North Vietnamese promise next POW releases. 140 eyed
Saigon reports Hanoi signaled the next POW release is planned for next week with the U S expecting about 140 to be freed Tuesday or Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Woodward demanded names times and locations by Sunday for the third phase. The cease-fire's 75 percent goal and further troop withdrawals frame the exchanges as POWs continue to move.
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Saigon
United States
U.S
Joint Military Commission
Gilbert H. Woodward
Hanoi
Quang Tri
Bong Son
North Vietnam
Khe San
Meat Boycott Effort Gains Strength
Two women launched Fight Inflation Together FIT a national meat boycott and report 3000 pledges to abstain from meat on Tuesdays and Thursdays and all of next month The movement has clubs in about 40 cities and expanding rapidly with widespread support from volunteers and callers.
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Los Angeles
Fight
FIT
June Foray Donovan
Arline Mathews
Sunny Warm Weather Caps Week in Winchester
The Winchester area enjoyed mild conditions this week with a weekly high of 58 degrees on Thursday and a low of 39 on Wednesday. Daily precipitation added to 1.04 inches for March, with measurable rainfall on Monday through Friday and notable daily totals of .24, .30, .06, .27, and .02 inches.
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Winchester
Downey to be freed by China after 20 years in prison
Downey, a former Yale graduate and CIA employee held since November 1952, will be released from life imprisonment on spy charges as U.S.-China relations thaw. Also noted are the release of two other Americans and Argentina’s presidential election amid violence and reforms.
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Washington
John Thomas Downey
Nixon
Downey
China
White House
Chou En-Lai
Churia
Peking
Fecteau
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Alejandro Lanusse
Junta
Talks Bogged Down as Indians Seek Removal of U S Agents
At Wounded Knee South Dakota negotiators for AIM seek a court order to end the federal blockade surrounding the village. Fresh talks are planned as gunfire damaged the night scene and two Indians were wounded in the ongoing 12 day occupation.
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U.S
Wounded Knee
S.C
Wounded Knee, S.D
FBI
Ramon _ Roubideaux
AIM
U.S. District Court
Rapid City
Roubideaux
Tornadoes Kill 1 Injure 80 in Central Texas
Violent tornadoes swept through central Texas injuring about 80 and killing one child in Hubbard. Burnet suffered extensive damage with about 75 percent of businesses hit. Tornadoes touched down near Grape Creek, Blackwell, and Waco as the season opened.
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Garth Jones
Associated Press
Texas
State Department of Public Safety
Burnet
Hubbard
Dallas
Austin
Hill County
Bill Wilcox
Burnet Funeral Home
Grape Creek
San Angelo
Blackwell
Waco
Wilcox
Texas 29
Selena Martin
West Texas
Nine Children Die in Family Fire in France
In Maubeuge France nine children of the same family were killed when a blaze swept through their home early today. Police said another child and the father were injured. Three siblings escaped unhurt and the cause remains unknown.
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Maubeuge
France
Australian Rotarians welcomed by Winchester officials
Six visiting Rotarians from New South Wales, Australia, were formally welcomed at the home of Winchester Mayor Stewart Bell Jr. and his wife. The guests will spend about six weeks in the United States meeting people and exchanging ideas, discussing currency devaluation and impressions of America.
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P.E. Morris, JR
Winchester
Stewart Bell Jr
N. Cameron St
United States
Donald Whitbread
Whitbread
Commonwealth Senate
Canberra
Australia
Washington D.C
Washington
Brian Sainty
Hanwood
New South Wales
Sainty
John Clough
David B. Grim
Britain tightens ports as five terrorists hunted
London authorities impose blackout at air and sea ports and track five suspected bombers tied to the London blasts. Scotland Yard boosts 24 hour checks on exits while interrogating 10 Heathrow detainees including two sisters linked to Saor Eire. Northern Ireland vote results show a large majority choosing to remain British.
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London
Britain
Scotland
S Yard Special Branch
Northern Ireland
Irish Republic
Irish Republican Army
Belfast
Scotland Yard
IRA
Heathrow
Dolores
Marienne Price
Ulster
Saor Erre
Saor Eire
Free Ireland
al Fatah
Republic
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CIA
Yale
Central Intelligence Agency
Hong Kong
Air Force
Philip E. Smith
Roadhouse
Ill
Navy
Robert J. Flynn
Houston
Minn
Vietnam
Smith
Gulf of Tonkin
Flynn
Him
Richard Fecteau
Lynn
Mass
Man
Larry Leaventhal
The
American Indian Movement
William Kunstler
New York
Justice and Interior Departments
Junee
N.S.W
Thomas G. Baker
Winchester Rotary Club
James Purser
Don Whitbread
Terry Dwyer
Charles Clout
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