Nixon weighs veto on Social Security package
President Nixon reportedly considers vetoing the $5 billion Social Security medical and pension package passed by Congress. Advisors differ, with political aides arguing it aids the elderly and disabled amid an election 17 days away, while economic advisers fear inflation from the cost next year.
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Times A Changin The old and new cotton picking contrasts
A photo feature shows Mrs. Ben Troupe at 762 Browns Ferry St Athens in old fashioned cotton picking beside a modern machine at Peebles Farm between Mooresville and Belle Mima. The article notes Medicare and Medicaid amendments expanding elderly and disabled coverage.
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Kissinger Flies From Saigon After Talks With Thieu
Henry Kissinger left Saigon for an undisclosed destination after a four day visit with President Thieu. He rode a small T39 jet possibly to Cambodia Laos or Thailand while his four engine VC137 remained in Bangkok.
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City Hospital Reaccredited
Decatur General Hospital received a clean reaccreditation verdict from the Joint Commission after addressing minor items cited during a prior suspension. Dr William F Everett and administrator Ray Guier stated services remained uninterrupted and two nursing training programs may be reinstated. results for Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital inspection were not yet available.
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Ray Guier
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Newer Version of 68 Talks
Henry Kissinger’s Saigon talks echo a 1968 row where Thieu Ky balked at Johnson’s peace plan. Johnson recalls in The Vantage that Thieu and Ky let him down, proceeding with a bomb halt on October 31.
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Henry A. Kissinger
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Nguyen Cao Ky
Yvonne Pabire
Johnson
Thieu
Attack Wounds 18 Americans at Bien Hoa base
Communist forces fired more than 50 rockets on Bien Hoa air base near Saigon injuring 18 Americans and 10 South Vietnamese in a pre dawn attack. One U.S. truck and a South Vietnamese helicopter were damaged as the offensive nears the U.S. presidential election. Military officials note aircraft based at Bien Hoa support Saigon Mekong Delta and Cambodian operations.
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Nixon
United States
Mekong Delta
McGovern Nixon Clash Intensifies In Campaign Exchange
President Nixon adviser Ehrlichman invoked a schoolyard lie motif criticizing McGovern while McGovern campaigned in Pennsylvania denouncing White House links to break in and bugging at Democratic HQ. September cost of living up 0.5 percent cited as one-month swing. Secret Service detained briefly a man at a Kutztown game. Campaign ads defended by Nixon on radio.
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Kennedy orders quarantine of Cuba in 1962
In 1962 President John F. Kennedy ordered U S air and naval forces to quarantine Cuba after concluding Soviet missile bases were being built on the island. Quick weather forecasts show highs in the upper 60s and lows in the mid 50s with a 40 to 60 percent chance of rain. It concludes with a Tennessee Valley public note.
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