Foreign Aid, Spending Push Hinders Congress Action
Washington AP The Senate and House faced a $250 billion spending cap and a trimmed foreign aid bill as Congress negotiates to adjourn. Senators pressed for limits on presidential spending powers, while a $6 billion Social Security Medicare compromise eyed passage despite a missing quorum. The Senate cut $515.4 million from foreign aid in an interim resolution to last through Feb 29.
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Nixon
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Senate
Congress
Mike Mansfield
Gress
U S Set to Close Lend Lease Debt and Trade Pact
Washington reports the United States will sign a deal this week to end the Soviet World War II Lend-Lease debt, totaling about 500 million dollars to be repaid over 30 years. The agreement accompanies a maritime trade pact and aims to wrap three broad accords with Moscow before Soviet official Nikolai Patolichev departs.
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Soviet Union
Moscow
U.S
Congress
Russia
Congressional
Capitol Hill
Cleveland Mayor Catches Fire During Metal Show
Cleveland mayor Ralph J. Perk ignited his hair with an acetylene torch during a ribbon cutting at the 1972 Metal Show and Materials Engineering Congress. Sparks burned a hole in his suit and scorched hair, but he was uninjured aside from the hair loss.
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Ralph Perk
Perk
American Society of Metals
Ohio
Ralph J. Perk
Cuyahoga
Boggs Missing As Alaska Coast Weather Clamps Search
Severe weather along Alaska's southern coast hindered search efforts for a missing light plane carrying House Democratic Leader Hale Boggs and three others. An Air Force HC130 flew all night as officials warned of very marginal flying weather and zero visibility.
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Begich
House
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
Nick Begich
Alaska
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Juneau
Air Force
Rescue Coordination Center
Russell Brown
Don E. Jonz
Gary Hymes
Washington
Jonz
FAA
National Transportation Safety Board
Patrick W. Whitaker
Prince William Sound
Civil Air Patrol
Ciy
Communists seize six hamlets in central highlands
Communist forces seized half a dozen government hamlets in the central highlands in a campaign ordered by a new Resolution X10 to plant the Viet Cong flag in villages. Government militia withdrew under pressure, with some civilians fleeing. One hamlet retaken saw 5 civilians and 6 militiamen killed and 13 civilians plus 4 militiamen wounded. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong casualties reported. In Saigon, Thieu held talks with advisers as Gen. Abrams arrived for war assessment and Vietnamization plan review.
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Nixon to Sign Revenue Sharing Bill in Independence Hall
President Nixon will sign the revenue sharing bill at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Friday. Invitations go to 50 governors, Congress members, about 100 mayors, and state and county officials for a 12:30 p.m. ceremony. The plan allocates 5.3 billion dollars from the federal treasury to state and local governments this year with higher amounts in the following four years. Checks for the first six months go out October 27.
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Nixon
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Morganna Returns To Jail In Kentucky Court Battle
Morganna Roberts 24 was jailed again in Newport Kentucky as she fights to overturn a nudity conviction. Campbell Circuit Judge Frederick Warren ordered her back to serve eight days of a 10 day sentence after a bid to serve by day and dance by night was denied. U S District Judge Mac Swinford previously refused a stay since she was not jailed at the time.
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Cincinnati Reds
Four in Commune Involuntary Manslaughter Trial Delayed
The involuntary manslaughter trial of four members of a religious commune over Judith Kowler's death is moved to February 5 due to witness accessibility issues. Defendants include Stephen Gaskin leader followed by Mike Schlichting 24 of Oakland California Robert Powers 20 of Cleveland Ohio and Thomas Dickerson 22 of Radford Virginia.
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Tenn
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Mike Schlichting
Oakland
Calif
Robert Powers
Cleveland, Ohio
Thomas V. Dickerson
Radford, Va
Judith Kowler
Forest Hills
N. Y
Miss Kowler
Wilmette man named Midwest director for productivity panel
Leon N. Skan of Wilmette was sworn in as Midwest director for the National Commission on Productivity. He will oversee six states Illinois Michigan Ohio Minnesota Wisconsin Indiana and promote higher productivity to boost U S world market position. He heads Pollak and Skan on leave while serving.
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Leon N. Skan
Wilmette
Midwest
National Commission On Productivity
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Skan
Commission and
Industry
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Michigan
Ohio
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Wisconsin
Indiana
Newsmen
Pollak and Skan
Commission
Women Held In Drug Case Indictments In Columbus Haul
Franklin County Grand Jury indicted Jo Ann McAffee Long and Constance R. Dixon after police seized what authorities call the citys largest narcotics haul. The Airport arrest followed seizure of about 2.6 million dollars in hard drugs including heroin and cocaine. Long faces conspiracy to possess cocaine and heroin plus possession of dolophine while Dixon faces conspiracy to possess cocaine and heroin along with possession of cocaine codeine and heroin.
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Franklin County Grand Jury
Jo Ann McAffee Long
Columbus
Constance R. Dixon
Los Angeles
Port Columbus International Airport
Miss Long
Miss Dixon
Kissinger Resumes Paris Talks With North Viet Nam
Henry Kissinger returns to Paris for another round of negotiations with Xuan Thuy as Nixon substitutes on POW-MIA remarks. The White House notes this is Kissinger’s 20th trip to Paris and marks 25 days of private talks in efforts to end the Southeast Asia conflict.
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Nixon
Henry A. Kissinger
Paris
Xuan Thuy
White House
Kissinger
National League of Families of Prisoners of War
Ronald L. Ziegler
Hotel Bomb Kills Woman in Sheraton Buenos Aires
A blast in a 22nd floor room of the new Sheraton Hotel in Buenos Aires killed a Canadian woman and gravely wounded her husband and a Massachusetts woman. Supporters of ex-dictator Juan Peron were blamed as smoke poured from a jagged hole in the southeast wing. Nearly 700 guests fled as fire was brought under control. A wave of bombings across Argentina marked Peronist guerrillas commemorating the leader's rise to power 27 years prior.
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Buenos Aires
New Sheraton
Massachusetts
Juan D. Peron
Argentina
British Troops Kill Four In Northern Ireland
Belfast report says four more people were killed by British troops amid protests over the December 6 elections. Rioters attacked a patrol, an armored car struck a barricade, and gunfire wounded civilians and soldiers as 30 people were arrested. The toll in over three years reaches 610 dead. UDA denounces the army and urges loyalists to withdraw support. Whitelaw sets local elections for Dec. 6 despite Protestant opposition to proportional representation.
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