Congressional snarl may hold back pay raises
Federal workers face possible paycheck cuts before Christmas as House and Senate fail to agree on continuing agency funding. About 1,300 Action employees may receive two days less pay next Tuesday with the remaining days unpaid, while Defense funding clears but awaits signature. Other agencies face similar pay constraints.
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Jerry Brown
Associated Press
Washington
Peace Corps
VISTA
House
Senate
Agency For International Development
Office of Economic Development
Defense Department
Congress
Pentagon
American Medical Association
Price Commission
AMA
Wilmington
Del
Pay Board
U S Protests Cuban Seizure of Freighter Johnny Express
The United States protests Cuba's seizure of the freighter Johnny Express and reports the naturalized American captain Jose Villa is gravely wounded and hospitalized in Havana. President Nixon, at the Florida White House, voiced grave concern as Villa’s wife and three children visited him.
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Key Biscayne
Fla
United States
Havana
Ronald L. Ziegler
Nixon
Florida White House
Jose Villa
Villa
Teofilo Babun
Bahama Lines
Cuba
Radio Havana
Fidel Castro
Ziegler
Bahama
Nixon Dollars Seized As Imitation Currency in Detroit
Secret Service confiscates thousands of oversized Nixon dollars circulated by Michigan Democrats as satire. Bills feature Nixon with crossed fingers and back reads God Help Us, signed by M Mitchell and John Con Lee. The seizure cites a federal ban on imitation currency used for novelty or advertising.
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Detroit
Secret Service
Michigan
U.S
President Nixon
M. Mitchell
Cookie Jar
John Con Lee
the Treasury
U N Security Council Hears Five Nominees for Secretary General
The United Nations Security Council convened in a closed session to pick a successor to U Thant with five frontrunners named Max Jakobson Kurt Waldheim Felipe Herrera Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan and Gunnar Jarring. Additional candidates from Argentina Chile and Guyana were discussed as potential alternates. The Big Five nations hold veto power and could require multiple meetings before a council recommendation to the General Assembly.
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William N. Oatis
Associated Press
United Nations
N.Y
U.N. Security Council
U Thant
Max Jakobson
Finland
Kurt Waldheim
Austria
U.N
Felipe Herrera
Chile
Inter-American Bank
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
Gunnar Jarring
Moscow
Middle East
Argentina
Carlos Ortiz de Rozas
Gabriel Valdes
S.S. Ramphal
Guyana
Shirley Amerasinghe
Ceylon
Ethiopia
Endalkachew Makonnen
General Assembly
Security Council
Britain
China
France
Soviet Union
United States
Council
Jakobson
Waldheim
Herrera
Prince Sadruddin
Jarring
Isma
Fighting Rages Across Cambodia And Vietnam Fronts
AP report from Saigon notes two South Vietnamese offensives triggering heavy fighting in Cambodia and the Mekong delta. In Chup rubber plantation eastern Cambodia a major battle yields 61 enemy and 11 South Vietnamese dead, with 47 NVA and Viet Cong killed by paratroopers aided by U.S. air strikes. South Vietnamese losses total seven killed and 17 wounded. The Chup push, deepest penetration into eastern Cambodia since February, comes as 6,000 troops and 100+ armored vehicles sweep the area as part of a 25,000-man drive begun November 2 to disrupt North Vietnamese bases and supply lines. Farther south in U Minh forest, 14 enemy dead and 4 South Vietnamese killed with 10 wounded accompany the delta operation targeting the Communist stronghold.
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George Espen
Associated Press
Saigon
Cambodia
Vietnam
Chup
South Vietnam
U Minh Forest
Mekong
Delta
State official defends Benton unit over Little Rock facility
George Ware state hospital superintendent told Arkansas Legislative Council committee that Benton unit care was equal to Little Rock hospital care though Benton has fewer staff per patient. He cited longer patient stays at Benton and higher Little Rock turnover. John Haley discussed a training program and a new women’s reformatory, plus transferring 386000 to the penitentiary for maintenance. Haley noted inmate population rose about 300 in the past year and outlined next steps. In a separate note, Ann Jones gave birth to a girl in Birmingham Maternity Hospital weighing 8 pounds 10 ounces, mother and child reported well.
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Little Rock
George Ware
Benton
Jackson
Committee On Charitable, Penal and Correction Institutons
Arkansas Legislative Council
John Haley
State Board of Correction
Camp Robinson
North Little Rock
Dale Bumpers
Haley
Birmingham
England
Ann Jones
Montgomery and Eley named to County ASC Committee
Ralph Montgomery and Glen D. Eley, Hempstead County farmers, named to the County ASC Committee by delegates at Hope. Gilbert as chairman, Brooks Collins and Bill Schooley as alternates. Committee oversees local administration of farm programs. New officers take office January 1, 1972. Sport Shorts AP: Dick Drago named Royals Pitcher of the Year for 1971. dinner Jan. 2.
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Ralph Montgomery
Glen D. Eley
Hempstead
County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
ASC
Federal
Hope
H. B. Gilbert
Brooks Collins
Bill Schogiey
Montgomery
Eley
Belton
Gilbert
Cross Roads
Mr. Collins
Spring Hill
Mr. Schooley
County
Associated Press Kansas City
Dick Drago
Kansas City Royals
Drago
Kansas City Baseball Awards
Freed Captive Describes Life in Chinese Countryside
Mary Ann Harbert a 25 year old secretary freed after three and a half years in Communist China recounts life on a rural farm, playing badminton and cards with guards and villagers. She says she was never imprisoned, kept in a house with a guard, and passed time with English speaking captors and food. She was captured off a sailboat in mid 1968 and freed with Richard G. Fecteau after 19 years.
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Wy Lee Lower
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Mary Ann Harbert
Port
Ching
Miss Harbert
Misa Harpert
China
Richard G. Fecteau
Lynn
Mass
Fecteau
Hong Kong
Manila
Gerald Ross McLaughlin
Palo Alto
McLaughlin
United States
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Little Rock Catholic
Bill Stancil
el, Dorado, Ark
Willie Dawkins
el Dorado
Louise Jenkins
el Dorado Hospital
Arthur McElroy
Ciweerstrasse
THE
Parfums
Paris
Cologne de Corday
From Village Pharmacy
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Max Factor
Rexall
Love
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