Nixon decries cuts to national security spending
Richard Nixon urged against trimming the national security budget despite a $6 billion cut and a 10 percent surtax. He blamed prior Johnson Humphrey policies for budgetary excesses and warned such cuts could weaken U S strategic advantage while noting the Soviet Union leads in advanced weapons R D funding. He attributed the tax hike to mismanagement by the Johnson administration.
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New York
Richard M. Nixon
Johnson
Congress
Johnson-Humphrey
Nixon
America
Soviet Union
United States
Bids Opened On Road Projects Across 13 Counties
Charleston AP reports bids for about 900000 dollars of resurfacing work in 13 counties will be opened July 9 by the State Road Commission. Two Interstate projects are included for I 64 traffic signs in Greenbrier County and 3.06 miles of I 79 in Braxton County, with numerous county line items listed for local service roads feeders and expressways.
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Charleston
State Road Commission
Greenbrier
Braxton
Doddridge
Hampshire
W. Va
Hancock
Harrison
Jefferson
Kanawha
Lincoln
Franco German armaments pact may be dissolved
Bonn reviews the Franco German weapons program amid French turmoil. Defense officials say projects including Milan Hot Roland and Cromoran missiles could be curtailed or abandoned. The review follows U.S. pressure for offset payments and a shift toward U.S. arms or French concepts.
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Omer Anderson
Bonn
NANA
France
Paris
Defense Ministry
Gerhard Schroeder
Bundeswehr
Transall
Atlantic
West Germany
United States
U.S
Germany
Washington
U. S
NATO
Six Pardoned to Appeal in Fairfax Zoning Bribery Case
Six defendants including former Fairfax County supervisors Robert Cotton Jr and A Claiborne Leigh and four developers are given permission by Justice William C. Douglas to file a new appeal with the Supreme Court. The order delays execution of sentences after the court last week declined to review the case. The group was convicted of participating in a zoning bribery conspiracy.
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Fairfax (Ap
Fairfax County
Supreme Court
William C. Douglas
Douglas
Robert C. Cotton Jr
A. Claiborne Leigh
George and
Seymour Faigen
Sygmund Goldblatt
Nathan Wescheler
Carpets Create Informal Learning Space at Caltech
Professor John Weir notes increased student participation in classes held in a redecorated daytime room at Caltech. The informal setting features a gold carpet colorful chairs ceiling panels and draperies prompting students in biology logic English mathematics and psychology to gather around the professor or sit on the carpet during lectures.
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Pasadena
Calif
California Institute of Technology
John Weir
Weir
Body of Morgantown Barber Recovered From River
The body of Clyde Ralston a 61 year old Morgantown barber missing since Friday was found Sunday in the Monongahela River near Westover and Morgantown. Westover Mayor Joe Janco and Officer Lawrence Bartolo recovered the body after it was spotted by a pleasure boating family near the bridge linking Westover and Morgantown.
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Westover
W. Va
Morgantown
Monongahela River
Clyde Ralston
Joe Janco
Lawrence Bartolo
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