Nixon seeks Friday signing on ABM curbs and missile freeze
In Moscow Nixon and Brezhnev near a Friday signing of a treaty limiting defensive missile sites and freezing offensive nuclear missiles at present levels. Ambassadors Smith and Semenov return from Helsinki as talks advance. A space cooperation accord and joint orbital hopes for 1976 are noted amid broader negotiations.
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Moscow
Nixon
Gerard Smith
Helsinki
Finland
Vladimir Semenov
Kremlin
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
U.S
United States
Kemlin
Moscow University
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Five Die in Danville Ambulance and Tanker Crash
Police investigate a collision at the U S 29 and U S 58 intersection near Danville that killed five people including ambulance attendants Donald W. Vasser and John Irving Lemly a patient Minnie Brooks and her daughter Virginia Parham along with tanker driver Ernest Shearin. The crash triggered a fuel oil fire and a power substation explosion. The accident involved a Swicegood Funeral Home ambulance and a U S Oil Co. tractor trailer.
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Danville
U.S. 29
U S. 58
Donald W. Vasser
John Irving Lemly
Minnie Brooks
Virginia Parham
Danville Memorial Hospital
Ernest Shearin
U.S. Oil Co
South Boston
Swicegood Funeral Home
Sumption Elected National Director By State Jaycees
James W. Sumption of Winchester was elected one of eight national directors of the Virginia Jaycees at the Roanoke Civic Center state convention. About 1,500 Jaycees attended as elections and social events occurred Friday through Sunday, with Sumption backed by the Winchester Jaycees and supporters from Berryville Front Royal Harrisonburg and Sterling Park.
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Roanoke
James W. Sumption
Berryville
Front Royal
Harrisonburg
Sterling Park
Innocent Plea Entered By Bremer In Wallace Shooting Case
Arthur H. Bremer pleaded innocent in U S District Court to federal charges arising from the May 15 shooting of Alabama Gov George C Wallace and three others. The 21 year old busboy appeared calm as Judge Edward S Northrup questioned him and granted 30 days for pretrial motions.
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Baltimore
Arthur H. Bremer
U.S
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Edward S. Northrup
Bremer
Northrup
Benjamin Lipsitz
Secret Service
Wallace
Wisconsin
Maryland
FBI
Senate Panel backs Aug. 31 Viet War Pullout
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 7-2 to require total U.S. military withdrawal from South Vietnam by August 31 and to attach a $1.7 billion foreign aid package to the bill, aligning with President Nixon's broader aid request.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
South Vietnam
U.S
Senate
Nixon
Council to Hear Winchester Budget Figures Tomorrow
The 1972 73 appropriations bill and tax rate ordinance will be presented to the Winchester City Council at a special meeting at 7 30 p m in Rouss City Hall. Council plans no public hearing this night but will set a date for one after receiving Finance Committee figures.
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Winchester
Rouss City Hall
McGovern wins Rhode Island and Oregon to surge toward California clash
Sen. George McGovern easily captured Rhode Island and Oregon primaries, adding 56 delegates to reach 502 of 1,509 needed for the nomination. He aims for California’s 271 delegates, planning a Sacramento speech while Humphrey campaigns there. Nixon won Republican contests in both states.
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Portland
Ore
George McGovern
Rhode Island
Oregon
Hubert H. Humphrey
California
McGovern
Miami Beach
Fla
Missouri
South Dakota
Eleanor
Edmund S. Muskie
George C. Wallace
Humphrey
Nixon
Sacramento
Viet Marines land in enemy territory near Hue
U S amphibious craft and helicopters delivered about 2000 South Vietnamese marines to coastal scrub near Quang Tri and Hue in a new phase of bombing by U S forces. The operation aimed to harass North Vietnamese troops and keep pressure on the Hue defense line.
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Saigon
U.S
Hue
Haiphong
7Th Fleet
Quang Tri City
Quang Tri
Quang Tri Province
My Chanh
Hijacker is Gunned Down in Ecuador Airliner
Ecuadorian airliner hijacked by Lomas was forced back to Quito. Soldiers entered via the luggage compartment and killed the hijacker after six hours of siege. Pilot Fernando Valdivieso was slightly injured in the incident. The event followed a prior month’s hijacking ending in gunfire.
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Quito
Ecuador
Lomas
Guayaquil
Fernando Valdivieso
Tel Aviv
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Soviet Union
Sumption
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Pat
First ‘Assembly God Church
Springcrest St
Mary Anderson
A.M. Gooden, Jr
Rt. 6
Duff’s
Montgomery Ward Ward Plaza
North Vietnam
Hon Gay
Nam Dinh
Lao
Haiphon
Thailand
Vinh
DMZ
Tonkin
Task Force
Gulf of
Cambodia
China
Hainan
Miles
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