Bid To Cut Europe Force Delayed By One Week
The Nixon administration wins a one week delay on a Senate move to cut U.S. troop strength in Europe. Mansfield proposes a 50 percent cut by end of 1971 to a 300000-man force. Javits and Stennis back a shift to burden sharing with allies and phased withdrawals.
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Carl P. Leubsdorf
Washington
Nixon
Senate
U.S
Europe
Mike Mansfield
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Armed Services Committee
Javits
Ex Professor Hughes Dies Former UW English Chair
Emeritus Merritt Y. Hughes, 77, who headed the University of Wisconsin English Department for a decade, died Wednesday. A UW faculty member for 27 years, he joined Madison in 1936 and retired in 1963 after serving with the Institute for Research in the Humanities.
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Madison, Wis
Merritt Y. Hughes
University of Wisconsin
UW Institute For Research
Hughes
Madison
Ex President of Minnesota AFL-CIO Dies
Rob ert A. Olson longtime head of Minnesota AFL-CIO Federation of Labor and its predecessor collapsed and died while walking near his Duluth home. Olson rose through the Duluth Motion Picture Operators Union and served as president emeritus since 1966 after 28 years as president, undefeated in re elections, influencing state and national labor circles.
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Duluth, Minn
Robert A. Olson
Minnesota
Afl-Cio Federation of Labor
Minnesota Federation of Labor
Olson
Duluth
Motion Picture Operators Union
Duluth Federation of Labor
Floyd B. Olson
Farmer-Labor Party
131 Congregations Switch American Baptists Expand Into South
The American Baptist Convention admitted 131 southern churches on Wednesday, a mix of 110 black and 11 white congregations across 14 states, forming a new integrated regional grouping in the South. Leaders hailed it as historic as about 5,000 delegates attended the opening in Minneapolis. The move aims to provide an alternative to token integration within the Southern Baptists.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Deep South
Southern Baptists
The
American Baptist Convention
Son
Norfolk, Va
American Baptist Churches of the South
Minneapolis
Convention Hall
South
Henderson
Southern Baptists Convention
Milwaukee Road OKs Holding Company
Chicago AP The board approved creating a holding company tentatively named Chicago Milwaukee Corp to own Milwaukee Road and its subsidiaries. William J. Quinn said the group would diversify the railroad and exchange securities for existing stock. Stockholders won’t act until the final prospectus is received.
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Chicago
Chicago Milwaukee Corp
Milwaukee Road
William J. Quinn
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Co
Auto Workers End 100 Day Strike in Illinois
United Auto Workers Local 592 voted to accept a three year deal with Sundstrand Corp ending a 100 day strike in Rockford Illinois. The contract raises pay by 42 cents an hour in year one and 3 percent in years two and three, affecting 1425 workers at Sundstrand which makes aircraft parts and hydraulic equipment.
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Rockford, Ill
United Auto Workers
SandStrand Corp
Sundstrand
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