Monsoon season slows air war as Hanoi rushes supplies
U S B 52 strikes target the Ho Chi Minh trail through Laos into South Vietnam while monsoons limit air operations. North Vietnam presses to move men and materiel before heavy rains, with losses reported of two aircraft and a total of 7 766 destroyed across the war. Battlefield activity drops to a yearly low as Saigon and U S advisers claim Vietnamese forces halt an eastern Cambodia drive and block crossing Route 7.
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Laos
South Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Indochina
Cambodia
Highway 7
Military Region 3
House Nears Vote on Reviving 1800 mph SST Project
Leaders push an amendment to convert an 85.3 million SST termination into 6.8 billion supplemental funding to extend SST development to June 30. Rep Boland and Speaker Albert back the move while Ford and Mansfield voice cautious views on Senate fate.
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Washington
House
Edward P. Boland
Dmess
Carl Albert
Gerald R. Ford
Congress
France
Lockheed Corp. Defense
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Two Carbondale workers rescued from 20-foot sewer trench cave-in
A 20-foot-deep trench at Roxanne Mobile Home Park near Carbondale collapsed trapping Tommy Glisson and Gene Lee for 15 to 20 minutes. An air pocket aided their survival. Glisson was freed about 11:00 a.m. and taken to Doctors Hospital, condition satisfactory. Lee was freed about 11:45 a.m. No update on his condition. The owners are Glisson and his mother Velma Halstead.
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Roxanne Mobile Home Park
Rt. 51
Carbondale
Tommy Glisson
Doctors Hospital
Gene Lee
Murphysboro
Amtrak receives large welcome as service returns
In Cleveland a 100 plus delegations and a six piece band greeted the Amtrak train from New York that pulled into Union Terminal at 8:38 a.m. eight minutes late. A sleeping car is nearly empty while a second sleeps empty, and a single passenger occupies one coach with others largely unused. About 15 passengers continue on to Toledo and points west.
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Amtrak
Cleveland
Union Terminal
New York
Frank T. Jones
Filibuster threat stalls draft extension in Senate
Critics plan a long Senate fight to delay extending the Selective Service Act beyond June 30. Senate leaders and Democrats clash over ties to Vietnam policy with amendments proposing troop cuts in Europe and limits on draftee use in combat zones.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
U.S
Europe
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Alan Cranston
Calif
Agnew Delivers Springfield Speech on Revenue Sharing
Vice President Spiro Agnew arrived in Springfield late for a joint session of the Illinois General Assembly to discuss federal revenue sharing. Black legislators, including Richard H. Newhouse Fred J. Smith and Charles Chew, threatened to boycott the talk with Chew calling Agnew's remarks irrelevant to black people.
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Spiro Agnew
Capitol
Illinois House
Senate
Agnew
Illinois
Chicago
Richard H. Newhouse
Fred J. Smith
Charles Chew
Chew
Partee Comments Amid Illinois General Assembly Visit
Storm Smith estimated about 15 black legislators would be absent when the vice president addresses the General Assembly. Sen. Cecil A. Partee of Chicago says he has not been contacted and hopes there will be no boy out. Partee, the first black president pro tempore in Illinois, plans to listen to the talk and attend a luncheon for Agnew in Gov. Ogilvie’s office.
Judge Denies Delay on Temporary Postal Rate Hikes
A federal judge denied publishers requests to block temporary postal rate increases set to begin Sunday. The ruling allows a two cent stamp rise and other boosts while the Postal Rate Commission reviews a $1.45 billion revenue package. The 100 day window since February 1 expires today.
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Washington
U.S
Postal Service
Fed
Rate Commission
Nixon urges extra funds to fight cancer and create NIH program
President Nixon personally leads a drive to wipe out cancer with a proposed $100 million federal boost and a new Cancer Cure Program within NIH. The plan envisions an independent budget, a presidentially appointed director, and rapid congressional action as NIH programs and prior funding are expanded.
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Washington
Nixon
House
Congress
National Institute of Health
Brooke predicts Kennedy will be Democratic nominee in 1972
Washington Senator Edward W. Brooke says Edward M. Kennedy will be the Democratic presidential nominee in 1972. He rejects joining the dump Nixon movement though he criticizes Nixon on civil rights and Vietnam. Brooke expects Nixon to stay on the ticket with Agnew if Wallace runs in 1972.
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Paul Hope
Washington Star
Washington
Edward W. Brooke
Rmass
Edward M. Kennedy
Brooke
Republican Party
Nixon
Vietnam
Richard Nixon
Senate
Spiro T. Agnew
George Wallace
Wallace
Sadat sets Egypt conditions to reopen Suez Canal
President Anwar Sadat told the 360 member Arab Socialist Union committee that Egypt requires Israel to pull back 115 miles from the canal and agree to a six month timetable for withdrawal from occupied Arab lands. He said Egypt will study allowing Israeli ships only within its political organizations. Sadat cited U.N. envoy Jarring for a timetable to full pullout. Israel reportedly wants to move troops along the east bank and maintain its Bar Lev line.
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Associated Press
Egypt
William P. Rogers
Suez Canal
Israel
Anwar Sadat
Sadat
Arab Socialist Union
Rogers
el Arish
Canal
U.N. Mideast
Gunnar V. Jarring
Middle East
Tel Aviv
East Bank
Bar-Lev
Model slain five robbed in Chicago apartment
A model, Elizabeth Feely, 21, was fatally shot in her Near North Side apartment. A gunman robbed five residents, including Miss Feely's roommate and two men, with an estimated $290 taken. Louis Nerbitt, 24, claimed to be Feely's boyfriend but was not present during the shooting.
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Chicago
Elizabeth Feely
Old Town
Near North Side
Louis T. Nerbitt
Miss Feeley
Thomas Connelly
Weather outlook with showers and storms this afternoon
Cloudy and mild conditions set in this afternoon with a high near 74 to 79. Showers and thunderstorms are likely tonight with a low around 54 to 59. Tomorrow remains mostly cloudy and cooler with a chance of showers and a high in the upper 60s. Weather details map page 2.
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