Nationwide U S Labor Strikes Sweep Across Major Cities
Grave diggers, teachers, bus drivers, electricians and hospital workers join a broad walkout from New York to Seattle. In Chicago 600 teachers skip classes amid a wider plan for district staff walkouts. Harlem hospital doctors threaten action over a contested suspension. Electrical workers strike ties up shipyards in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. New York health officials monitor health risks as cemetery picketing continues. Upstate New York and California strikes affect airlines and hospitals as talks stall.
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Chicago
San Francisco
Cleveland
City Health Department
Harlem Hospital
Portland
Seattle
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Wilmington Coach Co
Wilmington
Del
Medical personnel protest against Vietnam war in New York
About three hundred doctors, nurses, researchers, and medical staff demonstrated near Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on First Avenue. They cited war spending and insufficient funding for medical research, public health facilities, and workers' wages, led by the New York Medical Committee to End the War in Vietnam.
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Vietnam
Bellevue Hospital
First Avenue
The
New York Medical Committee
Price increase announced for The Sunday Cedar Rapids Gazette
The Sunday Cedar Rapids Gazette raises price to 20 cents starting Sunday January 8 for carriers and newsstands. Weekly subscribers will pay 5 cents more per week as publishing costs rise, with newspaper boys and news dealers sharing the increase.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Friend Believes Romney To Seek 1968 Nomination
Detroit AP reports a Romney confidant says Governor George Romney plans a run for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination. Romney has not committed, but J Willard Marriott of Washington asserts Romney will run and could win the nomination and presidency if the situation holds.
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Romney
Detroit
George Romney
Michigan
J. Willard Marriott
Washington
Detroit News
Marriott
G.O.P
Eisenhower
Two Secretaries Take Week-Long Southeast Asia Inspection
The Pentagon said Army Secretary Resor and Air Force Secretary Brown departed Sunday for a one week inspection tour in Southeast Asia, to assess operations and readiness.
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Pentagon
Army
Resor
Air Force
Brown
Southeast Asia
Winter Training Unit Marking Time in Snow
A 150 man South Dakota national guard unit bound for Fort Greeley Alaska for winter training marked time in the Watertown armory as a blizzard blocked troop carrier landings. The snowbound unit is the 2nd Howitzer battalion 147th field artillery consisting of reservists from Watertown and other South Dakota communities.
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S.D
South Dakota National Guard
Fort Greeley
Alaska
Plains
147Th Field Artillery
South Dakota
West Germany looks to boost ties with France via European unity
Foreign Minister Willy Brandt said West Germany can expand cooperation with France without harming U S relations. He argued Paris Bonn ties could strengthen European economic and political unity, while pursuing improved Eastern European relations and potential talks with Moscow. He spoke ahead of Kiesinger's Paris visit.
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Willy Brandt
West Germany
France
U.S
Brandt
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Paris
Welt Am Sonntag
World On Sunday
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Washington
Moscow
Burlington freight wreck blocks Chicago to Kansas City line
Three cars of Burlington Railroad freight train No. 70 derailed early Saturday near Palmyra closing the main line for about seven hours. A draw bar broke causing the derailment. no injuries were reported.
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Palmyra, Mo
Burlington Railroad
Palmyra
Chicago
Kansas City
Fire destroys 140-foot barn killing up to 600 pigs
A 140-foot barn two miles north of La Porte City on Iowa 218 burned Saturday afternoon destroying the structure and from 400 to 600 feeder pigs. Joint owners Curtiss Wellman and William Williams of La Porte City operated the farm. high winds and water shortage hampered firefighting.
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Curtiss Wellman
William Williams
Williams
Legislature Opens Monday The Gazette Covers Lawmaking
The Cedar Rapids Gazette outlines in depth coverage as the 1967 Iowa legislature convenes Monday. Veteran Frank Nye begins his 30th year reporting, joined by Harrison Weber and AP staffers to deliver on-the-spot stories, background, and daily updates through the session.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
General Assembly
Frank Nye
The
Gazette
Nye
Harrison Weber
Iowa Daily Press Assa
William Eberline
Chad Skaggs
Michael Kaplan
Associated Press
Don Finley
Sherry Cone
Liberals Move Against Powell Chairmanship in Congress
House liberals in the Democratic Study Group plan to strip Rep. Adam Clayton Powell of the Education and Labor Committee chair, while allowing him to remain in Congress. They also seek to block Rep. William Colmer from taking the Rules Committee chair, challenging the Senate of seniority in a precongress caucus.
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House
Rep
Adam Clayton Powell
Congress
Powell
Education and Labor Committee
Democratic Party
William Colmer
D-Miss
House Rules Committee
Democratic Study Group
DSG
Morris Udall
D-Ariz
Udall
Democratic Committee On Committees
Carl Perkins
D-Ky
Harlem
Perkins
Committee On Committees
Tenth Of Top in Second War
FBI figures show fewer convicted draft violators in 1966 than during World War II relative to troop strength. Convictions rose to 450 in 1966 from 262 in 1965, while U S troop levels surged past four million in WWII. Analysts cite larger draft calls and stricter laws, with high wartime totals peaking in 1945 at 12 million.
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Washington
Justice Department
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
U.S
U. S
Meek Inherit the Earth Slips as Unmeek Make Mess
A humorous quip notes that the unmeek are causing more trouble than the meek who supposedly will inherit the earth. The line plays on the expectation of virtue with a twist.
Freshmen Cheating Focus Of Education Council Survey
A survey of 206865 freshmen at 251 colleges shows 20 percent admit cheating on exams. Men 24 percent, women 16.5 percent, with variation across public private and two year four year schools.
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American Council On Education
Agency For Higher Education
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