Senator urges fewer troops abroad with stronger home defense
Senator Stuart Symington urged reducing overseas forces while keeping a small global presence. He supports rapid airlift to reinforce allies in emergencies and argued U.S. defense planning should cover two major and one minor war. He spoke ahead of a vote on halting 23 C5A transports pending a GAO study.
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Stuart Symington
United States
Senate
William Proxmire
D-Wis
General Accounting Office
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Proxmire
Symington Sala
Foreign Relations
Armed Services
U.S
U.S. defies Viet cease-fire as fighting continues
Allied forces pressed the offensive despite a 72 hour Viet Cong cease-fire to mourn Ho Chi Minh. Saigon rejected the truce, with Gen Abrams and President Thieu insisting operations go on. Viet Cong and Paris talks-cited broadcasts claimed U S and Saigon rejection blamed on Washington.
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Ho Chi Minh
U.S
Creighton W. Abrams
Vietnam
Fong
Nguyen van Thieu
Viet Cong
United States
Paris
Provisional Revolutionary Government of
South Vietnam
United States Ambassador Elbrick freed in Brazil hostage crisis
U S Ambassador C Burke Elbrick was released after 15 Brazilian political prisoners sought asylum in Mexico under a ransom pact. He was held 78 hours, struck on the forehead, and returned to Rio de Janeiro where he reunited with his wife Elvira. President Nixon reportedly called after arrival.
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U.S
C. Burke Elbrick
Oates
En See
Mexico
Elbrick
Nixon
Ernest Wiener
Mexico City
Elvira
Authori
Wiener
Eduardo Ramos
Dirksen Dies After Emergency Surgery at Walter Reed
Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen dies at 4 52 p.m after cardiac and respiratory arrest following lung cancer surgery at Walter Reed. His death triggers a Republican leadership contest as 42 GOP senators must name a new leader amid party division and interim leader Hugh Scott.
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Everett McKinley
Dirk
Walter Reed Army Hospital
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Illinois
Dirksen
Hugh Scott
GOP
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Richard B. Ogilvie
Montana Chamber to convene here
Gov. Forrest H. Anderson will speak in the morning on Montana Horizons at the Montana Chamber gathering to be held here. Chamber President Larry Smith of Missoula and former Butte leader will open the session, while Butte Mayor Mike Micone gives the welcome. Paul Parker of General Mills will participate.
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Forrest H. Anderson
Montana
Anderson
Montana Horizons
Chamber
Larry Smith
Montana Mercantile of
Montana convention to focus on horizons for growth
The community betterment awards luncheon, with Don Ulrich of Butte presiding, will launch a convention themed Model Montana Horizons. Panel discussions will cover retailing, credit, advertising, the economy, development, display safety, and foreign trade. Hugo Aronson will present awards. a day of programs for delegates' wives is planned.
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Community Betterment
Don Ulrich
Butte
Montana Horizons
Montana
Hugo Aronson
Tear gas used as Belfast riot flares again
British troops deployed tear gas in Belfast seeking to disperse a Protestant crowd planning to invade a Catholic district. Within an hour the crowd regrouped and an underground Protestant radio urged loyalists to defend themselves from the Catholic hordes while Catholic defenders manned barricades and nuns were involved in the chaos.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Dio
Snowmobile race and sect tensions flare in Bel fast
Larry Burker of Roseau Minnesota bends into a grassy turn in a hoodless snow machine during meadow mobile races by the Butte Snowmobile Club Sunday at Gregson Hot Springs. Police say a tense calm prevailed after a tear gas attack that followed jeering of a Catholic family moving furniture from a Dover Street house amid Protestant Catholic clashes. The unrest marks the first confrontation since the British Army assumed internal security after last month’s sect riots that left eight dead and hundreds wounded.
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Larry Burker
Roseau
Minn
Butte Snowmobile Club
Gregson Hot Springs
Dover St
Rev James Pike Found Dead In Judean Desert
Cleric James Pike, 56, died in a fall while attempting descent from a canyon near the Dead Sea. An Israeli border policeman spotted the body on a ledge about six days after he and his wife separated seeking help. The body was airlifted by helicopter to Tel Aviv. Pike apparently died instantly from the fall two to five days earlier. His wife, Diane, and other rescue members were among those involved.
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Diane
Christ
Israel
Tel Aviv
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Scott Kennedy
San Jose
Calif
Public hearing on Northern Pacific Mainstreeter stop
A public hearing on proposed discontinuance by the Northern Pacific Mainstreeter will begin Monday at 9 on the third floor of the Silver Bow County courthouse with Thomas R. Roper presiding. The hearings aim to gather user input on service needs for the St Paul to Seattle route as it affects Butte riders.
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Silver Bow County
Thomas R. Roper
Interstate Commerce Commission
Montana
St. Paul
Seattle
Butte
Roper
Miles City
Billings
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ICC
Anoth S&f
Nixon Returns to Washington After Pacific Coast Vacation
President Nixon ends a month long working vacation and flies back to the White House with stops at the Mexican border to dedicate a Gulfport Mississippi dam and survey damage from Hurricane Camille. He plans decisions on Vietnam withdrawals and domestic programs as Congress returns from vacation.
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Firemen Deliver Baby In Portland Home On Radio Instructions
A baby girl was delivered in a Portland living room after a fire department crew followed a firefighter's short wave radio instructions. Bill Waldo arrived home to find fire trucks at his house and learned his wife was in labor in mid October as crews assisted an on scene delivery.
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