$440 Million Frozen in Agriculture Funds
Washington reports that Agriculture Secretary Butz has frozen $440 million in Agriculture Department appropriations for 1972-75 for REA loans migrant housing conservation subsidies water sewer grants and other items. Other frozen sums include REAP funds forest protection and soil conservation. Projections show large cuts in 1973 crop support payments totaling about $2.7 billion, down $900 million from 1972.
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Butz
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Soil Conservation Service
Prisoner nearly escapes Alcatraz of Britain after nine month dig
Harry Roberts, 32, inmate at Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight, spent about nine months tunneling from his cell toward the yard. He was stopped one inch from freedom as guards discovered the hole. Officials open inquiry into how he obtained tools and drill with assistance allegedly linked to his mother. He was transferred to Leicester Prison after the bid.
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UPI
Harry Roberts
Alcatraz
Britain
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Parkhart
Isle of Wight
Home Office
Hop
Malaya
AMT
Leicester
Pope regrets failure to achieve Viet peace
Pope Paul VI expressed sorrow Sunday that a Vietnam peace has not yet arrived as he addressed pilgrims in St. Peter's Square. He urged haste toward justice as the basis for peace, warning that true peace rests on love, justice, and rejection of force and nationalism.
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Vatican City
Vp1
Paul VI
Vietnam
Far East
St. Peter's Square
U.S
Henry A. Kissinger
Washington
Vatican
Boyle ousted in union leadership after slayings and fraud case
In the aftermath of a six month campaign, Boyle loses leadership posts amid civil suits and a five year prison sentence for illegally spending union funds on campaign gifts in the 1968 elections. Miller, Trbovich, and Patrick won, none having mined coal recently. Miller vows salary cuts below Boyle levels, while Patrick plans symbolic underground work during transition. fresh links between the union and mine owners surface.
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Boyle
Miller
Trbovich
Clarksville
Ohio
Patrick
Fairview
W. Va
Bethlehem Steele
Where Does It Hurt and Lovers and Other Strangers at CINEMA I
The local cinema offers a double bill with Peter Sellers comedy Where Does It Hurt and Lovers and Other Strangers, alongside M A S H and French Connection. Gene Hackman won an Oscar for the latter. Williamstown College Cinema also presents Dealing and Superfly shows.
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Cinema I
Peter Sellers
Gene Hackman
Williamstown
College
West Virginia mine blasts kill 24. safety blame voiced
Twenty four men died and 13 were injured after two explosions in West Virginia sites near Mullens and Weirton. Officials blame lax safety enforcement and faulty ventilation for methane gas buildup. UMWA president Arnold Miller pledges stricter enforcement and action after tours of the Itmann No. 4 mine and the Weirton coke plant.
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UPI
West Virginia
Steel Company
Cuka
Weirton
United Mine Workers of America
UMWA
Arnold Miller
Itmann
Koppers Co
Weirton Steel Co
Miller
Itmana
Mmine
Mine Workers Union
Limann
Consolidation Coal Co
Farmington
Blacksville
Dan
Baby's wail leads to finding murdered mother in dorm
In Benson North Carolina a four month old's cry uncovered the body of Bonnie Neighbors 33 bound gagged and shot twice beside her baby in an abandoned migrant workers dorm. The infant survived and was treated at Betsy Johnson Memorial Hospital Dunn. Police pursued a blue spar auto and a hippie band linked to the disappearance of Neighbors and her child.
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Betsy Johnson Memorial Hospital
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