Peru Frees Boat After Naval Clash Off Peru
The U S flagged tuna boat Mariner was released at Talara after a Peruvian gunboat attacked a small fishing fleet 23 miles off the coast. Skipper Joseph Lewis of San Diego paid an unspecified fine, while Ed Gann reported five crew were aboard the Mariner during the incident. The episode raises concerns over U S aid and Peru’s claim to 200 mile territorial waters in a long standing maritime dispute.
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Lima
Peru
Pacific
Washington
U.S
Mariner
William P. Rogers
United States
Fernando Berckemeyer
Talara
Joseph Lewis
San Diego
Calif
John Verissimo
San Juan
Verissimo
San Uan
Ed Gann
Gann
Felano
North American Association of Tuna Fishermen
Snow and sleet forecast blues the region today and tomorrow
The weatherman warns of possible wet snow and sleet after a day of fair weather with highs in the mid to upper 30s. Tonight will bring increasing cloudiness and lows in the teens to low 20s. Tomorrow remains cloudy with highs in the 30s and a chance of wintry mix. Travel warnings for slippery roads cover the southwestern Virginia area as a low pressure system tracks from the northeast Gulf bringing rain freezing rain sleet and snow to much of the southeast today.
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Virginia
Gulf
Richmond
Great Lakes
Carolinas
Gulf Area
District 4 Chorus to Perform at Handley Auditorium
The District 4 Chorus concert kicks off tomorrow at 3 p.m. in Handley auditorium. About 139 students from northwestern Virginia counties including Frederick Clarke and Warren will perform with Handley James Wood and Clarke County High School members joining. The item also lists a Sunday Special Roast Turkey Complete Dinner for $1.50 at Echo Village Restaurant The Steak House of Winchester located four miles south on U S 11 with reservations at 869 9886.
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Handley Auditorium
Virginia
Frederick, Clarke
Warren
Handley
James Wood
Clarke County High School
Echo Village
Winchester
U.S
Region 15 College Ad Hoc Committee Allocates 14 Board Seats
The ad hoc nominating committee for Region 15 Community College near Middletown decides the permanent local advisory board will have 14 members from eight subdivisions with two seats for Clarke and Rappahannock Counties and one each for Frederick Fauquier Page Shenandoah Warren Counties and Winchester City. Frederick County will be represented by Dr. Melton F. Wright and C. Robert Solenberger. Estimated project costs include land 100000 site development 200000 architects Engineers 25900 construction 1040715 equipment 567000 and area salaries about 1 million. Region 15 subdivisions will fund land site and design costs about 325000 with federal and state funds covering construction and equipment. The cost-sharing formula will be updated with new tax figures reflecting Fauquier County split between regions.
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Star
Middletown
Raymond Sandy
Frederick County
Region 15
Clarke
Rappahannock
Frederick, Fauquier, Page, Shenandoah
Warren
City of
Winchester
Sandy
Fauquier County
Fredericksburg
Soviet Warns West Berlin Presidential Election Illegal
Moscow denounces plans for a West Berlin presidential vote as unlawful and punishable while seeking European security and East-West contacts. Pravda fronts an appeal and echoes East German travel bans on West German lawmakers and military personnel.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
West Germany
West Berlin
Communist Party
Pravda
East Germany
Berlin
Germany
McGovern urges sense of limitations in world affairs
U S Senator George McGovern warned Shenandoah College that America must learn limits in world affairs. He said the nation erred by acting as caretaker and policeman for all peoples and lacked a proper sense of history and perspective in Vietnam.
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U.S
George McGove
D-Sd
America
Shenandoah College
Shenandoah Conservatory of Music
United States
Sen. McGovern
Vietnam
Shenandoah Auditorium
UN Force for Lebanon Urged by Beirut Legislators
Two right wing Beirut deputies urged establishing a United Nations force on the Lebanon Israel border to protect Lebanon. Nasri Maalouf Saeb Salam and Raymond Edde spoke, with Edde calling for Lebanese unity first. Rockets from Jordan injured a woman at a kibbutz as Egypt and Britain discuss arms and diplomacy.
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Associated Press
United Nations
Israel
Lebanon
Beirut
Nasri Maalouf
Saeb Salam
Raymond Edde
Edde
U.N
Egypt
Salam
Banon
Jordan
Jordan River
Cairo
Al-Ahram
Britain
Mamoud Riad
Harold Beeley
al Ahram
Tanjug
United States
U.S
Holton Signals Candidacy Ambiguously in Virginia GOP
A Linwood Holton told Shenandoah County Republicans that Virginia could elect a Republican governor in 1969 but stopped short of an outright candidacy announcement. He, who lost to Mills Godwin Jr. in 1965, is viewed as the likely GOP nominee at the upcoming convention and urged full party unity for a win.
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Woodstock
A. Linwood Holton
GOP
Virginia
South Vietnam Declares 24 Hour Tet Truce Amid Fighting
The Foreign Ministry announced a 24 hour cease fire for the Tet holiday from 6 p.m. Sunday to 6 p.m. Monday as allied forces conduct 60 battalion-scale offensives. Officials said no offensive ops would occur and pledged security if North Vietnam or its allies violate the truce. In Bien Hoa a Buddhist monk burned himself to death. weather notes from Richmond forecast sleet as a ridge from the Great Lakes to the Carolinas moves eastward.
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Saigon
Foreign Ministry
North Vietnam
Republic of Vietnam
U.S
Cambodia
Bien Hoa
Clarke County approves $150000 Literary Fund loan for vocational school
Clarke County School Board learned the state approved a $150,000 Literary Fund loan to finance its portion of the new Do well J. Howard Vocational School on the Haven Wolfe property near Routes 81 and 7 in Frederick County. Superintendent Wade G. Johnson said funds depend on availability but are expected when needed.
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Berryville
Clarke County
Wade G. Johnson
Dowell J. Howard
Haven Wolfe
Frederick County
Greenway
White Post
Boyce
Nixon urges broad tax reform and rethinks global finance
President Nixon presses for a new approach to tax reform and international monetary policy. He calls Congress receptive and assigns Agnew to treasury reform. He signs an executive order to coordinate state and local government relations and creates a White House post for former presidents, naming Brig. Gen. Robert Schulz to the role.
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Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
Treasury Department
Congress
The
Treasury
Interior
Robert L. Schulz
Eisenhower
Schulz
White House
Rally Planned at UVa Over Campus Demands
Charlottesville AP Two radical student groups SDS and SSCC prepared for a rally at the University of Virginia lawn at 11 a.m. to prompt the board of visitors for a response to five demands. The list urged proportional representation, resignation of Danville member Wheatley, repudiation by Potter, and a wage raise for non academic staff.
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University of Virginia
UVA
Students For A Democratic Society Sds
Southern Student Coordinating Committee
SSCC
Virginia
C. Stuart Wheatley
Danville
Wheatley
Virginia House of Delegates
Potter
du Pont
Wilmington
National Guard
Board of
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