Paris meeting opens U S China ambassador talks
U S Ambassador Arthur K Watson and Chinese Ambassador Huang Chen held the first in a series of talks in Paris at the Chinese Embassy on Avenue George V. The 50 minute session aimed to maintain government contact and discuss travel and trade topics with future meetings to be arranged informally.
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Paris
U.S
Arthur K. Watson
Huang Chen
Avenue George V
Watson
White House
Nixon
Chou Enlai
China
Huang
UAW Votes to Strike Abex If No Accord Reached
Local 149 of the United Auto Workers voted 403 to 10 to strike Abex Corporation if a new three year contract is not agreed by Sunday the current contract expiration date. Ted Hepner cited key issues including production standards fair pay management handling of doctor’s certificates and arbitration limits.
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United Auto Workers
Abex Corporation
Ted Hepner
C.B. Mallory
Abex Corp
American Brakebaok
Winchester
Hep
Bill for Downtown Improvements Passed in Virginia
The Virginia General Assembly approved a measure allowing Winchester and other towns to finance downtown improvements through a special property tax. The bill now goes to the governor for signature and applies to all cities and towns.
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Star
Richmond
General Assembly
Winchester
Virginia
Front Royal
Roanoke
Virginia General Assembly called positive constructive session
Gov Linwood Holton termed the 1972 Virginia General Assembly positive and constructive after adopting a record $5 billion state budget and open housing law. The session raised income taxes for the first time in 25 years and adjourned after tense debates over annexation, cabinet reorganization and open housing. Holton praised the budget and executive reorganization while noting disappointment over funding for local education.
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Linwood Holton
Virginia General Assembly
Assembly
Holton
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Lester E. Schlitz
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Nansemond County
Senate House
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Senate
Bristol
Lynchburn
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Amherst
Campbell
Bedford
Lynchburg
Schlitz
ITT Lobbyist Cleared to Testify From Hospital Bed
Two heart specialists say ITT lobbyist Dita Beard is well enough to testify in a day or two but should not travel. The committee plans to question her about a memorandum tying ITT antitrust settlement to a $400,000 pledge to the Republican National Convention. The hearing resumes with Mitchell testifying, as Sen Cook accuses Kennedy and Bayh of political conspiracy with columnist Anderson and notes supplied by Brit Hume.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Mrs. Beard
Justice Department
ITT
Beard
Denver
Richard G. Kleindienst
Nixon
John N. Mitchell
Washington
Mitchell
Marlow W. Cook
Kentucky
Jack Anderson
Cook
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Birch Bayh
Indiana
Anderson
Brit Hume
Kennedy
Florida Primary Push Sees Humphrey Muskie Weigh Wallace
Florida voters face a marquee clash among Humphrey Muskie and Wallace ahead of Tuesday's primary with Wallace favored to win many delegates. Jackson Lindsay McGovern and others also campaign as Nixon seeks GOP delegates in Miami area.
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Miami
Fla
Hubert H. Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
Florida
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Wallace
Henry M. Jackson
Washington
Muskie
Humphrey
New York
John V. Lindsay
George S. McGovern
Jackson
Lindsay
McGovern
Shirley Chisholm
Wilbur D. Mills
Arkansas
Sam Yorty
Los Angeles
Vance Hartke
Indiana
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
John M. Ashbrook
Ohio
Nixon
NBC
Meet the Press
California
Takeall
Large weekend enemy attacks mark three week high in Vietnam
Communist forces carried the weekend’s largest number of attacks in three weeks across South Vietnam. Saigon reported 33 enemy assaults, with rockets and mortars making up about half, and casualties included 19 South Vietnamese killed and 89 wounded. Cambodian fighting near Kompong Trach yielded losses and prisoners, while U.S. troop strength in Vietnam dropped to 114,500. In Laos, Sam Thong base fell to North Vietnamese forces as Long Cheng came under pressure and Pakse neared action.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Vietnam
Kompong Trach
U.S
Laos
Sam Thong
Long Cheng
Vientiane
Pakse
Keng Nhao
Clifford Irving and Edith Irving plead guilty in New York
Author Clifford Irving and his wife Edith pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy to defraud a publisher with a bogus Howard Hughes autobiography. Each described their roles. penalties can reach five years in prison and $10,000 fines.
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New York
Clifford Irving
Edith
Howard Hughes
John Cannella
Irving
McGraw-Hill
Irvings
Richard Suskind
Weather outlook stirs heavy rain risk in parts of Virginia
Richmond weather bureau notes a frontal system from northern West Virginia to the Virginia capes raises heavy rain chances in northwestern Virginia with cloudy skies elsewhere in the state.
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West Virginia
Virginia Capes
Virginia
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