Russia Ends Cuban Price Gouge Pact Amid Trade Tensions
A Moscow Havana accord ends Cuba’s claim of inflated Soviet prices for goods. The agreement allows Cuba to seek lower Soviet prices if alternatives exist, tying to sugar trade subsidies. West German and East German officials note broader price discrimination against Communist bloc partners. Wiener Brandt links Apel’s death to a proposed trade deal favoring East Germany.
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Havana
Soviet Union
Cuba
Russia
Fidel Castro
Moscow
Bonn
Bloc
Konstantin Pritzel
Ministry of All-German Affairs
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
East Germany
Erich Apel
Brandt
Apel
Six Billion Dollar Yearly Viet War Cost Estimated
Washington AP reports the Viet Nam war is costing about six billion dollars per year or roughly 16.5 million daily. The escalation suggests higher costs ahead as actual combat funding, ships, planes and personnel rise, with additional economic aid and military support totaling about a billion dollars this year.
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Washington
Viet Nam
U.S
South Viet Nam
Brezhnev Gains in Russia
Washington reports shifts in the Soviet leadership affirming Brezhnev’s party power while Mikoyan retires with honors and Podgorny is sidelined. Shelepin’s future remains uncertain though he could move within the party apparatus as Brezhnev’s aide.
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Supreme Soviet
Moscow
Nikolai Podgorny
Anastas
Mikoyan
Soviet Union
Alexei N. Kosygin
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Washington
Brezhnev
Nikali V. Podgorny
Central Committee
The
Podgorny
Khrushchev
Alexander N. Shelepin
Shelepin
Tax program votes loom on Beacon Hill budget plan
Boston reports Senate President Donahue confident a majority will back a 696 million budget and 165 million tax program. House plan adds income tax with higher rates to raise 165 million. Senate budget boosts aid to cities and towns by 100 million. Keirnan warns Massachusetts loses skilled mental health staff to higher pay elsewhere. Cable TV bill faces debate as Nolen pushes state regulation of rates. Authorities approve study of last month’s electric power failure and sign capital outlay measures including Berkshire College campus plans and the Museum of Science expansion.
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Boston
Beacon Hill
Senate
Maurice A. Donahue
House
Donshue
Volpe
Andrea F. Nucifara
D-Pittsfield
Senate Democrats
Massachusetts
Qwen B. Kiernan
Elliot L. Richardson
Massachusetts Mental Health Planning Project
Kiernan
James R. Nolen
D-Ware
Committee On Power and Light
Nolen
Ways and Means Committee
Raymond Rourke
Lowell
West Street
Berkshire
Community College
Berkshire County
Pittsfield
North Adams State College
Metropolitan District Commission
Museum of Science
Charles River
Gemini 7 Near Space Date as Weather Clears
Gemini 7 mission crews Frank Borman and James Lovell remain near half of their 14 day, 206 orbit flight heading toward a space date Sunday. Ground stations issue constant Go signals as the craft maintains a stable 185 to 187 mile Earth orbit while attempts continue to laser beam a carrier signal to Earth. Gemini 6 launch plans shift to Sunday to chase the Gemini 7 pair, with weather finally clearing for the laser tests and rendezvous attempts.
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Cape Kennedy
Walter Schirra
Thomas Stafford
Borman
Lovell
Sir
Canary Islands
Earth
Gemini 6
Hawaii
Christopher C. Kraft Jr
Schirra
Stafford
Inner Belt highway plan links Boston Roxbury to Brookline
Massachusetts DPW outlines a 3.6 mile eight-lane Inner Belt superhighway from Roxbury to suburban Brookline and Cambridge costing 115.5 million. It features a 3,000-foot tunnel beneath the Charles River to shield Back Bay historic and educational properties. 1,900 families and 274 businesses would be displaced. The tunnel replaces an earlier shadowing bi level bridge and raises cost by about 28 million.
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UPI
Massachusetts Department of Public Works
DPW
Roxbury
Brookline
Cambridge
Back Bay
Charles River
Fenway
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Barrington
Railroad St
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Ike
Walton
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