Automakers rush to boost small car production amid energy crisis
Detroit’s Big Three push conversion of plants to smaller models like Ford Pinto and GM Vega as demand shifts. GM projects a 12 percent drop in total car sales from 1973, plans plant changes across Doraville, Norwood, Leeds, and St Theresa. Ford and Chrysler announce plant retooling. layoffs expected during conversions.
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Jonathan Wolman
Detroit
Auto Industry
Detroit Auto Makers
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General Motor
Richard Gerstenberg
Chrysler
U.S
Doraville
Norwood
Ohio
Leeds
St. Theresa
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American Motors
Oil spill ruptures farm land near Argyle Minnesota
Farmer Leonard Hapka says 840000 gallons of crude spilled from a Lakehead Pipeline line near Argyle sterilized his seed potato and grain land. PCA cites possible 1470000 gallon spill. officials consider action. Officials expect most oil recovered, surface contamination limited by frost line.
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Argyle, Minn
Leonard Hapka
Hapka
Argyle
Lakehead Pipeline Co
Superior
Wis
Lakehead
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Arnold Hamness
PCA
Grant Merritt
James Dunlop
Alberta
Fighting Rages in Central Highlands and Delta. Casualties Reported
The Saigon government reports heavy fighting in the central highlands and the Mekong Delta. It says 81 North Vietnamese were killed in the highlands and 82 NVA and Viet Cong in the delta, with seven government troops killed and 39 wounded at Dak Song. In the delta a 600-strong foraging force attacked along Highway 4, leaving 82 Communists and six government troops dead. Cambodian Khmer Rouge militants ambushed Highway 4 near Phnom Penh, killing two taxi passengers before government troops dispersed them.
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George Esper
Associated Press
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Central Highlands
Mekong Delta
Highlands
Delta
Dak Song
Gia Nghia
Quang Duc
le Trung Hien
Hien
Cambodia
St. Mary's reports operating surplus for 1972 73
St. Mary's College in Winona Minnesota announced a 1972 73 operating budget surplus of 6743 dollars, the first black balance since 1968. President Dr George Pahl said expenditures reached 4.2 million while income totaled 1.2 million, up 19.1 percent from the prior year and costs rising 18.2 percent. Donations from outside sources were 1.2 million, up 50 000 from the previous year.
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Winona
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