Pa State Legislature Faces Budget Plans
In Harrisburg with under a month until the new fiscal year, the legislature debates spending and taxes. The Senate panel will review a spending plan seeking to restore $80 million cut by House Republicans, while the House GOP advances a tax relief bill projected to cap spending at $3.74 billion starting July 1. The plan cuts federal revenue sharing and highway, education, and elder services funding, in favor of tax relief for business and individuals, though constitutional questions loom over the personal income tax exclusion.
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Russia and China Expand Aid to Africa Amid Power Moves
U.S. intelligence reports indicate Russia and Communist China are quietly expanding military and economic aid across Africa to gain influence. China plans to supply Tanzania with 20 MIG fighters this year while delivering jets and naval support to Guinea. Somalia receives Russian tanks this spring, and Sudan has drawn Moscow into a complex aid and logistical buildup.
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Saigon Braces as Opposition Claims Peace Blockade
Ex president Duong Van Minh accuses Saigon of blocking peace by oppressing non Communist opponents while battles flare. Six crew killed as Communist gunners down a South Vietnamese helicopter and at least 55 enemy soldiers die in two clashes. Minh urges immediate release of political prisoners to win goodwill for Paris talks. Authorities deny prisoners but warn of wartime limits on liberties. A CH47 Chinook was shot down by a heat seeking missile amid a resupply mission northwest of Saigon. Abortion stats in Britain show 3000 girls aged 11 to 15 in 1971, up 33 percent from 1970.
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Shapp Says Watergate Hurts States
Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp denounces Watergate as causing executive paralysis in Washington and worsening state finances through federal cutbacks. He cites impounded funds hurting water quality, housing, highways, health, welfare, and job training, and notes Pennsylvania may sue the Nixon administration for released pollution-control funds. The remarks come as governors meet at Lake Tahoe. Ottawa experts prepare a decade-long manual on 68 mosquito species, 60 of which feed on blood, to aid ecologists and control efforts.
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POW Capt Edward Brudno Dies By Own Action
Air Force Captain Edward A. Brudno, an eight year prisoner of war in Vietnam, was found dead Sunday afternoon from an apparent self inflicted death. He was the first released POW to take his own life, found with a plastic bag over his head at his in laws home in Harrison New York. Brudno attached to Westover Air Force Base and captured October 18 1965 after being shot down in an F4 Phantom jet. He returned to the United States February 1 with the first group of returning prisoners.
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Weekend Sky Ride Ends In Tragedy
A belated weekend sky ride ended in tragedy when a single engine plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 300 yards off Steel Pier. The 55 year old father Robert L. Custer of Willow Grove Pennsylvania and his daughter Nancy Lynne 15 along with her friend Michelle O Donnell 15 of Upper Moreland were killed. A dog also died. Autopsies to determine cause of death were planned.
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Jury Selection Begins Today In Pass Trial
ERIE Pennsylvania AP Jury selection starts today in the murder trial of Albert E Pass a 59 year old former UMW official from Middlesboro Kentucky The case relates to the New Year Eve 1969 killings of Joseph A Jock Yablonski his wife and his daughter Prater already convicted of three counts of first degree murder in the same slayings Two other defendants were convicted or pleaded guilty while others pled guilty and became state witnesses
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Cleveland, Ohio
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Cleveland
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