Nixon plans for nuclear strikes in Vietnam book claims
Seymour Hersh reports in The Price of Power that Nixon and Kissinger drew up secret escalation plans including bombing and a ground invasion of North Vietnam and possibly using nuclear devices on Ho Chi Minh Trail routes. The plan allegedly included a 29 day SAC alert and a warning to negotiate by 1 November.
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Gazette Wire Services
Washington
Richard Nixon
Seymour Hersh
Summit Books
Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
My Lai
U.S
Vietnam
Associated Press
United Press International
New York Times
Hersh
Chief of Naval Operations
Defense
Melvin Laird
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
South Vietnam
Soviet Union
China
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Iowa utility urged to refund $10.26 million over nuclear plant repairs
The Iowa Commerce Commission staff said Iowa Electric Light and Power should refund $10.26 million to customers for Duane Arnold Energy Center repairs, far above the company’s $2.8 million proposal. Final order may come a month or more, with possible court challenge from IE. The case has dragged on for four years.
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Judy Daubenmier
Gazette
Des Moines
Bureau
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Iowa Commerce Commission
Cedar Rapids
Horace Webb
Varley
State scales down cheese giveaway to quarterly
Needy Eastern Iowans will receive free cheese and butter quarterly starting July as the Iowa Department of Social Services shifts distribution from monthly to stretch supplies. The move comes after the Department of Agriculture cut allotments due to alleged lower retail sales, with Cedar Rapids and Davenport districts first to implement the new schedule.
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Vanessa Shelton
DSS
Gazette
Department of Agriculture
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Iowa Department of Social Services
Linn
Jones
Johnson
Iowa
Benton
Washington
Poweshiek
Marshall
Tama
Hardin
Muscatine
Scott
Cedar
Wilson Foods labor dispute prompts 100 percent work demand
Wilson Foods corporate officials tell United Food and Commercial Workers to work 100 percent or not at all. The union demands the restored contract and plans meetings in Cedar Rapids with Local P-3 leader John Detweiler. A slowdown began last week across 12 plants, excluding Cedar Rapids, cutting production.
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Wilson
Wilson Foods
United Food and Commercial Workers Union
John Detweiler
P-3
Cedar Rapids
Rank and
Teamsters
Israeli Sharpshooter Sketched Arafat But Photo Shown
Maariv reports an Israeli sharpshooter had Arafat in his sights as he left Beirut but delivered a photo instead to U S envoy Philip Habib to prove restraint. The account notes the shot was at about 140 yards and ties to an anniversary review of Israel’s Beirut invasion.
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Gazette Wire
Tel Aviv
Israel
Yasser Arafat
PLO
Beirut
Arafat
Maariv
U.S
Philip Habib
Lebanon
Fatah
Mousa Awad
Abu Akram
Revolutionary Command Council
Food prices bite back at shoppers warned today
A brief notice warns that current food prices may force households to stretch budgets. It notes rising costs across staples and urges readers to compare prices and plan meals carefully.
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Mideast
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Sane
Abby
Simmons
Farm
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