Arms Limiting Talks Open With Optimism in Helsinki
In Helsinki the United States and the Soviet Union began long awaited limits on strategic weapons. President Nixon voiced hope for progress and stated readiness to curb and reduce all types of strategic arms. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Semenov signaled openness to discussing various subjects and both sides held a 30 minute procedural session before business talks at the U.S. Embassy.
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Helsinki
United States
Soviet Union
Nixon
Semenov
Gerard C. Smith
U.S
Smith
Sullivan Assails Bridgeport Pay Tax Proposal
Fairfield First Selectman John J Sullivan blasted Bridgeport officials plan for a tax on the pay of nonresident employees of Bridgeport firms. He said the proposal is regressive and could trigger a state income tax while criticizing regional government talk and urging Bridgeport to stop relying on suburbs.
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First Selectman
John J. Sullivan
Fairfield
Bridgeport
North Carolina
Fairfield Giants
Pop Warner
Selectman Sullivan
Bridgeport Community Development Action Plan
Selectman
Sullivan
Weather data for Bridgeport area cloudy and milder today
Bridgeport and vicinity forecast cloudy with a high in the 50s and milder tonight with a low in the 40s. Chance of scattered showers tomorrow, a slight temperature change, and a 30 percent to 50 percent precipitation outlook. Southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. tides listed. Almanac notes date and solar details.
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Bridgeport
Two More Senators Back Haynsworth Support Grows
Washington AP reports two previously uncommitted senators, Republican Winston Prouty of Vermont and Democrat William B. Spong of Virginia, backed Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. for the Supreme Court amid civil rights groups pressuring to block confirmation. AP tally rises to 39 yes, 40 no, with 21 uncommitted as debate nears its third day and Mansfield delays final timing.
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Supreme Court
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr
Winston ‘Prouty
Vermont
William B. Spong
Virgin-ia
Haynsworth
Prouty
Spong
Spong-Prouty
Associated Press
Robert P. Griffin
Leadership Conference On Civil Rights
Roy’ Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Circuit Court of Appeals
Richmond
Times Building Evacuated After Bomb Threat Amid Senate Nomination Debate
New York police evacuated the Times building on West 43rd Street after a bomb threat delayed the Tuesday edition. The blast scare followed a wave of threats linked to Judge Haynsworth's Supreme Court nomination. no device was found as investigators checked the area. The AP dispatch also lists 21 senators not publicly committed to Haynsworth’s nomination, with names across both parties and multiple states.
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Haynsworth
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Alan Bible
D-Nev
J. Caleb Boggs
R-Del
John Sherman Cooper
R-Ky
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Mike Gravel
D-Alaska
Mark O. Hatfield
R-Ore
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Charles McC
Mathias Jr
R-Md
Eugene J. McCarthy
D-Minn
Robert W. Packwood
John QO. Pastore
D-R
Charles H. Percy
R-Ill
Jennings Randolph
Dw.va
William B. Saxbe
Rohio
Hugh Scott
Ralph T. Smith
Ill
Ted Stevens
Alaska
John J. Williams
Del
NEW York
New York Times
Times
West 4Rd Street
U S Planes Hit Foe in Cambodia and Straight Day
Saigon AP reports North Vietnamese guns inside Cambodia near Bu Prang opened fire again. U S Air Force jets attacked them for the second straight day, damaging 65mm and 105mm artillery positions. A two hour bombardment targeted a South Vietnamese task force HQ near Bu Prang. Casualty figures were not immediately known. Bu Prang lies 110 miles northeast of Saigon near the Cambodian border where Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces have operated for weeks. The U S Command reaffirmed self defense, unclear on any Cambodia government accord. Enemy shelling wounded 10 South Vietnamese soldiers on Monday.
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Saigon
Cambodia
Bu Prang
U.S
Prince Norodom Sihanouk
Hit Run on Pike Kills Stratford Man at 5:35 PM
Stratford resident Leonardo L Figurilli aged 73 died after being struck by a hit and run vehicle along the Connecticut turnpike near East Mair Street exit. State police report skull fracture and internal injuries. No witnesses. investigation ongoing.
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Connecticut Turnpike
East Main Street
James Craig
East Mair Street
Leonardo L. Figurilli
Bunnell Avenue
Robert Plitt
Fig
Navan Chinniah
Harold Doherty
Figurilli
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Turnpike
Bridgeport Hospital
Separate Agency Urged For Day Care Centers
City day care policy moves forward as the Community Day Care committee proposes a separate independent agency to manage centers. The plan aims to serve low income families first, expand to all mothers in need, create employment, and establish a council of sponsoring groups to oversee policy and administration. The objective is to open centers promptly with a central staff and joint council.
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James.g. Clark
Common Council
Bridgeport
Community. Development
ABCD
Greater Bridgeport
Hugh J. ‘Lavery
Lavery
Council of Churches
Diocese of Bridgeport
Board of Education
ICC Approves 6 Percent Freight Increase For Railroads
The Interstate Commerce Commission voted 6-3 to approve a six per cent general freight rate hike sought by railroads, effective immediately pending an investigative review into rate relations and possible discrimination. Chairwoman Virginia Mae Brown led dissent, calling the move unjustified and inflationary. The plan could raise about $600 million annually in added revenue for railroads, though carriers say it will only partially offset roughly $1 billion in cost increases.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Virginia Mae Brown
Willard Deason
Dale Hardin
Brown
Commission
Bus Monitors Get Right to Order Unruly Riders to Walk
Adult bus monitors from the Beardsley Terrace area will be empowered to tell disruptive youths to exit the bus starting Friday. The ABCD North End council in Building 11 announced the policy, prompted by education officials after talks with the school board. If a student refuses, the school principal will be notified and the child could face suspension. Monitors, drawn from residents and CEP-trained aides, have operated as a last resort to curb bus discipline.
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Beardsley Terrace
North End
ABCD
Margaret Cromwell
Board of Education
Council
Ffort
Cromwell
Stratford Council Opens Term Amid Party Lines
Stratford Town Council, split six to five along party lines, opened its term with clashes at meetings. Republicans held a majority with Ar thur Dritenbas named chairman pro tem and David W. Burns as councilman at large, while Democrats abstained from candidates. The body approved funding transfers and tax overpayments amid the partisan fray.
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Stratford Council
William B. Bartfay
Stratford
Donnybrook
Arthur Dritenbas
David W. Burns
Dritenbas
Council
France
More Than a Third Involved Short-Weighting In State Stores
Connecticut supermarket inspectors found overcharging at more than a third of the 40 stores visited in 12 towns. Purchases of three dollars ran up to 55 cents above correct price, with four of five stores in one town showing serious shortages.
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Hartford
Spectors
Humphrey Blames Nixon For Agnew's Blast at TV
In Washington AP Hubert H. Humphrey accused the Nixon administration of seeking to silence debate and suppress criticism of government. The Democratic Policy Council adopted a resolution condemning efforts to press news media under Vice President Spiro Agnew and his aides.
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Washington (Ap
Normer
Hubert H
Tol
Kennedy Clinging To Life As Kin Gather In Hyannisport
Joseph Patrick Kennedy, 81, lay unconscious after a heart attack as family members assembled at the Hyannisport compound. Sargent Shriver, son-in-law and U.S. ambassador to France, said the end was only a matter of hours. The Kennedy clan has long dominated public service with three sons in the Senate and one as president.
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Hyannisport
Mass
Joseph Patrick Kennedy
Kennedy
U.S. Senate
SargentShriver
U.S
France
Great Britain
Big Step Closer to Landing on the Moon
Three American space explorers aboard Yankee Clipper entered lunar orbit as a crucial six minute rocket firing at 10:47 p.m. EST restored contact with Earth. Charles Conrad Jr Richard F. Gordon Jr and Alan L Bean witnessed stunning lunar views and prepared for a Wednesday moonwalk and landing. The mission featured a prolonged television show and dramatic imagery of craters and the stark lunar surface.
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Earth
Sys
Charles Conrad Jr
Moon
Hitchhiker Wins $820000 Settlement Over 1968 Pike Crash
John Buckman a 22 year old Brookline resident injured in a car truck crash near New Haven Connecticut in 1968 received an 820000 pretrial settlement in a U S District Court suit Buckman who was stationed at Fort Dix New Jersey at the time lost a hand part of the other and facial injuries The cars were driven by Walter M Jackson of Hartford Conn and involved a collision with a truck owned by Wilson Freight Co of Ohio The truck driver was Chester D Berger of Kearney New Jersey Jackson was killed in the fiery crash March 15 1968 United Press International reported the settlement as the largest of its kind primary facts and entities preserved
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Boston
New Haven
Walter M. Jackson F
Hartford
Conn
Jacksson
Wilson Freight Co
Ohio
Wilson Freight
Chester D. Berger
Kearney
N.J
United Press International
Jackson
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