Defense budget clash after arms limit pact debate
A major Capitol Hill clash over defense spending follows the Nixon Soviet arms limitation deal. Secretary Laird urges more funds for new submarines and bombers, while Senator Muskie and others warn against fueling a new arms race. Democratic voices push trimming the $83.4 billion Pentagon request.
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Capitol Hill
Nixon
George Mahon
House Appropriations Committee
America
Defense
Melvin Laird
Pentagon
U.S
Mahon
Russia
Edmund Muskie
Maine Democrat
Laird
Muskie
Sen
George McGovern
Strikes Hurt Most Americans Says Opinion Survey
A Labor Law Study Committee survey by Opinion Research Corp reports 68 percent of the general public think recent strikes and labor trouble seriously hurt the country. Among union members the figure is 61 percent, with 12 percent undecided. The study notes rising concern since 1967, amid inflation and unemployment.
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Opinion Research Corp
Princeton
N.J
Labor Law Study Committee
America
Study finds marital status influences sleep duration
Michigan State University student Gaines W Wilson tracked May sleep hours and happiness levels of single and married students. Married women averaged 7.72 hours, followed by single men 7.33, married men 7.29, and single women 7.22. Happiness scores ranged 3 to 5, naps not a factor.
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Michigan State University
Gaines W. Wilson
Wilson
Bicentennial Parks proposed nationwide by 1976 plan
The American Revolution Bicentennial Commission envisions a chain of urban Bicentennial Parks funded by the federal government and sponsored by states. Each 100 to 500 acre site would be in major population centers with central pavilions, amphitheaters, workshops, and diverse outdoor activities. Planning should begin now to complete the parks by spring 1976.
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United States
Seattle Center
Seattle
Commission
Congress
Washington Post
Quotation Page Note from Daily Austin News
A quoted line from I Cor 14 20 appears alongside a famous Einstein saying about repeated thinking errors. The piece includes publication details for the Austin Minnesota paper with address, staff, and subscription rate notes. It cites Edmund E Smith as Publisher and General Manager and Thomas J Koeck as Managing Editor.
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Austin Daily Herald
2Nd St. N.E
Austin
Minnesota
Edmund E. Smith
Thomas J. Koeck
Linare
Air raid wardens to start county classes at three towns
Air raid wardens in Mower County near Austin begin a series of classes tonight under county chief warden R. Norman Miller. Sessions run through the week of Aug. 24 at Grand Meadow Opera House Austin Courthouse and LeRoy Town Hall with Dexter and Adams alternating weeks.
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Mower County
Austin
Grand Meadow
R. Norman Miller
Opera House
Courthouse
LeRoy
Town Hall
Dexter
Adams
Labor chiefs back Rockefeller as Nixon weighs Agnew dump
Labor leaders, tied to the Northeast establishment, plot to back Nelson Rockefeller for 1973 vice presidency, aiming to replace Spiro Agnew with the New York governor. They see Rockefeller as the path to a 1976 presidential bid and plan to push their influence at Capitol Hill late June, signaling a broad, organized push within the Republican base.
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Victor Riesel
Washington
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Spiro Agnew
New York
Northeast
White House
Rocky
Peter Brennan
New York Building and Construction Trades Council
Happy Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Brennan
Richard Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
John Mitchell
Bernard DeLury
Maryland
Teamsters
Frank “Fitz” Fitzsimmons
Oval Room
Marche Agnew
John
Connally
Nixon
Ted Agnew
Rockefeller
IRS Warns Against Dressing Vacations as Business Trips
The Internal Revenue Service cautioned taxpayers not to disguise vacations as business trips on returns. Tax agents will scrutinize deductions for trips and conventions that resemble leisure getaways, often at resorts, and require substantiation of time spent on business activities. The warning followed increasing use by groups to schedule meetings at vacation spots with little business time.
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Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Quick Quiz Question Set From a 19th Century Paper
A compact quiz collection covers topics from naked eye astronomy to tree frogs and Palm Sunday palms. It notes Uranus visibility, tree frog adaptations, cabbage palm usage, snake sleep indicators, average heart weights, Chinese early gas use, and St. Peter’s Basilica’s status as a basilica rather than a cathedral.
Carmichael Urges Blacks to Call Africa Home
Stokely Carmichael in Guinea argues that America does not belong to blacks and calls for a pan African exodus. He advocates a united Africa with one leader and one army, saying Africans exist in America and Africa must rely on African technicians. He arrived with Miriam Makeba to pursue a pan African ideology.
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Larry Heinzerling
Conaery
Guinea
Stokely Carmichael
Camayenne
Africa
America
Carmichael
Trinidad
U.S
Black Panthers
United States
Miriam Makeba
United Nations
Moscow places Soviet interests over Hanoi in Vietnam standoff
Brezhnev via Zagladin tells Hanoi to be flexible and mix tactics, arguing Moscow will pursue world communism by building a strong Soviet society and coordinating with non Communist nations. He warns against a rigid, military only approach and notes Moscow will not seek a direct showdown with the United States.
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Ray Cromley
Washington
NEA
Leonid Brezhnev
Hanoi
Russia
Moscow
North Vietnam
U.S.S.R
Vadim Zagladin
Brezhnev
West
Soviet Union
Zagladin
Nixon
Tha
Communist Party Central Committee
International
United States
Today in History Highlights June 21 1972
On June 21 1788 New Hampshire ratified the U S Constitution making it the ninth state to do so. Cyrus McCormicks reaping machine patent was granted in 1834. Other notes include Cuban landings in 1898 WWI interned fleet scuttling in 1919 Tobruk fall in 1942 Okinawa surrender in 1945 Milan Archbishop chosen pope Paul VI in 1963. Birthdays Jane Russell Judith Raskin. Carlyle thought for today.
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U.S
New Hampshire
Cyrus McCormick
Cuba
Scapa Flow
Scotland
Tobruk
Libya
Okinawa
Milan
Italy
Paul VI
Dean Rusk
Berlin
Lyndon B. Johnson
Luci Johnson Nugent
International Court of Justice
The
Hague
South Africa
South-West Africa
Jane Russell
Judith Raskin
Thomas Carlyle
Peoples Forum Name Change Suggestions
Reader John P. Madura proposes renaming 6th St NE Stock Yards Road and Hormel Parkway, noting Spam recall for WWII GIs. He suggests Spam Drive and compliments the well maintained lawn and shrubs near 1905 4th Ave NE.
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the Herald
6Th St
Stock Yards Road
Burt Plehal
Hormel Parkway
John P. Madura
4Th Ave
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Stewartville
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