fei
Kakuei Tanaka
Chou En-lai
Chou
Tanaka
Great Hall of the People
Japan
Pacific
Asia
Presson decries Roswell area as GOP stepchild in race
Ed Presson, Republican candidate for U S Congress, arrives in Roswell around 10 45 a m and criticizes Chaves County as neglected by GOP campaigns while filing his primary expense and certification. He cites $7170 total expenses including a 2550 filing fee and calls for a lower reporting threshold to ease candidate obligations.
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Chaves County
U.S
Ed Presson
Roswell
Presson
Lea County
Harold Runnels
Santa Fe
Betty Fiorina
New Mexico Veterans Upward Bound Funding Debate
Leonard Spearman says a statement about 50 Upward Bound projects not including New Mexico is untrue. Roswell prepares a veterans program as HEW debates target city funding and availability of funds for future New Mexico awards.
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State of
New Mexico
Leonard H. O. Spearman
Division of
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Harold Runnels
D-N.m
Eastern New Mexico University
Roswell
Gillis
ENMUR
Howell T. Whiting
Roswell Chamber of Development and Commerce
Ernie Witucki
Office of Education
Whiting
Spearman
C. V Galbreath
HEW
Dallas
Fort Worth
Houston
Texas
Ef] Paso
Virginia woman survives near fatal chute jump
Nancy Gail Volkmann of Virginia Beach planned a women's lib exit for her first parachute jump but her chute tangled at Suffolk Airport. She fell about 3000 feet under a partly opened canopy, deployed a reserve chute too late, and was saved from serious injury after landing among trees, recalling she nearly yelled Pocahontas but forgot.
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Portsmouth
Nancy Gail Volkmann
Geronimo
Portsmouth Naval Hospital
Virginia Beach
Suffolk Airport
Three American servicemen reach Peking in prisoner release
Three U S Navy Lieutenants and an Air Force Major arrived in Peking after Hanoi release, heading toward New York City. Antiwar activists escorting them urged end to war. McGovern accused Nixon of interfering with their return and civilian medical care requests.
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Associated Press
Hanoi
Peking
New York City
United States
Navy
Markham Gartley
Norris Charles
Air Force
Edward Elias
Nanning
Changsha
Hunan
Copenhagen
Paris
Charles
Olga
Gartley
Minnie Lee
Cora Weiss
William Sloane Coffin
Richard Falk
George McGovern
Nixon
Schmitz to Arrive in Albuquerque for 8:14 p.m. News Conference
In Albuquerque the American Independent Party presidential candidate John Schmitz will arrive tonight and hold a news conference at 8 14 p.m. at the city airport. Julie Nixon Eisenhower will attend Guadalupe Mountains National Park dedication near Pine Springs Texas next Saturday with a 10 a.m. ceremony at Frijole Ranch.
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Albuquerque
American Independent Party
John Schmitz
California
Schmitz
Carlsbad
National Park Service
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Pine Springs
Tex
Eisenhower
Nixon
Frijole Ranch
Kissinger Talks in Paris With North Vietnam Envoys
Kissinger meets in Paris with Le Duc Tho and Xuan Thuy as part of the ongoing Vietnam peace talks. White House press secretary Zeigler had no further details, noting this is the 18th private session. Kissinger cited a mixed North Vietnamese response to a coalition government proposal in Saigon.
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Washington
Henry A. Kissinger
Nixon
Paris
North Vietnam
White House
Ronald Zeigler
Kissinger
le Duc Tho
Xuan Thuy
Ziegler
Vietnam
Hanoi
Saigon
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IMF
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
GOP
ENMAR
Washington, D.C
Officer Trio
David Dellinger
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