Aid Through Aid Thru Organizations Meets Senate Approval
The Senate passed a foreign aid bill shifting emphasis to multilateral assistance with international organizations. The measure totals 3.076 billion including bilateral aid 2.339 billion and 77.2 million for the Peace Corps, 507.8 million for the World Bank and IDB, and refugee aid. House provisions are smaller, and conferees await agreement.
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Washington
Senate
House
Peace Corps
World Bank
Inter-American Development Bank
Army
Okinawa
Nixon
Budget deficit fears loom but tax hike rejected by Nixon aides
Despite estimates of a 25.5 billion dollar deficit for fiscal 1973, Treasury Secretary Connally and OMB Director Shultz say no tax increase is planned. Nixon seeks rural development loans to spur countryside growth while markets react to the dollar's fall and gold, with Europe edging up as talks with the Common Market loom. Longshoremen extend work beyond Taft Hartley expiry as arbitration pressure increases.
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New York
Nixon
Treasury
John B. Connally
House
Ways and
George P. Shultz
Office of Management and Budget
Congress
America
United States
European Economic Community
Common Market
White House
Gulf
East Coasts
Chile's MIR Threatens Violence Amid Government Row
Chile's leftist MIR clashes with President Allende's Popular Unity as officials warn illegal activity may fuel violence. MIR accuses Communists of seeking deals with fascists while infiltrating the armed forces and seizing private farms. The group, founded by dissident Socialists and Communists, numbers 2000 to 8000, centered at the University of Concepcion.
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Santiago
Chile
Salvador Allende
Allende
Popular Unity Coalition
Revolutionary Movement
MIR
Communist Party
Periscope replaces rearview mirrors in new cars
Washington reports that by 1976 government rules will require overhead periscopes replacing interior and exterior rearview mirrors. The system doubles horizontal vision, covers about 80 degrees, and costs around 25 dollars to consumers. Donnely Mirrors built 50 units under a 14,000 dollar contract for GSA test cars.
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Washington
Charles Kaehn
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NHTSA
Kaehn
Donnely Mirrors, Inc
Holland, Mich
General Services Administration
Viet Cong Rejects Nixon Peace Plan at Paris Talks
North Vietnames Premier Phan Van Dong reports Viet Cong rejection of President Nixon eight point plan. Delegation says Dong spoke to a Hungarian group in Hanoi and called the plan an energetic indictment of Vietnamization and deceit. Viet Cong demand Thieu resign, Saigon end war policy, and US set a withdrawal date. The State Department notes the wording does not equal a rejection.
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Paris
Phan van Dong
Nixon
North Vietnam
Dong
Hanoi
109th Birthday For Winnebago Resident Mim Akers
O A Akers observed his 109th birthday Friday in Winnebago hospital. A resident of the Winnebago Baptist Home forty years he has been in the intensive care unit. Attendants say the observance was a brief lounge wheeling for a few minutes. Born at Amo Indiana Akers came to Minnesota in 1866.
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Winnebago, Mim
O.A. Akers
Winnebago Hospital
Winnebago Baptist Home
Akers
Amo
Ind
Minnesota
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Jess
House & Garden
McCall's House Beautiful
Parents’ Magazine
Seal
Enliven
D&j
Mt. Airy
Maryland
Routzahn's
Routzahn
Routzahn’s
BOY Scouts
CUB Scouts
Frederick
Viet Cong
Nguyen van Thieu
Saigon
Vietnam
South Vietnam
U.S. State Department
Philheat
Phillips 66
Blue Ridge Oil Company
P.O
Rosemont
Frederick County National BA
Fededa Despacit Insurance Corporation
Cline
Cline’s
Paul Revere
Gorham
Sewelry Store
E. Patrick St
Reg
E. Patrick
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