Snow fills Black Hills area as travel halted
Snow blanketed the Black Hills with four feet piled up and more arriving at a rapid pace. Roads in Lead and Deadwood were blocked and travel halted as bands of heavy snow stretched from the Rockies to the Great Lakes. Temperatures plunged below zero in ten states. floods eased in the Southern and Central Appalachians with at least two deaths reported from flood related incidents.
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Black Hills
South Dakota
South Dakota Highway Patrol
Florida Panhandle
Pacific
el Porto Beach Park
California
Albert Sexton
Nevada
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
North and
New York
Vermont
New Hampshire
Albany
N.Y
Burlington, Vt
Lebanon, N.H
Williston
N.D
Sioux Falls
S.D
Butte
Mont
Las Vegas
N.M
Evanston
Wyo
Eagle, Colo
Elko
Nev
Appalachians
West Virginia
30-Cent Fare Looms in N Y C As Transit Strike Is Averted
New York City avoided a crippling transit strike as a $120 million contract with TWU and ATU narrowed to an agreement. Mayor Lindsay proposed keeping fares at 25 cents, warning 30 cents would hurt workers, while Gov. Rockefeller weighing plan details. The two-year contract gives an 8 percent wage rise now and 10 percent from July 1 1971, with the Transit Authority covering pension costs.
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N.Y.C
New York
UPI
John W. Lindsay
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
MTA
Lindsay
Federal Spending Ceiling Seen Helping Keep Lid on Spending
The Budget Bureau estimates the fiscal year ceiling has bloated from 191.9 to about 194.4 billion, while backers say it has a salutary effect in restraining budget growth. Nixon faces voter ire over rising costs as Congress debates raising ceilings to cover uncontrollable expenses.
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Washington
UPD
Congress
Budget Bureau
Nixon
Americans Start to Quit Smoking in Record Numbers
Washington reports sharper declines in cigarette use since 1968 with seven million may have quit in two years. After 1964 warnings, radio and TV ads may end next year as Congress acts. Nixon pledges $192.9 billion in spending despite debt ceiling debates.
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Washington
UPI
Surgeon General
National Clearinghouse For Smoking and Health
Clearinghouse
Senate Commerce Committee
Congress
Senate
House
Bra thief caught by police cricket team in Liverpool
Torquay police praised by Liverpool police chief after officers on a cricket tour detained a 20 year old man who smashed a hotel window and stole bras last summer. The incident occurred as the team returned to their bus near the Central Police State.
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Torquay
England
UPI
Liverpool
Washington Window Controlling Costs with Continuing Resolutions
UPI reports Congress uses continuing resolutions to keep agencies funded at existing levels when appropriations bills lag. The piece notes the tactic delays action, hints at private sector parallels, and humorously suggests reforms like calendar-year budgeting or a leap century to let Congress catch up.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Labor Department
Truces End As Both Sides Resume Vietnam Attacks
Guerrilla forces attacked Allied bivouacs near Saigon and fought U S troops northwest of Saigon after the New Year truce ended. Viet Cong losses were reported at 16 to 116 incidents, with U S casualties at six dead and 14 wounded. A bomb in Saigon wounded four, while B52s resumed strikes along the Cambodian border. Vice President Agnew wrapped up a brief Vietnam visit en route to Asia.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Hanoi
Spiro T. Agnew
Vietnam
Superstition Mountain
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
Cholon
China
Asia
Agnew
Perot's Peace on Earth Mission Fails to Deliver POW Packages
Billionaire H. Ross Perot flew 35 000 miles aboard a chartered jet carrying 1400 Christmas dinners and gifts for POWs in North Vietnam. Despite landing on New Year's Day, packages were not delivered amid Communist government barriers. Perot plans a letter campaign to garner world opinion and urges public support.
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Dallas
UPI
H. Ross Perot
North Vietnam
Perot
United States
Sino Soviet Border Talks Resume Amid Mutual Hostility
Moscow and Peking restart Sino-Soviet border discussions after a pause of three weeks. Moscow seeks to advance negotiations while China rates the Kremlin as a revisionist enemy, signaling fragile prospects.
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Moscow
UPI
Peking
China
Kremlin
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Mao Tse-tung
New Times
Kuznetsov
Lan
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United Press International
Bennington, Vt
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Transport Workers Union
TWU
Amalgamated Transport Union
ATU
Ward
Monument Plaza
Bennington
Famous Label Chops
Tor
West Road
BTN
Capitol Hill
Texan
Harte Theatre
Mon
Auers Colon Ng
Arlo Guthrie
United Artists
Main St
Rte
Ee Tom Jjohnsons
Howard Johnson
Berkshire
Exmoor
Navy
Berkshire Plaza
North Adams
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