Inflation rates in U S show low by international standards
United States inflation 9.5 percent for 12 months through May ranks fourth lowest among 24 OECD nations led by Germany Switzerland and Austria. While oil prices and rising wages push up prices the U S remains in a relatively low range compared with Italy Australia and Iceland while UK and Ireland show higher spikes. The story notes calls for more private enterprise and concern over growing government budgets and deficits.
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United States
OECD
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
Iceand
Italy
Australia
U.S
United Kingdom
Ireland
Astronauts Report Hitchhiker Aboard Apollo Mission
Space center reports an onboard hitchhiker during the Apollo-SoYuz test from Cape Canaveral. Crew delighted by liftoff and exchanged light Russian phrases as contact with Moscow noted. A mosquito joke and killifish experiment were mentioned aboard.
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Soviet Union
Apollo
Thomas Stafford
Soyuz
Alexei Leonov
Cape
Mission Control
Culture reaches inner city kids through free access program
Barbara Chin, 17, and 200 other students attend ballet under Charles L Burns to expand arts exposure in San Francisco. Burns founded the American Institute for Cultural Development to bring major cultural events to low income youths, funding about half its $75 000 annual budget from foundations and the NEA.
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San Francisco
Barbara Chin
San Francisco Ballet
Miss Chin
Charles L. Burns
Burns
San Francisco Bay Area
Johnny
American Institute For Cultural Development
Chicago
AICD
Ishvani Dance Company
India
Yugoslavia
Theatre Flamenco
Duncan
Rod Rogers Dance Company
Oakland
Berkeley
National Endowment For the Arts
Guerrillas Advance On Luanda Amid City Skirmishes
Portuguese officials report 3,000 FNLA troops possibly moving toward Luanda as MPLA, backed by the Soviet bloc, holds most of the capital after a week of nightly fighting that has left about 300 dead and 1,000 wounded. FNLA forces are based in Carmona, 220 miles northeast, with leader Daniel Chipenda reported there.
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Luanda
Angola
Agostinho Neto
Popular Movement For the Liberation of Angola
MPLA
Holden Roberto
National Front For the Liberation of Angola
FNLA
Atlantic Ocean
Carmona
Daniel Chipenda
Ada firm named low bidder for street equipment center
Todd Construction Co. of Ada led bids at 69412 for a new city building to house street equipment and offices on 7th Street near Townsend. Other Ada bidders ranged from 71529 to 967 ... Ballard Construction from Edmond. City council will decide next Monday if revenue sharing or reallocation covers the gap.
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Todd Construction Co
Ada
City of Ada
Todd
Leonard Briley
7Th Street
Townsend
Stockton Streets
Ada Iron
T&s Construction
Hart Construction
Ballard Construction
Ballard
Edmond
Denny Odell
Street Department
Five Men File For Chickasaw Governorship
Five men filed for governor of the Chickasaw Nation with a vote set for August 23. Incumbent James Overton Cravatt of Oklahoma City led a list including Ray Hatton, Jerry Smothchey, Charles Tate, and Carl Cravatt. Registration closes July 23. voters must prove lineal ancestry to a Chickasaw on the Dawes Roll.
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Chickasaw Nation
Chickasaw
Overton James
Oklahoma City
Carl Cravatt
Tishomingo
Ray Hatton
Tulsa
Jerry Smothchey
Ada
Charles Tate
Ardmore
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Cravatt
Emil Farve
Sulphur
DMV computer errors age Maude Tull, 103, licensed
In Sacramento, the California DMV computer wrongly aged Maude G. Tull by 100 years, listing her birth as February 3, 1972. After correcting the input showing a 1872 birth, she received a one year limited license to drive locally, among California’s oldest licensees.
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Sacramento
Calif
State Department of Motor Vehicles
Maude G. Tull
California
Daniel Boone Mystery New Book Subjects Idaho Hints
Idaho Falls author Louise Rutledge proposes Daniel Boone may have visited Idaho as early as 1776 in a Western Bicentennial mystery. Her book cites a 1974 photo of a tree inscribed D Boone 1776 and suggests Boone traced the Missouri River to Southern Montana and Eastern Idaho, with earlier 1767 and 1776 vanishing episodes and later Yellowstone-area trapping.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
Daniel Boone
Lewis and Clark
Louise Rutledge
D. Boone
Illinois Album: State Facts and Largest City
Illinois joined the Union as the 21st state in 1818. Its capital is Springfield and Chicago is the largest city. The population is about 11,113,976 with an area near 56,400 square miles.
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State of
Illinois
Springfield
Chicago
Rail unions race against deadline on contract stalemate
Federal mediators report progress after a long session as railroads and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks push to resolve wage and benefit disputes ahead of a deadline. Postal talks show tougher issues, with the American Postal Workers Union warning members to stay on the job unless a settlement is reached or the executive board orders action.
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Washington
Railroads
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
House
Usery
Postal Service
Francis Filbey
The
American Postal Workers Union
Revolutionary War Hero To Get New Burial Site
The remains of Capt Hopley Yeaton, a Coast Guard founder, will be moved from Lubec, Maine to New London Connecticut this August aboard The Eagle to coincide with the Bicentennial build up and the Coast Guard Academy centennial. The transfer follows decades of discussion sparked by nearby development.
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New London
Eagle
U.S
Paul Johnson
Academy Museum
George Washington
Yeaton
Coast Guard
Johnson
Alexander Hamilton
West Indies
Raleigh
Penobscot Bay
Maine
Lubec
Eastport
Arlington National Cemetery
Pike Chosen to Lead New Intelligence Panel in House
The House is set to replace its fractious intelligence committee with a new panel headed by Rep. Otis G. Pike. Pike, who led the Pueblo inquiry, was said to be the speaker’s choice as reformers clash with critics led by Rep. James H. Quillen. Sen. Frank Church warned the CIA could have acted rogue, signaling possible broader scrutiny.
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Washington
House
Otis G. Pike
Pike
New York
Carl Albert
James H. Quillen
R-Tenn
Sen
Frank Church
Idaho
Senate Intelligence Committee
CIA
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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