Rail Strike Deadlines Approaching in 197? Fallout
President Nixon faces a looming deadline as a nationwide rail strike looms. Congress must act by March 1 when the strike moratorium ends. Key unions demand up to a 40 percent wage boost plus cost of living increases, while a mediation panel favored a 32 percent raise.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
United Transportation Union
Rep. J.J. Pickle
D-Tex
House Commerce Committee
Executive Department
UTW
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
House Committee
Commerce Committee
Lincoln
Harley O. Staggers
D-W.va
House
Senate
Secretary of Labor
Bunker To Talks In Washington
U S Ambassador Elsworth Bunker departed Saigon for Washington to confer with President Nixon and other officials. The visit is described as routine and will last about a week, with a brief stop in Paris to meet Ambassador David Bruce and possible visit to Kathmandu to see his wife, ambassador to Nepal.
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Saigon
U.S
Elsworth Bunker
Washington
Nixon
Bunker
Paris
David K. E. Bruce
Vietnam
Katmandu
Carole Blaise
Nepal
Rockefeller Seeks Record New York Tax Increases
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller urged the GOP legislature to approve a $1.11 billion tax package to fund an $8.45 billion budget. The plan includes a 10 percent income tax surcharge, higher top brackets, reduced credits, a 1 point sales tax rise to seven percent, higher gas and cigarette taxes, liquor tax, vehicle fees, and a 30 percent tax bump on corporate utilities and banks. He blamed Washington for fiscal strain and warned of deteriorating public services without federal aid, while signaling possible adjustments if aid materializes.
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Albany
N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Washington
Rockefeller
Congress
Truman in hospital listed in good condition
Former President Harry S. Truman, age 86, remains in good condition after 12 days in hospital for an intestinal disorder. A Sunday bulletin noted he walked in the third floor corridor earlier that day.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Nixon Hailed Apollo 14 and Sailboat Picketing at Cove
President Nixon praised the Apollo 14 moon shot while critics at his secluded Virgin Islands retreat staged a sea protest aboard a sailboat bearing anti war messages. He, wife Pat, flew to Ca naer Bay and planned to return to Washington as nearby tensions in Southeast Asia drew terse White House responses.
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Washington
Caribbean
Culebra
Puerto Rico
Nixon
China
Indochina
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
U.S
Laos
Southeast Asia
Ziegler
Saigon
Garbage bags to replace Columbia trash cans
The Columbia mixed refuse division will start using plastic bags for collection after a supply arrives, likely mid March. Public Works Director Ray Beck said a bid for one million polyethylene bags was issued to be distributed at no extra cost to residents. The bags will be at least 40 inches deep and 64 inches around to line current cans, then removed, tied, and replaced for pickup.
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Columbia
City
Public Works
Ray Beck
Byrd backs tax cuts over Nixon revenue plan
West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, Senate Democratic whip nominee, says federal tax cuts are preferable to Nixon's plan to share 16 billion dollars with states and localities. He urges slimming the federal ax and argues local leaders know best how to spend funds without federal overreach. Byrd also comments on presidential prospects and his past Ku Klux Klan ties.
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Washington
Robert C. Byrd
Senate
Nixon
West Virginia
Congress
Ax Lake
Byrd
Big Brother
Washingon
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Expedition Peru showcased by Kiwanis travel series
John Ebert films Peru’s wonders for the Kiwanis Club travel program Expedition Peru at Presser Hall. The show covers Lima coast Machu Picchu Cuzco Huascaran and the Amazon with vivid scenes of native life markets ruins and adventurous climbs.
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Peru
Kiwanis Club
Presser Hall
John Ebert
Ebert
Wisconsin
Iowa City
Iowa
Tetons
Wind Rivers
Wyoming
Sawtooths
Idaho
Bugaboos
British Columbia
Mexico
Desert
Lima
Guano Islands
Ancon
Miami Beach
Cuzco
Machu Picchu
Pisac
Hi Misti
Amazon River
Amazon Jungle
Huaraz
Arequipa
Cordilara Blanca
Yanganuco
Ishinka
Mt. Huascaran
Sacsahuaman
Santa Valleys
Huayna Picchu
Torre Tagle Palace
Belaunde Terry
Rostropovich Name Banned From Soviet Press
Moscow reports say the government forbids using cello conductor Mstislav Rostropovich in the press and withdraws an article from the Soviet Encyclopedia. Rostropovich fell from favor after an open letter defending novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose 1970 Nobel Prize winning works remain banned in the USSR.
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Moscow
Mstislav Rostropovich
Rostropovich
Alexander I. Solzehnitsyn
Solzehnitsyn
U.S.S.R
Maxfield 29-Year-Old Millionaire Capitalizes on Apollo 14 Flight
Kansas City AP report profiles 29-year-old millionaire Morgan Maxfield who chartered a 747 to fly 344 civic, business, and political leaders to Florida for the Apollo 14 launch. He spent 35000 and cites government spending as a justification. Maxfield, educated in physics and chemistry, built wealth in real estate and now leads Great Midwest Corp. He plans to retire into politics within a 44-year plan.
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Kansas City
Florida
Morgan Maxfield
Maxfield
Wheaton, Ill
Dallas
Curtis Sanford
Lamar Hunt
Kansas City Chiefs
Great Midwest Corp
Floods Hit Northern Mozambique After Felice Cyclone
In Lourenco Marques Mozambique strong tides pushed inland flooding across Zambezia with areas half the size of Portugal under water. Officials report twenty deaths with fear of higher toll as hundreds more may have been swept away. Quelimane center of the hardest hit district. pilots report helicopters delivering food and rescuers inoculating survivors against typhoid while terrified residents fear the strange machines.
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Lourenco Marques
Mozambique
Zambezia
Felice
Portugal
Quelimane
Mourning campus protest aims to revamp student rights
At Central Missouri State College CMSC students debut a nonviolent "week of mourning" to push for campus reforms Dress codes ROTC dorm living and penalties are targeted A coffin marked "Student Rights" will lead a planned parade with open meetings and speeches The organizers insist on democratic peaceful action and hope the movement spreads nationally
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Warrensburg
Central Missouri State College
CMSC
Jefferson City
Chad Jordan
Sibley
Jordan
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Lawrence Drug Co
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Tenn
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Calif
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Shandel Meg. CO
Warrenton, Missouri
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Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Harold E. Hughes
Henry M. Jackson
Bingley
SALE
Knoxville, Iowa
Bingley Sale
Citizens For Fair Taxation
R. G. Popp
Doug Alewel
Clern
Howerton
Jay
Save Hoc
IGA Reg
Save de Saltine
Bayer
Baker's Fine Reg
Oak Hill
Alin
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