Men Encounter Water and Roof Falls in WV Mine Rescue
A recovery team from Consolidation Coal Co. faced waist deep water and large roof falls as six miners and five inspectors moved 15 miles west from Atha's Run elevator in a preliminary search at No. 9 mine in Farmington West Virginia.
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Eugene Lieving
Mountaineer Coal Co
Farmington
W. Va
W.va
William Parks
U.S
Bureau of Mines
John Ashcraft
Market Bombed in Gaza City Market Attack
An Arab threw a hand grenade into a busy Gaza City market killing a 50 year old Israeli woman and wounding others including a 15 year old Israeli boy and 13 Arabs. Israeli troops surrounded the market and detained a number of Arabs for questioning.
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Tel Aviv
Gaza City
Gaza Strip
Catholics Withdraw Barricade Revival After City Crisis
In Belfast Catholics signaled readiness to remove barriers but then withdrew the statement. The Central Citizens Defense Committee met to vote on the move amid renewed British Army deployments sealing Falls and Grosvenor roads.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Citizens’ Committee
Central Citizens’ Defense Committee
Jim Sullivan
William Philbin
Down and Connor
Falls
Grosvenor Roads
Winchester Pepper Sale by Jaycees Aims for Charities
The Winchester Winchester Jaycees launch a door to door pepper sale in Winchester and Frederick County this week to fund projects including the annual Jaycee Christmas Shopping Tour.
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Winchester Jaycees
Winchester
Frederick County
Congress Honors Moonmen at Joint Session
AP reports Congress planned a noon joint session to praise Apollo 11 crew Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins as Nixon expands space goals toward a Mars landing by the 1980s amid debate on funding and strategy. A Moon rock was to be presented to the Smithsonian.
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Washington
Congress
U.S
Nixon
Mars
Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Michael Collins
Armstrong
Aldrin
Los Angeles
New York
Chicago
Everett M. Dirksen
White House
Moon
Ronald L. Zieglér
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Earth
Ziegler
Task Force
Smithsonian Institute
Arraignments Set In Frederick Conspiracy Case
A Frederick County grand jury indicted Maurice Trenary and Betty Lou Hughes for conspiring to murder Jack D. Hughes. They face arraignments Thursday in Circuit Court with bonds set at 10 000 each. Both defendants were previously held on 25 000 bonds.
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Frederick County
Maurice Trenary
Fairmont Ave
Betty Lou Hughes
Green Acres
Jack D. Hughes
James L. Berry
Hughes
David G Stimpson
Trenary
Robert K. Woltz
Mrs. Hughes
W. Erle Edwards
Hydrogen device test shakes desert in Nevada blast
A hydrogen weapon with an explosive yield near a million tons of TNT was detonated beneath a desert mesa near Las Vegas. Observers 15 miles away watched the ground rise about 15 feet as dust and rocks flew, and cameras 12,000 feet away flickered briefly due to ground ripples.
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Las Vegas
New
Nixon outlines peace push and troop withdrawal plan
President Nixon announced plans to withdraw 35 000 U S troops from South Vietnam by December 15, joining an earlier 25 000 combatant pullout as part of a broader review of major peace efforts. He cited negotiations as the path to end the war and said total withdrawals would reach 60 000 by mid December. He said ceilings would drop to 484 000 from 549 500 and reiterated acceptance of any political outcome via free elections supervised by international observers. He stressed the right of South Vietnam to determine its future free from outside interference and said plans followed consultations with Vietnam and U S advisers.
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Nixon
Gulf
Vietnam
U.S
United States
South Vietnam
Saigon
Reds Raid Village Kill 24 Persons
North Vietnamese troops raided a coastal village near Da Nang killing 24 residents and wounding six, with 170 houses destroyed. The attack followed reports of ongoing fighting as U S troop withdrawal plans stirred speculation.
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Saigon
da Nang
South Vietnam
U.S
Mekong Delta
Demilitarized Zone
WOCD
Stere Sale
Mai Linh
Quang Ngai
Nixon Accused of Favoritism in Airline Dispute
The AFL-CIO union charges the Nixon administration favored National Airlines, led by major contributor L. B. Maytag Jr., amid an eight month IAM lockout. Maytag and Attorney General Mitchell, Nixon allies, are tied to the National Mediation Board as court actions stall the union. The Machinists seek release of negotiators after mediation failures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon Administration
Nixon
Congress
L.B. Maytag, Jr
National Airlines
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
National Airline
Maytag
IAM
Justice Department
Atty
John N. Mitchell
National Mediation Board
Gen. Mitchell
Mitchell
House
Miami
Mediation Board
Subic Bay Court Martial Reprimands Evans Skipper
Cmdr. Albert S. McLemore of the USS Evans is reprimanded after a one man court martial found him negligent in the June 3 collision with the Australian carrier Melbourne that killed 74 sailors. Two junior officers were reprimanded earlier. Ramsey’s promotion was affected. McLemore faced up to two years at hard labor and dismissal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Subic Bay
Philippines
Albert S. McLemore
U.S
Frank E. Evans
Melbourne
U.S. Navy
James E. Keys
Kansas City
McLemore
San Pedro
Calif
Navy
South China Sea
J.g
Ronald C. Ramsey
Ramsey
Long Beach
Keys
James A. Hopson
Kan
7Th Fleet
John P. Stevenson
Evans
Scientists Plan Seeding Attempt On Holly Hurricane
Scientists will use Project Stormfury to seed Holly in hopes of weakening its inflowing air. If conditions permit, planes will release chemicals into rain clouds to disrupt the storm’s wind field. Holly sits about 1,050 miles east-southeast of San Juan with winds near 75 mph and is expected to drift with little change in intensity.
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Project Stormfury
Robert Simpson
The
National Hurricane Center
Holly
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Richmond Weather: Sunny Skies Dominant in Southeast
A high pressure system continues to dominate the Southeast, keeping Virginia experiences sunny skies and clear conditions through today. Municipal and state forecasts suggest stable, dry weather with light winds.
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Richmond
United States
Virginia
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