Nixon freezes prices signals tougher Phase 4 plan
President Nixon orders a 60 day freeze on all consumer prices with no wage rent or agricultural price limits. The move aims to curb inflation while Phase 4 tightens controls and retail price stabilization. Expiration set for August 12 with new measures to be ready then. Congressional views split along party lines.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
William Proxmire
Dwis
Joint Economic Committee
Senate
House
GOP
Gerald R. Ford
Carl] Albert
America
United States
Internal Revenue Service
White House
GOP Budget Vote Effort Faces Committee Delays in Ohio
Ohio Republicans push to bring the $9.9 billion budget to a floor vote amid Education Committee snags and planned amendments. Senate leaders seek rapid action to avoid lapse of spending authority and enable a conference with the House.
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GOP
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Theodore M. Gray
Gray
House
A.G. Lancione
Bellaire
Skylab Crew May Do Fourth Spacewalk To Fix Shade
Skylab 1 astronauts Conrad Kerwin and Weitz plan a short day aboard the orbiting lab and may conduct a fourth space walk to install a second sun shade if officials decide its needed. They will also photograph sites along the coast from Oregon to Central and South America for geologic data.
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Oregon
United States
Texas
Central
South America
California
Nevada
Arizona
New Mexico
Rio Grande Valley
Space Agency
Skylab
Kerwin
Magruder Admits Role in Watergate Cover-Up
Jeb Stuart Magruder confessed to planning and aiding the Watergate wiretapping cover-up during Senate hearings. He said Nixon had no knowledge of the errors and accepted responsibility for his actions while naming others involved. Public remarks cited corroborating notes from Mitchell and Stans about the post-burglary briefing.
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Eliot Janeway
University of Pennsylvania
Lawrence R. Klein
Nixon
Oval Office
Washington (Ap
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Magruder
Senate
Chicago Tribune
Mitchell
Stans
the Tribune
Atty
John N. Mitchell
White House
John W. Dean III
G. Gor
Viet Cong orders cease-fire in South Vietnam
The Viet Cong radio announced a cease-fire to all units in South Vietnam effective at noon Friday Saigon time. In Erie, Albert Pass was identified as the man who told confessed killer William Prater that Yablonski must be eliminated for the United Mine Workers.
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Saigon
Viet Cong
South Vietnam
Erie, Pa
Yablonski
William Prater
Albert Pass
Erie County
United Mine Workers
Silous Huddleston
Huddleston
GM Plant Struck Again in Norwood Negotiations Continue
In Cincinnati negotiations between United Auto Workers and General Motors Assembly Division at Norwood continue over suspensions amid a prolonged dispute. Local 674 previously struck the plant for 174 days last year. In Miami National Airlines reached a contract with clerks and booking agents early today ending a six hour strike with minimal disruption.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
United Auto Workers
General Motors Assembly
Norwood
Miami, Fla
National Airlines
Weather outlook shows increasing clouds tonight
Cloudiness rises tonight with lows between 55 and 60 degrees. Friday remains partly cloudy with a chance of showers or thundershowers and highs from 80 to 85 degrees.
Secret Understandings Threaten Vietnam Cease Fire
Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam said Kissinger returned from Paris short of a truce goal and perhaps settled for unwritten understandings that could doom the cease-fire. Lam noted the joint communique by the United States Vietnam and Viet Cong failed to address two major issues.
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Saigon
Henry A. Kissinger
Paris
Vietnam
Tran van Lam
Lam
United States
North
South Vietnam
Pressure Mounts Over Vietnam Accord Details
Report cites secret understandings with Hanoi on troops and bases in Cambodia and Laos and calls into question DMZ enforcement. Nixon pressed Kissinger to seal an agreement with Tho amid fears of a U S aid cut and Thieu government collapse.
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South Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
U.S
Hanoi
Nguyen van Thieu
Lam
Saigon
Nixon
Congress
Kissinger
Tho
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Sam J. Ervin Jr
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