Secret Contributions Total 18 2 Million
The Nixon re election finance committee disclosed 18.2 million in secret gifts from ambassadors bankers industrialists and prominent Republicans with one prisoner donor. Major giver W Clement Stone contributed 2 million followed by Richard Scaife 1 million and Rockefeller family members 200 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Schwartz
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Chicago
W. Clement Stone
Finance Committee
Stone
Mellon
Richard Scaife
Rockefeller
John Mulcahy
New York
Quigley Co
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
Bob Hope
Henry Buchanan
Finance
Maurice Stans
Treasuries
Gasoline Prices Increase Okayed
The Cost of Living Council approved immediate retail price increases for gasoline and heating oil. Gasoline dealers may raise 1 to 2.5 cents per gallon and heating oil 1 to 2 cents with competitive pressures likely keeping some below ceiling levels.
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Washington
Cost of Living Council
Charles Binsted
National Congress of Petroleum Retailers
Nomic
Council
John T. Dunlop
Honolulu police learn Japanese phrases for tourists
Honolulu police equip officers with a self explanatory 32 page English Japanese guide to bridge language gaps with Japanese visitors. Patrolman Robert Wood who learned Japanese in the Navy created the booklet to aid officers in dealing with directions thefts auto accidents and other routine duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Barr
Associated Press
Honolulu
Chiyo
Wood
West Young
Young
Teamsters Withdraw From Chavez Labor Battle
The Teamsters abandon efforts to organize agricultural workers opposing Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. AFL-CIO chief George Meany and Teamsters president Frank Fitzsimmons announce a tentative four part peace accord, with details pending legal review. Chavez comments the move allows growers and Chavez to wage the showdown more quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Teamsters
Cesar Chavez
Afl-Cio
United Farm Workers
George Meany
Frank Fitzsim
California
Chavez
UFW
Fitzsimmons
Connally Backing Agnew Faces Rivalry In Labor Talks
Former presidential aide John B. Connally tells the National Federation of Republican Women in Los Angeles he supports Agnew against Maryland impropriety charges. He later apologized for a slip of the tongue and said he should have wished NOT guilty if charged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Connally
National Federation of Republican Women
Los Angeles
Spiro Agnew
Maryland
Agnew Grand Jury Fight Moves Ahead Amid Legal Tangles
Federal prosecutors continue the Agnew probe as Judge Hoffman in Norfolk weighs the vice president’s bid to stop grand jury action. Agnew travels to California for a speech while trustees vow a defense fund and a CBS report alleges a $2500 pay request for federal contract help.
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Nancee Simonson
Associated Press
Baltimore
Spiro T. Agnew
U.S. District Court
Walter E. Hoffman
Norfolk
Agnew
California
CBS News
Washington
Edward Echeverria
CBS
Lester Matz
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Missouri
Warren E. Hearnes
W. Clement Stone
Stone
Nixon
Hoffman
Justice Department
Maryland
Kosygin Praises Yugoslav Dairy Farm Visit
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin visited a Belgrade dairy farm run on a self management system. He told farm hands that their successes are also Russia's and that their victories are shared, praising the cooperative approach as a sign of friendship.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Alexei N. Kosygin
Russia
Kosygin
Brandt Nixon Explore Atlantic Partnership Deeper Ties
President Nixon and West German Chancellor Willy Brandt planned a major push to blend U.S. ideas with the Common Market on redefining the Atlantic partnership. Brandt's Washington visit includes talks with Kissinger and Schlesinger and a plan to harmonize two declarations of principle ahead of a Europe trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Endre Marton
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Willy Brandt
U.S
Brandt
Executive Mansion
Henry A. Kissinger
Defense
James R. Schlesinger
Senate
Mike Mansfield
New York
Western Europe
White House
Europe
Kissinger
United States
USDA Says Farm Prices Take Plunge
The Agriculture Department reports the overall farm price index fell eight percent in the month to Sept 15 the steepest drop in 25 years led by livestock. Cattle averaged 47.50 per hundredweight hogs 43.80 soybeans and corn also declined while wheat cotton and milk rose from August. The index remains 48 percent higher than a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Kendall
Washington
Agriculture Department
Democrats Seek Minorities Accord on Delegates Reform
A 17 member Democratic drafting committee in Gaithersburg Maryland weighs a compromise on minority representation in the 1976 delegate selection. The Beirne district level proportional plan faces Lt. Gov. Lee and Gilligan proposals, aiming to avoid intra party battles and lawsuits. Barbara Mikulski leads the group hoping for broadly acceptable rules with a 15 percent threshold proposal to balance minority influence.
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Gaithersburg, Md
Washington
Joseph A. Beirne
The
Communications Workers of America
Blair Lee
Maryland
John J. Gilligan
Ohio
Beirne
Baltimore
Barbara Mikulski
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Cal Kavens
Miami Beach
Fla
Jimmy Hoffa
Kovens
Senate Watergate Committee
John W. Dean III
George Smathers
Florida
Charles W. Colson
Smathers
Kavens
U. S. Dist
Joseph C. Waddy
Common Cause
John Garder
Connally
Agnew Probe
U. S. Atty
George Beall
Stanley Mortenson
U. S. District Court
Walter Stoessel
State Department
European Bureau
Edison W. Miller
Navy
John W. Warner
San Francisco
Miller
Newport Beach
Calif
James B. Stockdale
USDA
Crop Reporting Board
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