Global 24Hour Airline Pilot Strikegrounds 19 Foreign Carriers
The world wide 24 hour strike by airline pilots led to canceled service by 19 foreign flag airlines while several U.S. carriers largely kept flying. In the United States Eastern Airlines Southern Airways and Northeast Airlines halted flights amid a federal court injunction against participation by pilots in the strike. The action began at 2 am EDT and was organized by the International Federation of Airline Pilots to push for tougher hijacking measures.
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U.S
United States
Eastern Airlines
Southern Airways
Northeast Airlines
Airline Pilots Association
International Federation of Airline Pilots
South Vietnamese Launch Two Campaigns Against North
In Saigon two new drives started as President Thieu claims Hanoi troops are demoralized. A three month campaign to retake lost territory was ordered. About 3000 marines swept south of the demilitarized zone while rangers with tanks moved to clear Highway 13 toward Saigon and An Loc.
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Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
North Vietnam
Thieu
Demilitarized Zone
Highway 13
An Loc
Senate Panel Opens Hearings on Moscow Arms Pact
Secretary of State William P. Rogers testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as Congress begins hearings on the Moscow arms limitation agreements. The Armed Services Committee will start its session Tuesday with Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird and Admiral Thomas H. Moorer as initial witnesses.
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Washington
William P. Rogers
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
Senate Armed Services Committee
Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Adm
Thomas H. Moorer
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Democrats Charge Break In Espionage at DNC
AP reports five men were arrested during a break in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Democrats call it political espionage as James W. McCord Jr., a Nixon campaign security expert, is linked to campaign spending records filed June 10.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
Associated Press
James W. McCord Jr
DNC
Nixon Committee
Baseball Reserve Clause Upheld by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court in a 5-3 vote affirmed a lower court ruling and refused to strike down baseballs reserve clause. The Curt Flood case centers on a system that ties a player to the issuing team unless he accepts its salary offer, blocking moves to other clubs.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Curt Flood
Flood
Supreme Court rules wiretaps of domestic subversives illegal
The Supreme Court declares government wire tapping of suspected domestic subversives unconstitutional without a warrant. Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. notes it is not authorized by the 1968 Safe Streets Act and violates due process.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Valley water districts defy HUD push toward single agency
Five water districts in Breezy Hill North Valley at Langley rejected unification with Valley Public Service Authority despite HUD pressure to consolidate grant applications. They backed a Breezy Hill North Valley water project to serve 750 homes with a $75,000 loan while pursuing FHA funding but HUD requires a single agency application for future aid.
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Horse Creek Valley Water Districts
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
North Valley Water District
Breezy Hill
Aiken County
Valley Public Service Authority
Langley
Water District
Valley Public Service
North Valley
Zach
Fulmer
Farmer Home Administration
FHA
Atlanta
Rain and Wind Ahead as Agnes Eases North
Weather forecast for Aiken and coast areas calls for rain and wind with Hurricane Agnes. Heavy rain and scattered thunderstorms expected tonight and again tomorrow, with highs in the low 80s and overnight lows in the 70s. Coastal winds expected from 10 to 30 knots today increasing to 25 to 35 knots tonight and Tuesday, rough seas and tides 2 to 3 feet above normal.
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Agnes
Aiken
Agnes Nears Landfall as Florida Panhandle Braces
Hurricane Agnes drives toward Apalachicola with 80 mph winds as 14 killed in Florida and Cuba by tornadoes and storm surge. The National Hurricane Center warns eye just off coast and 1,500 evacuated along Gulf Coast while some residents refuse to flee.
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Fla
Florida
Arnold Sugg
Panhandle
Gulf Coast
Here
Venice
Keys
Sarasota
Flonda Panhandle
North Augusta Faces Pollution Plea Delay Hit
North Augusta aims to delay a pollution deadline after a compromise with the PCA and the state AGs office. Judge Julius B Ness will hear the case in Aiken at 1 p.m. Tuesday as officials seek to confirm the plan to finish the sewage plant 45 to 60 days before the April 1974 target.
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North Augusta
Savannah River
State Pollution Control Authority
PCA
Attorney General's Office
Julius B. Ness
Ness
Aiken County
Aiken
Raymond Walters
Walters
Farmers Market Opens With Limited Supplies On Williamsburg Street
The annual Farmers Market on Williamsburg Street begins to show early activity as less than a quarter of 42 tables are rented. Mrs. H Platt Moseley and other women with stalls predict rapid growth in the coming weeks. Built by The Grange 18 years ago, the market operates year round weekends and summer full week from 7 am to 6 pm. Last year it faced parking issues linked to the Aiken Food Stamp Distribution Office.
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Williamsburg Street
The
Grange
Aiken Food Stamp Distribution
Blood drives to cover 390 pint deficit in Aiken County
Red Cross bloodmobile visits Aiken County for two days to make up a 390 pint shortfall. It will stop at St Johns Methodist Church in Aiken and the Masonic Lodge in North Augusta from 4 to 8 30 p m with emphasis on college students and young couples to donate.
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Red Cross
Aiken County
North Augusta
Aiken
Joseph M. Thompson
St. John’s Methodist Church
Masonic
Elric S. Pinckney
Pinckney
Grand Jury To Meet Tonight In Aiken County
The Aiken County Grand Jury will convene at 7 30 p m in the Grand Jury room to discuss plans for an investigation into the county stockade. Foreman Gene Seigler confirmed the meeting despite lingering questions about who called it.
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Aiken County
Grand Jury
Gene Seigler
Seigler Denies Calling Aiken Grand Jury Meeting
The Aiken Standard reported that Seigler denied calling a special Grand Jury meeting. He identified himself as chairman of the Aiken County Grand Jury and gave a statement from his office between 7 and 9 a.m. Friday denying the meeting.
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Aiken Standard
Seigler
Aiken County Grand Jury
Conservatives Claim Wins as Southern Presbyterians Split
The 112th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States ended in Montreal North Carolina with conservatives winning key votes as Dr. L Nelson Bell was elected moderator. Liberals gained ground advocating modern recognition and a planned merger with the United Presbyterian Church. The assembly drew 446 ministers and elders with 43 women delegates and debated restructuring boards into a single executive body while balancing lay and professional influence.
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Montreal
N.C
L. Nelson Bell
Christianity Today
Billy Graham
Presbyterian Church
United States
United Presbyterian (Northern) Church
Bell
Dr. Norton
Stitt
McDougall
General Assembly
Sembly
Assembly
Con
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Dr. Bell
Joseph Norton
Little Rock
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