Foes Rally To Halt Safeguard ABM Expansion Next Week
Washington AP reports foes of President Nixon's Safeguard antiballistic missile plan plan a final push to restrict expansion after Senate defeats. Brooke proposes reallocating funds from two new ABM sites to strengthen existing Montana and North Dakota sites. He says administration agrees it improves Minuteman protection as well.
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Nixon
Senate
Safeguard
Edward Brooke
R-Mass
Brooke
John Stennis
D-Miss
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Missouri
Wyoming
Montana
North Dakota
Kirk Seeks Order To Halt Gas Dumping In Atlantic
Washington hearing underway as Florida Governor Claude Kirk and the Environmental Defense Fund seek a temporary restraining order to block the Army from sinking the Liberty ship LeBaron Russell Briggs loaded with 418 coffins of deadly nerve gas in 16,000 feet of water 283 miles east of Cape Kennedy. Col. Jack Osick defends disposal as safe, noting prior dumps caused no marine harm and the NAS chose the site for depth, proximity, and low nutrients.
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N.C
Atlantic Ocean
Russell Briggs
Briggs
Cape Kennedy
Fla. Tere
Claude Kirk
Environmental Defense Fund
Army
Jack Osick
Army Chief of Staff
Academy
New Jersey
Nixon Faces House Clash Over $22.4 Billion Vetoes
Washington AP Nixon and the House clash over vetoes of two major education and housing bills totaling about 22.4 billion. Democrats seek Republican support to override the president on the education and housing measures. Votes planned today amid a looming three week recess.
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Nixon
House
Office of Education
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Herbert G. Klein
Klein
Land of the Ozarks
Legislators Meet In Two Weeks Over Campus Disorder Laws
In Columbus Ohio Rep Robert E Levitt says the campus disorder laws decision will take at least two weeks and a special session may follow an election year. The hearings featured testimony for and against new laws with Rep Netzley and Rep Reichel pressing for harsher measures including immediate dismissal for rioting, a provision the Senate removed.
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Robert E. Levitt
Canton
Levitt
General Assembly
M. Morris Jackson
D-21
Cleveland
Wolman
Netzley
Richard G. Reichel
R-92
Massillon
Reichel
Senate
Gas leak seals roads and evacuations near Chillicothe
Two dozen Ross County families return after a gas leak from a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad car led to evacuations. Ethylene Dibromide, toxic and flammable, prompted a 1 square mile evacuation and a 25 mile US 35 stretch closure. Dow Chemical chemists sealed the leak and the train proceeded to Russell, Kentucky.
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Ross County
Chesapeake & Ohio
Ohio Highway Patrol
U.S. 50
Ohio 93
Jackson County
Dow Chemical Corp
Russell
Dow Chemical Plant
Midland
Mich
Tampa
Fla
Liberty Township
North Vietnamese attack mounts in South Vietnam lowlands
Heavy fighting in the coastal lowlands of Quang Tri and Thua Thien provinces killed more than 25 percent of North Vietnamese forces reported dead. South Vietnamese losses include 17 killed and 44 wounded, among them Maj. Nguyen Van Van of Fire Base O'Reilly. American air strikes were heavy as ground forces mostly blocked further advances.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Nguyen van van
O'Reilly
Weather Outlook With War News Mixed In
Tonight mostly fair and mild with showers late. Friday upper 80s and sunny. Saturday partly cloudy and warm. Yesterday’s high 88 and low 62 with 0.62 inch of rain. Intelligence says 500 North Vietnamese moved through west foothills then coastal region near Quang Tri City. Captured documents cite aim to liberate Low Lands. 188 killed by late today per spokesmen.
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