Japan And Nixon's New Economic Policy
The Washington meeting between the United States and Japan focuses on U S dollar action and a 10 percent import surcharge aimed at trade imbalances. Analysts note the need for mutual concessions, warn against driving Japan toward Moscow, and stress a balanced, cautious approach to avoid destabilizing the world economy.
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Joseph Slevin
Washington Post
Japan
United States
Nixon
Washington
U.S
State Department
Fortune
Moscow
India
Grim year in the air darkens global aviation outlook
An air disaster year features two major crashes, a West German jet with 120 aboard that mostly survived a forced landing and an Alaskan Airlines 727 that crashed on a mountainside near Juneau. Engine failure blamed for the first. cause of the second undetermined.
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Alaskan Airlines
Juneau
Wilbur
Pentagon Budget Expected Around Eighty Billion for 1973
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird proposed a 1973 Pentagon budget near 80 billion dollars, about 3 billion more than the current year, as Nixon issued a freeze order. The debate over defense spending vs other programs continued in Congress with experts split on cuts and the impact on security.
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Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Pentagon
Nixon
Laird
Congress
Joint Economic Subcommittee On
William Proxmire
Wis
Proxmire
U. S
Wassily Leontief
Harvard Comemics
Bergson
Har
Vietnam
U.S
Lockheed retaliation memo tied to Aerojet contract
A memo shows Lockheed canceled an Aerojet sub contract possibly worth up to 40 million a year hours after Aerojet President Jack Vollbrecht warned Congress about underwriting corporate failure. The memo, in Assistant Defense Secretary Barry Shillito’s files, alleges a targeted purge to hurt Aerojet after a Senate hearing.
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Washington
Pentagon
Lockheed
Aerojet-General
Jack Vollbrecht
Congress
Defense
Barry Shillito
Senate
Aerojet
Vollbrecht
Senate Banking Committee
Dick Cottrell
Lockheed Washington
Cottrell
Sunnyvale
Calif
Shillito
Secrecy and Security Debates Span Aerojet Lockheed Ties
Defense secretary discussions reveal Lockheed’s renewed interest in Aerojet if revived, with claims of a fair chance for Aerojet and a May decision not to sign the contract. Security warnings rise after Moore’s inspection report leaks, and Common Cause sues to enforce campaign spending laws while Alaska seal slaughter investigations deeming methods humane.
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Defense
Lockheed
Shillito
Cottrell
Aerojet
Vollbrecht
E. Moore
Naval Ship Systems Command
Moore
Common Cause
People's Lobby
House
Senate
Alaska
Alaskan
Reprint of G W Simmons Sr Civil War history poem volume
A granddaughter republishes G W Simmons Sr s 1915 poem collection MULTUM IN PARVO from Edgewood Ga. The short history of the Civil War notes slavery as the cause, outlines how slavery spread, the Northern abolitionist stance, and the 1860 election leading to the Confederacy. It reflects on postwar hardship and eventual reconciliation and freedom for slaves.
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G. W. Simmons Sr
Pauline Simmons Wertz
Simmons
Edgewood
Africa
Southland
Missus
North
Free States
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
South
Abraham Lincoln
Union
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Orville Wright
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Merry
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