Treasury proposes six metric bottles for distilled spirits
The Treasury Department plans to replace half pint to quart sizes with six standard metric bottles by 1979, starting next year with mixed metric and non metric packaging. Hearings set for Sept 10 in Washington. The shift aims to benefit consumers, industry and government, with eight sizes under consideration.
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Treasury Department
Department
U.S
Treasury
United States
Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Rex. D. Davis
Bureau
Distilled Spirits Council of America
Angolan capital falls to MPLA as fighting rages
In Luanda the MPLA commandeered most of the capital amid nightly clashes that have killed about 300 and wounded around 1,000. The Soviet-backed movement pushed FNLA forces toward the port, while a rival 3,000-man guerrilla group may move on the city.
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Angola
Agostinho Neto
Popular Movement For the Liberation of Angola
MPLA
Holden Roberto
National Front For the Liberation of Angola
FNLA
Atlantic Ocean
Rail labor talks near deadline as strike threat looms
Negotiators sought a quick settlement in a looming nationwide rail strike with midnight Sunday cutoff. Federal mediators reported progress after a Tuesday night session between railroads and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks while postal talks remained tougher, with White House aide W J Usery Jr stating optimism but acknowledging hard issues.
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Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
W.J. Usery Jr
White House
Usery
Benjamin F. Bailor
Ford Administration
Congress
Soviets link Soyuz and Apollo in space rendezvous
Two Soviet cosmonauts adjusted Soyuz orbit for a planned Thursday docking with Apollo. The maneuver placed Soyuz in a near circular 137 to 139 mile orbit as Thomas Stafford Vance Brand and Donald Slayton prepared for the expected linkup over West Germany. A jammed docking probe threatened the joint mission but ground crews expected a quick fix.
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West Germany
Apollo
Thomas P. Stafford
Vance D. Brand
Donald K. Slayton
Slayton
U.S
Soyuz
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Russia
Space
Earth
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Ford
Washington
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Dobrynin
Brezhnev
There There Where Orbits Merge Soyuz Apollo Launch
Soviet papers hail a smooth Soyuz Apollo launch stressing political significance. Pravda dedicates space to the event and notes Cold War apologists delayed cooperation but peaceful policy influenced space collaboration terms. The headline references merging orbits signaling broader bilateral ties.
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Pravda
Communist Party
U.S.S.R
U.S.A
Blind 15 year old rides 150 miles with guiding whistle
Jeff Meyer, a blind and epileptic rider aged 15, pedaled 150 miles in two days under his father William Meyer's whistle guidance. Doctors once predicted severe disability, but aggressive therapy and family resolve improved his condition and confidence.
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San Diego
Calif
Jeff Meyer
Jeff
William
Peggy Meyer
Ucla
PeeThe
Middletown Weather Forecast Clears Into Week
Clear skies and overnight lows in the 60s expected for Middletown tonight. Sunny skies and highs near 89 on Thursday. Yesterday’s high reached 86 with a 60 overnight. Extended outlook calls for fair weather Friday and Saturday and a chance of showers Sunday.
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Middletown
Space Trackers strike looms during Apollo Soyuz mission
In Fairbanks Alaska union technicians threaten to strike Thursday risking weather data for splashdown NASA official Ed Eisele says the station could operate with supervisors and other stations would cover. Union cites wages and conditions negotiations with Bendix Field Engineering. $600000 settlement already awarded after grievances.
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Alaska
Ed Eisele
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Eisele
Anchorage
Bendix Field Engineering Corp
NASA
American Association of Arbitrators
Teamsters
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