08 Feb 1972
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Newspaper
Oswego Palladium Times
Location
Oswego, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1972
Page
1
President Nixon sent a special environmental message proposal package to Congress including a tax on air polluting sulfur emissions and a plan to back a UN environment fund of 100 million over five years. He also urges states to curb highway and airport siting by 1975 or face loss of federal aid and to limit development on lands near waters.
President Nixon will be accompanied to China by Walter Cronkite John Chancellor Harry Reasoner and William F Buckley among 87 news staffers chosen from 2000 applicants. The articles also outline federal measures on toxic waste land disposal soil runoff endangered species protection enforcement and a ban on poisons on federal land.
The Rev James A Bronwell 26 and his wife Georgia were arrested in Onondaga County for third degree possession of a dangerous drug and processed marijuana found in their DeWitt home. They posted 2500 bail each and spent the night in jail. Bronwell has served as associate pastor of DeWitt Community Church for about a year.
Communist forces fired mortars and rocket grenades at a U S truck convoy in central Vietnam. American helicopter gunships drove off attackers, one U S airman wounded, fuel truck destroyed, another damaged, convoy reached Pleiku in Pleiku Province.
The Senate agreed to take up a bill to end the West Coast dock strike with a 2 p.m. EST vote after Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield requested unanimous consent for action by day’s end.
President Nixon labeled the foreign aid authorization as below minimum and said the $2.74 billion measure falls short of the $4.24 billion he sought for the current fiscal year. He spoke after signing the act on Monday and called the result a great disappointment.
London reports the government will declare a state of emergency and order a power saving dimout to cope with a five week coal strike. The first restriction will ban floodlighting and advertising signs with rotating cuts at power plants to follow.
George P. Shultz, director of the Office of Management and Budget, told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee there will be no request for a value-added tax or any other new tax in the coming fiscal year. He spoke in response to Sen. William Proxmire’s questions.
Syracuse saw about g1 inches of fluffy snow in the metropolitan area with forecasts calling for up to another inch. Northwest winds 10 to 12 mph and temperatures in the low teens accompanied the storm. Oswego and Utica reported lighter impacts while visibility dropped on northern Syracuse roads.
In Saigon a rift emerged between President Nguyen Van Thieu and the Nixon administration over political terms of the peace plan. Thieu demanded Saigon alone negotiate political arrangements, while Rogers signaled U S flexibility on Thieu’s resignation timing before the election. Thieu ordered diplomats to seek clarity from Washington and to present any political settlement to the U S delegation only through Saigon.
House and Senate committees advance separate measures aimed at ending the West Coast dock strike. The Senate backs mandatory arbitration for 40 days with all issues negotiable, binding for 18 months. the House favors a 60 day partial injunction against striking. Leaders seek action before Lincoln Day recess.
Washington AP reports Selective Service Director Curtis Tarr ordered local boards to move over 11,000 men with induction notices and 115,000 from the 1972 Extended Priority Selection Group into the Second Priority group. They avoid drafting during national emergencies. The 1972 group includes those eligible in 1971 who did not receive notices and those with postponements ending before April 1. Tarr fixed a temporary lottery ceiling at 200 for remaining 1972 inductions. Sinclair Weeks, former Commerce Secretary, dies at 78 in Concord.
President Nixon told 1,500 executives at the White House Conference on the Industrial World Ahead to stop complaining about wage and price controls and focus on making them work. He warned there will be heat but said full employment without inflation in a peaceful period comes first and challenged firms to resist protectionist retreat.
The 1972 campaign spending law tightens ceilings on advertising and requires disclosure of all campaign contracts over 100 dollars. It sets a 10 cent per eligible voter cap on total advertising with up to 60 percent for TV and radio, affecting presidential nominees and shaping fund raising rules ahead of the fall campaign.
The House approved a bill to create a pilot program giving free or low cost meals to needy persons 60 and older. It would spend 100 million in 1973 and 150 million in 1974, with grants to states based on population and need.
A year after the 6.4 magnitude San Fernando quake, Los Angeles recounts 64 dead and over 2400 injured. The disaster caused $500 million in damage, toppled overpasses, and left 850 homes and 65 apartment buildings wrecked amid a warning of a larger future quake.
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