Defense chief calls for deterrence and negotiated limits
Secretary Laird’s annual defense report urges total U.S. and allied force readiness with a 2.5 million manpower level and a $76 billion 1972 budget. He argues for robust deterrence, phased SALT talks, and limited ABM deployment while warning Russia could field over 1,900 ICBMs by the mid-1970s. The plan emphasizes flexible, multilateral defense and avoiding unilateral military weakness.
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Washington
Warry Arenes
St. Laird
Congress
Pentagon
U.S
Laird
Nixon Administration
Defense Department
Nixon proposes limited Safeguard expansion amid SALT talks
The Nixon administration urges Congress to limit Safeguard antimissile expansion this year to either the Wyoming site or Washington, offering flexibility pending SALT outcomes. Secretary Laird says work continues to shield Minuteman forces or the capital while Moscow missile moves are noted as slowing.
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Washington
Nixon
Soviet Union
Congress
Wyoming
Laird
Minuteman
Russia
State Department
Vietnna
County Dems Plan Convention May 22
The Frederick County Democratic Executive Committee voted to hold a county convention on May 22 at 10 a.m. in the county courthouse to nominate candidates for commonwealth's attorney, commissioner of revenue, treasurer and sheriff. They will send 18 delegates with partial votes to May 15 senatorial and house district conventions. the same delegates will attend the county convention the next week.
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Frederick County
Democratic Executive Committee
Board of Supervisors
Commonwealth’s
Richard G. Dick
Thelma Clore
Clore
Frank Whitacre
Gainesboro
Gilda ‘Lemley
Qupequon
Dorothy Keckley
Shawnee
Jack Davis
Stonewall
Housing Hearing in City Courtroom
City officials expect a large turnout for tonight's public housing ordinance hearing in the City Hall courtroom instead of the Council chambers. City Manager Wendell Seldon announced the change due to anticipated attendance.
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Common Council
City Hall
Council
Wendell Seldon
Firemen Respond to Huntsberry's Shoe Store Fire
Firemen were called at 12 30 p m today to Huntsberry s Shoe Store on N Loudoun St for a likely wiring malfunction. Light smoke lingered above the false ceiling near the fluorescent lights as crews traced the short s origin.
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Huntsberry’s Shoe
N. Loudoun St
Nixon considers nationwide tour to promote parks and open spaces
President Nixon may launch a coast to coast tour in spring to spotlight open spaces and parks for urban areas and repurposing federal tracts. The plan follows a $200 million request to Congress and a review that identified over 40 properties with park potential. Installations already offered include Borderfield California and Long Island Sound Naval Training Devices Center New York.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
John F. Kennedy
Congress
Federal Property Review Board
Review Board
Borderfield
Calif
Interior Department
Long Island Sound
New York
Fort Worth
Tex
Lake Holiday project delayed as supervisors seek health HUD assurances
Frederick County supervisors postponed approval of plats for Lake Holiday Estates Section I1 with 282 lots until March 22. HUD certification and Health Department agreements are required. company pledges central water and sewer, but bonds and personal endorsements are debated amid subdivision scale.
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Audrey Coleman
Lake Holiday Estates, Inc
Frederick County Board For Supervisors
Winchester - Frederick County
Roy Williams
Lake Holiday Estates
Health Department
Harold Moss
Williams
Thomas Rosenberger
Lake Holiday
Thomas Brumback
HUD
Donald Baughman
Baughman
U.S. Credits Laos Thrust Shifting Vietnam War Pace
AP report from Saigon describes U S military assessments that the South Vietnamese push into Laos has set Hanoi back about five months in Vietnam and Cambodia and could extend to buy more than a year of war.
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Saigon
Laos
Hanoi
Vietnam
Cambodia
U.S
South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Sepone
Muong Nong
Highway 9
Small Pleads Guilty to Slaying Wife in Clarke County
Livingst on Small, 45, pleaded guilty to the murder of his wife Mrs. Rose E. Small in their Rosemont estate fire on Jan. 5, 1970. The case moved after witnesses were summoned, with pre sentence reports ordered and further evidence to be presented. Security and legal maneuvers preceded the formal plea, while the scene recalled a deadly family tragedy amid court proceedings.
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Livingston Small
John W. Slater
Clarke County
Small
Berryville
Rose E. Small
Robert K. Woltz
Commonwealth
Edward McC. Williams
West Palm Beach
Fla
Southwestern State Hospital
Marion
A. C. Kiczales
Winchester
Harold Hawkins
Waltz
Benjamin Butler
Gang Fight At Hospital In Richmond Shocks City
Richmond police say up to 30 youths swarmed the Medical College of Virginia Hospital after daytime shootings. One juvenile and four 18 year olds were arrested for disorderly conduct as nurses reported profane language and damage on multiple floors.Police guarded wounded patients and tightened patrols after the incident.
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Richmond
Medical College of Virginia Hospital
Mcv
Police Closing In On Turkish Kidnappers
Turkish police said they were closing in on the leftist Turkish People’s Liberation Army after four U.S. airmen were freed five days into captivity. The captors had demanded a 400000 ransom, which was not paid, and the men reported they were treated well while held in a high rent area near Embassy Row.
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Ankara
Turkey
U.S
People’s Liberation Army
Haldun Montesoglu
Embassy Row
Jimmie J. Sexton
San Angelo
Caraszi
Weather shifts as low pressure brings Virginia precipitation
The AP reports a high pressure will give way to a low pressure system moving eastward that should bring rain in advance of its approach into the state by Wednesday. A separate line notes a going out of business sale at Buzzella's and a revival service tonight at 7 30 p m at First Assembly of God Church on Springcrest Street with a contact number 667 1145.
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Richmond
Virginia
First Assembly of Gon Church
Springcrest St
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