Overtime Issue Threatens Auto Negotiations
DETROIT AP The pace of bargaining is faster but optimism a strike this year fades due to the voluntary overtime dispute United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock says the main obstacle to progress is a demand that overtime be voluntary If not met a strike could loom before the Sept 14 deadline Chrysler argues it would rather strike than concede on overtime The union seeks wage gains full pension at 30 years and improved health and safety conditions Chrysler notes about 400 UAW demands remain unsettled including overtime practices currently used across plants
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Leonard Him
Woodcock
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
UAW
Insurgents Overrun Two Positions Near Kompong Cham
Cambodian insurgents in force overran two government posts near Kompong Cham, driving within half a mile of the city. Brig. Gen. Cleland and Maj. Gen. Fernandez visited the area as 105mm shells fell nearby. Seven civilians wounded. ten government troops killed. Government forces reportedly ran out of ammunition and swam the river. Col. Am Rong asserted four North Vietnamese and Viet Cong divisions linger in Cambodia.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Kompon Cham
John R. D. Cleland
Sostene Fernandez
Cleland
Fernandez
U.S
Congress
Kompong Cham
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Mekong
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Am Rong
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Traffic Deaths Hit Record High First Half 1973
The National Safety Council reports 26,500 traffic deaths in the first six months of 1973, a two percent rise from the prior year. About 950,000 people were disabled by crashes, with total costs estimated at $7.4 billion.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Social Security Benefit Increases Outpace Living Costs
Government experts say benefits have risen 125 percent since 1950 while the consumer price index climbed 75 percent. Since 1940 checks began small and boosts followed, including increases in 1970 1974 and 1972. Automatic cost of living adjustments were set to begin, with a 59 percent rise in June 1974.
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Washington
Congress
Nineteen Americans Among Victims Of Hotel Blaze
A deadly hotel fire in Copenhagen killed nineteen Americans and 16 other foreigners at the Hafnia, a 74 year old landmark. Police listed victims from Austria Japan Brazil Italy Belgium Holland Canada Mexico Ireland and Singapore as 49 survived and 83 guests were evacuated or unaccounted. Firefighters battled the blaze for hours as guests perished in beds or from falls and debris while survivors fled by ladders and balconies.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Hafnia
Tn Town Mall Square
Belgium
Holland
Canada
Mexico
Two Trapped In Midget Sub Rescued After 76 Hours
In Cork Ireland two men, Mallinson and Chapman, were rescued after 76 hours trapped in Pisces III 20 foot minisub under the Atlantic. Rescue teams from Britain Canada and the U.S. helped lift the craft, with Queen Elizabeth sending best wishes. The men described a taxing ascent and said they were nearly out of air at one point. Their families spoke of relief and support as the operation concluded.
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Atlantic
Roger Mallinson
Roger Chapman
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Chapman
Queen Elizabeth
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Vickers Oceanic
U.S
Leonard Redshaw
Vickers
John Cabot
Nixon Agnew hold talks on investigation before Labor Day weekend
President Nixon and Vice President Agnew met for two hours at the White House to discuss the federal criminal probe that could touch on Agnew. They then separated for the holiday weekend with Nixon at Camp David and Agnew heading to Ocean City, Md. The White House described the session as relaxed and informal, with no resignation or constitutional issues discussed.
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Goa
Nixon
Agnew
Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
White House
Gerald L. Warren
Congress
Camp David
Ocean City
Warren
San Clemente
Maryland
U.S
Baltimore
George Beall Jr
J. Marsh Thomson
East Coast Heat Wave Grips Region With Outages
Heat wave sweeps the East Coast keeping temperatures near 90s with power outages and water cuts. Queens tenants face fourth day without electricity or water as Consolidated Edison works to restore service. Marion Sweeney, 65, laments unsanitary conditions while residents wait for relief. Students at Washington High School report heat strikes and disruption.
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Associated Press
National Weather Service
Seaboard
Queens
Marion Sweeney
Consolidated Edison
Washington, N.C. High School
Father pledges help to killer of daughter in surrender note
In Port Lauderdale Florida a distraught father Stanley Curtis a lawyer writes an open letter urging the man who assaulted and killed his 1 year old daughter to surrender. He offers legal and psychiatric help, saying the killer needs help and may fear coming forward. Police hope the letter published in The Mor Lauderdale News will prompt surrender. The suspect is also tied to two other similar slayings.
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Tee Henepies
Page
Port Lauderdale
Fla
Stanley Curtis
Mort Lauderdale News
Anehe Sian Sentinel
Christine Storm Loses Strength Amid Forecast Shifts
Tropical storm Christine weakened as winds fell from 70 to 50 mph while forecasters in Miami warned the storm could brush the Leeward Islands late Sunday. The ill defined center was about 750 miles east-southeast of San Juan and moving west-northwest, with a new path after earlier predictions of hurricane winds. A separate tropical low near Cozumel formed due to heavy rains across the Florida peninsula and Yucatan, bringing gusty winds and rain to surrounding areas.
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Miami
Christine
National Hurricane Center
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Caribbean
Cozumel
Key West
Fla
Florida Peninsula
Cuba
Yucatan Peninsula
Mexico
Meany predicts bigger pay settlements and militancy
Washington AP Meany CIO president George Meany warned of larger wage settlements and rising worker militancy next year unless living costs are controlled. He said unions, while not seeking strikes, will take the route as wage trends tighten and price pressures grow, testing Nixon economic policy.
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Washington
Aplcio
George Meany
Labor Federation
Meany
Weather summary for Virginia and North Carolina
Virginia and North Carolina weather notes show continued wet conditions in Virginia with a Sunday surge and highs around mids, Sunday night lows near 68 to 70, Monday turning sunny and hot. North Carolina should expect clear to partly cloudy skies, warm humid conditions through Monday, with a chance of thunderstorms Sunday night and Monday in the mountains and cooler mountain lows at night.
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Huey Salushine
Agatin
North Carolina
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