Cease-Fire Begins After Bombing Binge
London and Belfast bombings precede IRA provisional cease-fire from midnight. Edward Heath narrowly escapes a bomb near Buckingham Palace as police say no casualties. Provisional wing cites peace terms, British troop withdrawals, and internment amnesty as preconditions.
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London
Edward Heath
Heath
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Belfast
Lurgan
IRA
Britain
David O'Connell
Dublin
United Kingdom
Clock and Portrait From Local Sites Highlight News
A Berryville bank installs a time and temperature clock on its building. Powhatan School receives an unidentified early American portrait of George Washington. In 1949 the Girl Scouts sing carols in Winchester and a candle signals visitors to stop. A Pan American Stratocruiser Yankee sets transatlantic speed records with a New York to Shannon flight of seven hours and forty nine minutes at about 395 mph.
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Farmers and Merchants National Bank
Berryville
George Washington
Powhatan School
Winchester
New York
Shannon
Ireland
Cover-Up Trial Nears End In Watergate Proceedings
In Washington the Watergate cover-up trial enters a likely final week as defense lawyers frame their clients as innocent victims of others schemes. Haldeman's attorney John J. Wilson argues he did not know of cash payments to burglars, while prosecutors prepare for closing remarks predicting defendants will blame others including Dean and Magruder.
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Washington
John J. Wilson
H. R. Haldeman
Wilson
Haldeman
Frank Strickler
Strickler
William G. Handley
Atty
John N. Mitchell
William S. Frates
John D. Ehrlichman
Thomas Green
Robert C. Marcian
Jacob Stein
Kenneth W. Parkinson
James F. Neal
U.S
John J. Sirica
Sirica
Neal
John Dean
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Mitchell
Charles W. Colson
Ehrlichman
Nixon
Mardian
Dean
Jeb Stuart Magruder
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Winston Churchill
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M. Vincent Hollis
E. Piccadilly St
Jamison & Gore, Inc
E. Cork St
Magruder
David McKendree Key
Tennessee
President Hayes
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