Major unions press for higher pay in 1973 negotiations
Washington AP Major labor contracts affecting almost five million workers enter bargaining with large unions seeking more than Nixon Phase 3 5.5 percent guideline. Communications Workers President Joseph Beirne rejects 5.5 as unrealistic while unions threaten to lobby Congress to block standby wage price controls beyond April. AFL CIO International Ladies Garment Workers already wins 8 percent first year and 6 percent next two years for 60,000 workers in eight states, signaling pattern for 440,000 more in later rounds.
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Washington
Nixon
Ners
Communications Workers
Joseph A. Beirne
Congress
Afl-Cio International Ladies Garment Workers
Bloodiest weekend of strife leaves 10 dead in Belfast
AP reports Belfast woods and streets again echo with gunfire as 10 people die in the latest surge of guerrilla violence. A gas station attendant shot by gunmen died in hospital, with six Roman Catholics killed by British troops and three Protestants among the dead. The toll since last Monday reaches 20.
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Belfast
Irish Republican Army
William Whitelaw
Britain
Northern Ireland
Edward Heath
Train Derailment Triggers Evacuations and Toxic Fumes
About 700 residents of Downingtown Pennsylvania were being evacuated as a Penn Central train derailed and burned releasing toxic fumes from leaking sulfuric and nitric acids. One boxcar burned. two tank cars leaking. no injuries reported. Firefighters faced smoke and fog but contained the blaze.
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Downingtown
Pennsylvania
Chester County
Phil
Lewis Wilson
Penn Central
Wilson
Body of Missing Boston University Coed Found
Demaris Synge Gillispie, 22, a Boston University honor student, was found nude and decomposed in a wooded area near Lennox Street Billerica. Autopsy says she was strangled. she disappeared November 29 from Cambridge. Eight similar deaths remain unsolved with one suspect in prison for unrelated charges.
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Billerica
Mass
Demaris Synge Gillispie
Boston
Lennox Street
Cambridge
John J. Karbowniczak
Middlesex County
John Irwin
Atty. Gen
Robert Quinn
John J. Droney
Cambridge Police
AFL-CIO Leader Demands Blue Cross Rate Hike Rejected
Raymond R. Corbett charged Blue Cross with acting as a collective bargaining agent for hospitals not a public servant and urged replacing its board with consumer and employer representatives. At a state hearing on a rate increase for over two million subscribers, he called for structural, administrative and financial reforms before approval. The program covers New York City and 12 surrounding counties.
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New York
New York State
Afl-Cio
Blue Cross
Raymond R. Corbett
State Department of Insurance
The
Associated Hospital Service of
New York City
Full Honors for Last U S Viet Combat Casualty Before Truce
The Army buried Col. William B. Nolde with full military honors at Ft. Myer and Arlington Cemetery, honoring the last American killed in combat before the Vietnam cease-fire. Gen Haig attended as flags were presented to the widow and Nolde’s father, marking a solemn close to a long conflict.
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U. S. Viet
Washington
William B. Nolde
Vietnam
Ft. Myer
Nolde
Arlington National Cemetery
Army
Roy V. Peters
Robert E. Coffin
Italy
Henry Nolde
Menominee
Mich
Alexander M. Haig Jr
National Security
Henry A. Kissinger
Loc
U.S
Air Force
John O'Neal Rucker
Linden
Tex
Nixon hosts farewell meeting for Pay Board and Price Commission
President Nixon gathers 16 members and officials from the Pay Board and Price Commission to thank them for their efforts as wage and price controls wind down under Phase 3, marking the groups' exit with the administration.
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Washington
Nixon
Pay Board and Price Commission
Calmnet
Ireland set to vote February elections ignite political shift
Ireland will hold national elections February 28, a year before the normal schedule, after Prime Minister Jack Lynch unexpectedly called for the vote. The date comes as Britain prepares plans for Northern Ireland amid ongoing sectarian violence between the IRA and Protestant majority. Israel silent on Syria air space claim as tensions mount. Nine hostages freed after Bank of Montreal siege in Cornwall, Ontario, vault remained closed. US intelligence tracks Communist cargo ships bound for Haiphong amid mine clearance talks with North Vietnam.
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Dublin
Ireland
Jack Lynch
Charles Stewart Mott hospitalized in serious condition
Flint auto pioneer Charles Stewart Mott, 97, large GM stockholder, has been hospitalized eight days with the flu and is in serious condition at St. Joseph Hospital. He was admitted January 28 after prior gall bladder and respiratory issues. Karl Moersch of Bonn's Foreign Ministry flew to the United States for talks with United Nations and US officials.
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Flint, Mich
Charles Stewart Mott
Flint’s
St. Joseph Hospital
Mott
General Motors Corp
Bonn
Germany
Karl Moersch
Foreign Ministry
First U.S. POW Releases Expected This Week in South Vietnam
U.S. officials say the initial prisoner of war releases in South Vietnam are anticipated this week. Minesweeping by U.S. ships and aircraft from the minefields laid in North Vietnamese waters may begin soon. Fighting subsides nationwide as truce observers deploy to regional HQs, while B52s continue bombing Laos upon Lao government request. A concrete plan to receive the first POW group near An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon, is under preparation.
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Waters
U. S
Laos
U. S. Pacific
Honolulu
An Loc
Saigon
Doctors and nurses await released POWs at Clark
At Clark Air Base Philippine officials plan a rapid medical processing for 60 doctors and 100 nurses. POWs will receive immediate physician exams, rest, and dietary adjustments before a battery of tests including X rays ECG and dental checks, with any further care handled in the United States.
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U. S
Clark Air Force Base
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Joan W. Od
U.S. Air Force Hospital
Ord
Baker
Ore
Hanoi
United States
Lawmaker accuses Rockefeller budget of hiding funds
Albany AP Stanley Steingut Democratic minority leader accuses Gov Rockefeller of hiding money in his proposed 8.88 billion state budget and in the current budget. He calls the 15 million tax reserve fund a fiscal gimmick to hide funds for local aid. Rockefeller aides say the fund will refund state income taxes. Steingut says the fund would cost about 27 million in revenue sharing for localities.
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Albany
N.T
Stanley Steingut
Rockefeller
Steingut
Brooklyn
Four Banks Questioned Over Prime Lending Rate Rise
Nixon administration's Committee on Interest and Dividends seeks full cost and earnings details from four banks that raised their prime lending rate from 6 to 14 percent. The four banks are Franklin National Bank New York First Pennsylvania Banking Trust Co Bala Cynwyd Bank of New York New York City and Girard Trust Bank Philadelphia.
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Washington
Cost of Living Council
Nixon
Franklin National Bank
New York
First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co
Bala Cynwyd, Pa
Bank of New York
New York City
Girard Trust Bank of
Philadelphia
Mayors push Congress on budget cuts and anti-poverty cuts
New York AP report says leaders from the nation’s mayors plan a public appeal beyond Washington to counter President Nixon’s budget proposals. Moon Landrieu and other city chiefs meet in New York and plan a broader coalition as they press Capitol Hill for funding and preservation of the OEO and the $2.25 billion Emergency Employment Act.
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New York
Nixon
Congress
Washington
U.S. Conference of Mayors
National League of Cities
New Orleans
Moon Landrieu
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Landrieu
Legislative Action Committee of the Conference
New
York City
Legislative Acton Committee
League of Cities
Roman Gibbs
Detroit
San Francisco
Joseph Alioto
Carl Albert
Energy policy urged to boost U S supply resilience
Rep Wright Patman warns the United States must devote greater effort to assuring adequate energy supplies now and in the future. A defense production committee report notes delays in nuclear plant construction, scarce oil refinery projects, and a heavy reliance on foreign oil through 1985.
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Washington
United States
Wright Patman
D-Tex
Joint Committee of Defense Production
Patman
U.S
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