Chilean general Prats resigns from defense and army post
Gen Carlos Prats, Chile's army chief and defense minister, resigns for personal reasons. He is the second military figure to leave Allende's national security cabinet within a week. In Washington, Herbert Stein, Nixon's top economic adviser, says Americans may be better off than they think as real income gains outpace inflation, though some suffer due to rising food prices.
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Carlos Prats
Chile
Salvador Allende
National Security
Washington
Nyt
Herbert Stein
Nixon
Stein
Allende Faces Crisis as Chilean Government Resigns Top General
In Santiago the Allende administration battles intensifying opposition marked by strikes, violence, and congressional denunciation. Defense Minister General Carlos Prats resigns, threatening a new constitutional crisis though the armed forces seek to remain nonpolitical. The public sees a risk of a military takeover, yet Chile's constitutional tradition and strong civil society temper such fears. Allende has expanded military involvement amid the stalemate.
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Santiago
Chile
NYT
Salvador Allende Gossen
Carlos Prats
Allende
Prats
Donors Listed in Historic 1972 Campaign Disclosure
The General Accounting Office released a monumental computerized compilation detailing about 70,000 contributors and loaned amounts totaling 79.1 million to all presidential candidates in 1972. The 1,906 page data set spans four telephone-book-size volumes, names 84,337 donors, weighs 21 pounds, and cost 190 dollars, marking the first highly detailed public disclosure of campaign contributions and recipients in U.S. history.
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Washington
Nyt
General Accounting Office
Cell switches eject ed Cambridge researchers probe life’s switch
In Cambridge England scientists study the switching system that directs cellular information in frogs mice and rabbits. They report inducing frog cells to produce rabbit blood components to test a theory of how cellular data is selectively read. Research at Oxford and elsewhere explores cloning-like processes and RNA messenger signaling in multi celled organisms as the mechanism remains elusive.
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New York
Nyt
Cambridge
England
Oxford University
Pension plan terminations cost workers millions
Nearly 20,000 retirees or workers with advance pension benefits lost 48.7 million dollars last year when their private pension plans were terminated. The Treasury and Labor Departments produced the report for President Nixon, seen by reform supporters as showing only a small share of plans deprive employers of expected benefits.
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Washington
Nyt
Nixon
Treasury and
Labor Departments
Nine Indicted in Brooklyn for Black Liberation Army
Nine people described as the top echelon of the Black Liberation Army were indicted in Brooklyn on charges including murder attempted murder robbery grand larceny and gun possession. Four suspects including 23 year old Joanne D Chesimard are in custody. The group linked to bank robberies and ambushes across several states. Police say suspects remain at large as they pursue questioning in related shootings and attempted police murders.
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New York
Nyt
Black Liberation Army
Brooklyn
Joanne D. Chesimard
Black Panther Party
St. Louis
North Carolina
California
Donald F. Cawley
Anderson Indicted Over Bribery in Baltimore County
Federal grand jury indicts N Dale Anderson, Baltimore County executive, on 39 counts of bribery extortion and conspiracy. Charges include 46395 in cash and 1375 in checks from eight county contractors for sewer water road and courthouse projects between 1968 and 1972. Anderson, a Democrat elected to succeed Agnew in 1966 and re elected in 1970, faces a widening inquiry.
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Baltimore
NYT
Agnew
N. Dale Anderson
Baltimore County
Anderson
Solzhenitsyn Says He Is Barred From Living In Moscow
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn charged the Soviet Union with a demeaning internal passport system that restricts where a person may reside. In an open letter to interior minister Nikolai Shchelokov he denounced residence controls as an arbitrary practice, arguing millions lack the right to choose residence or occupation even within the country.
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Moscow
Nyt
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Soviet Union
Nikolai A. Shchelokov
Grain Supplies Drop to 20-Year Lows in USDA Report
Washington AP The Agriculture Department reports grain stocks for corn and feed grains will be drawn down to about 30 million tons by the 1974 harvest, the smallest reserve since 1953. Exports and domestic use will consume nearly all supplies, signaling tight grain availability ahead.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Labor Day weekend traffic deaths projected nationwide
The National Safety Council estimates 550 to 650 traffic fatalities during Labor Day weekend. The period runs from 6 p.m. Friday, Aug 31, to midnight Monday, Sept 3, in each time zone. Last year 580 deaths were reported.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
B 52 error blamed on navigator switch failure Neak Luong
A senior Air Force officer cited human error and a navigator failing to throw a switch as the main cause of the Neak Luong bombing that killed 137 Cambodians. He said the crew used a ground beacon method abandoned in South Vietnam as too dangerous, relying on high frequency radio beacons for navigation.
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Washington
Nyt
Air Force
Neak Luong
South Vietnam
Gainesville Eight conspiracy trial heats up with weapons talk
In Gainesville Florida AP reports witnesses describe plans for violence during the 1972 Republican National Convention. Defendants Alton Foss and Donald P. Perdue allegedly discussed using guns bombs and bridges blows. Also named are five other Vietnam Veterans Against the War leaders and Stanley K Michelson Jr who is accused of failing to report the plot.
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Gainesville
Fla
Harrison Crenshaw
Dade County Public Safety Department
Alton Foss
Donald P. Perdue
Miami
Foss
Perdue
Stanley K. Michelson Jr
Biologist Dr. Rolf L. Bolin Dies at 72 in California
Monterey Bay area mourns marine biologist and Stanford professor Rolf L. Bolin aged 72. He directed eight Vega cruises, served as chief scientist aboard the floating classroom, and studied deep sea fish California anchovy and sea otter. Bolin advised commercial fisheries and the California Fish and Game Division.
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California Fish and Game Division
Wonder Released From Hospital After Auto Crash
Stevie Wonder, 23, is released from the hospital after two weeks with a brain bruise and cuts from a North Carolina auto crash en route to Durham. A spokesman said his appearance schedule is canceled for several months. personal aide Ira Tucker reported no complications.
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Los Angeles
Stevie Wonder
Wonder
North Carolina
Durham
Ira Tucker
Indictment Trails Baltimore County Chief Ahead of Agnew era
Dale Anderson former Baltimore County executive and Democrat is charged by a federal grand jury with extortion and bribery in a kickback scheme involving architects and engineers. The 39 count indictment names Anderson as sole defendant with a co conspirator aide and four other participants tied to payments during Andersons tenure starting November 1966. U S Attorney Beall says further indictments are expected as the probe continues and Justice Department leaks are under review by Atty Gen Richardson.
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Baltimore
Dale Anderson
Spiro T. Agnew
Baltimore County
Maryland
Agnew
Baltimore City
Anderson
U.S
George Beall
Ponson
William E. Fornoff
Fornoff
Frank Kaufman
Beall
Barnet Skolnik
Walter E. Hoffman
Norfolk
Atty
Elliot L. Richardson
Justice Department
Richardson
Glen E. Pommerening
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