Explosions Hit Union Carbide Texas Plant Evacuations Underway
Two blasts at the Union Carbide Texas plant in Texas City injured at least two people and forced hundreds to evacuate. The blasts rattled windows up to 25 miles away including Kemah and the Houston area. A Union Carbide spokesman cited a gas cracking unit explosion. La Marque hospital said a few injuries from flying debris were treated.
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Union Carbide Texas
Texas City
Tex
Union Carbide Corp
Texas
Kemah
Clear Lake City
Mammoth Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Laland
Iion
Allured
Union Carbide
Dorothy McDermott
Galveston County
LaMarque
Galveston Bay
Galveston
Grandcamp
Petro-Chemical
Nixon urges tougher laws to fight drug abuse
President Nixon backs modern weapons to combat narcotics and dangerous drugs, citing laws from 1914. Linkletter campaigns against drug abuse after his daughter’s death, criticizing the record industry. In London, Britain plans a new drug control bill to curb pushers and underground makers, with lengthy jail terms and new penalties under consideration.
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Nixon
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
Departments of Justice and Welfare
Linkletter
London
Harold Wilson
Britain
Elizabeth
James’ Callaghan
Home
Narcotics Central
New Legislaon
Veterans Education Bill Aims for Expanded GI Benefits
Vet Yarborough pushes a Cold War GI Bill to cover 6.5 million veterans back to February 1, 1955, seeking higher education grants and on the farm training. The plan totals 383 million the first year and 514 million by 1974, adds apprenticeship aid, vocational rehab, and support for high school dropouts and disadvantaged veterans. It would keep the current benefit formula of 1.5 years of college credit per year of service up to 36 months.
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Yarborough
Korea
Guerrilla Attacks Strain Lebanon Syria Border Ties
Lebanese and Syrian authorities report pre-dawn guerrilla raids along the Lebanon Syria frontier. Fights centered at Arida and Bugaia as about 250 attackers tried to seize border posts. Masnaa station also targeted. Lebanese guards, with tanks, repelled the assault. one general wounded. Damascus Amman report Lebanon pressed into a refugee camp assault but guerrillas held the camp. Al Fatah claimed shots were only to frighten guards. Lebanese army says it remains ready to aid guerrillas against Israel with full resources while dialogue with guerrilla leaders continues.
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Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Lebanon
Helou
Noureddin
Atassi
Beirut
Israel
Syria
Cneh
Arida
Bugaia
al Fatah
Masnaa
Beirut-Damascus
Damascus
Amman
Jordan
Maritime subsidy proposal aims to aid bulk carriers
Debate centers on direct subsidies for bulk carriers handling government cargoes while passenger liners face aid gaps. Officials cite the SS United States receiving about 12 million in subsidies with losses, and a push for broader, faster merchant marine rebuilding.
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Siciliano
United States
Ubad
Gibson
Savannah
New York
K. F. Gautier
United States Lines
Gautier
Joseph Curran
Afl-Cio Maritime Committee
National Maritime Union
Curren
Curran
Afl-Cio: Maritime Committee
NMU
Talks Continue From Week Page One
Fragmentary excerpt shows Adler urging action to face a fact and urge world opinion to recognize it as the time feels right to call attention to the issue.
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Adler
UK train robber Biggs arrested in Australia and Flowers captured
Sydney reports Eric Flowers who escaped from London’s Wandsworth prison in 1965 was arrested in Beechcroft Sydney North Shore. Ronald Biggs, last fugitive in Britain’s 1963 Great Train Robbery, remained at large after a Melbourne area sighting. Police say all four fugitives used middle class disguises with their wives. recapture raises questions about future prison outcomes.
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London
Australia
Sydney
Eric Flowers
Wandsworth
Ronald Arthur’ Biggs
Britain
Biggs
Blackburn
Melbourne
Charmaine
Flowers
Adelaide
Beechcroft
North Shore
Daryl Alfred
Robert Burney
Gerrard
Everett
Grants
Bery
Terry. Cook
Terry Lamb
Weicker
Ashley
Revelations of a Vietnam era graft network and gambling ties
Witnesses allege a conspiracy among soldiers and contractors with Lazars, Hatcher, Higdon, and others profiting from clubs in Vietnam. Investigators cite millions in kickbacks, skimmed slot profits in Augsburg, Swiss accounts, and high priced assets. Crooks details tally sheets, machine payouts, and lavish parties as probes reopen on potential black market currency dealings.
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Conn
Lazar
Hatcher
Charles H. Percy
Bill
Maredem
Vietnam
Higdon
Marehem
Wooldridge
U.S
Fish Head
Army
Louis R. Crooks
Augusburg
Germany
Sgt
Crooks
Augsburg
Ribicoff
Stanley
R.” Resor
Tom Brothers Tailors
Hong Kong
Munich
Emily Mendler
Hidgen
Universal Consultants Toc
iGeorge ‘Shell
Housing Continued from Page One
The House rejected a nonrecord 116-92 vote with Senator Weicker stating no housing would be required. The brief exchange underscored partisan tensions over housing policy and potential ramifications for federal agendas.
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Weicker
Laurie Dwindling Tropical Storm Lashes Florida Keys
Laurie, once powerful, weakened to a soggy depression off the Florida Keys as a cold front disrupted its structure. Winds dropped to 45 mph with scattered gusts while the storm drifts slowly southward about 290 miles west of Key West and 150 miles north of western Cuba. Boaters were advised to avoid rough seas as forecasters planned to end advisories unless conditions change.
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Miami
Laurie
Florida Keys
National Hurricane Center
Key West
Cuba
Keys
Raymond
Kraft
Draft Protests Prompt Questions on Reclassification Authority
The piece discusses Griswold's reluctance to approve reclassification to 1-A for draft protesters and questions the use of delinquency regulations against young men in protest. It notes Hershey's memorandum as potentially inviting punitive reclassifications, while emphasizing constitutional limits and Selective Service Act alignment. It cites two cases: Timothy Breen who surrendered his card to protest, and David Gutknecht who was ordered to induction after leaving his card.
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Mitchell
Griswold
Hershey
Timothy J. Breen
Westport
Conn
Boston
David’ Earl Gutknecht
Gaylord
Minn
Federal Building
Minneapolis
Romney Sees Housing Policy Shapes U.S. Cities
Romney contends federal housing programs such as FNMA FHA and VA loans moved housing to suburbs amid a major population shift. He notes this left low and moderate income families concentrated in cities while middle and higher income groups benefited from mortgage interest deductions.
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Fantie Mae
FNMA
Fannie Mae
Federal Housing Administration
Romney
FTC to End Secrecy Over Mergers and Advisory Opinions
The Federal Trade Commission plans to publicly disclose merger applications and advisory opinions, ending years of off the record proceedings. The change follows criticism that secrecy fostered wheeling and dealing and eroded public trust, with a 30 day comment window and full records, except trade secrets.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Agen
Aftora
Nader
Commission
FTC
American Bar Association
Ralph Nadler
ETC
Broadway-Hale
Los Angeles
Neiman-Marcus
Dallas
Mary Gardiner Jones
Miss Jones
Paul Rand Dixon
Neiman- Marcus
Broad Hale
Philip Elman
Senate
Elman
James M. Nicholson
Everetta MacIntyre
Dixon
Jimbo
Girls Clubwork Aims To Help San Diego Teens
In a north central San Diego neighborhood the Bingham family working with Any Girl Can foster care and mentorship for teenage girls, many from mixed racial backgrounds. Mrs. Bingham notes needs range from psychiatric help to drug counseling while girls face home strife, truancy, and runs from school, with some finding paths toward college through support and trust. The effort also engages boys through Bingham’s Raiders, promoting positive activities like sports and boxing.
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Tmiall
Binghams
San Diego
Bingham
Martha Bingham
Linda Vista
Vietnamese clash near Saigon leaves one American dead
U S infantrymen and air support clash with North Vietnamese units about 40 miles northwest of Saigon. One American dies, another helicopter damaged, as NVA fighters retreat toward the Vam Ca Dong River. Tenacious fighting continues into afternoon with four POWs taken. A separate skirmish area reports 26 NVA killed. South Vietnam’s National Assembly denounces antiwar protests in the United States during Moratorium Day.
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Sation
Saigon
Con
U.S
Vam
Ca Dong
U.S. 25Th Division
Citadel
Hobo -Woods
South Vietnam
National Assembly
United States
Tran Quy. Phong
Democratic’ Party
Assembly
Truce debate mirrors 1968 Tet fears and French-style cautions
Senior American officers warn a one sided cease fire could invite higher enemy infiltration and place U S units in a bind deciding when to fire. They recount Tet in 1968 and prior half day truces as precedent while Defense Secretary Laird leans toward the generals' stance.
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Page
U.S
United States
Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
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