Nixon adviser cites lower GI heroin use at 4.5 percent
Dr Jerome Jaffe said 4.5 percent of U S service members returning from Vietnam used heroin, under half the initial estimate. He noted many flagged by tests were not confirmed users and explained expanded urine testing now screens all returning servicemen.
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U.S
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Asia
Jaffe
United States
Chicago
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Benny Primm
Addiction Research
Sranaan Corp
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Saigon
Typhoon halts heavy fighting in Vietnam. rains pound North
Heavy rains from Typhoon Jean slow combat in South Vietnam's northern front near Hanoi. The storm packing up to 80 mph disperses air and ground operations, with B52 raids suspended. Earlier clashes yielded 77 Communist deaths as 141 militants reportedly fell in a string of eight battles.
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Gulf of Tonkin
Hanoi
Jean
Red River
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Nixon visit to Peking draws quiet official reaction
Reports from Hong Kong summarize Communist China and Vietnam talks amid Nixon's planned trip to Peking. Viet Cong advocate Paris talks as best path, while China denounces US and Japan as aggressors. Taiwan warns Beijing aims to undermine Taipei regime. Prime Minister Sato hopes US China contact eases East Asian tensions.
Negotiators Seek Break in Rail Strike Impasse
Negotiators for the railroads and the United Transportation Union met again to settle differences behind the UTU strike against two railroads. They recessed without apparent progress until Monday as officials of a new National Postal Service pressed a self imposed Sunday midnight deadline.
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UTU
New
National Postal Service
Communications Workers of America
UTA
Washington
U S Craft Link With Salyut Planned By NASA
NASA officials announce serious consideration of an Apollo spacecraft mission to dock with a Soviet Salyut station. Discussions at Houston and comments by Dale Myers indicate studies on docking, radios, and lights are under way.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
United States
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Dale D. Myers
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Prospects rise for four US captives in China gesture
Washington sources say President Nixon’s Peking visit may improve the fate of four American prisoners held in Communist China. Of them Richard Fecteau of Lynn Massachusetts could be released before 1972 end as a goodwill gesture, after a 20 year espionage sentence. He and John Downey were captured when their plane crashed in 1952 en route from Korea to Japan.
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Soviet Union
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Lynn
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Korea
Japan
John Thomas Downey
New Britain
Bodies recovered after Kentucky mine rockfall fatalities
Three coal miners died in a Hilmer Coal Co mine rockfall near Ahlers Fork Kentucky. Oscar Sayler 22 Frank Gibson 21 had only two days on the job Ernest Harris 26 was new hire and married. Harris died while attempting to rescue Sayler and Gibson and two other miners were injured.
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UPI
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Hima
Frank Gi
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Ernest Harris
Manchester
Saylor
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Hilmer Coal Co
Harris
Hechler PR bill OK'd to curb miners’ safety ads
UPI Washington The Senate approved a Hechler sponsored measure to block up to 500000 in Bureau of Mines public relations campaigns aimed at coal miners The amendment bars using the act funds for any promotional campaign among coal miners The bill awaits presidential signature
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UPI
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D-W.va
U.S. Senate
Interior Department
Hechler
Bureau of Mines
House
Senate
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