Go To DefCon 3 Message Sparks Cold War Crisis
Nixon ordered DefCon 3 after Soviet hints of troop involvement in the Middle East. Kissinger led swift NSC action with meetings across the White House and foreign ministries, while Congress briefed. The United Nations then dispatched a peacekeeping force, and the pair exited to a calm South Lawn after a tense 24 hours.
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Nixon
U.S
America
Soviet Union
Middle East
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Henry A. Kissinger
State Department
Kremlin
United States
Dobrynin
Moscow
Kissinger
Simcha Dinitz
White House
National Security Council
West Wing
State and Defense Departments
CIA
National Military Command Center
Florida
Homestead Air Force Base
Atlantic
John F. Kennedy
Mediterranean
Oval Office
Cabinet
House
Carl Albert
Gerald L. Warren
United Nations Security Council
Mideast
Price Controls Lifted On Fertilizer Amid Food Price Dip
Washington reports the government ended price controls on the fertilizer industry to spur production while the Agriculture Department noted a sharp drop in the cost of food for September. Wages for fertilizer workers were freed and major companies promised a 5 percent domestic supply rise over nine months.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
John T. Dunlop
Cost of Living Council
Dunlop
Harvest Threat In Fuel Quotas
Senator James C. Eastland warns that farm fuel quotas could halt the harvest. In a letter to John Love he urged suspending quotas, saying allocations tied to November 1972 consumption are unrealistic for the 1973 harvest due to heavy rains.
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Washington
James C. Eastland
D-Miss
Nixon
John Love
Eastland
Mississippi
Trade Surplus Biggest For US In 8 Years
The United States posted an $873 million trade surplus in September, the largest monthly excess of exports over imports in over eight years. Exports reached $6.45 billion while imports fell to $5.58 billion, with a 7.4 percent rise in exports and 7.4 percent drop in imports from August. Through the first nine months, the U.S. ran a surplus of $153 million, signaling movement toward annual surpluses after deficits in 1972 and 1971. Major gains came from civilian aircraft, machinery, chemicals, and textiles. declines occurred in consumer goods, crude petroleum, steel, and nonferrous metals.
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Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Extension workers honored with Distinguished Service Award
Five Missouri extension workers received the Distinguished Service Award at the University of Missouri Extension Association statewide conference in Columbia. Honorees include Mrs. DeLois Buswell Trenton Robert L Heitmeyer Sedalia Dale Schnarre Mexico Raymond Steffens Union and Mrs Norma E Wiley Mr Vernon. Schnarre is a farm management specialist for the Mid Missouri Area serving Audrain and Callaway counties. He graduated from UMC in 1963 and resides in Mexico. His programs cover economics irrigation corn and soybean profits farmstead arrangements grain handling systems feedlot design futures markets and the computer as a farm management tool with mail in records whole farm budgeting enterprise analysis and ration formulation.
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Columbia
Missouri
University of Missouri Extension Association
DeLois Buswell
Trenton
Robert L. Heitmeyer
Sedalia
Dale Schnarre
Mexico
Raymond Steffens
Union
Norma E. Wiley
Vernon
UMC
White House sought telegram support for Nixon conference
White House officials requested telegrams of support from two groups for a presidential news conference that was postponed. A VFW official named William F. Rhathan said the request came by phone and the official promised a copy of the statement, which was not sent. A MACNA spokesman said a lower White House official suggested a comment after the President spoke. The National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce indicated they would not comment or support the President unless major changes occur.
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Washington
White House
Veterans of Foreign Wars
William F. Rhathan
Ronald L. Ziegler
VFW
Jay Rogen
National Association of Manufacturers
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Charles Armentrout
Nixon
Republic
Solid Waste Group Votes Incorporation In Audrain County
The Audrain County Solid Waste Committee voted to form a non profit incorporated group in a county court room meeting. Judges and local mayors plus city officials supported incorporation while two officials from Mexico opposed citing need for a formal plan before joining. Absent were Vandiver Village Rush Hill and Martinsburg representatives. landfill site studies were presented with potential sites near Martinsburg and Mexico.
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Audrain County Solid Waste Committee
Russell Blackburn
Don Crow
Farber
Floyd Chinn
Vandalla
R.P. Christeson
Auxvasse
Carl Steelman
Benton City
Hiram Keith
Laddonia
Harold Enslen
Mexico
Mexico City
Ruth Olson
Enslen
Vandiver Village
Rush Hill
Martinsburg
Charles Dreyer
Mid- Missouri Regional Planning Office
Jefferson City
Audrain solid waste panel forms plan and seeks sites
Audrain County officials organize a sub committee to develop a solid waste plan with Mexico City ManagerNeil Nielsen and others. Two cents per capita funding from participating bodies, based on the 1970 census, will cover committee expenses. In Chile, three more Al lende socialists were executed by firing squads in Antofagasta as the junta reports.
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Mexico
Rush Hill
Dreyer
Kaiser
A.P. Green
William Johnson
Audrain County City Health Unit
Johnson
Olson
Audrain
Vandalia
Bush Hill
Santiago
Chile
Salvador Allende
Socialist Party
Antofagasta
Teenager And Girl On $500000 Spree
Michael Thomas Henson an 18 year old from New York City and his girlfriend allegedly traveled the world using a borrowed credit card and 200000 dollars in fake checks. The spree lasting two months cost as much as half a million dollars. Henson was charged with defrauding an innkeeper passing worthless checks and receiving stolen property.
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Orlando, Fla
Michael Thomas Henson
New York City
Henson
Chili Supper Precedes Helias Bulldogs Football Game
PEP SQUAD and Publications sponsor a chili supper before Helias Bulldog football next Friday. Tickets are 1 with 5 7:30 p.m. meal including chili or vegetable soup, relishes, pie, and drink. Proceeds go to the Community Chest. admission 25 cents to tonight’s after game party from 10 until midnight with refreshments. Everyone invited to celebrate a Bulldog victory. The Junior Class will sponsor a Whiffleball game on Nov. 6 with proceeds for Prom. MHS Faculty vs Hannibal radio staff.
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Helias Bulldog
MHS
Hannibal
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