Plan Lags In Creating Minority Owned Business Funds
The Nixon administration moves slow on MESBICs as 11th company gets license while Commerce says progress is not a failure. Commerce reports 17 more MESBICs have applied for licenses and are awaiting approval, with plans to expand to 100 firms.
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UPI
Small Business Investment Co
Mesbic
Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
Commerce Department
Mesbics
Stans
Small Business Administration
Provident Corp
Palo Alto
Senate Passes Own Postal Reform Bill
The Senate approved landmark postal reform to create an independent service and grant an 8 percent pay raise for postal workers, sending the measure to a House-Senate conference committee. The 73 to 14 vote included a retroactive 8 percent raise and debated ties to unionism, while other fiscal programs discussed aimed to bolster minority enterprise through MESBIC loans.
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UPI
Post Office Department
Senate
House
Nixon
U.S
Cambodia
Charles E. Goodell
R-N.y
Jacob K. Javits
Two Birchers Win Calif House Seats
In California special elections John Rousselot and John Schmitz, both Birchers, won congressional seats. Rousselot defeated Myrlie Evers 62,558 to 29,121 in the 28th District, while Schmitz beat David Hartman 66,622 to 26,962 in the 35th District. Both will serve until November when they seek re election.
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UPS
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John Birch Society
Nixon
Myrlie Evers
Medgar Evers
John Schmitz
Birch Society
David Hartman
Rousselot
Cambodia
Schmitz
Distrct
Evers
Recording Urges Death For Antiwar Senators
Attorney General John N. Mitchell pledged immediate action after a militant right wing telephone message urged killing antiwar senators. The recording attributed to William Pierce of the National Socialist White People’s party named senators McGovern Fulbright Hatfield Gravel and urged traitors be killed. The message circulated via a Washington phone line, with the White Socialist Nationalist party linked to the old American Nazi party.
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Washington
UPI
John N. Mitchell
George McGovern
William J. Fulbright
D-Ark
Mark O. Hatfield
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Senate
William Pierce
National Socialist White People’s Party
Veto Overridden as GOP Senators Desert Nixon on Health Bill
In a sweeping party split, all but one Republican senator seeking re election supported overriding Nixon. Congress approved a 2.7 billion three year hospital construction program, the largest health expenditure since Hill Burton. Only Hruska opposed sustaining the veto while Scott Stevens Fong Goodell Prouty Murphy Smith joined the breakaway group.
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GOP
Desert Nixon
Washington
UPI
Nixon
Congress
Senate
House
Roman L. Hruska
Nebraska
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Ted Stevens
Alaska
Hiram L. Fong
Hawaii
Charles E. Goodell
New York
George Murphy
California
Winston L. Prouty
Vermont
Ralph T. Smith
Ilinois
Agnew Advocates Excluding Some Americans From Society
London interview with Bernard Levin features Vice President Spiro Agnew saying some Americans should be separated and discarded from society. He argues that not all dissenters can be rehabilitated, cites prisons and preventive detention, and defends his controversial rhetoric as attention grabbing. He confirms support for dissent while criticizing media coverage.
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London
UPS
Spiro T. Agnew
United States
Agnew
Bernard Levin
Levin
Foe Downs Transport Helicopter Eight GIs Killed Five Injured
Communist antiaircraft fire shot down two U S helicopters while South Vietnam began withdrawing 4 000 more troops from Cambodia. Military spokesmen reported 50 Viet Cong killed near Angkor Wat as 30 000 allied troops remained in Cambodia. Four Americans died and four were wounded when a helicopter was hit inside South Vietnam. Cambodian authorities said the Angkor Wat area saw Viet Cong artillery but the temples were in a noncombat zone. Casualties included three civilians at Neak Luong ferry and six wounded. Sixty trucks carrying Cambodian advisers arrived in Phnom Penh as U S aid flowed into Cambodia. Six Americans wounded in a separate engagement northwest of Saigon.
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Saigon
UPI
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Angkor Wat
Highlands
Phnom Penh
Siem Reap
Phnom Krom
Great Lake
Lon Nol
Mekong
Neak Luong
New York Abortion Law Takes Effect Amid Questions
New York state enacts its most liberal abortion law with operation at 12:01 a.m. Officials warn the rollout raises legal, administrative and religious questions. Estimates say 50,000 to 100,000 residents and out-of-staters may seek care as hospital capacity strains. Fees vary by facility from 200 to 1,000 dollars. Blue Cross and Blue Shield cover part of costs. Medicaid provides a $65 physician fee for indigents.
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API
New York State
New York City
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
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