U S Automakers Move to Sell Cars to Cuba
Ford Chrysler and General Motors plan to ship cars and trucks to Cuba in a deal valued around 150 million dollars. The agreement, framed after a Western Hemisphere talks, marks a rare postwar exception amid embargo tensions and prompts mixed reactions from Latin American regimes.
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Cuba
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State Department
Fidel Castro
Erno Rabasa
Castro
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Heavy Fighting East of Saigon Clashes Continue
South Vietnamese command reports heavy clashes 40 miles east of Saigon for a second day. Communist led troops attacked three government positions with over 200 rounds of mortar fire and ground assaults. Official tallies claim 78 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed, with eight government deaths and 2 wounded. In the Central Highlands, 370 enemy killed over four days. govt losses tally 91 dead and 166 wounded.
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Saigon
Central Highlands
Hughlands
GM Top Executives Earn Record 175 Million in 1973
General Motors reports top two executives among the nation's highest earners for 1973. Gerstenberg totals 923,000 with salary and bonuses while Cole gains 833,000 including salary. overall GM paid more than 209 million in salaries and bonuses, up 5.4 percent from 1972. Sales hit 35.8 billion, a company record, with net income 2.39 billion or 834 a share. Ford and Chrysler also posted high compensation figures for their leaders.
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General Motors
Richard C. Gerstenberg
Edward N Cole
Ford
Henry Ford II
Lee Iacocca
U S Vulnerable to Oil Embargo Says Sawhill
Washington AP Former energy chief Jobe C Sawhall warned the United States faced heightened risk of oil supply disruption from embargoes. He urged aggressive energy conservation to cut foreign dependence, aligning with Project Independence aims for 1980. He cautioned overreliance on Iran and Saudi Arabia and noted some future imports may persist.
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Sawhall
Treasury
Sawhull
Nixon
Sawtull
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Soviet Bloc Ends Summit in Warsaw With Security Council Call
Seven Warsaw Pact nations wrap a two day gathering in Warsaw issuing a communique for a permanent European security council. They urge a European Conference on Security and Cooperation to follow Geneva talks, viewing it as a starting point for broader European relations.
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Poland
European Security Council
Warsaw Pact
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Navy Plans to Resume Sanguine Submarine Project
The Navy announced it will resume the Sanguine submarine development after earlier halts and budget overruns. Congress faces funding in the 1973 fiscal year with a proposed 132 million dollars to carry forward the program, which has cost at least 738 million so far and faced opposition from lawmakers and local residents.
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Navy
George Mahon
Texas
Pentagon
Wisconsn
Upper Michigan
Sais
iCs
Congress
Nixon
Student Killed In Bank Holdup In Hamburg
Police killed 23 year old Colombia student Huberto Emilio Maria Gonzales during a botched bank robbery at a Commerzbank near Hamburg main station. An officer died and another was wounded. Gonzales had held a car hostage and threatened teammates during a four hour standoff.
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Germany
Polce
Huberto Emilio Maria Gonzales
Bogota
Commerzbank
West Berlin Technical University
Martin Gonzales
Teseiatan
Meads
Blacksmith Versus Salversmith In Material Traditions
The passage contrasts two metalworkers, noting the blacksmith shapes hot metal while the salversmith handles brightwork. It highlights distinctions in craft and focus between smiting and ornamental metalwork.
Hashish Seizure From Freighter In Atlantic Boardings
US Coast Guard seized 3700 pounds of hashish from the Sea Trader after boarding 60 miles northwest of Nassau. The freighter’s six crew members were arrested in Nassau on drug possession charges. The haul valued at 153000 dollars was en route from Morocco to New York.
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Miami AP
John H Moseley
Drug Enforcement Administration
Miami
Muccles
Atlantic
Florda
Gallatin
Nassau
New York
Morocco
Moseley
Blacks denounce hunt for Zebra in city manhunt
Community leaders condemn police dragnet dubbed Zebra as hundreds march and denounce searches and interrogations. Rev Cecil Williams says a police state exists with raids, and shootings linked to an ongoing five month city fear.
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Altate
Pulie
Masings
Cecil Williams
Glide Memorial Methodist Church
First Lads Mary Ulemmer Ames Coined Term in Hayes Era
In a 1877 article about President Rutherford B Hayes’s inauguration, Mary Ulemmer Ames is credited as the first to use the term first lads to refer to the wives of US presidents. The coinage links to early presidential social culture and gendered public roles.
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Mary Ulemmer Ames
Rutherford B Hayes
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