Floating sampans tell a life of Hue's river people
In Hue Vietnam widow Thuan Mat Trung and others live aboard 44 foot sampans as floating homes and businesses. The women keep homes and kitchens on boats while men work on shore or operate hotels on the water. The river shapes daily life with limited schooling and hopes for the future, including plans for land or travel to France.
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Ann Blackman
Hue
Vietnam
Thuan Mat Trung
Sampan
Trung
Tringhee
Beyord
Sampans
Lay
Faily
Sampan Alley
le van At
Mney
France
Eign
Nixon offers labor voice in administration
President Nixon proposes placing a labor union representative at a high level in every federal department. The White House awaits Meany and Fitzsimmons recommendations on whether to accept and how to implement. Officials indicate posts could be at the assistant secretary level across agencies to ensure worker interests in decision making.
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Philip Sharecoff
New York Times
Nixon
Wakte House
National Productivity Commission
George Meany
Af.l.c.lo
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
White House
Meany
A.F.L. C.1
Isher
Defense Department
United States
Peter J. Brennan
New York Building and Construction Trades Council
Labor Department
Chemical dangers exposed in petition to Labor Dept
The Old Chemical and Atomic Workers Union and the Ralph Nader backed Health Research Group urged the Labor Department to take emergency action to shield workers from carcinogenic chemicals. They cited dyes textiles and insecticides and listed benzidine and related compounds as risks. Britain and Pennsylvania already restricted use, while officials warn the Nixon administration may oppose the move to court blue collar support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Old
Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Ralph Nader-backed
Health Research Group
Labor Department
Asmora
Department
Britain
Pennsylvania
Italian executive freed after ransom paid in Argentina
Vincenzo Russo, a kidnapped Italian executive and production manager for Standard Electric, was released in Beccar near Buenos Aires after his company reportedly paid a ransom of about one million dollars. He appeared at his home briefly to wave to newsmen as police confirmed his condition as well and resting.
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Bitenos Aires
UPI
Vincenzo Russo
Beccar
Buenos Aires
Jorge Dengis
Standard
Electric
ITT
Russo
Dennis
Ronald Grove
Vestey Group
Masses for bus crash victims seen by LBJ at Austin
In Austin Texas the attendance included President and Mrs Lyndon B. Johnson at mass services for 14 of 19 killed when a New Mexico bus collided with a cattle truck near Fort Sumner. The 14 caskets were displayed at the Austin Municipal Auditorium as relatives gathered for solemn rites.
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Lbjs
Austin, Tex
Lyndon B. Johnson
New Mexico
Sort
Fort Sumner
N.M
AP Wu
Municipal Auditorium
Austin
Texas
Truman burial marker will be flat and epitaph omitted
A family spokesman said Harry S. Truman will rest under a flat marble marker without the epitaph he once admired. Randall Jessee noted the marker will exclude the controversial line and emphasized the family’s preference for a simple grave marker.
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Independence, Mo
UPI
Harry 5
Truman
Randall Jessee
Epi
Faih Truman
Tessee
Jessee
Bess
Margaret Trumian Daniel
Gunmen hold up Chicago store. manager shot
Five gunmen entered the National Tea Co on the south side held the manager hostage during a raid. One gunman was killed, two captured, and two escaped as police engaged in a gun battle with the robbers. the manager was grazed in the head but survived.
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Chicago
UPT
South Side
National Tea Co
Miss America Laurie Schaefer Marries Jom Lime
Laurie Lea Schaefer Miss America 1972 wed Jom Lime former newscaster at Broad Street Presbyterian Church after announcing a marriage delay. About 800 guests attended as Schaefer turned over her crown to successor Just Jal. The ceremony followed an earlier postponement announcement and a reconciliation later reported.
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Columbus
Onin
UPI
Laurie Lea Schaefer
Jom Lime
Broad Street
Alan Duane Smith
Youth Climbers Survive 800-Foot Yosemite Fall
In Little Yosemite Valley California 18 year old Tony Baker survived an 800 foot fall while ice climbing. He was lowered to safety by five companions and airlifted to Brookside Hospital Richmond California with head injuries and abrasions. Park ranger Roger Rudolph called it miraculous noting the odds.
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Yosemite National Park
Calif
UPN
Yosemite Valley
Park Rangers
Tony Baker
Air Force
Brookside Hospital
Richmond
Roger Rudolph
Bakey
Barnel Point
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AP Newoleatures
Periaime River
Mai ‘Trung
Offichad
Department of Agriculture
Exec
Aust Municipal Auditorium
Woodlawn Baptist Curch
James Abington
Jesus
Clifton Daniel
the Daniels
New York
Jegsee
Daniel
Nahonz] Cathedral
Laurie der Schaefer
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