Rail union rejects labor department arbitration plan
Washington report says UTU refuses a three member neutral panel binding settlement offered by Labor Secretary Hodgson. Union leaders charge government bias, while industry accepts arbitration. Talks collapse as multiple railroads threaten new strikes, affecting 120000 workers and 20 percent of shipments. Local and national figures warn of broader economic harm.
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Labor Department
Hodgson
United Transportation Union
UTU
Charles Luna
Nixon
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Ronald Reagan
California
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White House
Ronald Ziegler
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Houston
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Apollo 15 Mission Near Moon Despite Minor Glitches
Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott James Irwin and Alfred Worden nervy but on track toward a Friday moon landing. Ground crews solved several nagging electrical and communications glitches while flight director Glynn Lunney said the problems were minor and posed no threat. The crew slept late after extra ground troubleshooting and will remain well rested for six busy days in lunar proximity.
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Mission Control
Moon
Lunney
Chou En-lai Rules Out Two Chinas Policy in Talks
In Hong Kong Chou En-lai told a U S student delegation that Peking rejects any two Chinas or Taiwan independence policy as a compromise with the United States. He urged withdrawal of all U S forces from Taiwan and the Taiwan strait and said the 1954 U S Chiang Kai-shek defense treaty is illegal. He named four main obstacles to normal U S China relations, including Taiwan's status and Taiwan independence.
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Hong Kong
Chou En-lai
Peking
Formosa
United States
Chou
Taiwan
U. S
Formosa Strait
Chiang Kaishek
U. N
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Penghu
Vietnam
Indo- China
Indo-China
No Nixon Hirohito visit planned but not ruled out
The White House stated there are no current plans for President Nixon and Emperor Hirohito of Japan to exchange visits, while not ruling out the possibility in the future. The remark reflects cautious diplomacy amid ceremonial talk and ongoing U.S. relations with Japan.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Hirohito
Japan
Chuckle Caption Suggests Marriage Insight
A brief humorous line notes that if a man ponders for a minute he believes he can grasp his wife and says the idea is timed quite well. Copyright information follows.
Senate Downs Bid to Delay Lockheed Help
Washington UPI report says the Senate defeated a proposal to delay a 250 million government guaranteed loan to Lockheed Aircraft Corp. until fall to avert bankruptcy. The 60-35 vote aided the Nixon administration, exempting the loan from further congressional scrutiny if a general distressed firms loan bill becomes law. A second effort to curb debate on the bill failed 59-39.
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Treasury
Stevenson
House of Congress
Washington
UPI
Senate
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Nixon
Heroin Seized In Cedar Rapids Hotel Room
Cedar Rapids police seized a substance believed to be heroin during a hotel room search Wednesday afternoon. Two people were detained: Irvin Johnson, 29, Waterloo, held on $10,500 bond for narcotics and resisting arrest, and Rozetta Johnson, 23, reportedly his common law wife, also charged.
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Cedar Rapids
Irvin Johnson
Waterloo
Rozetta Johnson
Johnson
Hughes opposes Stevenson amendment in vote records
Democrat Harold Hughes voted against the Stevenson amendment while Republican Jack Miller was listed as absent or not voting.
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Harold Hughes
Jack Miller
Leading Business Indicator Dips in June After Uptrend
The leading business indicator index fell 0.5 percent in June after seven monthly gains with six of eight components posting declines. Commerce officials downplayed the drop, noting the pattern over months supports a strong uptrend since October. only the average work week and price labor cost ratio rose while several other indicators fell including new durable goods orders and unemployment insurance claims.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Harold Passer
See No Steel Pact Chance See No Steelworkers Pact
Washington United Steelworkers officials told local leaders that a contract agreement cannot be reached before the current pact expires Saturday night. A strike was threatened to begin Sunday.
Le Duc Tho Flies to Moscow Amid Paris Peace Talks
North Vietnamese diplomat Le Duc Tho, the senior Hanoi figure in Paris, traveled to Moscow on Wednesday. It was unclear if he would return for further negotiations or go home.
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Paris
le Duc Tho
Moscow
Thai Viet U.S. Agents Crack Heroin Ring
Thai South Vietnam and U S narcotics teams in a first joint operation seized 97 pounds of pure heroin and 660 pounds of opium in seven places around Saigon Rach Gia and Phuoc Quoc. The cache originated in Burma and Laos with a Chinese Saigon ring leader Tap Vinh. Sixteen others were detained including two Vietnamese sailors. Air America planes ferried raiding parties. Thai Col Pramual led the suppression effort with Vietnamese colleagues.
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Thailand
South Vietnam
U. S
Vietnam
Asia
Saigon
Burma
Laos
Gulf of Thailand
Nitya Bhanumas
Thai Narcotics Board
Cholon
Nitya
Pramual Vanigbandhu
U.S
Jack Greene
Tap Vinh
le Dae Tinh
Huong
Rach Gia
Phuoc Quoc
Dis
Col
Pramual
Air America
CIA
Sought for 11 Days in Wyoming
Kevin Dye a 9 year old with mental retardation and epilepsy was found alive after 11 days missing on Casper mountain near the Elk Horn creek. He was discovered by a Colorado Alpine search team member three hours after dawn in rugged brush and canyons and lifted from the canyon in a rope litter. He wore a blue polo shirt shorts and tennis shoes and was treated at the Wyoba Baptist church camp before his parents arrived. Temperature had cooled near freezing at night and was around 50 during the discovery. The search relied on thousands of volunteers guides dogs helicopters and horses. The boy wandered away July 18 after an outing and repeatedly ran from searchers. His mother noted the leaf heart shapes crescent rocks and parallel lines as familiars.
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Casper, Wyo
UPI
Kevin Dye
Casper Mountain
Natrona County
Bill Estes
Colorado
Kevin
Richard McDougall
Wyoba Baptist Church
Philip Dye
Casper
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