Skylab Spacemen Head For Pacific Splashdown
Astronauts Bean Garriott and Lousma detach from Skylab 2 in late afternoon to splash down in the Pacific at 6 20 p m EDT aboard the Apollo. USS New Orleans waits in the recovery zone 225 miles southwest of San Diego to hoist them aboard.
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Skylab
Pacific
Bean
Garriott
Lousma
Pacific Ocean
New Orleans
San Diego
Calif
Mission Control
Hawkins
UAW Targets Tighter Overtime Rules After Chrysler Pact
The United Auto Workers will seek stricter mandatory overtime limits at Ford after winning voluntary overtime provisions at Chrysler. UAW Vice President Ken Bannon announced the strategy as 127,500 Chrysler workers returned to the plant after a nine day strike, while Ford negotiators eyed a quick settlement but warned of possible hurdles. Chrysler gains include retirement after 30 years with a $700 monthly pension by 1978, company paid dental insurance, improved conditions, and wage hikes totaling 8 percent over three years.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler Corp
UAW
Ken Bannon
Chrysler
Bannon
Ford
Malcolm Denise
Agnew Leaks Fight Over Funding Report Sparks Denial
A spokesman for Agnew denounced a Washington Star News report as totally inaccurate linking Agnew to $100,000 from Maryland investor Joel Kline. Justice Department leaks are denied by Press Secretary Marsh Thomson who says the department was source of the story.
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Agnew
Warren
Richardson
Justice Department
Maryland Land
Elliot L. Richardson
Department
Thomson
Star-News
Kline
Baltimore
The
Lawton City Council approves contracts and notices Eisenhower projects
The Lawton city council moved on engineering bids for Eisenhower school bus facility work and rescinded a $13,590 Link Belt Haynes contract to repair a primary clarifier after replacement equipment issues. They also awarded parks and vehicle contracts, authorized street light changes, approved annexation near Eisenhower Village, and congratulated the city attorney on a favorable district court ruling.
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Lawton
Eisenhower
Belt Haynes Equipment Co
Public Works
Paul Brune
Miracle Recreation Equipment Co
Shawnee
Vaughan & Associates, Inc
Reuben Brown
Easton's Hardware
Howard Smith Ford
Comanche County
Dan Rudder Motor Co
Eisenhower Village
Health Department
Jerry Cude
U S Cancels Agreement In Income Tax Litigation
The IRS canceled a 22.8 million income tax lien deal with financier C. Arnholt Smith after papers were removed from a vault at U S National Bank. Smith denied owing back taxes and invoked the Fifth Amendment when questioned by a federal grand jury.
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San Diego
Calif
Internal Revenue Service
C. Arnholt Smith
IRS
Smith
U.S. National Bank
Nixon
U.S. District Court
Leland C. Nielsen
Richard Roberts
Paul Connolly
Westgate-California Corp
West
Waldie Weighs Agnew Action in Impeachment Move
Rep. Jerome Waldie plans an impeachment resolution if courts bar investigation of Vice President Agnew in a Maryland graft probe. He would push for a prompt House Judiciary Committee inquiry while noting no presumption of guilt.
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Washington
Jerome R. Waldie
D-Calif
Spiro T. Agnew
Maryland
Waldie
Agnew
House Judiciary Committee
Sax
Atty
Elliot L. Richardson
House
Richardson
Star-News
Robert Kastenmeier
D-Wis
Committee
Congress
U S Recognizes Chilean Military Regime
In Santiago the United States formally recognizes the Chilean military regime, three days after the Soviet Union cut relations with the anti Communist junta that toppled Salvador Allende. A State Department spokesman said the U S desires to maintain relations. Panama Haiti and Venezuela also recognized the regime, bringing total recognitions to about 20 nations.
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Santiago
Chile
United States
Soviet Union
Salvador Allende
State Department
Washington
Panama
Haiti
Venezuela
California Woman Sentenced In State
U S Magistrate Charles Jones gave one year probation to Donnie Marie Ingram of Berkeley California after she tried to board a flight from California to Oklahoma with an unloaded pistol on July 2 in Oklahoma City.
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Oklahoma City
U.S
Charles Jones
California
Donnie Marie Ingram
Berkeley
Calif
Oklahoma
Military medical care reforms considered amid doctor shortages
The memo notes a shortage of military doctors that could become critical without a draft and outlines options such as civilianizing services, limiting dependents and retirees, charging for certain care, eliminating services, and using cash payments or a Pentagon run insurance plan akin to Blue Cross Blue Shield.
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Ash
Pentagon
Steaks vanish from firehouse during budget‑tight move
Firefighters at Engine Co. 19 in Nashville returned from a long housing-project blaze to find 14 steaks missing from the oven while corn potatoes and biscuits stayed warm. Captain Harry McGonigal quipped that the vanished steaks reflect current economic strain.
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Nashville, Tenn
Engine Co
Harry G. McGonigal
FTC creates regional offices to handle consumer cases
The Federal Trade Commission expands in 12 regional offices to prosecute local consumer complaints. Regional chiefs say the change, prompted by a Ralph Nader study group and the American Bar Association, boosts hiring and allows more national issues to be addressed away from Washington.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
New York State
Alaska
FTC
Richard Lavine
New York
Ralph Nader
American Bar Association
Lavine
Soviet Critics of U.S. Vietnam Expansion Rally In Speech
The Soviet foreign minister linked U.S. Vietnam policy to an unprecedented expansion of war, delivering the strongest antiwar address here in four years. Gromyko, arriving last week, called the Indochina settlement one of several recent world events and said the Brezhnev Nixon pact to curb nuclear war reduced the threat of global collision.
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America
Vietnam
Gromyko
Indochina
Brezhnev
Nixon
Stanek Infants Progress Amid Delicate Start
Denver AP reports the Stanek sextuplets show improvement as Catherine the lone girl has hair washed and starts diaper changes alongside John Jeffrey Catherine and Steven in good condition. Nathan remains satisfactory with respirator aid. doctors say the five are “out of the woods” barring infection risks.
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Denver
Catherine
James Strain
John
Jeffrey
Steven
Nathan
Strain
Watergate Allegations Emerge In Hunt Case
A former senator dubbed Mr. Republican asserts Watergate figures betrayed Hunt. A Democratic senator calls it a strange justice that the ex CIA spy faces decades in prison while those who plotted and organized the scheme are treated differently.
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Win
Hunt
Justice
Central Intelligence Agency
Court OKs Law In Stennis Case
A federal judge upheld the 1971 law making it a federal crime to kill or attempt to kill a member of Congress as Tyrone Marshall, 19, goes on trial for the Stennis shooting. Marshall faces life in prison for assault with intent to kill plus counts of armed robbery and carrying a deadly weapon.
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Washington
John C. Stennis
U.S. District Court
Joseph Waddy Jr
Tyrone Marshall
Marshall
Stennis
Senate Armed Services Committee
Mississippi
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Congress
Robert F. Kennedy
Kenneth Munday
Monetary reform stalls as key issues persist
West German Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt urges a sound and stable dollar before any currency system reform. Delegates report the dollar appears to recover after devaluations, but negotiations stall with the IMF delaying a final agreement until July 31. Top finance ministers fail to break deadlock on several core points.
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Shultz
Helmut Schmidt
Schmidt
Monetary Fund
Boyle rises through union ranks to USW presidency
Boyle, longtime aide to UMW leader Lewis since 1948, becomes president after Thomas Kennedy's 1963 death. With Kennedy gone, insurgent pressure under Yablonski grows, challenging Boyle's tenure as he heads the union through turmoil.
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UMW
Boyle
Lewis’ Shadow
Thomas Kennedy
Kennedy
Yablonski
President Nixon Moves Against Watergate Tape Bid
President Nixon asks U.S. District Court to reject Senate Watergate committee bid for tapes. White House argues a president is answerable only to impeachment in Congress, not to individual committees. Formally filed by Judge Sirica's court.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate
Watergate Committee
Congress
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
White House
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