Liquor Store Clerks Strike Widens to 179 Stores Closed
Harrisburg AP report shows a widening strike by state liquor store clerks with 179 stores in five areas shut, affecting 308 of 750 stores. Negotiations resume Wednesday as union seeks job security protections, raises, and a clause barring managers from selling or stocking. Gov. Shapp may intervene. legality questioned over LCB pledge.
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Harrisburg
International Association of Retail Clerks
Philadelphia
Lancaster
Reading
Allentown
Easton
Shapp
State Liquor Control Board
Shap
Christ Zervanos
LCB
Gas Leaks Forge Long Stay in Williamsburg Michigan
In Williamsburg Michigan natural gas began seeping April 18, prompting evacuation of 85 homes. Three months later fumes persist with only six homes ready for permanent return. Nine dwellings stay vacant due to dangerous gas concentrations. five more lack gas but have water or sewer issues. Fifty-five are cleared with conditions like degassing water. All buildings have vent pipes. road Michigan 72 remains closed. Sheriff Weiler cautions return may be delayed by weather and frost risks.
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Williamsburg
Mich
Michigan
Grand Traverse County
Richard Weiler
Weiler
State Department of Natural Resources
Michigan 72
White House Denies Tricia Is Pregnant
The White House said no report of Tricia Nixon Cox’s pregnancy has any basis. Press secretary Helen Smith called the Evening Star-News story incorrect and attributed to an “authoritative source.” Tricia, 27, married Edward Cox in 1971.
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Washington
White House
Tricia Nixon Cox
Nixon linked by a Gallup poll to Watergate
Gallup polled 1,451 Americans June 22 to 25 finding 71 percent believe Nixon was involved in Watergate or the cover-up while 18 percent say he should leave office. Ninety eight percent are aware of Watergate, up from 52 percent last September. Opinion shows little change since June 14.
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Princeton
Gallup
Nixon
Sirvey
John W. Dean II
Dean
Senate
Watergate Committee
Brezhnev Set for Yearend Visit to Cuba
Tass announced Brezhnev will travel to Cuba in December 1973 or January 1974 on a friendly, nonofficial visit. Fidel Castro invited him during a Moscow visit a year earlier, with Podgorny and Kosygin also invited.
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Moscow
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Cuba
Tass
Brezhnev
Fidel Castro
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Alexei N. Kosygin
Justice Douglas to visit China on invitation from Peking
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas 74 and his wife Cathy will fly to Hong Kong on August 9 and travel to China at an invitation from the Peking government. He recalled Truman’s 1950 rebuke over China and said he has sought permission to visit since the 1950s.
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Goose Prairie
Wash
Harry S. Truman
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
People’s Republic of China
Douglas
Cathy
Hong Kong
China
Peking
Yakima
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Bob Lucas
Yakima Herald- Republic
Truman
India
North Korea
South Korea
Mao ‘Tse-tung
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
38Th
Jawaharlal Nehru
Washington
U.N
38Th Paralell
Yalu River
Schweiker Says He Is On Nixon\'s Enemy List
Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania says he believes he is on a White House list of Republican recalcitrants targeted for punishment. He notes other named senators like Javits and Case have appeared on the list at times since 1969. He criticizes the Nixon administration for creating such hate lists rather than addressing issues like inflation energy and education.
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Washington
Richard S. Schweiker
R-Pa
Nixon
Jack Anderson
White House
Anderson
Jacob K. Javits
New York
Clifford P. Case
New Jersey
Schweiker
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