Sadat Purge Reshapes Egyptian Government After Coup Bid
President Anwar Sadat moves to consolidate power after a clash with ministers who he says plotted to overthrow him. Six ministers and three ASU officials under house arrest as a new 35 member cabinet is formed and calls for free elections. Egyptians celebrate the purge while Sadat accuses ousted vice president Ali Sabry of aiding a bid to seize control.
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Associated Press
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Sadat
al Ahram
Arab Socialist Union
ASU
Amised
Defense
Mohammed Fawzi
Shawari Gomaa
Interior Ministry
Gomaa
Mahmoud Salem
Alexandria
Cairo
Ali Sabry
Sabry
Syria
Libya
Pipeline Files Are Sought in Trans Alaska Case
Environmental Defense Fund Friends of the Earth and The Wilderness Society won access to over 1 000 Interior Department documents on the proposed Trans Alaska pipeline. A federal judge ordered full responses and a list of related items including DoD cold climate research and agency memos.
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Washington
Interior Department
Department
Environmental Defense Fund
Friends of the Earth and the Wilderness Society
Interior
Defense Department
Interoffice
Nixon seeks 60 day preventive detention for dangerous federal offenders
The Nixon administration asks Congress to authorize pretrial detention up to 60 days for felons charged with violent federal offenses. The plan mirrors the DC crime law, with hearings and procedural safeguards, and targets kidnapping bombing racketeering narcotics robbery and related crimes. The ACLU calls the measure unconstitutional.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
District of Columbia
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Measures To Seek Stay On Executions
Legislative action urged to delay all executions for two years while Congress reassesses capital punishment after the Supreme Court ruling. Rep. Emanuel Celler and Sen. Philip Hart propose a moratorium on state and federal executions as 648 condemned persons await further action.
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Washington
Congress
Supreme Court
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
United States
North Carolina Education Spending Set for Extra Funds
An appropriations subcommittee proposed 42.7 million dollars in additional education spending over 1971 73 atop Gov. Scott’s plan. The package covers kindergartens urban pupil transport occupational education community colleges and university libraries with further requests still pending budget limits and surplus projections.
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Raleigh
Bob Scott
Joint Appropriations Committee
Education Group
Money Committee
Scott
University of North Carolina Medical School
Postage Boost Is Effective Tonight
The Postal Service raises rates tonight without injunction as Supreme Court not yet asked to intervene. First class letters rise from six to eight cents, airmail from 10 to 11, postcards from five to six, other classes up by about a third amid Rate Commission hearings.
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American Civil Liberties Union
Washington
Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals
Dist
William B. Bryant
Postal Service
Postal Rate Commission
Rate Commission
UNC Opposes Deconsolidation Move for State Universities
The Consolidated University of North Carolina adopts a resolution opposing a study committee proposal for a single governing board for all 16 public institutions. It backs a minority view to keep current separate boards while awaiting the formal report. Governor Scott was absent from the meeting.
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Raleigh
Consolidated
University of North Carolina
Board of Regents
UNC Board of Trustees
Lindsay Warren
Goldsboro
Bob Scott
UNC
Warren
Southern Regional Education Board
Florida
Scott
Poe
Governors Quiet on Tax Payments After 1970 Survey
AP survey shows 41 of 49 governors paid taxes in 1970 while 25 refused to disclose amounts. Reagan disclosed 81 000 in state taxes since 1967 but avoided federal levies. Notable figures include Carter 1900.81 and 11 438.50 in federal tax, Ogilvie 12 298.90, Hearnes 9200 federal and 859 state.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
California
Ronald Reagan
Regan
Reagan
Massachusetts
Francis W. Sargent
Calvin L
Rampton
Utah
Mike O'Callaghan
Nevada
Kentucky
Louie B. Nunn
Jimmy Carter
Georgia
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Richard B. Ogilvie
Warren E. Hearnes
Missouri
National Governor's Conference
John Bell Williams
Mississippi
Robert Docking
Kansas
John J. McKeithen
Louisiana
William L. Guy
North Dakota
Bob Scott
North Carolina
George Wallace
Alabama
John J. Gilligan
Ohio
West Virginia
Arch Moore
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U.S. Senate
U.S. Capitol
Senate
William A. Ridgely
Charles H. Percy
R-Ill
Ellen Rachel McConnell
Dundee
Ill
Page Paulette Marie Desell
Schenectady
N.Y
Sen
Jacob Javits
R-N.y
Bery
Mitchell
Green Berets
The 8
Louis
Louisiana Purchase
Missouri River
Astoria
Ore
N.C
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