British Troops Gain Control in Northern Ireland Barricades
British troops and armor occupied IRA strongholds early today in Londonderry and other cities, meeting little resistance. Bombs planted by the IRA later killed at least six civilians in Claudy as troops opened up “Free Derry” areas and moved to secure Catholic districts across Northern Ireland.
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Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Belfast
Lurgan
Armagh
Portadown
Coalisland
Dungannon
Claudy
TRA
Irish Republic
William Whitelaw
Whitelaw
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Nixon
Jack Lynch
Ireland
Britain
Ulster Defense Association
Free Derry
Bogside
Creggan
GERPDC backs Waterloo-Columbia site for St Louis airport
The Greater Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission endorses the Waterloo Columbia Illinois location for a new metropolitan airport serving the St Louis area. The five county group says the site aligns with regional plans and could offer long range benefits including growth linkage and transit study. More than 50 people signed up to testify at a FAA hearing in St Louis, with written testimony planned.
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Greater Egypt
Waterloo-Columbia
Missouri
Gerpdc
Hensive
Southern Illinois
St. Louis
Convicted murderer storms Massachusetts prison in deadly escape attempt
A convict armed with two pistols shot and killed a prison guard and wounded three others at Massachusetts Correctional Institute in Norfolk. He then barricaded himself with his wife inside a cell as state police and troopers moved in.
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Massachusetts Correctional Institute
Prison Shooting Kills Guard. Inmate Walter Elliott Named
Police outside a prison 30 miles southwest of Boston respond to a deadly shooting in the visitors room at about 9 am. An inmate armed with two guns killed head guard James Sousa as Walter Elliott, 30, already jailed for a 1968 double murder, is identified as the involved inmate.
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Boston
Anne Kirchhmeier
The
Boston Globe
Miss Kirchhmeier
Norfolk County Dist. Atty
George Burke
Walter Elliott
South
Elliott
South Boston
James Sousa
Fairhaven
Jury Selected Quickly in Bremer Trial for Wallace Attempted Killing
A jury of seven women and five men was chosen in roughly an hour as Arthur H. Bremer faced 17 counts for the May 15 shooting of Alabama Governor George C. Wallace in Laurel Maryland. Bremer pleads innocent by reason of insanity. He sat at the defense table with a guarded entry in a tight security courtroom.
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Arthur H. Bremer
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Ralph W. Powers
Bremer
Wallace
Laurel
Milwaukee
Secret Service
Nicholas Zarvos
E. C. Dothard
Dora Thompson
Benjamin Lipsitz
Baltimore
Pentagon Papers case heads to high court to revive trial
The government urges the Supreme Court to overrule Justice Douglas and resume the Ellsberg and Russo trial in Los Angeles after he blocked proceedings over wiretapping. It accuses Douglas of impermissible interference that could end the case. the defense wiretap element involved foreign intelligence.
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Supreme Court Today
William O. Douglas
Pentagon Papers
Daniel Elisberg
Anthony Russo
Warren W. Burger
Ellsberg
Russo
Los Angeles
McGovern proposes $4 billion cut to Defense budget
Democratic candidate Senator George McGovern announced an amendment to cut the Defense Department budget by 4 billion dollars from the 77 billion level in the weapons procurement bill. He argues the cut would shift funds to domestic needs while noting the timing ahead of the election. The Senate recessed during funeral services in Houma for Senator Allen Ellender as other defense votes faced opposition.
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Defense Department
McGovern
Congress
Senate
Pentagon
MacGovern
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Israel
Houma
Allen J. Ellender
Eagleton plans meeting as McGovern weighs staying on ticket
Democratic vice presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton says he will present his case to George McGovern tonight on whether he stays on the ticket. Senate Dem Whip Byrd urges a decision tonight, while McGovern weighs whether Eagleton is a plus or minus after disclosure of prior psychiatric treatment.
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Thomas F. Eagleton
George McGovern
Missouri
McGovern
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Eagleton
Louisiana
Allen J. Ellender
Agleton
Newsmen
Nixon
Jean Westwood
Basil A. Paterson
NBC
Meet the Press
Jack Anderson
Anderson
British labor crisis risks food shortages in Britain
Striking longshoremen left idle ports and marched on London as Britain faces a looming food shortage this week. Prime Minister Edward Heath plans talks with the Trades Union Congress over the new labor relations act, opposed by unions, after weeks of stoppages by dockers, miners, and transport workers.
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Britain
London
Edward Heath
Trades Union Congress
Labor Federation
Ogilvie Signs Police and Teacher Benefit Legislation
Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie signed six measures upgrading law enforcement training and pension benefits and creating financial aid for teachers of Spanish speaking students. The law expands state training cost coverage, improves widows and dependents pensions, extends workers compensation to deputy sheriffs and assistant state's attorneys, and grants sheriff deputies in downstate areas the same pension rights as state police and Cook County officers.
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Chicago
Richard B. Ogilvie
Illinois
Cook County
Panthers lawyers seek halt to special trial hearing
Four Black Panthers defense lawyers called a special hearing in the Edward Hanrahan case a fishing expedition aimed at testing statements from raid survivors. They ask a Circuit Court judge to halt the proceeding as the pro Hanrahan group and 13 codefendants face conspiracy to obstruct justice charges stemming from a December 4, 1969 weapons raid in which two Panthers leaders were killed. The hearing probes whether the survivors’ statements were used to indict, with defense arguing perjured testimony and the petition labeling the hearing illegal on several counts.
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Chicago
Black Panthers Party
West Side
Hanrahan
Apollo 14 crew carried medals to moon without NASA knowledge
Apollo 14 astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa carried 200 silver medals coined by the Franklin Mint on the January 1971 moon mission. The medals were in personal kits and later melted down to make free gifts for mint subscribers. No NASA reprimand was issued as the items were not offered for sale.
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Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Franklin Mint
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Edgar D. Mitchell
Stuart A. Roosa
NASA
Mint
Moon
Lunar
Space Agency
David R. Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
Space
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