Market ease deepens as Mideast tensions loom
New York traders faced a slow drift as no new Mideast developments surfaced, keeping investors wary. Banks’ rate cuts gave limited lift, with the American Stock Exchange index up .23 to 97.11 and the NYSE composite down .20 to 51.46. notable moves included Minnesota Mining down 1 to 75% and Sohio slipping 2% to 59%.
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Mideast
Alan C. Poole
Laidlaw- Coggeshall Inc
American Stock Exchange
Minnesota Mining
Sohio
General Motors
Allied Chemical
Anaconda
Kennecoh
Aove
Siohcall
Kerrmg
BOUIN
Tova
Knightn
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Cessna
VaMa
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Chipneutzz
Staworthy
Chris Cratt
Kroger
Learsieg
Va Lehmal
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Cocato
TIM
CBS
Texaco
Ava
Bavat
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Corngg
MadisFolle
Magnyvax
Marcor
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Dartind
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Merck
DellaAlr
MGM
Dennys
Disney
Alvet
MonPws
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Easkol
Tov
Eaton
Ave
Bat Winton
EjiraCpsa
NatDisill
Weyerhr
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Essxlat
White Motor
ACF
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WilliamsCo
NewPw
Adgisso
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Zvi Winnebago
Vy Admiral
Java
Airco
Nortikwas
FedOsth
Zenith R
AlcanAlu
Associated Press
Firestone
Northrop
Es Norton
Alcoa
TVA
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Formmck
Gannett
PacPetrl
FanAmAair
Gtirel
AMP Inc Genescotnc
Pascoinc
GaPac
Ampex Gerber
PeanCentreet
PennDx
ArchDan
Grumm
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Halburt
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Questor
Ralston
Amy
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Raythen
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Homestiia
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Roy
RydrSys
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Elta
SeitekCorp
Johnin
KaisAtu
Bya Tavet
Kangeliss
Wee
SouthCal
Exchange Sales Figures Clarify Dividend footnotes
New York stock table notes that unofficial figures reflect annual disbursements from the last quarterly for semi annual declarations. Footnotes define terms for extra or special dividends and various tax and distributive conditions including ex dividend, stock payments, and new issues.
American Stock Exchange profiles priced trades and data
The American Stock Exchange releases bid and ask data across many listed securities. Prices show varied last, high, and low figures with numerous company and instrument symbols, including Concord, Houlihan and Textron affiliates, reflecting market activity and index movement as of the Associated Press report.
Barbers Robbed Naked in Detroit Shop Heist
In Detroit Michigan AP report Maurice Mills and six barbers were tied up and stripped by three burglars who fled with about 400 dollars and clothes in a rear door break in. The naked barbers waited for a pay phone call since thieves took their pants. Mills later told his wife the odd sequence.
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Detroit, Mich
Maurice Mills
Rationing debate and tax cuts in energy news
The report notes opposition to gasoline rationing by a Petroleum Institute leader and expectations that prices may not hit a dollar. Senators Mondale and Ribicoff weigh tax credits and regulated oil firms, while Saudi Arabia mulls price cuts amid trade concerns. Rhodes supports action to halt price rises.
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Roleum Institute
Ikard
House
John J. Rhodes
Arizona
ABC
Walter F. Mondale
D-Minn
Treasury Department
U.S
United States
Internal Revenue Service
Abraham Ribicoff
Dconn
Wabc-Tv
New York
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Faisal
Rail Strike Strangles British Rail Across Nation
British Rail faced a 24 hour wildcat strike crippling services by 50 to 80 percent, with Waterloo commuter routes down 80 percent and other lines halved. Hundreds of trains were delayed or canceled as motorists faced gridlock, while engineers and firemen demand wage hikes and threaten further action. Coal miners launch campaign to vote on a Feb 10 mine strike.
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Julie Flint
Associated Press
London
Wildcat
British Rail
Waterloo Station
Edward Heath
Government Railway Board
Cease-Fire Anniversary Marred by Renewed Fighting
On the first anniversary of the cease-fire in Vietnam heavy clashes were reported near Saigon with 62 Viet Cong killed across three Mekong Delta battles. Government losses were 15 dead and 10 wounded. Amid ceremony absences, Saigon cited yearlong casualties, while Khmer Rouge shelled Phnom Penh killing six and wounding 19.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Mekong
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Khmer Rouge
Krogh Faults Nixon Over Watergate Climate Of Alarm
Egil Bud Krogh head of the White House plumbers defends Nixon’s timeline on the Watergate cover up but blames the president for a climate of bitterness in the White House. He says he was inexperienced for the plumbers job and recalls a March 20 1973 talk with John Dean supporting that Nixon learned of the cover up only the next day. Krogh speaks on CBS 60 Minutes amid his six month prison term.
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NEW York
Egil “Bud” Krogh
White House
Nixon
Krogh
Daniel Ellsberg
Plumbers
Nixon White House
Ellsberg
Pentagon
United States
John Dean
Dean
Bud
Cbs-Tv
60 Minutes
Impeachment Debate Grows Over Watergate Hearings
U.S. News & World Report quotes Herbert predicting a bitter partisan impeachment. Senators Rhodes and Saxbe weigh in on impeachment viability and Nixon resignation, amid postponement of Watergate hearings to avoid influencing Mitchell and Stans trials.
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U.S. News & World Report
House
John J. Rhodes
Arizona
Senate
U.S
Nixon
Saxbe
Edward W. Brooke
R-Mass
Claiborne Pell
D-R
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
New York
Watergate
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Commerce
Maurice Stans
Cubans Welcome Soviet Chief Brezhnev in Havana
In Havana Cuba prepares a grand welcome for Soviet Communist party chief Leonid I Brezhnev on a visit the first by a top Soviet official in over two years Analysts note the trip comes amid U S Cuba détente speculation though Cuban officials say there is nothing new in their stance Brezhnev seeks possible Cuba United States accommodation against the backdrop of Cuba reliance on Soviet oil and fuel aid valued at about 1 5 to 2 million dollars daily
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
Leonid I. Brezhnev
United States
Mexico
Washington
Fernando Lopez Munro
Foreign Ministry
U.S
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
Brezhnev
Fidel Castro
Grivas Dies After Heart Attack in Limassol Home
Thousands of Greek Cypriots gather outside Gen. George Grivas’s Limassol residence to mourn the guerrilla leader who died at 75. He led the EOKA struggle for Enosis and namd a successor, while questions arise about the movement’s future without him.
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Alex Efty
Associated Press
Limassol
Cyprus
George Grivas
Enosis
Greece
Makarios
Grivas
EOKA
Brown Seeks California Seat
Secretary of State Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced his candidacy for California governor promising a new spirit of activism and a sweeping executive reorganization. The 35 year old Democrat, the frontrunner in polls, has built name recognition while facing Republican criticism of partisan use of the office.
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San Diego
Calif
Edmund G. Brown Jr
California
Ronald Reagan
Brown
Gov. Reagan
Missouri
Christopher S. Bond
Eugene McCarthy
Los Angeles Community Colleges Board
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