Meir rejects Sadat Suez cease fire plan
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir flatly rejected Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's proposal for a new cease fire and reopening the Suez Canal. She urged new borders and warned that geography remains key to security while leaving room for future talks.
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Allende’s Party Seen Winners In Chile Municipal Vote
The leftist Popular Unity coalition led by Salvador Allende captured 49.17 percent with 746,032 votes as returns came in for municipal elections across 280 cities. Opponents 46.54 percent. three million votes cast. Sepulveda tops southern senate race with 16,886 votes while Zaldivar trails.
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Jordan Troops and Rebels Clash Amid Renewed Fighting
Jordanian army and Palestinian guerrillas fought for the tenth straight day as King Hussein vowed to press the campaign to restore order near the cease-fire line with Israel. A police ambush in Amman wounded two officers while soldiers suffered casualties from guerrilla rocket and mine attacks near Jobba and Amr a.
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Fulbright Warns U S on Addiction to Ideology in Foreign Policy
Sen. J. W. Fulbright criticizes U S dependence on ideological pushers, likening policy to a drug habit. He urges U N forced settlements if Arab-Israeli disputes resist voluntary solutions and questions sovereignty as an outmoded international idea.
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Legislature Moves To Complete Welfare Cutbacks In New York
Albany AP says the legislature returns to finish welfare cutbacks in the revised budget. The Senate has approved measures to trim 164 million from welfare. the Assembly must act. One bill cuts city welfare payments by 10 percent. another narrows Medicaid. Republicans expect swift passage and a near two week Easter Passover recess. The frame includes a vote on an 18 year old voting constitutional amendment.
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Siege at Fire Base 6 Yields Heavy Casualties in Vietnam
North Vietnamese forces launched fresh assaults on Fire Base 6 in the central highlands near the Laos border but were repulsed after a five hour fight. official tallies show 287 enemy dead, with total North Vietnamese losses over five days surpassing 1,800. South Vietnamese losses reach 70 killed and 124 wounded. five Americans killed and one missing.
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Pope Compares Youths to Reeds in Wind at Palm Sunday
Pope Paul VI urged youths to avoid zero behavior and not follow crowds blindly. He spoke during Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Basilica addressing cardinals Romans and Easter visitors. He contrasted Christian living in mission lands with Western complacency and noted political violence in Vietnam with helicopter crashes and sniper attacks near Khe Sanh.
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Boy 12 Is Killed Playing With Corroded Pistol
In Rochester New York a 12 year old boy Tony Jones died after a .22 caliber bullet struck his neck while he and two companions played with a corroded pistol found in an alley. Police said Tony and another boy fired once each and the third boy pulled the trigger causing the discharge. He died at St Marys Hospital less than an hour later.
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Williams disrupts Palm Sunday at St Patrick’s Cathedral
Hosea Williams SCLC program director was arrested in St Patrick’s Cathedral New York on Palm Sunday charges of disrupting services. He and about a dozen followers entered during 10 a.m. mass and challenged the church to denounce holdings in big companies oppressing people in South Africa. He was seized by police, the only one arrested.
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Calley Develops Fear of Accidental Death
Time magazine cites Lt. William L. Calley Jr. saying awaiting trial he fears dying accidentally and that the world would think he copped out. He describes paranoia at airports and being targeted, following his murder conviction for My Lai killings and life sentence.
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Mrs Gandhi Appeals for East Pakistan Support
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi urged India to back the East Pakistan independence movement while the Congress resolution stopped short of pledging direct arms aid. She defended commenting on events across the border and called for global pressure without interference.
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Nixon to issue troop withdrawal speech from California
President Nixon, finishing a 10 day stay in California, drafts a nationwide address on troop withdrawals from Vietnam. He weighs Laotian campaign effects and My Lai clemency after urging public support for Calley’s appeal, while tackling Hollywood unemployment and welfare reform with Governor Reagan.
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Tear Gas Used as 200 Rampage Through Mifflin Street
Police dispersed about 200 youths who dashed along Mifflin Street throwing rocks and bottles at patrol cars. Tear gas forced hecklers back into row houses after an afternoon block party drew roughly 1,200 youths. three arrests were made and a officer was struck. Officials said the street dance remained well behaved overall.
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