Symington Faults Saigon Delays in Paris Peace Talks
Washington Senator Stuart Symington charges South Vietnam delays substantive negotiations at Paris. He notes U.S. casualties near 60,000 and $18 billion spent since talks began last May. He says Saigon government acts self-centered and stubborn, effectively vetoing progress and risking prolonged war.
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Paris
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Senate
Naval Inquiry To Seek Pueblo Facts
A formal naval court of inquiry will convene in San Diego to determine facts about the seizure of the USS Pueblo by North Korea on January 23. It will question Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher and surviving officers on events and eleven months of imprisonment, with debriefing data not used by the court but likely to be given under oath.
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Outgoing HEW Head Recommends Welfare Housing Cost Shift
Wilbur J. Cohen, exiting HEW secretary, urged states to cover full costs of adequate housing for welfare recipients in a sweeping report. He said housing is dilapidated with rats and poor heating, urging uniform standards and state funding to improve conditions for about 4 million aid families, 60 percent in overcrowded or substandard housing.
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Congress
Brandeis Concession Extended in Black Student Protest
Brandeis University extended a court order eviction for 65 black students from Ford Hall while demonstrators vowed to stay barricaded until demands to ease racist policies were met. University leaders and negotiators, including President Morris Abram, worked amid calls for an African Studies Department and restraint from police.
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Boston
Entire Red Brick School staff resigns in dispute
Deep administrative trouble at Red Brick School Shaftsbury surfaced when all teaching staff resigned on December 20 before Christmas. Miss Lois McCullough cited long running disputes with Rev. W Earle Forman BFRC director over repairs facilities and equipment. The school with 20 students relies on a federal grant but now operates with substitutes.
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Nixon names four top aides to Labor Department
President elect Richard M. Nixon announced four senior aides to the Labor Department and named James Hodgson as under secretary, Arnold Weber as assistant secretary, Geoffrey Moore as labor statistics commissioner, and Elizabeth Koontz as director of the Women's Bureau. Koontz becomes the first Negro woman in the Nixon administration. Nixon endorsed the appointments, while at the Pierre Hotel he also met with Ray Bliss to discuss inauguration planning.
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Labor Department
John WN. Mitchell
Evelle J. Younger
Los Angeles
George P. Shultz
James
Nixon
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Pierre
Ray Bliss
Republican National Committee
Ronald L. Ziegler
Inside New Day Car Agency Signs Incorporation Papers
A Vermont page notes the Inside New Day Car Agency signs incorporation papers on page 2. The Bennington Welfare Committee distributed 112 Christmas baskets on page 3. An editorial criticizes a sales tax proposal as discriminatory on page 4. The Montpelier column ponders how history will rate former Gov Hoff on page 4. A Vermont children's traveling art exhibit sample page appears on page 5.
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Justice Department Sues Automakers Over Antipollution Pact
The Justice Department filed an antitrust suit in Los Angeles against General Motors Ford Chrysler American Motors and the Automobile Manufacturers Association alleging unlawful agreements to delay and restrain development installation and publicity of antipollution devices for cars dating back to 1953. It cites delays in crankcase ventilation exhaust controls and patent licensing on a most favored purchaser basis with aims to end industry wide restraint of trade.
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