Illinois General Assembly Near End Of Spring Session
Illinois lawmakers enter the final week of the spring session with a Republican tax relief plan on governor’s desk and mass transportation bills advancing in the House. Chicago Democrats add a five percent gas tax to fund a regional authority, raising about 1.5 cents per gallon.
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Illinois General Assembly
H.F. Wollenberg
Associated Press
Springfield, Ill
Chicago
Illinois
Gerald Shea
Riverside
House
Richard J. Daley
Fire at The Up Stairs Lounge kills 29 in New Orleans
In the French Quarter blaze at The Up Stairs Lounge crowds packed for a Sunday beer bust, 29 died and 15 were injured. Burglar bars on three front windows trapped victims, others escaped by side windows or a rear fire escape. Fire crews arrived quickly and containment took 16 minutes as witnesses described panicked jumps to the street.
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Eric Newhouse
Associated Press
New Orleans
William McCrossen
Ousted White House Counsel Says Nixon Involved But Unaware
Former White House counsel John W. Dean III testified at the Senate Watergate hearings that he believes President Nixon was involved in the Watergate affair but did not realize the implications. Dean described Haldeman and Ehrlichman as key in the cover up, and alleged payoffs and obstruction of justice. He admitted perjury and misuse of campaign funds while noting potential indictments based on additional evidence.
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White House
Washington
John W. Dean III
Nixon
Dean
Senate
H.R. Haldeman
John Dr. Ehrlichman
Democratic
Haldeman
Gordon Strachan
Ehrlichman
E. Howard Hunt
Hunt
Potomac River
Charles W. Colson
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Henry Petersen
Senate Committee
John Caulfield
Joseph Kraft
Ehrlichman Haldeman
Memorial Mass for Father Rodriguez in Sterling Parish
H Rodriguez de Rev Humberto Rodriguez 63 former St Marys Parish Sterling 1958 1971 died in Puebla Mexico June 20 burial June 23 in Puebla memorial mass June 28 7 30 pm at St Marys Church concelebrated by St Mary Sacred Heart team ministry and Spanish Apostolate. He came to Sterling from Mexico in 1958 to serve Mexican American community later served in Savanna and Elgin. Springfield IL status of major legislation before Illinois General Assembly follows.
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H. Rodriguez de Rev. Humberto Rodriguez
St. Mary’s Parish
Sterling
Puebla
Mexico
Luis Angel Castillo
Father Rodriguez
Savanna
St. Joseph’s Church
Elgin
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary-Sacred Heart
Rockford
U.S. and Soviet Leaders End Summit With Peace Promise
The United States and the Soviet Union issued a 3,400 word communique after a week of talks in San Clemente and Washington outlining aims for tighter strategic arms limits, peace in Cambodia, expanded trade, and an early European settlement. Brezhnev and Nixon agreed on possible regular summits and a broad trade target of 2 to 3 billion dollars over three years. Brezhnev heads to Moscow via Paris after the talks.
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San Clemente
Calif
United States
Soviet Union
Cambodia
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Moscow
Paris
Nixon
Washington
Camp David
Europe
Brezhnev
Three Area Men Die In Weekend Traffic Accidents
Weekend traffic toll includes Ronald Dravis 23 of Rock Falls and his brother Joseph 19. A separate late Saturday crash near Sterling killed David Fransen 27 of Morrison and Verner Johnson 31. Coroners rule accidental deaths and local motorists face charges or injuries.
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Ronald Dravis
W. 2Nd St. Rock Falls
Dravis
Joseph
Canal St
Rock Falls
Avenue G
Thomas Cernich
Woodlawn
Sterling
Cernich
Poe
Terry K. Hadaway
12Th St
David E. Fransen
Morrison
Verner B. Johnson
Illinois
Pfundstein Corners
Weather outlook for Twin Cities and Illinois areas today
The Twin Cities area sees mostly cloudy skies with warm humid air and a chance of showers or storms, highs in the 80s, tonight variable clouds with likely thunderstorms, lows in the mid to upper 60s, Tuesday partly sunny with highs in the mid to upper 80s.
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Twin Cities
Illinois
Nine U S Soviet Pacts Signed in Nixon Brezhnev Talks
The nine pacts cover nuclear restraint, arms talks, peaceful energy, and expanded cooperation in transport air travel culture commerce taxation agriculture oceanography and more. They create a U S S R chamber of commerce and outline tax reductions for expatriate citizens.
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Nixon
Leonid Brezhnev
Aeroflot
Pan American Airlines
U.S
Skylab 1 Crew Ready for 56-Day Skylab 2 Flight
Skylab 1 commander Charles Conrad Jr and crewmates Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz begin medical checks and daily briefings as they confirm Skylab 2 will launch July 7 under Captain Alan Bean. They praised the mission’s repairs and vowed the team is up there to stay.
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Conrad
Kerwin
Space Agency
Earth
Ticonderoga
Nixon
Brezhnev
San Clemente
Russia
Soviet Union
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