Battle claims and border fighting flare along East Pakistan
Indian cabinet minister said four Indian built Gnats shot down three Pakistani warplanes near Calcutta with one Pakistani pilot capture reported. Radio Pakistan cited martial law and a state of emergency as fighting rages in East Pakistan near Jessore and across the border with Mukti Bahini aid from India.
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New Delhi
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Dacca
Jessore
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Security Council
East Bengal
Mukti Bahini
Chittagong
Sylhet
Rangpur
Tax Cuts Approved Amid Campaign Financing Clash
The Senate approved a $27 billion tax-cut package and attached a provision to fund presidential campaigns. The vote stood 64 to 30 as Republicans split over the campaign-financing amendment with some urging a Nixon veto. Final Senate bill includes business boosts and broader individual cuts. a two-child family with $10,000 income would see a $19 1971 tax cut and a $95 1972 cut.
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Washington
Senate
Federal Treasury
House
Nixon
Kent State shooter trial jurors seated in Ravenna
Eight jurors were tentatively seated for the Kent State incident case against Jerry Rupe a Ravenna man indicted on arson riot assaulting a fireman and interfering with firemen. Jury selection saw three peremptory challenges unused and two more jurors seated including William Bennett and Jack Ferguson. The trial stems from the May 2 1970 ROTC building burning and the campus clashes that killed four students.
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Ravenna
Kent State
Ohio National
Rejection of Butz Unlikely
Washington AP reports Senate foes of Earl L. Butz nomination count 33 firmly against and 20 leaning no. They seek a coalition of farm groups, the poor, environmentalists, labor, wheat and corn price critics, and memories of the Benson era. Cabinet rejections are rare in a century.
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Senate
Earl L. Butz
Ezra Taft Benson
Senate Defeats Personal and Corporate Tax Plan in Ohio
A fourth House Senate conference panel was to be named to restart talks on a nine month budget tax deadlock. The Senate voted 17 15 against a plan for 5 percent personal income tax and 4 8 percent corporate tax, despite Gov. Gilligan's backing.
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Ohio
House-Senate
Senate
John J. Gilligan
Robert E. Stockpile
Kent
David S. Holcomb
Dayton
Ronald M. Motts
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Parma
Supreme Court grants equal protection to women nationwide
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that laws creating arbitrary sex distinctions violate the 14th Amendment. The decision allows challenges to statutes that favor one sex with a required, objective justification. The Idaho estate case involved Sally Reed and Cecil Reed over their adopted son’s $1000 estate.
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Idaho
Sally Reed
Boise
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
Cecil Reed
Senate schedule laugh turns to Butz quip spurs banter
Senate leaders exchange barbs over the upcoming nomination of Earl L. Butz as agriculture secretary. Mansfield questions the joke while Scott jokes about headlines as the chamber teased the schedule. At Fort Meade Col. Oran K. Henderson defends himself in the My Lai cover up case. He testifies to show he sought the truth amid subordinates who allegedly deceived him.
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Senate
Mike Mansfield
Butz
Earl L. Butz
Nixon
Hugh Scott
FT. Meade
Oran K. Henderson
My Lai
Henderson
Trek Ends With Tragedy in Scottish Highlands
Five school children and a teenage teacher died in freezing Cairngorm conditions after a weekend trek. A rescue helicopter found two others alive as searchers battled raging weather and six foot snowdrifts.
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Avimore
Scotland
Scottish Highlands
Cairngorm
Price Commission Shifts Rent Control to Local Boards
The Price Commission transfers responsibility for private rent increases to state and local boards during Phase 2 while keeping public housing and federally subsidized units under federal supervision. Public housing decontrolled units stay supervised. the move signals the commission's final rent ruling as Nixon forms a Rent Advisory Board to meet today.
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The
Price Commission
Nixon
Five U S generals face demotion after Vietnam firebase attack
A two star general and four other high ranking officers were notified three weeks ago of proposed administrative action including demotion or reprimand following the deadliest attack on a U S firebase during the Vietnam war. Maj. Gen. James L. Baldwin was among the five and Keach was given 60 days to present evidence to overturn the decision by Army Secretary Robert F Froehlke.
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U.S
James L. Baldwin
Army
Robert F. Froehlke Keach
Miners Expected to Return as Union Distributes Benefits
Charleston reports most Mountain State miners planned to return to work today while southern West Virginia locals offer to hand out strike benefit checks in bathhouses. TV announcements said benefits would be distributed, with one hundred dollars authorized for all miners by the United Mine Workers union.
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W. Va
Mountain State
West Virginia
United Mine Workers Union
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