New Fuel Taxes Proposed To Help Rebuild Railroads
The Interstate Commerce Commission urged Congress to impose a 2 cent per gallon tax on gasoline and diesel and a 0.14 cent per kilowatt hour tax on electricity used for transport. The plan could raise up to $12 billion in five years to fund railroad rebuilding and transit upgrades, addressing nationwide rail weaknesses amid rising Class I debt.
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Rail Services Planning Office
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Planning Office
Northeas
Midwest
Legis
ConRail
U.S
Vietnam Leaders See Path to Negotiations Amid Shelling
Huong, 71, seeks to appoint Minh as president or give him power to form a negotiating government while North Vietnamese forces threaten Saigon. Assembly approves a two point compromise backing Huong’s talks, Lam presumed unacceptable to Viet Cong. Thieu in Taiwan. reports say London home plans and fortune smuggling rumors circulate. U S evacuations continue as Guam camps await, after 20 000 refugees already flown.
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Nguyen van Thien
Minh
Mekong
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Senate
Tran van Lam
Lam
Viet Cong
U.S
Guam
Pacific
Soviet Order Keeps UVA Professor and Wife Apart
Irina McClellan and her 40 year old American husband mark their first wedding anniversary apart by Soviet order. Woodford McClellan, a UVA history professor, has been refused permission to visit his wife since August. Her move to join him in America was rejected again last month after earlier assurances. A US Embassy official notes Soviet citizens usually may leave after permission to marry is granted but cannot explain how Mrs. McClellan was blocked. The couple faced a dreamlike wedding aided by the Academy of Sciences yet learned later that not all loved and accepted their union.
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Irina McClellan
Moscow
Woodford
Woodford McClellan
University of Virginia
America
U.S
Soviet Union
Russia
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Academy of Sciences
Rally for Jobs and Full Production at Kennedy Stadium
Thousands of AFL CIO union members marched from the Capitol to Kennedy Stadium for a three hour rally calling for full employment, public works, lower interest rates, tax reform, and mass transit. Speakers included Senators Humphrey Schweiker and Barbara Jordan. protestors surged onto the field and banners read Jobs Now.
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New Rathelle
Robert F. Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey
Richard Schweiker
Barbara Jordan
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Capitol
White House
Old Football Foe Would Like To Get Ford On Handball Court
CHICAGO AP Ed Rip Whalen jokes about getting President Ford to handball for old times sake. Whalen recalls Ford claiming he kicked Whalen around in 1934 when Michigan beat Northwestern 13 to 6. Whalen, now Armour & Co executive, notes memory fades but accepts Ford’s tales with humor.
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Chicago
Rip” Whalen
Whalen
Michigan
Northwestern
Rip Whalen
New York Times
Ann Arbor
Mich
Whelan
Whaten
Cago
Armour & Co
San Francisco
Hanoi leaders showcase liberation symbol as war effort eases
In Hanoi a grand mausoleum for Ho Chi Minh rises while citizens pose for photos with a foreign journalist. The PRG in Hanoi hosts briefings by Nguyen Van Tien on Da Nang Hue and Southern city life normalizing. questions about possible talks if Duong Van Minh becomes Saigon leader loom.
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South Vietnam
Cambodia
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
Viet Cong
Provisional Revolutionary Government
PRG
Nguyen van Tien
Big Minh
Duong van Minh
Hijack of United flight 344 ends with arrest in Raleigh
Passengers recounted United flight 344 hijacking from Raleigh to Newark by Carey Covey, described as drinking during the ordeal. Covey, reportedly intoxicated, claimed explosives in a bag and said he wanted to see Castro. FBI noted the hijacker’s arrest followed stops in Birmingham Charlotte and Raleigh with no weapons found and crew praised for denying danger.
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Covey
Richmond Times-Dispatch
United Flight 344
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N.C
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Newark
Carey
O'Keefe
Castro
FBI
Printing Agency Seeks Space For New Dollar Bill Initiative
Money continues on Page One as the agency handles 29 billion postage stamps and some food stamps. Operations run around the clock five days a week with six possible, and space is described as critical at the 61 year old facility visited by many annually. Conlon pursues reintroducing the two dollar bill amid Bicentennial interest, but Treasury and Federal Reserve fear it would not be welcomed after removal in 1963.
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Federal Reserve Board
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