Nevada Legislature urged to curb governor powers and fund staff
A 109 page report from the Legislative Commission calls for ending the governor veto, removing the lieutenant governor as Senate Speaker, boosting Legislative Counsel Bureau staff, and creating a Las Vegas office to aid Southern Nevada lawmakers. It also proposes higher salaries and life and health insurance for legislators.
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Legislative Commission
Legislative Counsel Bureau
Las Vegas
Nevada
California
Ronald Reagan
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Red China Cuts Down Hanoi Arms
London based reports state Communist China has reduced arms shipments to Hanoi and halted detailed reporting on the Vietnam War. Beijing’s influence in Hanoi is described as waning after Hanoi agreed to Paris talks with the United States. some supplies were intercepted en route to the border.
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UPI
China
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
Paris
United States
Peking
Bonnie and Clyde revived by English gunmen gang
Five youths described as the Bonnie and Clyde gang terrorize England. Police hunt the gunmen after a Birmingham bank holdup netted 48 000 dollars. A girlfriend urged a member to surrender in a newspaper ad while detectives warn of a 1930s style showdown.
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Britain
Armed Trio Robs Greyhound Passengers in Iowa
Three armed men using a Jesse James style train robbery technique stopped a Greyhound bus on I 8 near the Tiffin interchange west of Iowa City. They boarded in Des Moines and forced the driver to halt, then moved through the passengers taking cash and valuables. Loot could reach about $2000. A shotgun was displayed at the doorway while the trio worked.
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Jesse James
Greyhound
San Francisco
Chicago
Johnson County Sheriff's Office
Des Moines
Iowa City
Tiffin
Atom Blast Creates 725-Foot Desert Crater in Schooner Test
Scientists detonated Project Schooner, a 35 kiloton underground blast in PAHUTE MESA, to study excavation for a proposed Central American canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific. The crater measured 725 feet, the largest since Sedan, with minimal atmospheric radioactivity.
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API
Central America
Atlantic
Pacific
Project Schooner
Schooner
Atomic Energy Commission
Pacific Interoceanic Canal Study Commission
Isthmus
Coast Guard Cutter Hull Located After Collision
The 133 foot White Alder was found split in two in the Lower Mississippi after a Formosan freighter struck it. Seventeen crew members are missing and divers will search the wreck while river pilots warn of limited visibility in the mud filled waters.
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UPS
Coast Guard
Lower
Mississippi
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Seven Die As Gale Wrecks Fishing Boat Off Cape Hatteras
A UPI report says seven of fourteen crewmen died when the fishing boat Fenwick Island sank in Atlantic seas nine miles off Cape Hatteras amid sub freezing gale winds. Survivors were rescued by the W. T. James and hospitalized for exposure. The wreck occurred around 10 p.m. Saturday as capsize followed shifting cargo and breaking waves.
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Morehead City
N.C
UPI
Atlantic
Coast Guard
Fenwick Island
W. T. James
Cape Hatteras
Weather report with mild breeze and cool day
Variable cloudiness with gentle winds. Today's high 60 and low 30. Noontime humidity at 20 percent. Sunrise at 6 40 and sunset at 4 26. Yesterday's high 57 and low 31.
Harris survey shows broad support for U S Soviet peace accords
Despite tensions over Czechoslovakia and the Middle East, majorities favor US USSR nuclear nonproliferation treaty ratification, limits on nuclear weapons systems, and a final Johnson Kosygin summit before Johnson leaves office, according to Harris poll figures.
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Middle East
United States
Soviet Union
Johnson
Kosygin
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