Judiciary panel endorses equal rights amendment with draft exemption
The House Judiciary Committee backed a constitutional equal rights amendment for women by 32 votes to 3 but added a 19 to 16 provision exempting women from the draft and allowing state sex based laws to persist. Rep. Martha Griffiths condemned the move as fatal to the measure.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Martha W. Griffiths
Dmich
Charles E. Wiggins
R-Calif
Temperatures Expected Tuesday Highs Near 95
The forecast lists a Tuesday high of 95 degrees and a low around 67. Local conditions suggest hot and dry weather with heat risk for outdoor activities.
Fourth newspaper publishes Pentagon Vietnam study findings
The Chicago Sun Times becomes the fourth paper to publish articles from a classified Pentagon Vietnam study. Federal courts restrain The New York Times The Washington Post and The Boston Globe from further printing. Sun Times reveals a August 1963 State Department memo urging Diem's ouster if talks with North Vietnam occur.
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Chicago Sun-Times Today
New York Times
Washington Post
Boston Globe
Sun-Times
State Department
Ngo Dinh Diem
North Vietnam
Roger Hilsman
Dean Rusk
Pentagon
Diem
United States
the Sun
Boson Globe
New York City
Washington
U.S. District Court
The
Times
the Post
Post
Associated Press
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Senate backs nine month troop pullout from Indochina
The Senate approved by 57 to 42 a non binding Mansfield amendment urging immediate ceasefire talks and mutual troop withdrawals with a prisoner release plan over nine months. President and House leaders said the measure does not set policy and may die in conference.
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Lawrence L. Knutson
Washington
Senate
U.S
Indochina
White House
House Armed Services Committee
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
House
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
North Vietnam
Congress
Hebert
Paris
United States
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Alan Cranston
Calif
Gulf of Tonkin
Harvest notes and public notices in Sumner County
Wheat harvest nears completion as the Kansas Employment Service closes its Sumner office at Allied Implement Co. Mrs. Valds, in charge since June 7, will transfer remaining job orders to the new federal office in the Federal Building. County 4-H Camp plans at Rock Springs July 8–11, with about 80 Sumner and 400 Sedgwick youths. Public notices include 4-H Picnic July 20 at Melody Bowl Woods Park and upcoming Clerk Association meeting July 7 in Wellington. Republican picnic speakers include Lt Governor Reynolds Shultz at Wilson Park Arkansas City on June 29.
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Sumner County
Kansas Employment Service
Fred Valds
Allied Implement Co
North A
Valdois
Federal
Bob Davis
Rock Springs
Kan
Sedgwick County
Friends of 4H
Melody Bowl
Woods Park
C. Warren Hunt
Kansas Clerk’s Association
Wellington
Clerk Hunt
Reynolds Shultz
Wilson Park
Arkansas City
Republican Women’s Club
Paul M. Johnson
Welfare Reform Victory Moves To Senate For Final Fate
Washington AP reports Welfare reform including a federally guaranteed minimum family income won House approval in a 288 to 132 vote after conservatives and liberals united to preserve the welfare provisions. The bill would replace state welfare systems with a federal plan, guarantee a 2400 dollar yearly minimum for a family of four, and expand Social Security benefits while raising taxes.
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House
Noo
Senate
Nixon
Memo Indicates Diem Overthrow If Vietnam Talks Opened
Chicago Sun-Times reports declassified Pentagon and State Department documents from 1963 show Roger Hilsman urged ouster of Ngo Dinh Diem if he pursued negotiations with North Vietnam. The Aug 30 memo warned of moves toward neutralization or threats, while officials debated keeping Diem as president and removing Nhu.
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Chicago
State Department
Ngo Dinh Diem
North Vietnam
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Hilsman
Dean Rusk
Pentagon
Diem
United States
Sun-Times
Sman
Johnson
Citizens Commission of Inquiry
U.S
Vietnam
James F. Hoge Jr
New York Times
Washington Post
Boston Globe
Nhu
Hilsman
The
National Security Council
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Maxwell D. Taylor
Viet
Twenty Years Ago Nixon Accused Truman of Withholding Documents
Nixon charged the Truman administration with political motives in suppressing classified papers related to Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The Times later published Wake Island talks showing MacArthur doubting Chinese intervention and predicting victory timing. The Truman administration released the Wake Island documents to Congress, confirming parts of the Times report.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Truman
Nixon
New York Times
Douglas MacArthur
Korea
the Times
MacArthur
Wake Island
Times
Japan
California
Iff
Congress
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Affairs
Promenade Plans Open Invitation For Summer Event
Promenade organizers invite all residents to join this Thursday at 6 30 p m in the Greene Berry parking lot. Golden Agers barbershop quartet families and individuals will attend with old fashioned costumes optional. The event ends at the Antlers Hotel where a Kangaroo Court with Julio Caudillo and Keystone Kops will preside. Mariachi Infantil from Monterrey will perform as part of the first of five summer promenades. Subsequent dates are July 29 August 5 12 and 19. The committee features Regina Turrentine Virginia Watson Eleanor Lee and others.
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Centennial
Greene-Berry
Golden Agers
Antlers
Kangaroo Court
Julio Caudillo
Keystone Kops
Mariachi Infantil
Monterrey
Mexico
Regina Turrentine
Virginia Watson
Eleanor Lee
Ruth Larimore
Carol Pfatzgraf
Sue Wright
Hankie Holefelder
Freda Yost
Joan Hill
Jo Hyten
Black community elects EDA representatives in Sumner County
A meeting at the First National Bank drew about 25 Black residents to select James Smith from the FHA office and Dr. Charles R. Roquemore as local EDA representatives. Ted Clark served as temporary chairman. A second meeting will later elect a Mexican American representative to the county committee.
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First National Bank
Sumner County
Per James Smith
FHA
Charles R. Roquemore
Ted Clark
EDA
Roquemore
Britain and Six Nations Reach Common Market Accord
In Luxembourg Britain and the six Common Market nations reach terms for Britain to join the European Economic Community. Prime Minister Edward Heath must sell the deal to Parliament amid public opposition and party splits with a target of joining by January 1, 1973. Geoffrey Rippon calls it a historic day after all-night talks ending at 4 a.m. The package covers New Zealand trade concessions, budget contributions, and support for fishermen and hill farmers.
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Luxembourg
Britain
European Economic Community
Edward Heath
Europe
Geoffrey Rippon
Norway
Denmark
Ireland
France
Italy
West Germany
Belgium
New Zealand
Heath
London
Nixon Heads Midwest to Political Bases
President Nixon says he wears a non political hat as he heads to the Midwest for political bases on a trip to Indiana and Illinois after a five day stay in New York New Jersey and Florida He says he will avoid political questions at news conferences and continues health care proposals at the American Medical Association convention in Atlantic City New Jersey.
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Washington
Nixon
Midwest
New York
New Jersey
Florida
Indiana
Illinois
Atlantic City
N.J
American Medical Association
Cambodian Capital in renewed fighting near Phnom Penh
Cambodian reports say North Vietnamese troops halted medical evacuation helicopters near the Vihear Suor marshes as Cambodians push to clear the area stalls. In Saigon, U.S. forces hit an ammo dump near the DMZ with four blasts destroying over 600 tons of shells.
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Saigon
Vihear Suor
Phnom Penh
U.S. Command
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Quang Tri
Fuller
Dmz
Vietnam
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Mariachi DE LA Ciudad DE Los Ninos DE Monterrey
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la Ciuda de Los Ninos
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