Moscow visit may be soured by wartime activity
Washington AP reports North Vietnam's offensive threatens to sour President Nixon's May trip to Moscow. Officials say preparations for May 22 to 29 go ahead, but the longer Hanoi's assault lasts, the more it will loom over the visit.
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Chess match between Spassky and Fischer faces funding fears
Moscow says it will back the world chess championship financially if the United States does likewise. Spassky and Fischer set to begin June 22 in Belgrade before moving to Reykjavik, but Fischer’s demands and start delays threaten the title bout.
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Ulster Bomb Attacks Cause No Casualties in Belfast
Two bombs exploded in Belfast on Saturday. The Europa Hotel sustained damage to the first two floors, marking a second blast at the hotel this year. A second device toppled a wall at Windsor Park Stadium, home of the club, with no casualties reported.
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Ulster Vanguard Movement
Solzhenitsyn Wills Prize To His Son In Moscow Dispute
Alexander Solzhenitsyn said he abandons hope of receiving the 1970 Nobel Prize insignia on Soviet soil and wills the prize to his infant son. He criticized Sweden and the Moscow embassy plan as insulting and final, after a visa denial disrupted the April 9 apartment ceremony. He called the action humiliating to the Swedish Academy and himself.
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Banker kidnapped in Puerto Rico taken to Cuba
A former church official abducted Jose L. Carrion, 48, executive VP of Banco Popular, and spirited him to Cuba in a Prinair plane after ransom of 290000 dollars. FBI identified the kidnapper as Jose L Lugo Rodriguez, 42, of Garden Hills San Juan, with authorities battling the case for hours.
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Phu Bai GIs gripped by fear at northern Vietnam base
Phu Bai, 42 miles from the DMZ, is a hot dusty outpost with five North Vietnamese divisions within a day’s march. About 1,200 GIs, mostly communications specialists, fear a North Vietnamese overrun and recount their unease and threats lurking beyond the airfield.
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