Massachusetts tackles strikers pay and lockout relief
The Commerce and Labor Committee approved two unemployment benefit bills for strikers and locked out workers, 15 to 3, with support from union leaders and GE strikers. Opponents from GE management and the Associated Industries warned of burdens on employers and state industry flight. The measures await Senate floor action early next week.
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Boston
Legislative
Commerce and Labor Committee
Senate
Maurice A.” Donahue
D-Holyoke
General-Electric
GE -Management and
Tle
Berkshire County
Ronald O’ MacKenzie
Burtington
Charles A. MacKenzie
Wareham
Mary B. Newman
Cambridge
Samuel Harmon
Joseph D. Ward
Fitchburg
Donald T. Bliss
Attleboro
Norman J. Randell
Statehouse
Randell
Salvatore Camilio
Massachusetts State Labor Council
Associated Industries of Massachusetts
Francis W. Sargent
George B. Crane
Pittsfield
Francis “Frit2" Burke
Donald D. Coughlin
Francis Barber
William Jones
William Almonti
Nixon Seizes Initiative With Speech By John W Finney
President Nixon's State of the Union speech drew praise across party lines for its tone and goals while skeptics urged concrete plans. Democrats urged specifics on implementing domestic aims, health, education, and the economy, while Republicans called it masterly and uplifting.
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John W. Finney
New York Times
Washington
Nixon
Capitol Hill
Sen
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Senate
Congress
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Edmund S. Muskie
Democratic National Committee
Hubert H. Humphrey
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Clifford P. Case
R-Nj
William B. Saxbe
Ohio
Carol Albert
Oklahoma
House
Albert
Sargent Proposes Eight-Point Consumer Protection Plan
Gov Francis W Sargent unveiled an eight point package advancing unit pricing to show cost per unit for groceries. It would outlaw unsolicited credit cards and harassment over debts, tighten credit bureau practices, boost the Consumers Council budget, empower utilities rate study aides, authorize CATV regulation, and repeal minimum alcohol retail prices.
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Boston
Francis W. Sargent
Sargent
Television
CATV
Governors
Consumers Council
Credit Bureau
Department of Public Utilities
CPU
Israeli Supreme Court allows Jewish nationality without religion
Israel’s high court ruled 5 to 4 that a person may hold Jewish nationality even if he rejects Judaism and calls himself an atheist. The decision orders the Interior Ministry to list the children as Jewish with Religion None on identity cards, affecting a naval officer married to a Christian Scotswoman and tied to a broader debate on Jewish status.
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Israel
Supreme Court
Interior Ministry
Benjamin Shalit
Kennedy to press second bid on anticrime bill
Senate neared passage of the President Nixon anticrime legislation as Sen Kennedy prepared a second attempt to narrow extra prison terms. The fight focused on a provision limiting penalties to organized crime and professional criminals while avoiding a broad sweep into civil rights and selective service cases.
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Washington
Sen
Senate
Nixon
Organized Crime Control
Kennedy
John L. McClellan
Atk
Five Day Cold Outlook With Snow Likely
Five day forecast projects temperatures averaging well below the seasonal 22 degree normal. Cold throughout the period with light snow possible late Sunday into Monday.
Mixed Marriages Blessed By Christian Unity Group
Cambridge, Mass A P The Massachusetts Commission on Christian Unity reports ecumenical progress as ten guidelines for religiously mixed marriages are endorsed by Catholic and Protestant leaders. Couples are urged to worship together while maintaining their own church, addressing past alienation and promoting unity.
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Christian Unity Group
Cambridge
Mass
Christian Unity
Massachusetts Commission On Christian Unity
Thomas P. Howard
Howard
United Church of
Christ In
Franklin
Ore
Israeli Jets Bomb Bases Near Cairo
Israeli planes bombed Egyptian camps near Helwan and Huckstep south of Cairo in a fifth Nile Valley raid in under three weeks while commandos on Shadivan island dismantled a radar station. Cairo said Egypt attacked island targets with casualties reported on both sides.
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Tel Aviv
Cairo
Helwan
Huckstep
Nile
A -A
Shadivan
Gulf of Suez
Israel
Egyptan
Billy Graham Puts Golf Next To Godliness
London AP Billy Graham links golf to godliness in a pamphlet sent to Golf Weekly and other magazines. The sermon centers on stance grip swing and follow through claiming proper play leads to faith and closeness to God. He asserts disciplined golfers will know Jesus Christ.
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Billy Graham
London
Bill Graham
Golf World
Graham
Golf Weekly
Golf Illustrated
Golf Monthly
Jesus Christ
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Richardssell
D-La
Carl Albert
D-Oklz
Gerald B. Ford
R-Mich
Hale Boggs
Leslie
Arends
R-l
Associated ‘Press
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
Senate Democratic Campaign Committee
Senate Democratic Policy Committee
Mike Mansfield
Consumer
Shadwan
Istaeli
State of the Union
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Associated Press
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