Nixon Plans to Pare CEO in Realignment of Poverty War
President Nixon plans a major realignment of the war on poverty, cutting roughly half of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Head Start and Job Corps move to HEW and Labor respectively, with community action programs and VISTA kept in OEO. A formal announcement was expected today or Wednesday.
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Washington
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
VISTA
Peace Corps
White House
Congress
HEW
Office of Education
Antipoverty
Labor Department
Appalachia
Deep South
Robert H. Finch
Children’s Bureau
Sealab program delayed after divers suffer fatal heart attack
Sealab 3, a $10 million Navy undersea living program, was halted after Berry L. Cannon 33 died from a heart seizure 610 feet down near San Clemente Island. Eight team members began decompression as investigators probe equipment leaks and depth-related risks.
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Long Beach
Calif
Berry L. Cannon
San Clemente Island
Cannon
Congress Eyes Deep Budget Cuts To Trim Johnson Legacy
In Washington the Joint House-Senate Economic Committee signals broad support in Congress for deep cuts similar to last year s 6 billion reduction in the 195.3 billion budget Nixon inherited. Senator Proxmire says cuts are possible despite CAE warnings. Senate Armed Services plans hearings on military aspects of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty after Foreign Relations hearings led by Secretary Rogers. In London President de Gaulle withdraws France from the Western European Union council ahead of Nixon s visit, signaling a new Tory cold war with Britain and a reduced WEU forum.
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Joint
House-Senate Economic Committee
Congress
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Johnson
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Council of Economic Advisers
Proxmire
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate
London
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Britain
France
Council of the Weu
Athens High Student Suspended Over Hair Dress Code Debate
Inside Today reports a student at Athens High was suspended over long hair raising questions about the school district’s ability to enforce a dress code. Vietnamese father and children reunite during an Athens visit as other pages note computer scheduling study by the Logan Board of Education and future bids for a billion dollar Pomroy sewer system and treatment plant to be advertised March 1.
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Athens High
Pomeroy
Pec
Tax Code Review Opens with Move to Tax Foundation Investment Income
Washington AP Congress launches a two year drive to overhaul the tax code with a proposal for a 20 percent tax on private foundation investment income. Rep. Wright Patman seeks reform not abolition and would cap privately controlled foundations at 3 percent of stock ownership and require annual distribution of net income to philanthropy.
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Washington
Congress
Wright Patman
Texas
House
Ways and Means Committee
Patman
552s Blast Enemy Bases Posing Threat To Saigon
U S B52 bombers shifted focus from Laos to Viet Cong bases near Saigon striking from 35 to 63 miles north and near the Cambodian border. In the past week some 240 sorties dropped about 26 000 bombs as U S and South Vietnamese forces resume ground operations after a 24 hour ceasefire.
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Saigon
U.S
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Central Highlands
Mekong Delta
California Court Moves to Halt On Campus Unrest
California sought a court order to curb San Francisco State College militants and place 250000 in receivership as acting president Hayakawa suspends two Negro teachers amid ongoing student clashes. National Guardsmen remained at Wisconsin as 1900 troops assisted police after a classroom boycott lost momentum.
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Associated Press
California
San Francisco State College
University of Wisconsin
S. L Hayakawa
Make it easy Find buyers for old TV sets fast
A reader recalls placing a Messenger Action Ad to sell a TV set. Leon Hughes of Athens Route 1 delayed advertising but then received nine calls and sold the set on the fourth day. The piece encourages turning unused appliances into cash by advertising promptly.
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Leon Hughes
Athens
Hughes
No Longer Applicable Code Of Conduct For POWs
In Coronado Calif AP the USS Pueblo’s second in command says the U S Code of Conduct for servicemen captured does not apply well to modern psychological warfare, but the underlying principle of loyalty to government must be maintained.
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Coronado, Calif
U.S
Witnesses Testify About Sirhan Plot And Navy Code
AP reports witnesses describe Sirhan Bishara Sirhan planning and practicing for Kennedy’s murder at the San Gabriel Valley Gun Club while the defense argues the killing was impulsive and unpremeditated. Separate testimony covers Navy torture claims and a code of conduct questioned after the Pueblo incident.
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Sirhan Bishara
Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Sirhai
San Gabriel Valley
Duarte
Kennedy
California
Ambassador Hotel
Jesus Perez
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Charles L. McClaskey
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