Senate OKs Aid Bill Amid Multilateral Shift
The Senate passed a foreign aid bill 45 to 23 shifting emphasis toward multilateral assistance through international organizations. The measure totals 3.076 billion including 2.339 billion bilateral aid, 507.8 million for World Bank and IDB, 147.7 million for Cuban and Jewish refugees, and 4.5 million for Okinawa.
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Okinawa
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Appropriations Committee
Alliance For Progress
Latin America
Florida
Europe
Israel
Bangladesh
Nixon's Bid For 2d Term Underway
President Nixon's re election drive gathers momentum with GOP spokesmen in California and New Hampshire denouncing Democrats as flip flop critics. Reagan backs Nixon in California as Morton attacks Nixon's peace moves in New Hampshire. Muskie campaigns in Wisconsin and Illinois urging a firm withdrawal plan and POW release as primary season unfolds.
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New Hampshire
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Rogerts C. B. Morton
Morton
Concord
Maryland
Edmund S. Muskie
Skokie
Vietnam
Muskie
U.S
Indochina
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin At
Eau Clair
Periscopes to Replace Rear View Mirrors
Government plan to require overhead periscopes in new cars by 1976 promises double the horizontal field of view. NHTSA states the system reduces blind spots though some testers find the view initially confusing. Donnely Mirrors produced 50 units under a $14,000 contract for GSA test cars.
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Washington
Charles Kaehn
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NHTSA
Kaehn
Donnely Mirrors, Inc
Holland, Mich
General Services Administration
Guerillas Said to Slip Into Newry For Sunday Parade Clash
In Belfast AP reports Irish Republican Army guerrillas are slipping into Newry to attack British troops amid a proposed civil rights march by Roman Catholics. Roads to Newry are blocked as soldiers search vehicles for hidden arms following a tip that IRA supplied uniforms to a woman for her sons.
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Newry
Irish Republic
IRA
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Londonderry
Britain
Civil Rights Association
Short Strand
Dissenters Jailed Without Court Trial in Northern Ireland
In Belfast the British government expands internment with helicopter transfers to Crumlin Jail and ships like Maidstone. More than 1,000 detainees have been lifted since Faulkner’s policy, with up to 200 held in detention and 600 interned by February. The planned Newry march faces a ban on processions amid fears of violence and ongoing clashes in Belfast Londonderry and Newry.
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Northern Ireland
Crumlin
Brian Faulkner
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Irish Republic
Maidstone
Faulkner
Long Kesh
Magilligan
Newry
Winchester survey rates ambulance high while streets fall short
More than 3,000 questionnaires gauge opinions for a new Comprehensive plan. Ambulance and rescue service top ratings at 92 percent while roads and street system scored lowest with about 40 percent satisfied. Residents cite drug use, housing, youth recreation, and transit as key concerns.
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Winchester
North Viet rejects Nixon eight point peace plan claims Viet Cong stance
North Vietnamese Premier Phan Van Dong says Viet Cong rejected the eight point plan accusing U S policy as deceit while the Paris delegation notes no clear North Vietnam rejection The Viet Cong called for Thieu to resign end the Saigon regime and demanded a terminal withdrawal date for U S forces and allies in South Vietnam The U S State Department said the Viet Cong wording did not count as a rejection Nixon’s plan sought six month troop withdrawal and internationally supervised elections with a caretaker government afterward
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Phan van Dong
Nixon
North Vietnam
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Hanoi
Tan
Nguyen van Thieu
Saigon
Vietnam
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South Vietnam
U.S. State Department
Thieu
Bomb threat prompts Vancouver DC8 divert to Anchorage
A bomb was found in a Vancouver Airport locker and the DC8 bound for Tokyo diverted to Anchorage after a ransom demand. No bomb was located. flights had diversions or searches but yielded no devices. Authorities cited a $100,000 extortion and a 30 pound bomb report with the Empress 401 proceeding to Tokyo.
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B.C
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Anchorage
Alaska
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
CP Air
Tokyo
Toronto
Montreal
Amchitka Island
Bering Sea
Air Force Rescue Coordination Center
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Maryland Man Dies in Shenandoah Cabin Fire
A Maryland man, Bernard Paul Cox, 37, of Rockville, Maryland, died and a companion was injured when a cabin in Fort Valley Shenandoah County caught fire Friday night. The fires destroyed the structure near Woodstock Virginia.
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Lee A. Brown
Mount Hebron
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Sarah Zane
Palm Beach
Fla
First Baptist Church
Hank Leland
Woodstock
Maryland
Fort Valley
Shenandoah County
Here
Bernard Paul Cox
Rockville, Md
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Shenandoah College
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