GE Unions Resume Face-to-Face Talks
General Electric and its two major unions resumed direct negotiations signaling progress toward ending the 91 day strike. Sessions involved IUE and UE subcommittees with GE negotiators, after Chief Federal Mediator Counts shifted control back to the parties. Time frame remains uncertain as discussions focus on strike winding procedures and disciplinary action.
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General Electric Co
J. Curtis Counts
the Eagle
Counts
New York
International Union of Electrical Workers
IUE
Paul J. Jennings
John H. Shambo
John R. Baldwin
Ue-Ge
United Electrical Workers Union
James 3. Mattes
Joseph Turkowski
Everett Bickford
Ijahoro
Nixon appoints three to Environmental Quality Council
President Nixon named Russell Train as chairman and appointed Robert Cahn and Gordon J. F. McDonald to the new Council on Environmental Quality. All require Senate confirmation. The body will study environmental conditions, develop programs, coordinate federal efforts, and help produce a yearly environmental quality report due July 1. Train urged full use of a municipal waste treatment funding limit in the current fiscal year.
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Washington
Nixon
Council On Environmental Quality
Council of Economic Advisers
Train
Congress
Ronald L. Ziegler
HEW Funds Battle Continues After Nixon Veto
Washington AP reports that the House failed to override President Nixon's veto of an 18.7 billion education bill, setting the stage for continued negotiations. A continuing resolution expires soon, with disputes over impact aid and a looming new budget. Nixon invites supporters to the White House while Democrats and Republicans weigh a compromise and possible partial spending.
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Washington
House
Nixon
White House
Congress
Carl Albert
Spenders Economize On HEW Budget vs Public Works Pork Barrel
Washington AP report notes 191 House members backed Nixon on the inflation veto but 19 opposed. The Public Works bill funded dams reservoirs canals harbor dredging and other water projects totaling 4.7 billion, topping the budget by about half a billion and winning House approval 396 to 3. The measure, long known as the Pork Barrel bill, drew 224 members to hearings to press for more local funds amid thrift rhetoric.
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Washington
House
Nixon
Congress
House Public Works Appropriations
Vote Switchers Face Teacher Retaliation
NEA president George D. Fischer says lawmakers who switched their HEW vote will be targeted. He vows to use the largest lobbying drive in history to punish opposing congressmen, warning of political death by action for voted against education. Fischer adds plans to inform every executive committee how each congressman voted on education questions.
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Buffalo
N.Y
National Education Association
Health, Education and Welfare
George D. Fischer
Des Moines
Iowa
NEA
Nixon
Fischer
New Cancer Drug BCNU Seen as Promising Hope
Washington AP A little known experimental drug named BCNU is described by the National Cancer Institute as among the most promising newer anticancer agents for solid tumors such as lung and gastrointestinal cancers. It reportedly crosses the blood brain barrier, potentially affecting brain tumors, but is labeled a temporary control treatment, not a cure, and not available for general use. The NCI announced BCNU at a national conference highlighting ongoing research on 5 fluorouracil known since the 1950s for temporary usefulness in GI and breast cancers, with newer findings from Dr George Higgins showing longer symptom-free periods after surgery when 5-FU is used as follow up.
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Washington
BCM
National Cancer Institute
NCI
Hodgkins
C. Gordon Zubrod
BCNU
Cancer Institute
Institute
George Higgins
U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital
Washington, D.C
Prague Regime Ousts Liberal Leader in Purge
Czechoslovakia ousted Liberal reformers with premier Cernik replaced by conservative Lubomir Strougal. The Central Committee, led by conservatives, also forced Alexander Dubcek to resign and elevated Gustav Husak, heightening the clash with ultraconservative factions.
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Prague
Cernik
Liberal Reform
Motems
Czechoslovakia
Lubomir Strougal
Dr. Strougal
Gustav Husak
Wal Committee
Miroslav Hruskovic Barty
Cerni
Alexander Dubcek
Husak
Presidium
Federal Assembly
Lubomir ‘Strougal
Czech Communist Party
Oldrich Cernik
Vasil Bilak
Associated Press
Wilson Park housing prompts mixed views in Pittsfield
Pittsfield residents discuss Wilson Park, a 126 unit public housing project, with interviews showing seven of ten homeowners nearby say the residents are not a bother while three view the project as a nuisance or mixed impact. Neighbors report varied experiences from peaceful coexistence to occasional stone throwing by youths.
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Wilson Park
Pittsfield
the Eagle
Wahconah Street
Mink Attacks Carswell Nomination Over Job Bias Case
Representative Patsy Mink labeled the Supreme Court nomine e G Harrold Carswell an affront to American women for supporting a ruling that upheld a woman with preschool children being denied employment. The hearing paused as opponents pressed for delay while Republican leaders signaled a swift confirmation outcome.
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Washington
Patsy T. Mink
D-Hawaii
Supreme Court
G. Harrold Carswell
Fla
Ath
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
5Th Circuit
Phillips
Carswell
Mink
John Brown
Georgia
High Court
Nixon
Land Sale Planned in Southern Berkshire County
GREAT BARRINGTON A John Tuller vice president of Wheeler and Taylor Inc confirmed reports of a large leisure home development proposed in Southern Berkshire County and that the land sale is scheduled for today He declined to reveal project details or principals but said they would be in town around noon and that Wheeler and Taylor are handling the sale.
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Wilson
Calumet
Calumet Street
Wilsox
Great Barrington
John Tuller
Wheeler & Taylor, Inc
Berkshire County
Tiller
the Eagle
Wheeler & Taylor
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Lie 3
Dubcek
Ultaconservatives
Turkey
Josef Smrkovsky
Liberal Movement
Ludvik Svoboda
Central Committee
By Grier Horner
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Tam
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