Cambodians Repulse insurgent drive near Phnom Penh
Government infantry and armor clashed with Communist led insurgents as a seven mile drive southwest of Phnom Penh stalled. About 1,400 troops with 24 armored carriers suffered 30 dead amid heavy shelling that damaged civilian areas and prompted bunker building around Phnom Penh.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Prey Veng
Prek Thaot
Phnom Ha
Anlong Kong
Lon Nol
Gulf of Siam
Kampot
Ex-College Professor Now Miner By Choice
John Magan, 37, a Ph.D. in physics and former college professor, now works as a miner at Bethlehem Steel's Shamrock mine in Rayford Kanawha County. He left public education for coal, citing an ideological difference with setting standards. Despite being overqualified, he earns acceptance as he learns the bottom-up work, planning a long stay with potential roles in the union, inspection, or company work.
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Appalachian
Appalachian Educational Laboratory
AEL
Magan
Bethlehem
Ralph) Nader
Arnold Miller
Pay hikes for top federal officials stalled by Nixon
President Nixon, Gerald Ford, Carl Albert, and James Eastland are excluded from the initial pay-hike proposals. The plan would raise top federal managers and members of Congress starting from the current salary level of $250,000, with the federal pay commission advising the White House before Congress acts. The recommendations, kept secret, were prepared a year ago but delayed to curb spending.
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Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
House Seaker
Carl Albert
Senate
James Eastland
Congress
White House
AEC Changes Nuclear Plant Licensing Plans
The Atomic Energy Commission announced new procedures to speed up licensing by allowing limited construction at developers own risk before final approval. The changes also cut the time for staff to review environmental impact statements tied to planned reactors.
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Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Nixon seeks 8 percent GI benefits rise and veterans reform
President Nixon urged Congress to pass an 8 percent cost of living increase for GI bill education benefits and to restructure the VA pension system. He proposed redesignating Nov 11 as Veterans Day, with $13.6 billion in the package funding education, pensions, and hospital expansion, plus more medical staff.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Capitol Hill
State of the Union
Donald E. Johnson
Johnson
White House
Energy price rollback urged amid windfall fears
Mondale criticized a proposed rollback of domestic oil prices as insufficient to curb “tremendous windfall price increases” claimed by the oil industry. Standard Oil of Indiana reported 1973 earnings rising 36 percent to 511.2 million dollars, while Senate lawmakers introduced a daylight saving repeal amid pre-dawn Florida deaths and Hawaii rationing eased waits. Interior officials acknowledged oil shale land values were underestimated by 200 million dollars due to soaring oil prices.
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Energy Office
Mondale
Standard Oil Co
Indiana
Chicago
Interior Department
Colorado
Hawaii
Young Inmates To Be Separated From Adults
North Carolina's prison department announced youth under 18 will not share cells with adults after summer. Commissioner Ralph D. Edwards said about 580 under 18 inmates will be housed at the Western Correctional Center in Morganton and two units converted for their use at Leonard School in McCain and the Burke County facility.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Ralph D. Edwards
Corrections
Western Correctional Center
Morganton
Leonard School
McCain
Burke County
Florida To Consider Repeal Of DST After School Deaths
Florida lawmakers convene in a special session to debate returning most clocks to Eastern Standard Time after dawn crashes claimed eight school children. Gov Askew and the Cabinet back the anti-DST move, with the Pensinsula area and nine Central Time counties highlighted in the discussion.
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Florida
Tallahassee
Fla
Reubin Askew
Penisular Florida
Panhandle
Seaboard
Terrell Sessums
D-Tampa
House
Congress
Askew
Idaho
Arizona
Indiana
Highway Patrol
Truckers Stage Fuel and Freight Protest at Arizona Stop
Trucker protests expand as Tucson Truck Terminal the state’s largest reports no fuel. Ohio shutdown spreads with 300 drivers blocking roads from East Liverpool. Demands focus on lower diesel prices and higher freight rates to cover costs. Teamsters chief opposes shutdown citing higher consumer prices.
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Arizona
Tucson
East Liverpool
Ohio
Teamsters
Frank Fitzsimmons
Israelis Withdraw From Suez Canal Area End of Jewish Remnant
Israeli troops pull back from Suez City crossing to the eastern bank amid a gala withdrawal. Evacuations at Adabiya and Jebel Ataka accompany the handover as Egyptians plan force reductions east of the canal. Moshe Dayan inspects evacuated points. black smoke from wrecked equipment rises as the Israelis burn unused gear and take what they can.
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Adabiya
Suez Canal
Jebel Ataka
Cairo
Suez City
Africa
London
Morris Singer
Dawn Time Dispute and Labor Strife Across Regions
A mix of regional issues is outlined: a Sister Joan in a police academy setting carries a Colt Cobra and wears a modified habit, while debates over daylight saving time spark Republican opposition and energy studies show little actual energy savings. Britain faces a 12-week miners overtime, with safety staff possible walkouts. in Cambodia, fear of bombardment drives an exodus and civilian hardship. in Hawaii, a gas rationing plan with alternate day filling and early station openings affects Honolulu County residents.
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Joan
Police Academy
Immaculate Heart of Mary
Jerome Andrews
Lord Carrington
Mick McGahey
National Union of Mineworkers
Derek Ezra
Coal Board
Britain
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U.N
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Fred C. Dickinson
State Public Service Commission
Billy Mayo
Richard Deeb
St. Petersburg
England
Page Cine
Honolulu
Ariyoshi
Heart Association
Heart Fund
Give Heart Fund
Cid
Halimah
Danville
Salisbury
Ballou Park
Dial
Ce’s Pizza
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