Nixon Urges Congress To End West Coast Dock Strike
President Nixon delivers legislation to force 13 000 dock workers back to piers with binding arbitration to conclude the strike. Congress signals hearings may not start until midweek. aides estimate costs run into hundreds of millions as arbitration would set terms for 18 months.
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Robert L. Campbell
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Congress
Federal Board
Senate
House Democrats
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
White House
Biscayne, Fla
Laurence Silberman
Secretary of Labor
Hong Kong Flu Claims Lives Across Nation
National figures show 843 deaths this winter from flu with 27 900 fatalities in 1968 69 cited for comparison. South Dakota reports a regional Hong Kong outbreak crippling state government operations as 20 percent of workers are on sick leave.
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South Dakota
National Center For Disease Control
United States
Pierre
Robert Mullally
Rockies
Robert Marier
District of Columbia Health Department
Hong Kong
West University Governors Appoint New UNC Leaders
Dr. Cameron West, director of higher education, is named vice president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. John P. Kennedy Jr. becomes secretary as the board targets merger of administrative staffs and new posts for admissions and student aid. Governor Friday’s board prompts potential race considerations for the admissions post.
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Chapel Hill, N.C
Cameron West
North Carolina
West
Consolidated University of North Carolina
Board of Governors
North Carolina School For the Arts
UNC
John P. Kennedy Jr
Consolidated University
William Friday
Kennedy
Bob Scott
Connally Urges Labor Cooperation With Government
Secretary Connally warned labor that it cannot thumb its nose at the public as wage and price controls loom. He urged labor to work with government and business to revitalize the economy while noting banks will cut the prime rate to 4 percent. He spoke in New York at a Conference Board event and earlier at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce gathering stressing shared sacrifice for public interests.
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Nixon
Treasury
John B. Connally
Connally
New York
Washington
The
Conference Board
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Four Nations Sign to Join European Common Market
BRUSSELS AP Britain Ireland Denmark and Norway sign treaties to join the European Common Market in a ceremony at Egmont Palace presided by Prime Minister Edward Heath. Attendees include Jean Monnet and a spectrum of European leaders with ratification required by each country and referendums planned in Ireland Denmark and Norway.
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Brussels
Britain
Ireland
Denmark
Norway
Charlemagne
Napoleon
Egmont Palace
Gaston Eyskens
Edward Heath
Charles de Gaulle
France
Jean Monnet
Europe
Belgium
Auto Emissions Policy Moving Through North Carolina
North Carolina's air quality control plan, approved by the Water and Air Resources Board, calls for stringent auto pollution controls. By 1976 new cars must have antipollution equipment, reducing emissions about 90 percent. The plan targets six pollutants and allows local governments to regain control over certain facilities if capable. Also approved are modifications to a Texas Gulf Sulphur Co permit for Beaufort County phosphate mining, with a 60 million gallon daily limit and 120 feet depth cap to curb saltwater intrusion.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Water and Air Resources Board
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
William E. Knight
Texas Gulf Sulphur Co
Beaufort County
Pair charged in 17.3 pound heroin smuggling ring
A serviceman and a retired soldier face federal charges for smuggling 17.3 pounds of heroin into the United States from Thailand. William Herman Jackson of Philadelphia and Goldsboro and M. Sgt. Jerald Ganious of Washington were held on $1 million bonds each. The heroin, destined for North Carolina to New York, could fetch about $8 million in street sales.
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Goldsboro
N.C
United States
Thailand
Treasury Department
Bureau of Customs
William Herman Jackson
Philadelphia
Jerald Ganious
Washington
Jackson
Jack
American Star Bar
Bangkok
Customs Bureau
Ganious
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
North Carolina
New York
Lowry Afb
Denver
Colo
U.S
Paul Cooper
North Carolina Bureau of Investigation
Seymour Johnson Afb
White House Sets Science Focus in Foreign Policy
The Nixon administration broadens science and technology as a key facet of U.S. diplomacy. State Department officials welcome the shift as Secretary Rogers noted that global science and tech shape international life. A forthcoming presidential message is slated to stress science and research in foreign affairs and the role of scientific attaches at embassies.
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Nixon
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
ILWU
Washington
U.S
State Department
William P. Rogers
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Lily of the Valley Church of Our Lord
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R-Ore
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R-N.y
Packwood
Harrison A. Williams Jr
D-N.j
Senate Labor Committee
Frank Thompson Jr
Dn.j
House Labor Subcommittee
Sec. Connally
Nel Slis
West Germany
Italy
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Luxemburg
Baudouin
Fabiola
Soviet Union
Common Market Executive Commission
Japan
Vernon Stevens
Texas
Cooper
Oklahoma City
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