Record of U S coastal storms and flood impacts
Weather systems drenched U S coasts with heavy rain across the East West and Alaska. Virginia faced major flooding as Nixon declared a disaster and Richmond floodwaters rose toward 16 feet. New York City logged record rainfall and gale winds with multiple traffic crashes. Westward Joanne persisted as a tropical storm bringing desert rain and damage.
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Joanne
Alaska
Sitka
Mississippi Valley
Florida
Pacific Northwest
Great Plains
Midwest
Atlantic
Pacific
Virginia
Nixon
Richmond
James River
New York City
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Albany
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Connecticut
Martha Mitchell May Sue GOP Panel Over Alleged Beatings
Martha Mitchell says she may sue the Committee for the Re election of the President over an incident in Newport Beach California where Steve King and Lea Jablonsky allegedly confined her for 24 hours and King restrained her while a doctor gave an injection. She claims her phone was bugged and urges reporters to pursue why the two remain on the committee despite the accusations.
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Washington
Martha Mitchell
Committee
California
New York City
King
Mitchell
Democratic National
Miss Jablonsky
Report blasts Agriculture deals
A Washington report accuses the Agriculture Department of colluding with giant grain traders. The Agribusiness Accountability Project says firms like Continental Grain and Cargill gather and guard information, using extensive communications networks that outpace the government.
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Washington
API
Agriculture Department
Agribusiness Accountability Project
Conteinental Grain
Cargill Inc
Businessmen evacuate shops in flood scare
Businessmen in Richmond Virginia evacuated their low lying industrial district for a second time in four months to beat rising floodwaters and protect shops and equipment. The mood was bitter and resigned as the hurried exodus continued into the weekend.
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Richmond
UPI
Spock calls for closing all 3000 US bases abroad
Dr Benjamin Spock presidential candidate for the People's Party urged closing all 3000 U S military bases in 30 foreign countries while opposing isolationism His foreign policy ties overseas involvement to protecting big business and raw materials he argued.
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Washington
UPI
Benjamin Spock
United States
Spock
People’s Party
Chicken pluckin contest opens in Florida ceremony
Mister Chicken a six foot rooster opens the second annual chicken pluckin contest in Spring Hill Florida with a feather tossing ceremony as four Masaryktown housewives battle four Spring Hill women for the trophy. The event mixes speed with birds cleanliness amid a day of barbecued chicken and local pageantry including a Miss Drumstick selection.
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Florida
Spring Hill
Fla
UPI
Mister Chicken
Masaryktown
Recreation Center
Lions Club
New York City Abortion Law Seen Reducing Death Rates
New York City health officials report a 28 percent drop in overall maternal death rates and an all time low infant mortality over the two years after legalizing non emergency abortions on July 1, 1970. In the period through June 1972 eight abortion deaths occurred among more than 402000 procedures.
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Detroit
UPI
New York City
Gordon Chase
New York
Health Services
Chase
National Association For the Repeal
Great Britain
Sweden
Denmark
New Jersey
Illinois
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Florida
Manhunt for ambush killers spreads from California to Texas
A massive manhunt is underway from Chino California to Texas for the two gunmen who ambushed prison guards, abducted inmate Ronald Beaty and killed guard Jesus Sanchez. Beaty was seized from the California Institution for Men and later remained at large along with the other suspect. Guard George Fitzgerald was wounded but survived. Authorities, including 60 law enforcement personnel, search for the suspects who fled in a waiting car possibly driven by a woman.
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Chino
Calif
Beaty
Jesus Sanchez
Doctor's Hospital
Montclair
George Fitzgerald
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Old doctors don’t change they die says Crile on mastectomy
Cleveland surgeon Dr George Crile Jr of the Cleveland Clinic criticizes 103 year old radical mastectomy methods. He cites 450 such procedures in northeast Ohio last year and argues for modified mastectomy to spare chest muscles and reduce physical and psychological harm. He blames dogma and fear of criticism for the persistence of radical surgery.
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Cleveland
UPI
George Crile Jr
Cleveland Clinic
Crile
Ohio
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Drumstick
Louise Leonard
Harper's Ferry
United States Senate
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India
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Office of Strategic Services
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