In School Budget Is The 3 Mill Hike Really Necessary
Corry Area School District faces a rising budget and higher property taxes as enrollment declines over three years. The 1973-74 budget totals 3,850,504 up from 3,444,700 with a three mill tax increase. Critics note funds for roofing and paving, a $55,000 general repairs item, and capital outlay reserved for a proposed middle school.
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Bill Eaton
Corry Area
Board of Education
Corry
Sparta High School
Department of Education
DOE
Capital Reserve Fund
Nixon and Pompidou Reach Iceland Summit Accord
Nixon and Georges Pompidou agreed to begin resolving their policy differences at a planned Atlantic forum. Kissinger outlined a flexible path toward a potential 16-nation Atlantic summit by autumn, with U S France and other Western European partners to pursue monetary trade and defense talks in established forums. Pompidou's health is noted as poor though he appears to have gained weight and remains central to French policy.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Nixon
Georges Pompidou
Henry A. Kissinger
Newsmen
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Common Market
Kissinger
United States
France
Atlantic Alliance
Michel Jobert
Paris
Jobert
Pompidou
Charles de Gaulle
Mideast
British boats ram Icelandic tug in disputed waters
In Reykjavik, a government spokesman said 10 to 20 British trawlers rammed an Icelandic tugboat three times east of Iceland, risking sinking. He called it a horrible act of British aggression. Separately, two British trawlers were rammed by an Icelandic gunboat in London announced remarks amid the fishing rights dispute.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Hannes Jonsson
London
Atlantic
Cambodia acquires U S helicopters for air force use
Cambodian air force receives a small squadron of Huey gunships from the United States for close air support in difficult combat zones. Viet Cong sappers damaged a storage site near Saigon, with 10 South Vietnamese injured and 400 tons of ammunition destroyed.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
U.S
South Vietnam
Saigon
Con
Warden and deputy stabbed to death at Holmesburg Prison
Two inmates Frederick Burton and Joseph Bowen stabbed the warden Patrick Curran and deputy warden Robert Fromhold to death in Holmesburg Prison after a dispute over prayer meeting time. Guard captain Leroy Taylor was seriously slashed. Authorities say improvised kitchen knives were used. Mayor Rizzo demanded the death penalty, calling for swift action.
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Philadelphia
Holmesburg
Patrick Curran
Robert F. Fromhold
Fromhold
Frank L. Rizzo
Rizzo
Frederick Burton
Joseph Bowen
Leroy Taylor
Compromise bill to cut war funds face congressional clash
A conference committee will resolve differences between a Senate bill to end all U S military action in Indochina and a House version. The Senate voted to halt funding for combat in Cambodia and Laos, while a House vote blocked funds in a 3.6 billion appropriation. Pentagon policy and Kissinger negotiations cited as stakes as sessions set for next week.
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Senate
Cambodia
Houses
Congress
Indochina
Washington
U.S
House
Laos
United States
Nixon
Thomas F. Eagleton
D-Mo
Vietnam
Eagleton
Watergate Officials Tell Conflicting Stories In Probe
The Watergate saga widens as present and former top officials offer differing accounts of links within the administration. Sen. Ervin says secret White House papers reveal a Gestapo mindset at top levels, detailing plans for domestic espionage to spy on dissidents, though Nixon claims the plan was never enacted.
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Washington
Sam J. Ervin Jr
Senate Watergate Committee
White House
Ervin
Winston-Salem
M.C
John W. Dean
North Carolina
Nixon
FBI
Edgar Hoover
Watergate Committee
Central Intelligence Agency
America
CIA
Robert E. Cushman Jr
Marine Corps
John D. Ehrlichman
E. Howard Hunt
Ehrlichman
Cushman
H.R. Haldeman
Richard Helms
Helms
Army
Vernon A. Walters
Democratic
Walters
L. Patrick Gray II
Gray
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Nixon. Pompidou
Thomas Eagleton
Jeff
Robert Dole
R-Kan
Voys
Mekong
Thailand
Frank Rizzo
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Watergate
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