Nixon Intervenes in Rail Strike
The Labor Department said President Nixon will appoint an emergency board to review the year-long wage dispute with six major railroads, postponing any strike for 60 days. Secretary Shultz urged both sides to bargain in good faith as reports circulated that government action was imminent. The unions had targeted six railroads, while management warned of a total shutdown if those six go down.
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Labor Department
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Shultz
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National Railway Labor Conference
India
Aksad
Jerusalem
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Indonesia
Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
Rabat
Army
Harvard
Dartmouth
Air Force
Kiesinger Coalition Break in West Germany Expected
Bonn AP reports social democratic and free democrat deputies move to form a new coalition without the Christian Democrats. Willy Brandt and Walter Scheel say they agreed on basic government lines with FDP and SPD, while Kiesinger seeks to block the plan. The German mark hits new highs against the dollar as markets react to floated prices.
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Germany
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Free Democratic
Christian Democrats
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Walter Scheel
Free Democratic Party
FDP
Social Democratic Party
SPD
Kiesinger
Willy Brandt
Brandt
Scheel
Bundestag
U.S
Frankfurt
Britain
Social Democrats
There’s Gold In Those Roads Pilgrims Trod
Plymouth England residents dig up and polish centuries old 28 pound granite cobblestones from the Barbican. They are split into saleable pieces for American tourists ahead of the Mayflower voyage anniversary next year.
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Plymouth
England
Pilgrim Fathers
America
Barbican
Riots touch Gandhi centenary in India amid unrest
Indians marked Gandhi’s birth centenary as religious violence raged in Gujarat. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi lamented the bloodshed and mockery of the day, while Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan urged adherence to nonviolence. Death toll estimates varied up to two thousand. A curfew remained in Ahmadabad and India faced international embarrassment over Rabat attendance.
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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Pathan
Frontier Gandhi
New Delhi
Gandhi
India
V. V. Giri
Gujarat
Ahmadabad
Ghaffar Khan
Morarji R. Desai
Rabat
Morocco
Pentagon backs strengthened ROTC program in colleges
A Pentagon committee endorsed ROTC as a highly desirable officer source and urged greater university oversight. The 61 page report calls for academic credit for ROTC courses, faculty status for officer instructors, and continued military drill on campus under Secretary Melvin Laird who appointed the panel last spring amid campus opposition. The group led by George C Benson argues ROTC should remain a major procurement source for Army Navy and Air Force officers.
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Pentagon
Laird
ROTC
Melvin R. Laird
George C
Benson
Claremont Men's College
Calif
Army
Navy
Air Force
United States of America
Lester Miller
Lenox School Headmaster Resigns to Lead Minnesota School
The Rev. Robert I. Curry, headmaster of Lenox School since 1946, resigns effective December 31 to become headmaster of Shattuck School in Faribault Minnesota. Trustees plan to meet the week of October 20 to select a successor as interim leadership by Austin Montgomery and David Wood continues.
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Lenox
Robert I. Curry
Lenox School
Shaluck School
Faribault
Minn Me
Curry
Austin Montgomery
David Wood
Shattuck School
Episcopal Diocese of
Minnesota
Porter Sargent
Boston
Shattuck
Schont
Allephenies
Haynsworth denies withdrawal of Supreme Court nomination
Washington AP Judge Clement F. Haynsworth said he never considered withdrawing his nomination to the Supreme Court. White House and others dispute reports that 40 of 100 senators planned to oppose confirmation. Several Democratic and Republican lawmakers voiced opposition, while Haynsworth and aides insisted no withdrawal was contemplated.
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Nixon
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Nixay
White House
Henry Wisslnwer
Washington
Clement F. Haynsworth
Supreme Court
Haynsworth
Associated Press
U.S
Charles E. Goodell
New York
Ralph T. Smith
Illinois
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Edward W Brooke
Massachusetts
Walter F. Mondale
Minnesota
Thomas F.eagleton
Missouri
Fred R. Harris
Oklahoma
Democratic National Committee
Harris
John N. Mitchell
Ronald L. Ziegler
Senate
Ernest F. Hullings
D-Sl.c
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Senate Judiciary Committee
Apollo 12 to crash lunar module for seismic study
Apollo 12 astronauts plan to crash the unmanned lunar module from 65 miles up to generate a seismic shock and probe the Moon's interior. Cmdr Charles Conrad Lt Cmdr Alan Bean will land in Ocean of Storms while Richard Gordon orbits above.
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Mer
Charles Conrad
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Alan L. Bean
Conrad
Bean
Gordon
Lunar
Senator Moakley proposes ban on smelly cars after 1975
Boston Senator Joseph J. Moakley proposes a bill to ban sale or lease of new internal combustion engine autos after 1975 and to require antipollution equipment on all gas engines by 1971. The Health Department would set emission standards and work with the Registry to enforce depollution rules, allowing 1975 sales only if meeting standards of other technologies.
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Joseph J. Moakhey
Massachusetts
Ate
Moakley
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Registry of Motor Vehicles
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