Nixon plan would move food stamps to HEW
The Nixon administration said food stamps would not fall victim to the proposed income maintenance welfare system, but would shift from Agriculture to HEW if welfare proposals become law. Finishing by HEW would reduce cash needs for families and let them spend more on food stamps. administration officials argued the program would continue as a supplement during transition.
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Family Assist
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Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Hardin
Federal 75 Percent Construction Cutback Announced
The Budget Bureau ordered a 75 per cent cutback in federal construction with six exemptions. Contracts worth 1.5 billion dollars to be deferred, 300 million saved if the corrections last through June. Agencies told to plan high-priority projects and report monthly shares of federal spending.
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Nixon
Defense Department
Vietnam
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Jone Nixon
Evans Ship Collision Trial Details Slow Alarm
Lt (j.g.) Ronald C. Ramsey was in control during the collision and received a reprimand for not waking McLemore as ordered. Lt. (j.g.) James A. Hopson got a nonjudicial reprimand. A key witness said he relayed a message about Melbourne flight ops that could have alerted McLemore. the timing and sharing of that alert remain disputed.
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Hopson
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Evans
Ronald T.E. Bowler
Annapolis
Bowler
Lunar rocks hint at ancient solar system origin
Scientists at Oak Ridge and Columbia University describe moon rocks as extremely radioactive yet not health hazards. They note rocks lack surface water, hydrated minerals, and traces of platinum, gold or silver. Differences from terrestrial basalt include chromium and titanium abundances. Evidence challenges the Moon-as-Earth theory.
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Moon
G. D. O'Kelly
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Atomic Energy Commission
Earth
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Paul Gast
Columbia University
Gast
Vietnam withdrawal plans shift US Vietnam force levels
Vietnam withdrawal could include the 3rd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne guarding Saigon’s western flank. The South Vietnamese army aims to take full defense of the capital by November. About 30,000 Navy personnel may be redeployed over nine months, with an initial 25,000 to be withdrawn. Current total is 508,000 U.S. servicemen in Vietnam. A 40,500 reduction would leave 467,500.
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Saigon
Vietnam
Nixon
U.S
European Market Summit Set on Britain Entry
The European Common Market will hold a summit in The Hague on November 17-18 to discuss Britain and other candidates joining. Ireland Denmark Norway seek entry while Sweden favors near full membership. France's veto and De Gaulle’s resignation frame negotiations as leaders from West Germany Italy Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg back the talks with Pompidou possibly attending.
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Hague
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Sweden
Charles de Gaulle
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Italy
Luxembourg
Maurice Schumann
Joseph Luns
de Gaulle
Georges Pompidou
Willy Brandt
Schumann
Finch disowns agency news release on medicare drug costs
Washington AP Secretary of Health Education and Welfare Robert H Finch renounced a HEW news release claiming he backed adding out of hospital drug costs to medicare. He said he had not cleared the statement and distrusted its tone while aides scramble to clarify his position amid projected higher outlays.
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Robert H. Finch
Finch
Congress
Senate
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HEW
Secretary
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Secretary’s
Prince Margaret's Son Begins Ashdown House Boarding
Princess Margaret's son David Albert Charles Armstrong Jones, Viscount Linley, starts at Ashdown House in Sussex Tuesday. Headmaster William Glynn Williamson notes strict routines, basic meals, and light cane use if needed, with potential move to Eton at age 13.
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Margaret
David
Albert Charles Armstrong‘Jones
Viscount Linley
England
Ashdown House
Sussex
Kensington Palace
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William Glynn Williamson
Williamson
Eton
Water delays mine restoration at Consol No 9 in Farmington WV
Searchers entered Consol No 9 mine near Farmington as crews pump out waist deep water hampering restoration of the undamaged section after last November's explosion. 19 men entered at 9 01 am and four hours 24 minutes later returned coal dust stained. officials expect weeks or months before locating missing 78 miners entombed since November 30, 1968.
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W.va
Consol No. 9
William Parks
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Parks
Danny Kuhn
Kuhn
Holly Huwericane Debbie on Aug 18 and 20 incident details
Debra Huwericane Debbie swerved north on August 18 and 20 as reported, with limited readable fragments describing a possible malfunction or maneuver. No further context or outcomes are clear from the text.
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Debbie
British Commander, Wilson Meet Amid Deepening Ulster Crisis
Lt. Gen. Ian Freeland and Oliver Wright fly to London to meet Prime Minister Harold Wilson as Belfast and Londonderry barricades persist amid Catholic-Protestant clashes. Callaghan and Healey press for rapid barrier removal while Unionists demand a tougher approach. The army, policing acts, and a UN consideration frame a tense stalemate.
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Northern Ireland
Britain
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Denis Healey
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Callaghan
Army
Citizens Committees
Bikini Atoll safe for return, says AEC official
Bikini Atoll, scarred by 23 nuclear detonations from 1946 to 1958, is deemed safe for permanent habitation. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission reports radiation levels lower than Denver, plans include a tent city, airstrip, harbor, housing, and coconut restoration to revitalize the 167 residents and future Bikinians now on Kili.
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Enya
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Atoll
Blue
Marshall Islands
Nakanishi
Bikinians
Defense Atomic Support Agency
AEC
Tahiti
Moses Lowry
Travel restrictions loosened by court ruling on passports
The U.S. Court of Appeals in December 1967 ruled the State Department could not refuse passports to people who visited off limit countries. The decision involved Staughton Lyndh, a Yale history professor, who lost his passport after visiting Hanoi in 1966 on a peace mission. The Supreme Court previously held in January 1967 that unauthorized travel to off limit areas could not be criminalized without a specific law.
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State Department
U.S. Court of Appeals
Yale History
Staughton Lyndh
Hanoi
Supreme Court
Congress
Five Powers Named In Needed Disarmament Effort
The speaker listed the United States Soviet Union Britain Communist China and France as key powers in disarmament talks. He noted Kosygin and Chou En-lai met in Peking and urged normalization of relations among Peking Moscow and Washington to reduce fear worldwide.
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Soviet Union
Britain
China
France
Alexei N. Kosygin
Chou En-lai
Peking
Moscow
Washington
FTC blamed manpower and funds over ghetto frauds
The FTC faced criticism for lacking resources to start programs to curb false advertising and enforce orders. Complaints cited labels misrepresenting Navy shoe origins and Indian trinkets. ABA group blamed lack of goals and controls, while noting some innovative FTC efforts that were hampered by implementation failures.
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Navy
ABA
Scientists call Debbie seed an operational success at sea
A report notes that scientists described the seeding as an operational success and explicitly refused credit for any change in Debbie's course, stating the action was not intended to alter its direction. The narrative frames the event as a controlled experiment with no attribution of responsibility.
Panchen Lama escapes Chinese camp with Soviet help
New Delhi AP reports the Panchen Lama, Tibet’s second Buddhist leader after the Dalai Lama, has reached Outer Mongolia after escaping a Chinese prison camp with Soviet aid. He is in a Mongolian monastery with six lieutenants. the Dalai Lama’s exile HQ at Dharamsala has learned of the escape.
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India
Dalai Lama
Outer Mongolia
Dharmshala
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Mongolia
Tibet
Autonomous Region of
White House Briefing on Naval Cutoffs
Ziegler denied reports of naval cuts during an afternoon news briefing. The President summoned congressional leaders from both parties to the White House Monday afternoon for a briefing on troop withdrawal plans. The session lasted about an hour. A dozen House and Senate members attended discreetly via the back door, with no public statement issued. He planned separate talks Tuesday morning with Republican leaders in his weekly conference.
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