Nixon blocks major rail strike to allow 60 day talks
President Nixon invoked the Railroad Labor Act to pause a threatened rail strike for at least 60 days. The emergency board will study the dispute between four shopcraft unions and seven railroads, with both sides pledging to negotiate during the cooling-off period.
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Key Biscayne, Fla
Labor Department
Nixon
White House
Ronald Ziegler
Ziegler
William W. Winpisinger
Winpisinger
Atlantic City
Labor
George P. Schultz
Haynsworth opposition grows as withdrawal not plans
Senate opposition to Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. mounts with Sen. Clifford Case urging withdrawal. Haynsworth says he will not withdraw and met with Justice officials as Republicans debate the nomination. Additional senators Goodell Smith and Brooke join in opposing him.
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Haynsworth
Roy McGhee Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr
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Clifford P. Case
R-N.j
Lic
United Press International
F. Hollings
S.C
Congress
Justice Department
White House
William H. Rehnquist
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Judiciary Committee
Bayh
Charles E. Goodell
R-N.y
Ralph Smith
R-Ill
Edward W. Brooke
R-Mass
Brandt and Free Democrats Agree to Share Power in Germany
Foreign Minister Willy Brandt won unanimous Social Democratic backing to form a coalition with the Free Democrats to topple Chancellor Kiesinger. Scheel’s Free Democrats expressed optimism as talks concluded after midnight, with an agreement to present Brandt to President Heinemann for formation of a new government. The coalition would command 254 seats in the Parliament, surpassing the 249 needed on first ballot.
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Willington Long
Bonn
UPI
Willy Brandt
Social Democratic Party
Free Democrats
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Helmut Schmidt
Walter Scheel
Free Democratic
Brandt
Scheel
Gustav Heinemann
Social Democrats
Kiesinger
Christian Democrats
Army probe cites general accused of hiding graft evidence
UPI reported Senate investigators heard WO Reis R. Kash say a two star general hushed up at least three investigations of Sgt Maj. William Wooldridge. Kash testified the provost marshal Maj. Gen. Carl Turner ordered an inquiry into a tip about a smuggling caper and whisky smuggling by Wooldridge aboard Gen. Creighton Abrams plane in 1967.
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William B Mean Washington
UPI
Army
William O. Wooldridge
Senate Permanent
WO Reis R. Kash
Kash
Carl C. Turner
Wooldridge
Creighton W Abrams
U.S
Vietnam
Saigon
United States
ROTC Continuance Urged by Pentagon Committee
A Pentagon appointed committee urged continuation and improvement of ROTC on college campuses, citing risks if abolished. It called for higher stipends, college control over programs, and lifting a marriage ban for Navy ROTC cadets, noting protests and campus sentiment at several institutions.
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Darrell Garwood Washington
UPI
The
Pentagon
ROTC
Navy
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Harvard
Dartmouth
Greece lifts martial law and censorship in phased move
Athens reports Premier George Papadopulos lifts martial law and press censorship while preserving special procedures for public order and security. Military courts will handle only regime enemies, with civilian courts taking common crimes, under an armed forces order granting civil rights with limits on public order and national security content.
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Athens
UPI
George Papadopulos
Greece
Papadopulos
Papadopoulos
Armed Forces
Odysseus Angelis
Eight-year-old attacked by German Shepherd in Lompoc incident
An eight year-old Lompoc boy named David Roy Bunnell was severely injured in a savage attack by a German Shepherd on the sidewalk near 1013 West Pine Avenue. Witnesses rushed him to Lompoc Hospital where Dr. James F. Holloway closed wounds with more than 30 stitches. The dog owner Edward Baldvier produced inoculation papers and the animal is in quarantine.
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Lompoc
David Roy Bunnell
W. Anthony Ave
Lompoc Hospital
James F. Holloway
Holloway
David
County Animal Shelter
Edward Baldivier
Pine Ave
W. Pine Ave
John Vines
Fire Destroys Pierre Claeyssens Studio in Controlled Burn
Firefighters execute a controlled burn to demolish Pierre Claeyssens studio on Laurel Avenue and H Street. Downtown sees renewed hourly parking limits as police end a months long moratorium. Fog blankets Lompoc as residents await the antique auto tour.
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Pierre Claeyssens
Laurel Avenue
H Street
Police Department
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By Jon G. Amstutz
Prague
Alexander Dubcek
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