Senate passes $18.5 billion Social Security welfare bill
The Senate approved a sweeping 18.5 billion dollar Social Security welfare bill after a 17 hour session with 40 amendments. It would raise benefits for widows the elderly and disabled while testing three welfare reform plans and increasing payroll taxes to finance the changes. A conference with the House is planned next week with a target to send a compromise to President Nixon before the 1972 session ends.
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Wilbur D. Mills
Nixon says talks in sensitive state no peace forecast
President Nixon warns negotiations are in a sensitive state and he will not predict a settlement or its timing. Reports from Paris and Saigon indicate no breakthrough as behind the scenes talks continue on ending the Indochina war. Hanoi accuses Nixon of trying to dupe voters as discussions drag on.
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Xuan Thuy
Henry A. Kissinger
Nguyen van Thieu
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Hanoi
McGovern
South Vietnam
Hong Kong
China
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United States
Russia
Journalist jailed for refusing grand jury sources faces fate
Anne Bridge defends her husband Peter Bridge 36 jailed for contempt after refusing to reveal news confidences to a grand jury He may not be talked to if he discloses sources The case marks a post Supreme Court ruling on journalists protections.
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Belleville
N. J
Peter Bridge
Anne Bridge
Bridge
U. S. Supreme Court
Nixon Refuses To Dignify Corruption Accusations
President Nixon declined to respond to Sen George McGoverns charges that his administration is corrupt. He said he would not dignify such claims and that Democratic supporters would be turned off by the campaign. McGovern countered that crowds grew and support tightened in Cleveland.
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Nixon
George McGovern
Oval Office
McGovern
Cleveland
Doctors propose BCG vaccine against leukemia
A Chicago study led by Dr. Sol Roy Rosenthal suggests BCG vaccination at birth may correlate with lower leukemia death rates in black children aged birth to 6 years, from 1964 to 1969. The retrospective findings show 1 leukemia death among 54,414 vaccinated vs 21 among 172,986 unvaccinated, a statistically notable difference.
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Sol Roy Rosenthal
University of Illinois
Chicago
Rosenthal
AWOL Soldier Slays 3 in Germany on Train
In Hannover, German police report an AWOL U S soldier killed two armed guards and a railroad cleaning woman, tossing their bodies from the Aspen Express. Thomas De Gregorio, 26, of Hialeah Florida, was in custody earlier in Bremerhaven and was returning to Bamberg with the guards. The victims were members of the 1st Battalion 52nd Infantry.
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Germany
Thomas de Gregorio
Hialeah
Fla
Bremerhaven
Bamberg
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Rogers Pleased With China Meet in U N
Secretary of State William Rogers and Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan Hua held the first private U S China meeting at Rogers home. Rogers called it very pleasant and more social than substantive, emphasizing progress in U S Peking relations and talks on wider trade openings and citizen travel.
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William P. Rogers
Chiao Kuanhua
China
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Chiao
New York
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