Proxmire Attacks Military Aid Boardroom Waste
Sen. William Proxmire blasted the 1.7 billion military aid bill as top heavy with admirals and generals in admin posts. He urged deep cuts and cited examples in India Pakistan Italy Portugal Argentina West Germany Brazil where high ranking officers head missions whose payrolls exceed aid values. He argued warrants or lower ranks could run programs while the Senate readies votes on base agreements with Portugal and Bahrain and requires treaties for future deployments.
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Washington
William Proxmire
U.S
Senate
Wisconsin Democrat
Foreign Operations Appropriations
Proxmire
India
Pakistan
Italy
Portugal
Argentina
West Germany
Brazil
Army
Navy
Air Force
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Bahrain
Richmond Schools Delay 1973 Consolidation Plan
Richmond Virginia school board abandons rush to merge the citys 70 percent black schools with white schools in Henrico and Chesterfield counties by September 1973. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court overturned a lower court order for merger, prompting an appeal to the Supreme Court to prevent delay beyond September 1973.
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Richmond, Va
Richmond
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
High Court
Court of Appeals
Robert R. Merhige Jr
Merhige
Henrico
Chesterfield
Arcilesi to Head Ohio Education Association Promising Reforms
Leonard J. Arcilesi 43, principal at Peoples Junior High in Cincinnati, won the OEA presidency and vows a reform agenda. He calls for a congress of public employes to balance unions, a rewrite of the OEA constitution, state licensing changes, and increased public school funding while limiting lotteries. Arcilesi will take office July 1 and preside over a 95,000-member group.
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Ohio Education Association
OEA
Leonard J. Arcilesi
Peoples Junior High School
Cincinnati
DEA
Columbus
Arcilesi
Ohio
William McDonald
Jackson
Deand Traxler
Ada State College
Worldwide pilot strike planned for Monday
The International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations said pilots in 64 nations including the United States will strike for 24 hours Monday to protest hijacking dangers. The U S Air Line Pilots Association also ordered its members to join the protest.
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New York
United States
International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations
Washington
U.S. Air Line Pilots Association
Clear and cooler tonight with mild tomorrow
A brief weather note reports cooler tonight with lows in the 50s and fair conditions tomorrow. Saturday will be sunny with highs in the 70s and a yesterday high of 78 with an overnight low near 56, while Kentucky forecast shows lows in the 50s and 60s and highs in the upper 70s to low 80s.
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Kentucky
Meinhof Arrested At Hannover Airport In Baader Meinhof Gang
Ulrike Meinhof, 37 and mother of twins, co leader of West Germany's Baader Meinhoff gang, was arrested at Hannover airport arriving from West Berlin. Police say a bomb in her cosmetics case and firearms were in luggage. The gang faced bombings, bank robberies, car thefts, and a plan to kidnap Willy Brandt.
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Hannover
Germany
Ulrike Meinhof
West Germany
West Berlin
Andreas Baader
Frankfurt
U.S
Willy Brandt
Meinhof
Baader
Red Army
U S reports heavy losses of North Vietnamese tanks
Pentagon sources say Allied forces destroyed between 400 and 500 plus North Vietnamese tanks since the offensive began. Estimates note over 420 tanks destroyed March 30 to June 9, with other counts exceeding 530 across South and North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
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Washington
Pentagon
U.S
Indochina
North Vietnam
Joint Chiefs of Staff
U.S. Vietnam Command
South Viet
Taxmen held hostage after tax dispute in Memphis
Three state tax agents were sent naked into the street and another held eight hours by businessman LaSaunders Hudson, 29, who demanded and secured a meeting with Gov. Winfield Dunn over a $167 tax dispute. The encounter followed a Thursday hotel meeting about Negro problems.
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Memphis, Tenn
Winfield Dunn
LaSaunders Hudson
Dunn
Memphis tax dispute turns violent at dry cleaning firm
Four Revenue Department agents went to Hudson’s Memphis cleaning firm to collect back sales taxes. Hudson bound and stripped the agents and cuffed Duncan naked then held him in the store before police arrived. Dunn flew from Nashville to Memphis and later met the governor as authorities described a confrontation over taxes and black citizens’ needs.
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Tennessee
Hudson
Memphis
Don Duncan
Pistol Point
Dunn
Nashville
Vince Tuminello
Duncan
Tuminello
Lee Mullins
John Mabile
Mabile
Mullins
State Revenue Department
Gasoline fumes believed to kill two Hamilton youths
Autopsies were begun on two 14 and 15 year old Hamilton boys found dead in a tent near the hydraulic canal. Police theorize gasoline fumes in the enclosed shelter caused their deaths. Blood samples were sent for testing. Both were Harding Junior High students described as fishing buddies.
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Hamilton
Hydraulic Canal
N. Third Street Extension
Kettering Laboratories
Cincinnati
Harold J. Carpenter
Michael Bippus
Race St
Lillian Means
Michael Egner
Earl Egner
Harding Junior High School
Brown-Daweon
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Public-Employe Federation
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Cincinnati Teachers Association
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China
Nam, North Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
U.S. Navy
Russia
N. Vietnam
An Loc
Ann Landers
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Egner
Buryl
Bippus
Mercy Hospital
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