Atlanta officer wounded in mistaken police shooting
An Atlanta store employee, Christopher Greenway, was shot and seriously wounded by police who mistook him for a shoplifter. Police said eyewitnesses supported the officer's account of a suspect firing a pistol, while Chief John Inman called it a tragic mistake.
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Atlanta
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FBI
John C. Whitener
Tri-County Hospital
Fort Oglethorpe
Whitener
Dalton
Ringgold
William Correll
David E. Young
Correll
North Carolina
Six Men Die in Cherry Hill Shooting Rampage
Edwin C. Grace, 33, a Pinkerton guard, opened fire in Heritage House in Cherry Hill using two sawed off rifles. Six men were killed and six wounded as he roamed the employment office shouting for victims to move. Grace, injured, was hospitalized and not yet questioned.
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Cherry Hill
N.J
Edwin C. Grace
Heritage House
James Ashen
Blackwood
Grace
Pinkerton
Trenton
Detective Agency
Cherry Hill Hospital
Agnes Rains Drench Washington Area After Agnes Storm
Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Agnes drenched the Washington area overnight, forcing hundreds to seek shelter and disrupting travel. Authorities warned residents to stay indoors as rising floodwaters affected streets and low-lying districts.
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Washington
Agnes
Viet Defenses Breached North of Hue in Dawn Clash
North Vietnamese armor and infantry breached the northern defense line above Hue at dawn. U S jets halted the main thrust while 16 North Vietnamese armored vehicles were knocked out. Reports cite tanks crossing the My Chanh River and a South Vietnamese command post near the church at My Chanh.
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South Vietnam
Hue
My Chanh
U.S
Camp Evans
Quang Tri Province
Nixon Uses Global Diplomacy Tour To Press Foreign Policy
President Nixon showcases high level diplomacy by sending top aides on international trips. Kissinger returns from Beijing. Rogers heads to Australia and Europe. Burns visits Latin America. Connally travels Asia. David leads Moscow scientific talks. Peterson aims to expand US Soviet trade. Administration defends value of these missions amid campaign scrutiny.
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Kissinger
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William P. Rogers
Australia
Europe
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Arthur Burns
Federal Reserve
Argentina
Peru
Venezuela
Brazil
Secretary of Treasury
John B. Connally
Asia
Connally
Edward E. David Jr
David
Peter G. Peterson
White House
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Carter Allots Extra Funds for Thomasville Farmers Market Expansion
Gov. Jimmy Carter released 1 505 in state funds to finish an 11 505 expansion of Building 119 at the State Farmers Market in Thomasville. State Sen. Mike Herndon and State Rep. Jim Keyton pushed for the project citing inflation and bids coming in higher than anticipated. The market, with five stalls serving 90 000 customers last year, is Georgia’s second largest farmers market, selling more Georgia grown produce than any other state facility.
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Albert Riley
Jimmy Carter
Thomasville
Mike Herndon
Jim Keyton
Carter
Department of Agriculture
Roscoe Stewart
Stewart
Georgia
Atlanta
Two Jailed in Rural Grocery Slayings Investigation
Hamilton County authorities arrested David Lee Smith and Doyle Jones for three counts of murder each in the slayings of Clarence Parker Jackie Ray Davis and Dorothy Reynolds at a rural Soddy Daisy grocery. A bloodstained car was found two miles away and investigators consider an attempted holdup likely.
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Osoddy-Daisy, Tenn
Hamilton County
Clarence Parker
Jackie Ray Davis
Dorothy Reynolds
H. Q. Evatt
Doyle
Jones
House Passage Seen For 5.3 Billion Aid Plan
The House votes 223 to 185 to allow amendments on a 5.3 billion dollar annual federal aid program for states and cities. Opposition leader Byrnes says the procedural result settles the question and Senate passage is expected with changes. The bill would distribute 1.8 billion to states and 3.5 billion to local governments over five years.
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House
John W. Byrnes
R-Wis
Byrnes
Senate
Russell B. Long
D-La
Finance Committee
Long
IRA Wing Calls Halt to Violence
The nationalist Provisional Wing of the Irish Republican Army announced a conditional cease-fire in its campaign to unite Northern Ireland with the Irish republic. The cessation would begin at midnight next Monday if the British army reciprocates, with William Whitelaw replying in the House of Commons that Britain will obviously reciprocate.
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Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
Irish Republic
London
Britain
IRA
Provisionals
William Whitelaw
House of Commons
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