Dublin bombings spark showdown over new anti IRA laws
Dublin faced a government clash with the Irish Republican Army after two car bombs killed two and wounded over 70. Prime Minister Lynch pushed revised offenses against the state through the Dail by a small majority as opposition abstained. IRA denial labeled the blasts. In Belfast a tortured man found branded IRA on his back, motive unclear.
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Bombers pound fronts in Vietnam as fighting persists
AP reports large scale US air strikes against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong targets across Quang Tri Province near the DMZ and along Highway 1 between Vinh and Thanh Hoa. South Vietnamese forces push to reclaim territory while ground action remains light but ongoing.
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Thanh Hoa
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Air Force grants waiver to unwed mother captain
Washington AP The Air Force dropped its attempt to discharge Capt Susan Struck a nurse who gave birth out of wedlock. The action blocks a potentially unfavorable Supreme Court ruling on Air Force regulations as moot. Struck 28 served at Cam Ranh Bay Vietnam in 19 gave birth Dec 3 1970 and gave the child up for adoption.
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Saigon Eyes Peace Plan By December 15
Saigon negotiators and U S officials pushed toward a peace accord aimed for December 15 as Hanoi agreed to withdraw some 140,000 troops while Saigon sought to preserve a non Communist South Vietnam. Nixon pressed Duc for a faster settlement while Thieu issued a decree to permit a state of emergency if needed.
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Weather Forecast and Snowfall Records Summary
Cloudy with periods of rain or mist and a high around 35. Record highs and lows for today include 64 and 5 set in 1914 and 1940 respectively. Snow totals to date reach 19.8 inches with a seasonal record of 157.2 inches.
Nixon and Kissinger Hold Plans Before Paris Talks
President Nixon and top security adviser Henry Kissinger held extensive consultations in Key Biscayne Florida before Kissinger’s departure for Paris to resume Vietnam peace talks. They spoke by telephone and met at Nixon’s bayfront study to discuss another cease fire round with North Vietnam.
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Arctic cold snaps sweep northern regions
An arctic cold front stretched from the northern Rockies to the upper Great Lakes driving temperatures below freezing. Billings Montana fell from 52 to 26 in hours and International Falls Minnesota recorded 17 as several inches of snow covered northern Montana North Dakota Minnesota Michigan and New York. Heavy snow was forecast from the Cascades to the northern Rockies with lighter accumulation from the northern Plains to the northern Atlantic coast amid generally fair conditions elsewhere.
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Truman book reveals assassination attempt by Palestine terrorists
New biography by Margaret Truman Daniel cites a 1947 postal bomb plot against President Harry S Truman. Eight by six inch cream colored envelopes contained powdered gelignite a pedal battery and a detonator. White House staff defused the bombs with Secret Service help. The claim appears alongside other excerpts from her father’s letters and notes.
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Margaret Truman Daniel
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Joe Alex Morris
Daniel Alga
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ellsberg trial set to resume in December
U.S. District Court Judge Matt Byrne ordered Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony J. Russo Jr to resume the Pentagon Papers case on December 12 after denying a defense bid to dismiss the jury. Defense lawyers plan to appeal to the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. The defendants, once Rand Corp colleagues, face charges of unlawful possession of the secret Pentagon study on the Vietnam War leaked to the media.
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Matt Byrne
Daniel Ellsberg
Anthony J. Russo Jr
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9Th Circuit Court of Appeals
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Rand Corp
Panel says police fired first tear gas on campus
Baton Rouge AP The state committee probing the Southern University disturbance concluded that officers fired the first tear-gas canister after reviewing motion pictures stills and interviews. Gov. Edwards and others had claimed students first released tear gas, with officials arguing officers acted in response to provocation.
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