Skylab trio returns after record weightlessness voyage
Charles Conrad Jr Joseph P Kerwin and Paul J Weitz land aboard the carrier USS Ticonderoga after 22 days in space circling the globe 395 times. They walked ashore showing good shape though slightly unsteady while doctors monitor their reentry and weighlessness effects.
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Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Commander Conrad
Apollo
Pacific
Ticonderoga
Earth
Kerwin
Conrad
Weitz
Ticonderga
Eastern Pacific
Orbiting Laboratory
Nixon Brezhnev pledge to curb nuclear war risk
Nixon and Brezhnev promise to regulate relations to avoid nuclear war in a landmark bilateral accord with multilateral implications. They plan to sign at the White House and conclude talks in California on Sunday.
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Washington
Nixon
Leonid I. Brezhnev
White House
California
Brezhnev
Henry A. Kissinger
Bloodiest Paris street clash in five years erupts near Ordre Nouveau
A radical leftist march clashed with a right wing meeting at Mutualite Hall in Paris causing fierce street battles. Police say 76 officers injured with nine burned and the city saw some of its worst violence since 1968. Civilian casualties and arrests were not reported.
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Paris
Left Bank
Mutualite Hall
Ordre Nouveau
New Order
Senate panel backs 5.5 percent Social Security boost
The Senate Finance Committee approved a 5.5% cost of living increase for 28 million Social Security beneficiaries, effective January. The 11 to 2 vote attaches the rider to the debt limit extension bill, with expectations both chambers will accept. The move relies on Social Security trust funds and shifts in the taxable wage base for 1974.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Nixon
Russell B. Long
D-La
Long
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
George P. Shultz
Sen. Long
Social Security Trust Fund
Security Council backs German admission to UN
The Security Council unanimously recommended admitting East and West Germany to the United Nations. In Washington the House passed a measure to form a government corporation offering limited legal aid to the poor, barring aid in school desegregation and abortion cases and bans on lobbying.
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United Nations
Security Council
General Assembly
East
West Germany
Washington
House
Watergate Apartments Faces Park Objections in St. Paul
A 26 story Watergate apartment building rising across the Mississippi from Ft. Snelling faces opposition from groups who say the 2,500 acre state park will be visually blighted. Developer Clayton Rein of St. Paul has applied for natural resources permits.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Watergate
Mississippi River
Ft. Snelling
Clayton Rein
St. Paul
Department of Natural Resources
Trading resumes for soybeans on Chicago Board of Trade
Trade resumed in soybean, soybean meal and oil futures on the Chicago Board of Trade after a day’s hold. Prices opened limit higher and stayed there in the first hour. July soybeans up 80 cents a bushel. distant options at 40 cents limits.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Nixon Praises Skylab Mission From White House
President Nixon hailed the Skylab mission as a source of intense pride for Americans after its completion. He planned to greet the three astronauts at the Western White House in San Clemente on Sunday and sent a telegram praising their courage and resourcefulness.
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Mission Control
Conrad
Kerwin
Weitz
Apollo
Thailand
San Diego
Calif
Ticonderoga
Nixon
Brezhnev
White House
San Clemente
Washington
Earth
Troop Reduction Talks Expected to Reach Plenary Session
NATO and Warsaw Pact delegates announced progress in five month long East West troop reduction talks and said a plenary session could signal the end of preliminary discussions. Spokesmen from both blocs described progress but gave few details.
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Vienna
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Food costs rise 12 in Minneapolis St Paul area
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 12.4 percent rise in food costs in the Minneapolis St. Paul area over the past year. Consumers paid $11.24 in May for food that cost $10 in May 1972.
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Chicago
Minneapolis-St. Paul
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
House panel slams budget as resources underfunded
The House Appropriations Committee chided the administration for not budgeting adequately to meet the nation’s natural and human resource needs. The $2.27 billion appropriation bill prioritizes Interior Department spending for the next fiscal year while cutting arts, humanities and several cultural programs, yielding a $4.9 million net decrease from the President’s request. Major sums include 529 million for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and 731.4 million for public land management.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
House
Interior Department
Arts and Humanities
Smithsonian Institution
National Park Service
Bureau of Indian Affairs
BN Chairman Blasts Rail Regulation Policies
Burlington Northern chairman Louis W. Menk criticized government regulation as unworkable, claiming BN lost nearly 400 million dollars in ten years due to delays approving rate hikes axing unprofitable passenger trains and closing marginal branch lines. He spoke at the Interstate Commerce Commission Practitioners Association annual conference.
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Louis W. Menk
Menk
Interstate Commerce Commission
Watergate testimony faces pressure from Nixon team
Senate Watergate panel faces claims of executive branch efforts to suppress truth as Sen. Weicker condemns Nixon actions and Dean prepares to testify. House Security Committee probes plumbers links amid calls for campaign finance limits and potential grand jury for fundraising abuses. CBS ABC NBC announce live Dean hearing coverage.
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Washington
Senate
Lowell O. Weicker Jr
White House
John W. Dean II
Dean
Nixon
Weicker
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Connecticut
Spiro T. Agnew
Watergate Panel
Executive Branch
House Internal Security Committee
Richard Schord
DMO
Daniel Elisberg
Plumbers
Pentagon
Ellsberg
New York
Lawrence F. O'Brien
Watergate
Archibald Cox
Watergate TV
CBS
ABC
NBC
John Dean
Schedule of Pages VS-Mkt 2 Classified 8-9 Editorial 4 Sports 10
The newspaper lists its sections for the issue with pages 8 9 for Classifieds 4 for Editorials 10 for Sports and 6 for Society plus 7 10A 12C for TV Entertain Area News and Comics 13.
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Mkt
Senate group urges penalties on foreign election interference
A Senate subcommittee proposed criminal penalties for individuals or groups funding U S government involvement in foreign elections. The Foreign Relations subcommittee cited ITT and CIA efforts to influence Chilean elections in 1970, noting Harold Geneen offered funds to the CIO to back Jorge Alessandri.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Foreign Relations Subcommittee
International Telephone and Telegraph Corp
CIA
Salvador Allende
ITT Board
Harold =. Geneen
CIO
Jorge Alessandri
Marcusen Park Hosts 2000 for Kids Night Baseball
A crowd of about 2,000 gathered at Marcusen Park on Thursday night for a South Border League Kids Night game between the Austin Blues and Kasson. Austin won the feature 4-0, with coverage by Clerald Photo and John Enright.
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Marcusen
Austin
Tlues
Kasson
Clerald
John Enright
For Sale Electric Range and Piano Wanted Ad
Classified notice about a 30 inch electric range with self cleaning oven in excellent condition and a wood console piano wanted. Ad lists phone number and notes six day run for five dollars and forty cents but canceled after two days. Call 433 8851 for quick service.
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Skylab
Skylab I
Charles
Pete” Conrad
Uss Ticonderoga
Pacific Ocean
NASA
Cambodia
Czechoslovakia
Kissinger
China
Senate Group
Twin Cities
Bureau of Mines
The
Forest Service
Seattle, Wash
Burlington Northern Inc
Charge
Marcusen Park
Minnesota
Herald
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