Vietnamese Airborne Hold Tan Son Nhut After Rocket Strike
South Vietnamese Airborne troops and dependents took over the Tan Son Nhut airbase after a Viet Cong rocket attack on Friday. One person was killed and several wounded in what appeared timed to the 23rd anniversary of the French Indochina war. Tan Son Nhut, a major combined military civilian facility near Saigon, is among the world’s busiest airports.
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Big Tan Son Nhut
Saigon
Tan Son Nhut
Senate Votes to Kill Philadelphia Plan
The Senate approved an appropriations amendment 52-37 to bar use of funds for contracts deemed in violation of federal law, striking down Nixon administration efforts on the Philadelphia plan to boost minority hiring on federal construction. Comptroller Elmer Staats opposes quotas, while Mitchell and Shultz and Nixon supported the plan. Senate debate cited civil rights law and the plan’s goals versus quotas.
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Senate
Philadelphia
Comptroller General of the
United States
Comptroller
Elmer B. Staats
Staats
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Labor
George Shultz
Nixon
New Pattern 4977 Shirt-Dress With Wide Collar
Printed Pattern 4977 for Misses sizes 8 through 16. Size 12 uses 2% yards of 45 inch fabric. 75 cents per pattern plus 25 cents for air mail handling. Include name address with ZIP and size in mail to Anne Adams, Winchester Evening Star pattern dept. Catalog offers 105 styles plus pattern coupons. Also ads for sewing and fashion books.
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Anne Adams
Winchester Evening Star
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N.Y
Mary Washington Seeks Right to Admit Male Students
Mary Washington College plans to ask the Virginia General Assembly in 1970 to remove legal restraints on admitting men to its all women student body. Chancellor Grellet C. Simpson announced the proposal as part of broader efforts to end sex-based limits at state-supported four year institutions.
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Mary Washington College
Grellet C. Simpson
Virginia General Assembly
Virginia
American Civil Liberties
MWC
Mary Washington
Global pilots call hijacking a world crime and demand action
The International Federation of Airline Pilots declared hijacking a global crime and urged coordinated international retaliation. They urged freezing nations that tolerate hijacking from civilian traffic, restricting passenger and cargo movements, and a 24 hour halt of air traffic in the hijacked country. Virginia counties and city income figures are reported separately as about 7.2 billion and 5.5 billion dollars.
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London
International Federation of Airline Pilots
United Nations
Virginia
Congress sends tough coal mine safety bill to Nixon
Congress approved a strict mine safety bill targeting explosions and black lung. It includes a disputed plan for federal disability payments of 272 dollars monthly to miners with families, sparking budget and state responsibility debates amid the Farmington mine disaster memory.
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Nixon
Washington
Congress
White House
Harrison A. Williams Jr
Farmington
W.va
Commandos Cross Suez In Night Raid Across Canal
Israeli commandos crossed the Suez Canal during the night and attacked an Egyptian army camp near Salihiye about 18 miles west of the canal. All raiders returned to the east side. Egypt denied the raid. Israeli planes also attacked the canal’s west side for three hours. The strike followed an Egyptian commando raid last Wednesday.
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Suez Canal
Salihiye
Canal
Egypt
Gulf of Suez
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