Senate Ends Year with File of Budget and Tax Cuts
Senate adjourned at 1 32 p m EST after a lean attendance as the 92nd Congress closed. Congress approved a 15 8 billion tax cut and extended wage price rent controls to April 30 1973, while Nixon proposals on welfare reform and national health care stalled. The Senate also approved a constitutional amendment granting voting rights to 18 year olds. Christmas lights frame the Capitol as Vice President Agnew lit the tree.
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Senate
Hugh Scott
Scott
House
Congress
Nixon
Senate Finance Committee
Executive Branch
Spiro Agnew
Nationwide protests threaten Pakistan military government
Protests in Lahore and Peshawar against Yahya Khan's rule escalate as Bhutto led Pakistan People’s Party demands his resignation. Demonstrators threaten Yahya’s cantonment house. Bhutto returns from New York to head a new government ahead of a promised early- year transfer of power.
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Associated Press Radio
Pakistan
Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan
India
Yahya
Pakistan People’s Party
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Lahore
Peshawar
Rawalpindi
Bar Association
Oher
Bor
Der
Bhutto
New York
The
United Nations
People’s Party
West Pakistan
Awami League
Muskie urges anti trust laws to aid small farmers
Sen Edmund Muskie of Maine urged two steps to protect independent farmers. He called for new anti trust legislation to limit big business in agriculture and stronger collective bargaining power for small farmers at the National Farmers Organization convention in Kansas City. Oren Lee Staley of Rea Mo was re-elected NFC president.
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Kansas City
Edmund
Muskie
Maine
America
National Farmers Organization
NFO
Oren Lee Staley
Rea. Mo
NFC
McCarthy Confirms Presidential Candidacy in Boston
Former Minnesota senator Eugene J. McCarthy smiles during a television interview in Boston. He announced at a press conference that he is again a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
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Minnesota
Eugene J. McCarthy
Boston
United States
Pay Board approves 7 percent raises in special cases
A dissenting Pay Board adopts tough rules allowing annual raises up to seven percent in special situations. It imposes a 5.5 percent base with possible adds for cost of living and merit ties, and hints at exceptions to attract or retain essential workers.
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Brooks Jackson Washington
State allocates 20000 for prison ombudsman role
The Governor's Crime Commission uses a 20000 federal grant to hire an ombudsman for inmates probationers and parolees. Corrections Commissioner Fogel says the office will report to the governor and probe Department of Corrections actions to raise standards. The grant runs six months and funds most of the 23000 yearly ombudsman, 17000 deputy and secretary costs with state funds covering the remainder.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Governor's Crime Commission
Corrections
David Fogel
Ombudsman
Department of Corrections
Commission
Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
North Vietnamese SAM Downs U.S. Jet. Two Crewmembers Rescued
A Phantom F4 aircraft was shot down by a Soviet-made SAM 2 over North Vietnam. Lt. Col. Arthur Blissett Jr. and Lt. Michael Murray survived after parachuting. Blissett spent nine hours clinging to a tree before rescue. Both were later hospitalized in Thailand and reported in good condition.
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Saigon
Arthur S. Blissett Jr
Apple Valley
Calif
Michael H. Murray
Chicopee
Mass
North Vietnam
U.S
Mu Gia Pass
Demilitarized Zone
Blissett
Murray
Thailand
United States Warns Cuba Over Attacks on Shipping
The United States warns Cuba it will not tolerate further attacks on commercial vessels and will aid ships under attack. State Department and Pentagon actions place naval and air units on alert after Cuba seized the Lila Express and attacked the Johnny Express, with two crew wounded.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Cuba
Robert J. McCloskey
Caribbean
U.S
McCloskey
Pentagon
Jose Villa
Villa
Havana
IRS clarifies Phase 2 pay raise rules for Minnesota
IRS Minnesota director George O. Lethert says pre November 14 contracts stay as written but can be opened for review if deemed inflationary by five Pay Board members or a bargaining representative. New contracts after November 14 face 5.5 percent wage increase limits unless expressly approved. Longevity and merit raises under collective bargaining are exempt from the 5.5 percent cap.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Internal Revenue Service Assistance
Minnesota
George O. Lethert
IRS
Lethert
Golfing great Bobby Jones dies at 69 in Atlanta
Bobby Jones, famed amateur who claimed golf's Grand Slam in 1930 at age 28, died today at his Atlanta home. The AP report notes his career culminated with the Grand Slam in 1930.
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Bobby Jones
Atlanta
Jones
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Jack Lynch
Irish Republican Army
Brian Faulkner
Mideast
Pnd
Washington
William P. Rogers
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