Industry Pleas Rejected Sleepware Standard Goes Into Effect
Commerce Secretary Peterson rejected industry pleas to delay the flame resistance standard for sleepwear. The rule takes effect July 29 for sizes 0 to 6X, covering about 70 million garments, with larger sizes potentially extending coverage to 140 million items. Officials claim technology supports the standard. critics point to insufficient solutions.
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Washington
Commerce
Peter G. Peterson
Peterson
Commerce Department
United States
Bombs rock Londonderry as IRA and Officials clash
Provisional leader Martin McGuinness claims defections from the IRA to the Official wing while both sides declare truces. Bombs detonated in Londonderry near Ulster Bank and a TV rental shop. no serious casualties. A bomb in Dungannon caused damage. Death toll from three years of violence reaches 352 with five more killed, including a 12 year old girl in a sniper attack. Security chiefs consider curbs on car traffic in urban centers and probe a Belfast police station blast. Sniper and gun battles leave further British soldiers and civilians dead.
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Bility
Londonderry
Martin McGuinnes
Provisionals
Ity
IRA
Ireland
All Ireland
Sai
Creggan
Ulster Bank
Dungannon
Eshe
Belfast
Bellagi
Serly
Ily
Ulster
Springfield Road
Taxes Reform Proposals Delayed For Congressional Review
Treasury spokesman warned the Mills tax reform proposals require intensive study to avoid harming the economy and to prevent new federal spending. Mills said many provisions could be desirable, with key tax breaks slated to end in 1974 and 1975, including oil depletion, accelerated depreciation, pension lump sums, and foreign earned income exclusions.
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Treasury
Mills
Expelled Brazilian Sailor Linked to Watg Airliner Hijack
A 25-year-old former Brazilian navy sailor, using the alias Nelson Mesquita, hijacked a Varig airliner bound for Curitiba. He shot himself as troops stormed the aircraft. 86 aboard were released unharmed. A five-year jail sentence loomed. he had earlier been sentenced in absentia for participating in a 1964 leftist uprising.
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Sac Paulo
Brazil
APY
Watg
Grinaldo Jesus da Silva
Celso Calidera
Air Force
Electra
Curitiba
da Silva
Nelson Mesquita
Rio de Janeiro
Joao Gou
Jacl
Caldera
Varig
Indochina Air Strikes Hit Bridges Near Vinh
In South Vietnam Allied forces plan reinforcements as pilots target rail bridges near Vinh. U S and South Vietnamese troops press toward An Loc amid shelled defenses while heavy ships shell targets around Vinh and Dong Hoi.
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South Vietnam
Thhe My Chanh
Thhe
Quang Tri
Hue
Associated Presss
Holger Jensen
An Loc
Saigon
U.S
Vinh
Hanai
Tho Tuong
Dam safety questioned after Buffalo Creek collapse
Testimony before a subcommittee debated whether long term safeguards could have prevented the Buffalo Creek disaster. State officials argued about dam permit laws and duties, noting no applications existed, while others pressed for federal standards as experts warned that several dams in coal regions are barely stable and could fail under high pool conditions.
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Harold J. Snyder
State Public Service Commission
Buffalo Creek
Snyder
Buffalo Mining Co
Cassius I
Toon
Commission
Edgar N. Henry
Water Resources Division
State Natural Resources Department
Henry
Jacob Javits
R- N.Y
Williams
Osborn
US. Corps of Engineers
State
Focal
Jnon
West Virginia
Feneral
Amherst Coal Co
Fanco
W. Va
Youngstown Mining Corp
Dehue
Island Creek Coal Co
Blair
Powellton
Man
W, Va
Holton Defends Poff Nomination To Virginia Court
Gov asserts Poff will treat all people fairly despite earlier backlash over Holton’s anti civil rights record. Poff, Roanoke College and UVA Law graduate, practiced in Radford before 1952 Congress seat win. November race includes Roanoke lawyers Caldwell Butler and William Anderson seeking Poff’s seat.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Congress
Holton
Poff
Virginia Court
Roanoke College
University of Virginia School of Law
Tie
Radford
Isenhower
Roanoke
M. Caldwell Butler
William M. Andersson
House of Delegates
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REO
Paul B. Stam
American Textile Manufacturers Institute
M&m Furn
Monroe St
Eee
Dial
TREND
WDER
Indochina
Advance Store
Main Street
Danville
Virginia
North Carolina
Advance Stores Co., Inc
Riverside Shopping Center
THUR
SAT
Koda
Terry
GE Electric
GE Steam & Dry
GE Portable
SALON
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