Nixon Measures Gain Criticism
AFL-CIO leaders blasted President Nixon s anti inflation policy as a tax on workers and consumers with little relief from rising costs. They warned unemployment could rise to 6 percent, and cited 800 000 additional jobless as a potential outcome while noting continued inflation and higher mortgage costs. Meany warned of persistent price pressures and slow housing affordability.
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Miami Beach
Afl-Cio
Nixon
Nat Goldfinger
Hich
Federation
Executive Council
Labor Council
George Meany
Labor Federation
Meany
Handcuffed Poet Wins Taormina Poetry Prize in Prison
Lucio Caselli, 35, a convicted robber with a 1964 to 1971 sentence, is transfered in handcuffs from Trento to Messina to receive the Amphora of Naxos prize. He will get the award in a private prison ceremony after completing studies during incarceration.
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Messina
Sicily
Italy
Lucio Caselli
Naxos
Taormina
Trento
Caselli
Ministry of Justice
Alessandria
Hermit Pooch Found On Island
A German shepherd female about three years old was captured on a small uninhabited island in Jamaica Bay between Brooklyn and Queens after a months long mystery. The ASPCA aided by police launched a hunt using boats and helicopters and planned to place the dog on an ASPCA farm in Glen Head or find a home.
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New York
Brooklyn
Queens
Janice Paprin
American Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
ASPCA
Glen Head
N.Y
Jamaica Bay
Kennedy Airport
Sheepshead Bay
Tom Murray
Youth Wins Freedoms Foundation George Washington Award
Mike Levesque 18 of Hialeah Florida won the 5000 George Washington Award becoming the youngest recipient. He organized the Youth for Decency rally drawing 30000 youths at the Miami Orange Bowl and spurring similar events nationwide. Ambassadors Bunker and Lodge received American Statesman Medals and Maj. James N Rowe was cited for breaking out of a Viet Cong prison. NASA received a special award for mobilizing resources to advance space exploration.
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Valley Forge
Youth For Decency
Freedoms Foundation
Foundation
South Vietnam
Mike Levesque
Hialeah
Fla
Miami
Herbert Hoover
Walt Disney
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
John A H. Glenn, Jr
America
Earth
Lev
Ellsworth Bunker
Vietnam
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S
Paris
Center-Left Gains in Italian Government Coalition Talks
In Rome the center-left parties make partial headway on forming a majority government by rejecting Communist support for passing bills. They still dispute Socialist participation in local government with Communists and unresolved issues include divorce and amnesty for activists. Mariano Rumor schedules another session as experts warn it may take over a week to reach a full deal.
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Rome
Italy
Francesco de Martino
Italian Socialist Party
Christian Democrats
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