Ford salutes Army on 200th birthday at Fort Benning
President Ford visited Fort Benning Georgia for the Army bicentennial celebration. He praised a strong conventional fighting force and met Georgia Republican leaders as heat and humidity marked the day. York Field hosted about 30 000 onlookers.
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FT. Benning, Ga
UPI
Ford
Army
Ft. Benning
Infantry
Washington
Georgia
York Field
Alvin York
Plot to kill DeGaulle by poisoned ring? CIA linked dispatch
Chicago based CIA involvement in a proposed plot with French dissidents to assassinate Gen Charles DeGaulle using a poison ring was discussed with Congressional leaders in briefings. The plan reportedly envisioned a handshake delivering a lethal dose at a veterans reception, though no evidence shows the plot progressed beyond talk. The Tribune also reported possible FBI guidance to two Kennedy aides to withhold data on gunfire location, not given to the Warren Commission.
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Chicago
UPI
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Charles DeGaulle
Chicago Tribune
The
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Tribune
Bob Wiedrich
Capitol Hill
Tribune Dispatch
FBI
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Warren Commission
Dallas
DeGaulle
France
Indochina
Energy bill backers still optimistic
Washington report notes House action narrowing the energy bill while leaving key provisions in play. Lawmakers removed a proposed gas tax increase but kept import quotas and several energy policy measures, with further debate ahead on the trust fund taxes depreciation and related issues.
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Washington
Energy Trust Fund
Joe D. Waggoner Jr
House
Ways and Means
Gandhi resignation crisis seen in Indian press
Indian Express and Economic Times report Prime Minister Indira Gandhi may resign next week amid court conviction and election losses. Times says she may offer to resign when meeting Congress leaders next week. Opposition parties demand her resignation and appeal to President Ahmed for action.
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UPI
India
Indira Gandhi
The
Indian Express
Economic Times
Gandhi
Allahabad
Supreme Court
the Express
the Times
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Ahmed
Mrs. Gandhi
Congress
FBI arrests man accused of hijack in Cuba protest
Michael Lynn Hansen, 24, of Fargo North Dakota, was arrested at Kennedy Airport after a Barbados flight. He hijacked a Western Airlines jet in May 1972 to protest U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, threatening Nixon. The probe notes he was released by Fidel Castro’s government and had been held in Cuba.
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UPI
Western Airlines
Cuba
U.S
North Vietnam
FBI
Michael Lynn Hansen
Fargo
N.D
Kennedy
Bridgetown
Barbados
Hansen
Fidel Castro
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Richard M. Nixon
Dynamite blasts hit Chicago Loop before Puerto Rico Day parade
Two bomb explosions in downtown Chicago injure three and shatter windows along East Monroe Street and at the United America Bank. The FALN claims responsibility and warns of further attacks on Yankee imperialist institutions, with the U.S. Federal Building evacuated and security heightened.
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UPI
Loop
FALN
Puerto Rican National Liberation
U.S. Federal
FBI
Union Station
United America Bank
First National Bank
State Street
Wacker Drive
Puerto Rico
Bureau of
Associated Press
Marc Chagall
First National Bank of Chicago
East Monroe Street
Trans World Airlines
Northwest Airlines
The
Michigan Tourist Council
Pogo to retire as cost of newsprint hits comic strip
New York United Press International reports the Pogo comic strip, created by the late Walt Kelly, will retire on July 20 after more than 25 years in the Okefenokee Swamp. Widow Selby Kelly and son Stephen describe shrinking newspaper space eroding Kelly’s verbose style. Industry figures note long-term trimming to cope with rising costs has diminished quality and display, with talks of revived use in films or books.
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UPI
Pogo
Okefenokee
Walt Kelly
Selby Kelly
Stephen
Kelly
Howland Owl
Churchy
P.T. Bridgeport
Alfred Andriola
Kerry Drake
Newspaper Comics Council
Andriola
Pulishers-Hall
Ike
France
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B.C
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Kalamazoo
Nora
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