Nixon vows to end controls as inflation is halted
President Nixon pledges to end wage and price controls once inflation is curbed urging business leaders to embrace a free market. He defends deficits to create jobs and outlines long term goals of price stability and full employment amid industrial world planning events and regulatory confirmations.
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Viet Cong ambushes U.S. truck convoy near An Khe
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launched daylight attacks across the Central Highlands. A fuel truck exploded after rocket and mortar fire near An Khe while another truck sustained heavy damage on Highway 19. Helicopters repelled the attackers as Pleiku base defense stalled a commando advance. In the 24 hour window, 49 enemy troops were killed with 3 South Vietnamese and civilians dead or wounded.
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Liberal party wins 10-1 in Nicaragua
Managua Nicaragua UP I reports a sweeping ten to one Liberal victory in national elections likely to affect plans for constitutional reform. Conservatives meet after the vote amid speculation they may withdraw support from the democratization pact backing Somoza and Aguero.
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National Window on Secrecy Sparks Bipartisan Concern
Veteran diplomat Howard Furnas argues the current secrecy regime harms national security by overclassifying routine papers. He calls for strict limits on who can assign secrecy, a required burden of proof, and time-limited classifications with justified extensions.
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Egyptians hail Sadat's Moscow trip as turning point
Cairo reports the Sadat visit to the Soviet Union as a great success that promises an important turning point in the Arab-Israeli conflict. He met Soviet leaders and Tito, then consulted with Syrian and Libyan allies in Damascus and Benghazi before returning to Cairo. The joint communique stressed defense support and a peaceful settlement, with no immediate military action.
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Cadillac chases jetliner ends in dramatic arrest
Detroit police pursued a 1972 Cadillac that chased a United Flight 147 jetliner at Metropolitan Airport. Driver Curtis Latta led a 45 minute high speed chase, firing from deputies, wrecking seven vehicles, then surrendered after tire bursts and a pasture fight. Two passengers arrested. Latta faces felonious assault charges.
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Father Keeps Childs Body Believing in Resurrection
Police led to the decomposed body of a 6 month old child four years after death. The father David Bross a self described Pentecostal minister kept the body in a steamer trunk hoping prayer would resurrect the child. The body was found in the Bross family basement after a dissident church member tipped police. No arrests and foul play not suspected.
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Iowa
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Processed spuds gain permanent marketing exemption
Washington reports that a House bill, approved and sent to the White House, would permanently exempt all processed potatoes from marketing orders. Canned and frozen potatoes have long been exempt, and dehydrated varieties gain the same protection, ensuring no shortage of ready to eat or pot ready spuds.
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Sinclair Weeks dies at 78 former Ike era commerce secretary
Sinclair Weeks, 78, longtime Republican figure and former U.S. senator, died Monday at Rivercrest Nursing Home after a long illness. He served as commerce secretary from 1953 to 1958, was a Massachusetts party leader, later joined Hornblower Weeks, and held corporate and academic posts. Memorial services are planned in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
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Such Good Friends at the Williams College Cinema
The film Such Good Friends runs at College Cinema in Williamstown with Diane Cannon and Jennifer O Neill, while Harte Harte raises admission to 150 and White Search plays at G C C with screenings at 7 and 9 p m.
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Jennifer O'Neill
Harte Harte
Pints to stay in British pubs amid metric plan
Britain will switch to liters and meters by 1975 but keep the pint in pubs. The white paper allows pubs to choose either system, with a gradual changeover and exemptions for publicans and milkmen. The aim is to align with the European Common Market while maintaining pub tradition and minimizing disruption.
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