Families learn prisoners held by Viet Cong in South Vietnam
Readers share reactions as eight more American GIs are confirmed prisoners of war. Families in Bell Gardens Lynwood Sherman Island Riverside Houston Honolulu and other locales express shock relief and renewed hope as letters and reports from officials confirm captivity and prompt emotional memories of Christmas 1968 and subsequent updates from returning prisoners. The article lists names and relations and notes the families await first letters or photographs to verify status.
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Jerhardt Mehrer
Omaha
Gustav
Menher
Mehrer
Rot
Connie Wehssister
Marine Lance Cpl
Abel Larry Kavanaugh
Sandra
Demilitarized Zone
Matsue Kobashigawa
Honolulu
Usison Committee
Tom
Oth. Peisoners
Veer
L B Gets Drenched on San Diego Freeway Collision
A pedestrian named CLINE was killed when his cart collided with a small foreign car and crashed into a bridge abutment on the San Diego Freeway near Garden West Avenue in Westminster. Mrs Hayes of Costa Mesa escaped unharmed. Rain ended the region's driest year, with 1.1 inches of rain recorded in a 10 day period, surpassing 1935’s drought.
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San Diego Freeway
Garden West Avenue
Westminster
Cline
Hayes
Kildeer Cirele
Costa Mesa
National Weather Service
Southland
Aerospace Pay Pact Faces Delayed Vote and Protests
Pay Board adjourned after midnight without voting on the aerospace contract as pressure grows to enforce a 5.3 percent wage cap. Business members push to review deferred raises over 7 percent, while labor and public members resist citing board rules and risk chaotic workload.
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Aerospace
United Automobile Workers and
Machinists
Howebveis
Labor
Public
Rent guideline debate and IRS oversight loom for landlords
Washington reports say 2.5 percent rent hikes may strain landlords as operating costs rise about 4.4 percent annually. Tax and government fee increases, plus capital improvements, may push rents up to nine or ten percent with prior IRS approval. Hardship-based exceptions exist, and base rent may rise with taxes and fees. The Price Commission, IRS, and enforcement arm outline notice and documentation requirements for increases.
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Internal Revenue Sur
The
Price Commission
Washington
Nixon Third Year Seen as Big Step Forward for Policy
WASHINGTON UP I reports a White House document titled Richard Nixon's Third Year claims major progress across foreign and domestic fronts. It highlights new China policy, planned visits to China and the USSR, Viet Nam troop reductions, tax cuts, and economic controls as evidence of substantial achievement and momentum for Nixon programs.
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Washington
UPI
Richard Nixon
Congress
Nixon
White House
Herbert Klein
Clark MacGregor
Thea
China
Soviet Union
U.S
Vietnam
MacGregor
Klein
Republic of China
United Nations
India
House
Gerald St. Ford
Carl Albert
Michigan
Ward
Cost of Living Eases as Rates Slow in November
The November consumer price index rose by two tenths of 1 percent, with increases driven by property taxes and fresh vegetables, homes, and women's wear, offset by declines in used cars and gasoline. President Nixon aims to cut annual cost of living gains to 2 3 percent by year end, signaling progress toward his target.
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White House
Nixon
al- Mosk
Slain son tied to gunrunning tale in hijack case
San Diego mother Julie Dillman says her son David Dillman and companion Royce Bolin may have sought guns during the hijacking of a Gulf Coast shrimp boat. Capt Ray Pentand and crewman Tony Walkup fought back with pipes, crowbar and shotguns, as the 61 foot Mr Tucker shrimp boat was seized to form the core of a supposed piracy ring with Campeche, Mexico as home port. The tale unfolds amid separate consumer price and earnings reports showing a November CPI rise and a drop in average weekly earnings.
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San Dingo
UPI
San Diego
Gulf Coast
Julie Dillman
David Dillman
Royce
Bolin
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