European Common Market warns Nixon tax could derail Kennedy Round
The European Common Market Commission warned that Nixon’s 10 percent import surcharge and suspension of the dollar’s gold tie could negate Kennedy Round tariff cuts and curb world trade. Britain prepared for diversions of cheap Japanese goods, markets stayed unsettled, and talk of partial currency floating spread among six member states and Britain.
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Marcel Anthonioz
Price Freeze Q and A from OEP outlines scope
The Office of Emergency Preparedness released a Q and A on Nixon’s wage price and rent freeze. It covers rents, used goods, professional fees, commissions, insurance, utilities, wholesale and retail prices, taxes, pensions, tuition, farm products, and enforcement procedures.
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Sunny warm spell with near ninety high and pollution alert
Pleasant, sunny conditions continue with a high around 90 and lows near 60. The National Weather Service in Cleveland warns of a high air pollution potential tonight due to a temperature inversion and light winds, triggering a 36 hour warning—the first since observations began.
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Aussies Leaving Vietnam
Australia and New Zealand announced they will withdraw all combat troops from Vietnam. Australia plans most forces home by Christmas with equipment shipments completed by early 1972. New Zealand will withdraw its small combat force by about year end.
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Australia
New Zealand
Vietnam
William McMahon
Wellington
Keith Holyoake
Convicts Aid Camp Drive By Sending Local Kids
Four children were chosen from a Baltimore list to attend a summer camp after Maryland House of Correction inmates raised 300 dollars by selling photographs to prisoners’ relatives. Inmates George Brown and George Rice led the effort with support from the Inmates Organization Committee. Brown aims to send more than 100 children next year and plans to visit the camp with his daughter. Michael Anderson of the Childrens Fresh Air Society praised the project as commendable.
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Frank Cox
Keith Christopher Johnson
Debbie Gantt
Michael Anderson
Childrens Fresh Air Society
Labor leaders prepare showdown over wage freeze
Labor leaders plan a confrontation over a wage freeze as part of ongoing economic policy actions. Protests and strategic rallies are expected as the policy unfolds across industries.
Chopper Crash Kills 38 in Grafenwoehr Training Flight
A U S Army CH47 Chinook crashed near Grafenwoehr Bavaria during a training flight from Regensburg to Grafenwoehr. Forty three aboard reported dead and missing with 25 bodies recovered from the wreckage. The helicopter carried a crew of five and 33 soldiers from the 56th Artillery Brigade.
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Heidelberg
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