Bill Passes on Pollution Bill Holding Firms for Cleanup
A joint congressional panel approved a water pollution bill requiring private firms to pay cleanup costs for oil spills unless willful negligence is proven. The measure, with a Santa Barbara spill catalyst, sets liability at 100 per gross ton or 14 million max, creates an Office of Environmental Quality, and establishes a 35 million revolving fund for rapid response and research.
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Joint
Congressional Committee
House Senate
Santa Barbara
Calif
Office of Environmental Quality
Nixon
New Environmental Council
Bomb Scares Sweep Nation Hit Pittsburgh and D C
Explosions and fires in Pittsburgh and Washington along with bomb threats disrupted cities nationwide. Schools and offices faced evacuations while 2700 workers at Dayton's NCR plant were sent home amid threats linked to Vietnam War protests.
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Pittsburgh
Washington, D.C
Appleton
Wis
New York
Lawrence University
Curtis Tarr
Defense Department
Air Force
ROTC
Washington
Appleton West High School
United Nations
National Cash Register Co
Dayton
Ohio
Manhattan
Mobile Oil Corp
International Business Machines, Corp
General Telephone & Eletronics Corp
United Press International
Revolutionary Force 9
Third World
Oil Firm Blamed For Gulf Slick
Interior Secretary Hickel says Chevron Oil Co caused a Gulf of Mexico pollution disaster by removing an $800 safety device on an offshore well. The well gushed 600 to 1,000 barrels daily, forming a 100 foot high column and a spreading slick as a storm threat loomed.
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New Orleans
Walter A. Hickel
Gulf of Mexico
Hickel
Chevron Oil Co
Chevron
Louisiana
W. R. Billen
Gulf
Cambodian Protests Roil Phnom Penh Third Day
Angry mobs in Phnom Penh clash with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces for the third day. Rioters attack Viet Namese homes and loots churches, with at least four hospitalizations reported. Prince Sihanouk travels via Paris planning talks with Moscow and Beijing to ease Hanoi ties.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Cambodia
Norodom Sihanouk
Paris
National Assembly
Sihanouk
France
Phnom Penh
Moscow
Peking
Hanoi
Radio
Berets Lead Attack on VC Jungle Hospital
Government mercenaries led by U S Green Berets attacked a Viet Cong jungle hospital six miles northwest of the Special Forces camp at Tien Phuoc. Twenty guards or staff were killed and ten patients were captured, according to reliable sources.
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Berets
Saigon
U.S
Green Berets
Tien Phuoc
Cam la
Demilitarized Zone
U S Backing French Plan for All Foreign Forces to Leave Laos
The State Department voiced support for French Foreign Minister Schumann’s call for complete foreign withdrawal from Laos and for Laos to solve its dispute through Geneva accord mechanisms and Lao leadership. The statement also noted U S emphasis on neutral implementation of Geneva terms and Laotian self government.
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Washington
United States
Laos
State Department
Department
Maurice Schumann
Tennessee mother donates son’s kidneys to two strangers
Lila Greer of Celina chose life saving organ donation for her 8 year old son Michael Anthony after brain tumor surgery. His kidneys were transplanted to Sandra Reagan of Maynardville now living in Tampa and John McDowell of Dyer in simultaneous operations at Vanderbilt and VA Hospital. Michael died five hours after the decision.
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Nashville, Tenn
Tennessee
Lila Mary Greer
Celina
Michael Anthony
Sandra Reagan
John McDowell
Michael Greer
Vanderbilt Hospital
Soviet-Made Copter Destroyed In Raid
U S jet fighters destroyed a North Vietnamese helicopter in Laos near the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The MI4 helicopter was on the ground camouflaged opposite the A Shau Valley area in South Vietnam when hit. Satellite photos confirmed the destruction three days after the attack.
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1St Air Cavalry Division
Song Be
U.S
Ho Chi Man Trail
Laos
A Shau
South Vietnam
Man Kills Self On Board Jetliner Over Nebraska
A man shot and killed himself aboard a Denver bound United Airlines 727 over western Nebraska. A passenger was wounded in the chin when a bullet struck across the aisle. The deceased was J Thomas 35 from San Jose California. The wounded man J Marvin Sager 42 from Pleasanton California was hospitalized in fair condition after the plane landed in Denver. FBI did not release bullet caliber and said the pistol was used.
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Denver
Nebraska
J. Thomas
United Airlines
San Jose
Calif
New Haven
Conn
J. Marvin Sager
Pleasan
Sager
Chase
Richard Schonert
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Jars Region
Man
Self
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