Strauss Pushing Democratic Unity
Washington AP says Robert Strauss, after ten months as DNC chair, views the party closer to unity though reforms persist. He outlines steps: rebuild machinery, pay debt, boost communication with leaders, and form an advisory council for elected Democrats. He backs moderate reform and notes minority participation rules, while delaying expansion of the reform commission.
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Washington
Robert Strauss
Democratic National Committee
Strauss
Full Commission
National Committee
GOP
Reform Commission
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Congress
Capitol
National Advisory Council
MHS Mark Twain Collect Box Tops for School Fund Drive
Students in over 60 Missouri junior and senior high schools collect box tops and labels from Colgate products to support uniforms instruments athletic gear and essential items not in their budgets. Mark Twain High Center saves labels for a foreign exchange program while Mexico High plans a Christmas party for underprivileged children.
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Missouri
Mark Twain High School
Center
Mexico
Macon Finalist for All-America Cities Award
Macon Missouri is named as one of 18 finalist communities in the National Municipal League All-America cities competition. Judges cite improvements in housing, environment, education, health, social services, business revitalization, and civic effectiveness. Finalists attend the Dallas conference November 14 to 17 where winners are selected.
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New York
Macon
National Municipal League
League
Dallas
Paul Dudley White Suffers Another Stroke
Boston AP reports heart specialist Paul Dudley White, 87, is moderately to seriously ill after another stroke. He had a mild stroke last May and surgery on Aug 17 to remove a brain clot, then was released Sept 18.
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Boston
Paul Dudley White
White
US Advances Funds For Peacekeepers In Vietnam
SAIGON AP The United States advanced $5.6 million to the International Commission of Control and Supervision to keep the peacekeeping force from being grounded. Air America, unpaid for months, gave the commission until Friday to pay about $500,000 of August bills. The four signers have not agreed on an ICCS budget, leaving the ICCS about $8 million in the red.
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Saigon
United States
International Commission of Control and Supervision
Vietnam
Air America
IGCS
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Viet Cong
ICCS
Le Duc Tho May Say No Nobel Peace Prize
An anonymous North Vietnamese official says Le Duc Tho may reject the Nobel Peace Prize shared with Henry Kissinger. Hanoi has made no official comment. The official argues the award is inappropriate as it places Tho and Kissinger on the same plane and notes North Vietnam did not concede the cease fire as a political compromise.
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le Duc Tho
Paris
Henry A. Kissinger
Hanoi
Tho
Kissinger
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Ski Team Diet promises 20 pound loss in 14 days
An advertisement touts a so called Ski Team Diet claimed to let U S Women’s Alpine Ski Team shed 20 pounds in two weeks without reducing energy. It presents a Colorado physician devised plan for rapid weight loss and urges readers to order for 3 dollars plus 25 cents rush service from National Health Institute to slim down in two weeks in 1972.
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U.S
Weson
Colorado
O.K
National Health Institut
P. O
Dept
Durham
Calif
Mediator W J Usery Jr Joins Union Top Post
W J Usery Jr 49 won approval from the AFL CIO Executive Council for a top organizing job in Miami Beach after resigning as director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service He has been the Nixon administrations chief labor troubleshooter and is expected to resign his government post despite being a Democrat.
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Miami Beach, Fla
W.J. Usery Jr
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Rebozo Bank Ruling Called Coincidence
Washington AP reports a federal bank agency spokesman calls the insurance approval for Key Biscayne Savings and Loan Association a big coincidence. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board approved federal insurance on July 19 after prior denials in 1972 and March this year. The move followed Thomas R. Bomar, Nixon appointee, becoming chairman, with Grady Perry as the other voting member.
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Washington
Federal Insurance
Charles G. Bebe
Rebozo
Nixon
Federal
Key Biscayne
Thomas R. Bomar
Savings and Loan Associations
Grady Perry
Bomar
Orange Juice Samples Spiked Across Four Cities
Eighteen people in Lakeland and three other cities fell ill after sampling orange juice offered by a woman posing as a market surveyor. Police said the Florida victims reported hallucinations and drunkenness with loss of coordination. Two remain in poor condition as detectives investigate the apparent tampering.
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Lakeland, Fla
Florida
Lakeland
Trudeau and Nixon links show in Hawaii and Key Biscayne
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his wife visited Hawaii before returning from a China trip. In Florida, Perry, a Democrat, is tied to Rebozo via a building lease and directorships at a rival bank, whose charter was denied twice by the comptroller. The federal insurance for a savings association was approved after months of denials, with officials citing a changed need.
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Perry
Rebozo
Key Biscayne Commercial
Bank Board
Federal Insurance For the Savings Association
Rebozo Bank
Office of the Comptroller
Nixon
Key Biscayne
Honolulu
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Waikiki Beach
China
Bar Begins Agnew Action in Towson Maryland
The Baltimore County Bar Association has begun an investigation to decide if disciplinary action will occur against former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew after he pleaded no contest to one federal income tax evasion charge. A 40 page Justice Department summary linked Agnew to a kickback and bribery scheme while he denies systematic extortion of bribes to secure contracts. William S. Baldwin, president of the association, announced the probe and said results will remain secret until the executive board votes on court action.
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Baltimore County Bar Association
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Justice Department
William S. Baldwin
County Bar Association
Baldwin
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