UN Opens Critical Session Amid Middle East Tension
Delegates from 132 nations convene the 27th General Assembly as the Middle East crisis deepens and U S troop withdrawal from Korea looms. Soviet Andrei Gromyko arrives with other Big Five officials, while U S Rogers and others may join soon. Security tightens after Munich and Israel’s Lebanon incursion tests peace efforts. Waldheim urges measures against terrorism as debate looms.
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Middle East
U.S
Korea
U.N. General Assembly
Andrei A. Gromyko
William P. Rogers
Alec Douglas-Home
Maurice Schumann
Minster
Chiao Kuan-hua
Executive Protective Service
Washington
Nixon
New York
U.N
Israel
Munich
Assembly
Kurt Waldheim
Lebanon
Waldheim
Rogers
China
Soviet Union
Mideast
South Korea
North
Bomb Package Kills Israeli Attache at London Embassy
A booby trapped package exploded at the Israeli Embassy in London killing Agriculture Attache Dr Ami Schachori and wounding another. Police say the parcel came from Amsterdam. In Beirut the Syrian government arrested U S attach Maj Richard Barrett near the Jordan border.
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Scotland Yard
Beirut
U.S
Amman
Jordan
Jordan- Syria
Ami Schachori
Richard Barrett
Laramie
Wyo
Barrett
Deraa
Syria
Egypt
Libya
Lebanon
Price Commission ruling limits big apple processors
Larger firms face new rules as the Price Commission requires processors with annual revenue over 100 million to file requests for price increases. Smaller packers stay exempt. Senator Jennings Randolph urged officials to clarify policy. Growers worry higher raw apple prices may be blocked, risking farm viability and some growers leaving the business. Storage of the crop is floated as a solution amid a clearly short harvest.
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Price Commission
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Jennings Randolph
West Virginia
Cost of Living Council
Winchester
Communists seize third district capital in Quang Ngai
In Quang Ngai province north of Da Nang Communist forces took their third district capital in a month and occupied three hamlets in Binh Son. Saigon said Mo Duc Duc Pho Ba To are under heavy pressure with Ba To fallen and Que Son briefly seized before recapture. casualties numbered in the low hundreds for both sides and thousands fled as refugees.
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da Nang
Quang Ngai
Mo Duc
Duc Pho
Ba To
Binh Son
Que Son
Tien Phuoc
Economic Expansion May Top Forecast
The U S economy shows continued growth with the Fed reporting a 0 5 percent August index rise and GNP projected to exceed January forecasts by 7 billion. Treasury Secretary Shultz says 1972 GNP may average 1 152 trillion dollars as money supply expands to support growth.
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Federal Reserve Board
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Treasury
George P. Shultz
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Lawrence Elected Chairman of Winchester School Board
Lawrence William H. Lawrence III was elected chairman and Marvin C. Gore vice chairman of the Winchester School Board. Lawrence has served seven and a half years on the board and four years as vice chair, succeeding H. Robert Edwards. Gore, a former Winchester city councilman and local Insuranceman, becomes vice chairman. The board approved buying a school district liability insurance policy, planned improvements to Grove Street, undergrounding power lines by the new Middle School, WVPT TV instructional programming, a cooperative preschool hearing-deficiency class, and updated reporting systems. It also tabled a high school PE revision and authorized a storm sewer project for Handley parking lot runoff. Lawrence is a longtime Winchester resident and community leader born in Chambersburg, Pa. He and his wife Margaret Moore have five children and live at 703 Tennyson Ave.
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Marvin C. Gore
Winchester School Board
Lawrence
Clearbrook
H. Robert Edwards
Gore
Winchester
Jacob L. Johnson
Grove St
Purcell St
Christopher Drive
Johnson
Wvpt-Tv
Frederick County
John C. Capehart
Capehart
Handley
Handley Blvd
Shenandoah Valley, Inc
Chambersburg
Handley High School
Mercersburg Academy
Williams College
Philadelphia Textile Institute
U.S. Army
Germany
First Presbyterian Church
Exchange Club
Stonewall
American Red Cross
Boy Scout Troop 2
Margaret Moore
Lawrences
Tennyson Ave
Americans Detained in Uganda Amid War Fears
Reports from Kampala indicate eight or nine Americans Detained including Peace Corps workers missionaries and an Associated Press journalist amid Ugandan Tanzanian fighting. About fifty British nationals are detained with two days of clashes described as an invasion by Tanzania.
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Tanzania
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Kampala
Peace Corps
Associated Press
Idi Amin
Kagera
Julius Nyere
Lake Victoria
Radio
Amin
Milton Obote
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