Nixon Blending Pollution Politics In Campaign Push
President Nixon and a Cabinet team tied pollution issues to practical politics in a bid to bring government closer to the people. He met mayors in Indianapolis, viewed Chicago area smokestacks from the air, and attended a civic reception hosted by Mayor Richard J. Daley before an antipollution conference with Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin governors.
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Nixon and Mayors Lead Midwest Pollution Talks
The article covers a Chicago area visit by President Nixon and his Urban Affairs Council to meet nine city leaders. Officials discuss pollution and environmental goals for the 1970s, with the governors adding emphasis on regional cooperation. A two hour Indianapolis session is described as productive and reveals a shift to hearing more from state leaders.
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Southern governors plan Sunday meeting over school integration orders
Mississippi Governor John Bell Williams says he and three other Southern governors will meet Sunday in Alabama to discuss U S Supreme Court school integration orders. Williams spoke at a Jackson rally for the FOcus group with about 4 000 attendees and warned he would be willing to go to jail in fight against the orders. GE resumes production after a three month strike and raises prices on major appliances by about three percent due to the resumption.
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Tet Cease-Fire Ends Amid 91 Enemy Attacks Across Vietnam
Allied 24 hour cease-fire ended with at least 91 enemy attacks killing 117 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese, 3 Americans and 4 South Vietnamese. Heaviest fighting reported 6 miles south of the DMZ as 45 NVA killed. US command says 89 attacks in first 18 hours with 72 enemy dead and 18 Americans wounded. US Army to take overall command in 1st Corps Zone March 9.
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Meigs Civil War Monument Nears 100th Birthday
Meigs Bureau Chief Beulah Jones reports that the Meigs Civil War monument in Pomeroy will turn 100. The dedication drew thousands, with Ruth Wilkinson noting a 1844 Logan House era tour. Ohio University Bobcats host Western Michigan as area high school hoops resume action this weekend.
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Six Children Die In Akron House Fire
Six children aged 13 to 3 were killed as a West Side Akron family home burned. Father Paul Griffith 36 and mother Sally 30 were treated for cuts after attempting to remove finish from woodwork when the fire started. a seventh child was in a neighbor’s care.
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Yablonski Beating Tied to UMW Discipline Order
A Senate panel heard five days before the Springfield rally beating, UMW headquarters ordered discipline for Jack Yablonski. Joseph Yablonski testified the incident set off a “reign of terror” amid his father A. W. Boyle's 1976 union presidency bid and that protection and intervention requests were ignored by the Labor Department.
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Carswell Denies Being Hostile To Attorneys
Supreme Court nominee G Harrold Carswell rebutted claims of hostility toward civil rights litigants and lawyers in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Eastland called the reply excellent as the panel mulls a Feb 16 or 17 vote while Senator Tydings delays action to review Carswell's rebuttal.
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Senate moves toward vote on measure to curb education aid expansion
The Senate pursues a vote on nixing a provision that would add public housing children to the impacted areas aid program. Sen Dominick argues the expansion would raise costs by 236 million yearly and divert from the program’s original purpose. Supporters say large tax exempt developments burden district schools. Separately Sen Tydings wins adoption of an amendment to allow carryover of unspent ESEA funds to the next year.
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