Plans For U S Trade Rebuild Advance Under Nixon
The Nixon White House releases a multi-faceted plan to boost U S trade and tech leadership. Proposals include a value added tax exporter credits R D incentives and possibly Japanese style trading firms. The report notes barriers at the European Market and suggests learning from Japan while warning of bloc formation.
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White House
Peter G. Peterson
Nixon
Japan
United States
Peterson
Congress
U.S
Ellsberg Charged Again in Pentagon Papers Case
Daniel Ellsberg and former Rand colleague Anthony J. Russo Jr. face a renewed federal indictment in Los Angeles charging conspiracy to steal and distribute Defense Department Vietnam War files. The document names Vu Van Thai and Lynda Sinay as uncited coconspirators.
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Washington (Ap
Daniel Ellsberg
Rand Corp
Pentagon Papers
Los Angeles
Ellsberg
Justice Department
Grand Jury
Anthony J. Russo Jr
FBI
Russo
United States
Defense Department
Vu van Thai
Lynda Sinay
Ellsberg and Russo
Atty
John N. Mitchell
About 70 000 In Low Range Escape Draft Conditions
About 70 000 men with lottery numbers 125 or lower could avoid callups if no new draft appears in January through March. They are in the Extended Priority Group after losing deferments by graduating or dropping out. Some may drop deferments before midnight New Year’s Eve to escape exposure in 1971.
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Washington
Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Selective Service
Sizable Damage In 2 Accidents
Lawrence police investigated two non injury crashes with heavy property damage. A 1963 car driven by Craig Davis collided with a 1971 car driven by Alice Carter at 15th and Iowa. Davis was charged with failure to yield. Davis’s car sustained 350 dollars damage while Carters incurred 1000 dollars. Davis tried a left turn from a stop light onto Iowa. A second crash involved Robert King whose car struck a pole near 19th and Iowa when he lost control while speeding up to change lanes.
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Lawrence Police
15Th
Iowa
Craig Davis
Meadowbrook
Davis
Carter
Robert W. King
Crestline
19Th
Britain to quit Malta bases amid high price demand
Prime Minister Mintoff of Malta demands 46.8 million dollars annually for British military bases. Britain offers 24.7 million plus 18.2 million over five years and orders 3,500 service personnel and 7,000 dependents to prepare to leave by March 31. Malta risks loss of NATO ties as Moscow prospects loom.
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London
Britain
Malta
Dom Mintoff
Mediterranean
NATO
Mintoff
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Harding Letters Protected for 50 Years in Ohio Era Settlement
Harding heirs and defendants reach a 1964 case settlement to seal about 250 love letters from public view for 50 years. The Library of Congress will receive the originals in 2014 and microfilm copies go to the Ohio Historical Society. A restraining order once blocked publication of the letters and Russell's 1965 book.
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Columbus, Ohio
Warren G. Harding
Marion
Ohio
Harding
Library of Congress
Ohio Historical Society
George T. Harding III
New York Times
McGraw-Hill
Francis Russell
Carrie
Phillips
Russell
Blooming Grove
Lawrence Courthouse and Offices Close for New Year
The courthouse and all county offices except the sheriff will close Friday for New Year observances and reopen Monday. City hall offices also close Friday and resume Monday hours. Douglas County receives 11310.03 from the state's quarterly liquor enforcement tax distribution totaling 516902.31 with Franklin 4397.51 Jefferson 2552.02 Johnson 46852.10 Leavenworth 7982.67 allocated to area counties.
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City Hall
Douglas County
Franklin
Jefferson
Johnson
Leavenworth
Eudora Church Hosts New Year Eve Events and Services
Eudora United Methodist Church plans a New Year’s Eve program with a 7 p.m. Holy Communion on Friday followed by a 7:30 p.m. party hosted by Mr and Mrs Glen Wineinger for the Seekers Club in the church community room. The Women’s Society of Christian Service will install officers at the 11 a.m. worship on Sunday.
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Eudora
Eudora United Methodist Church
Glen Wineinger
Seekers Club
Women’s Society of Christian Service Officers
Cancer Claims Jurist Harlan At Age of 73
Washington AP obituary notes John Marshall Harlan a Supreme Court justice who opposed using the law for social reform died of cancer in Washington at 72. Nixon calls him one of the 20th century's giants on the Court. Rehnquist named to replace him January 7.
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Harlan
Washington
John Marshall Harlan
Supreme Court
Nixon
William H. Rehnquist
George Washington University Hospital
Potter Stewart
E.H. Dillingham
New York City
Stewart
Justice Harlan
Warren E. Burger
Burger
High Court
Eisenhower
Sewers to be shown on TV in Pretoria
South Africa authorities plan to pull a camera through Pretoria sewers to spot cracks and faults and reduce unnecessary digging as the system is televised for inspection.
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Pretoria
South Africa
Man Pollution In Antarctica Trails Trash At McMurdo Sound
An AP report details 14 years of waste at McMurdo Station including trash, sewage and abandoned gear dumped into McMurdo Sound. New incinerator and planned sewage treatment aim to cut contamination as ecologists warn of long term impacts.
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Mcmurdo Station
Antarctica
U.S
McMurdo Sound
Ross Island
Sound
United States
McMurdo
Lawrence to raise lunch prices for students and adults
A five cent hike takes effect Monday in Lawrence public schools. Junior and senior high lunches rise from 35 to 40 cents and adult lunches from 45 to 50 cents. Elementary lunches stay at 35 cents. The district gained Federal Price Board approval to raise prices, a plan approved last spring but delayed by the President's wage freeze. The increase funds higher cafeteria worker salaries, and overall Lawrence lunches remain below the 40 to 45 cent national average.
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Lawrence
Federal Price Board
Board of Education
Kenneth Fisher
Fisher
KU student to hold benefit concert for burn unit
Bill Krusemark an Atchison senior music education major at KU plans a January 4 benefit concert of oratorio and opera in Atchison to raise funds for KU Medical Center burn unit. He will charge one dollar at the Mt. St. Scholastica College auditorium which seats 800.
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Kansas University Medical Center
Bill Krusemark
Atchison
Krusemark
Mt. St. Scholastica College
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