Tax dispute in Minnesota Senate House aims to settle by June 25
In a split among Conservative leaders in Minnesota, Senate Majority Leader Stanley Holmquist says a tax package to fund state government for the next two years should be settled by June 25. The dispute centers on school aid levels and how to reduce home taxes while raising roughly $600 million in new revenue.
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Two Labor Leaders Split Over Lockheed Loan Plan
AFL-CIO President George Meany split with another major labor leader over a proposed 250 million dollar government loan guarantee for Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Meany urged underwriting to keep Lockheed solvent and fund the TriStar jumbo jet, citing potential job losses of about 45,700 across at least 35 states.
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Lockheed
Labor Federation
Leonard Woodcock
United Auto Workers
Woodcock
Floyd E. Smith
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Smith
Penn Central
Alleged abductor of wife held in Canadian jail
Winnipeg reports indicate LeRoy Baillie, 34, a former Minneapolis man, was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on an FBI warrant for kidnapping. He is in a Canadian jail awaiting possible return to Minneapolis. The FBI did not specify a victim in the federal complaint.
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Vietnam clash below DMZ with heavy toll reported
Up to 400 North Vietnamese troops attacked 200 South Vietnamese marines below the demilitarized zone before dawn. South Vietnamese headquarters said the assault was repulsed with U.S. air and artillery support. North Vietnamese toll cited as 63 killed. field reports put Marines killed at nine. U.S. tallies showed 25 Viet casualties.
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Nixon seeks 155 million to fight drug crisis and rehab
President Nixon asked Congress for 155 million extra for anti drug efforts in the 1972 fiscal year to expand treatment and enforcement, create a White House Office of Drug Abuse Prevention, and fund international training to curb illicit narcotics. He noted servicemen in Vietnam face renewed addiction issues and urged authority to retain addicts in service.
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Humphrey recounts LBJ anguish over Vietnam decisions
Senator Humphrey says as vice president he watched President Johnson suffer over moves that escalated Vietnam. He cites a secret Pentagon study and Times reports, noting he was not informed of a 1965 troop escalation decision and would have altered his Goldwater stance if aware.
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Times Fight Over Pentagon Documents in Vietnam Series
U.S. District Court judge in New York reserved ruling on a government bid to inspect secret Pentagon documents used by the New York Times in its Vietnam war series. The Times offered to list only source documents, citing handwritten notes as a risk to confidential sources. Attorney Floyd Abrams named Daniel Ellsberg as the source per Sidney Zion.
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Amendment to cut off fund for Viet faces House test
The House faced a vote on an amendment to halt war funding with Nedzi and Whalen proposing a cutoff after December 31 1971. Senate votes against two end year funding limits for Indochina boosted Nixon administration hopes. Mechanisms for a draft extension drew talk of filibusters and strategic delays.
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R-Ore
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D-S.c
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Hatfield McGovern
Sen
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Draft extension bill survives Senate challenge in 2 year extension
The bill to extend the draft until June 30, 1973 passed a Senate hurdle 48 to 35 despite an amendment from Sen. James L. Buckley to cap the extension at 20 months through March 1, 1973.
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School board OKs transfer study for Whittier property
The Austin School Board authorized a panel to study transferring Whittier School to the city for use as a senior citizen center. If approved, the center could open in fall and be run by the Park and Recreation Dept with 75 to 25 federal funds. The board also approved change orders for Ellis pool and Vocational School plus hiring of a CPA firm.
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Whittier School
Judy McDermott
Austin School Board
City of Austin
James Flannery
Community Service Program
Whittier
Flannery
Park and Recreation Dept
Jerald Farrington
The
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Ellis
Vocational School
Bowlby, Anfinson and Co. Cpa
N Vietnam analyzes war origins in peace talks report
Paris dispatch says North Vietnam submitted to the Paris peace talks its analysis of U S aggression in Vietnam. The document published by the Foreign Ministry in 1965 claims U S policies are denounced and cites the Gulf of Tonkin incident as an operation to create a pretext for bombing North Vietnam.
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House panel to probe federal information practices
A House subcommittee will investigate government information practices, including executive privilege and classification procedures, amid debate over the Times Vietnam study articles. Rep. Ogden Reid says witnesses from State Justice and Defense will testify openly, focusing on how information is deemed public.
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New York Times
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House Foreign Operations and Government Information Subcommittee
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White House
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Ogden Reid
Miss Minnesota swimsuit winner tops preliminary in events
In the opening prelim Wednesday the swimsuit competition featured contestants from Montevideo Fridley Maplewood St Charles Vacationland Benson Rosemount Inver Grove Heights Rochester Mora and more. Helen Moore Miss Maplewood won the swimsuit segment as the event continued through Saturday.
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Lilla Forbard
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Paez
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Mora
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Mayplewood
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