Iowa Faces Possible Fuel Shortage If Tanker Strike
Detroit UP I reports 13 Midwest states may see gasoline and fuel oil shortages if 5000 Teamsters tanker drivers walk out at midnight Sunday. Drivers seek a three year contract with wage hikes. carriers offer six step plan totaling 1.52 dollars. Iowa is among affected states including Michigan Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Minnesota Missouri Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota Ohio and Wisconsin.
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Detroit
UPI
Iowa
Teamsters Union
Midwest
Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Ohio
Wisconsin
Chuckle Traffic Courtesy Opens with Calm Driver Skill
A humorous note praises safe driving and consideration on the road, urging patience and skill as key to smooth traffic flow. It credits the reader with exemplary conduct and suggests others could learn from such calm driving.
Nixon Calls SST Halt Devastating Mistake
President Nixon denounces the Senate vote to stop SST development as devastating and job killing. He urges reversal while noting potential loss of at least 150000 aerospace jobs and arguing halting now could be a mortal blow to the U S industry. Competing SSTs exist in the Soviet Union and Britain France.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate
Soviet Union
Britain
France
Mild Soviet Protest Not Convenient at Pushkin Square
About 17 demonstrators gathered at Pushkin Square for a brief Dec 5 Constitution Day protest in Moscow. Plainclothes police surrounded them as a uniformed officer declared the act “not convenient” and urged the crowd to move on. No signs or slogans were used, and the event ended after about 15 minutes with no arrests or injuries.
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Moscow
UPI
Pushkin Square
Soviet Union
Yuri Daniel
Andrei Sinyavsky
Alexander Pushkin
Russia
Auto Halted Yields Cash Haul From Armored Car Heist
Four men were captured on the San Bernardino freeways after a car stop by California highway patrol. A duffel bag in the trunk held 283 797.18 dollars alleged stolen from a Millburn New Jersey armored car robbery. Police say the money may be part of 319 000 dollars stolen November 24.
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San Bernardino
Calif
California
San Bernadino
New Jersey
Tshaeey Teka
Maplewood
N.J
Patrick Francis
Carnegie
Ronald Revels
Sanford
Fla
Richard Yates
Burlington
Mass
Interstate 10
George Ruddell
Millburn
N. J
Ruddell
Elizabeth City
Livingston
Battle for Hughes Las Vegas Empire Heats Up
Rival factions of Howard Hughes holdings clash over control of the Las Vegas hotel and casino assets after Hughes, aged 65, departs the Desert Inn penthouse following a four year sequestration. Local Hughes Tool Co representatives confront aides of the mystery man amid ongoing power struggle.
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Las Vegas
UPI
Howard Hughes
Caisino Holdings
Hughes
Desert Inn
Hughes Tool Co
William Gay
Houston
Chester Davis
New York
TransWorld Airlines
Sands Hotel
Robert Maheu
FBI
Frontier Hotel
Strip
Gay and Davis
Intertel
Carl Cohen
Jack Entratter
Sands Hotel, Inc
Maheu
Tom O’donnell
Hughes Nevada
Refugee aid programs in Indo China questioned by GAO
Congressional investigators fault U S and South Vietnamese refugee aid operations citing facility shortfalls and poor conditions at Thanh Tay camp in Quang Nam province where 6 000 refugees live under guard and with minimal sanitation and medical services The GAO report notes deteriorating progress despite official assurances and slow fund releases by the GVN ministry of social welfare.
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Washington
U.S
General Accounting Office
Indo - China
Edward Kennedy
GAO
Senate Refugees Subcommittee
Thanh Tay
Quang Nam
GVN
Vietnam
Massive refinery blast rocks New Jersey turnpike area
A large explosion at the Bayway refinery catalyst plant in Linden New Jersey hurled a fireball over 1 000 feet and rattled windows as far as New York City and Nyack New York. Hospitals reported multiple injuries and fire crews fought a blaze with evacuation underway.
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Linden
N. J
New Jersey Turnpike
Bayway
Standard Oil Co
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Elizabeth
Elizabeth General Hospital
Newark
New York City
Nyack
N.Y
North Jersey Meadowland
Arthur Kill
New Jersey
Staten Island
Lower Manhattan
New York City Fire Department
Turnpike
Harlan McKay
Girl 7 Killed in Car Pedestrian Crash at Waterloo
A Cedar Falls girl Debra Stevens, seven, died after a car train collision in Waterloo. Her mother Donna Stevens 30 and brother Jerry nine were in critical condition in a local hospital, another brother Timothy three in serious condition. The car was stopped on tracks waiting for a traffic light when the train dragged it two blocks before stopping.
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Waterloo
UPI
Cedar Falls
Debra Stevens
Donna Stevens
Jerry
Timothy
Stevens
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Tom Merryman
Teamsters
Labor Petroleum Advisers Association
Camp David
Congress
U. S
Battle For Hughes
Las Vegas Empire
Kennedy
Saigon
Agency For International Development
GWN Ministry of Social Wet
Bahamas
Jack Hooper
Nevada
Paul Laxalt
Laxalt
N.J. Blast
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