Alaska Receives Record 900 Million In Arctic Oil Bids
World major oil firms bid more than 900 million dollars for Prudhoe Bay leases on Alaska’s North Slope. Top bid 72.2 million for a 2,560 acre tract set a per acre record. Royalty and bond plans outlined as state moves to fund highways hospitals and schools. Eskimo protesters picket bid opening over land ownership.
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Arctic
Anchorage, Alaska
North Slope
Keith Miller
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Prudhoe Bay
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Fairbanks
Getty and Hunt
U.S
Amerada-Hess
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Tom Kelly
U.S. Treasury
Calgary
Edmonton
Hamilton Bros. Oil Co
Ashland Oil
Cities Service
Continental Oil
Highland Resources
Homeil
Signal Oil
Sun Oil
Union Carbide Petroleum
Union Pacific Railroad
Anchorage
Eskimos
Arctic Ocean
U.S. Viet forces resume offensives after truce ends
Saigon reports renewed American and North Vietnamese operations after a three day cease fire ended at 1 a.m. Casualties rose with 31 U.S. troops wounded and 37 enemy killed in the first 12 hours. Both sides increased combat activity and announced ongoing operations.
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U.S. N. Viet
Saigon
Vietnam
U.S
Ho Chi Minh
Lake Ontario ecological hearings examine nuclear pollution safeguards
The Sub-Committee on Environmental Management and Natural Resources held an all day Lake Ontario session in Oswego County with Senator H. Douglas Barclay chairing. Eleven witnesses testified, including William J. Kelleher who reported on current radioactivity levels and potential long term nuclear contamination risks to Lake Ontario's ecology and possible limits on nuclear plant numbers in the Great Lakes.
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Legislative Committee
Lake Ontario
Oswego
Barclay
Assemblyman Beckman
Great Lakes
Ontario
William J. Kelleher
State Health Department
Lake
Federal Radiation Council
New York
New York State Health Department
Indivi
Free Belfast RCs Find Peace Behind Barriers
In Belfast's Falls Road, Roman Catholics say life behind barriers has brought peace. A 64 year old grandmother voices the wish to keep the barriers for quiet nights, safe streets, open schools and steady work, despite calls for them to come down.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Free Belfast
Falls Road
Cornell Trustees Warn Campus Activists Over Disorder
Ithaca New York AP Cornell University trustees issued a stern warning to campus activists asserting order must prevail on campus. They urged no amnesty for infractions of the student code and condemned violent building occupations as threats of force.
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Ithaca, N.Y
Cornell University
Willard Straight Hall
Ivy League School
Iary
Cornell
Nixon to Address U N General Assembly in New York
President Nixon will fly to New York next Thursday to address the United Nations General Assembly and may hold an informal talk with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
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Washington
Nixon
New York
United Nations General Assembly
Andrei Gromyko
Demonstrators Rally Over Welfare Clothing Allowances
In New York the Bronx and Lower East Side schools faced protests this morning over welfare clothing allowances. A boycott at the Lower East Side school was entirely effective.
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New York
Bronx
Lower East Side
Boycott Moves Against White Firms In Camden
Black leaders in Camden initiate a boycott of white firms with picket lines around Lit Brothers and Sears Roebuck stores. The protest began Wednesday with marches at five Lit Brothers entrances and spread to Sears by late Wednesday. Police reported no incidents.
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Camden
N.J
Lit Brothers
Sears Roebuck & Co
Two U.S. Advisers Shot Dead Near Saigon
Lt. Col. Eugene F. Smallwood, 42, of Fairfax Virginia, and Maj. Anthony J. Broulton, 32, of Jackson Heights New York, were killed while leaving a South Vietnamese army compound 25 miles southwest of Saigon. A South Vietnamese soldier, described as emotionally disturbed, killed the pair and then killed himself, according to the U.S. Command.
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Eugene F. Smallwood
Fairfax
Anthony J. Broulton
Jackson Heights
N.Y
Saigon
Fire sweeps historic frat house on Hobart College campus
A seven hour undetected blaze gutted a 100 year old fraternity building at Hobart College in Geneva New York. Three students heard smoke at 2 a.m and slept through the alarm then awoke at 9 a.m discovering heavy smoke from the boiler room. They escaped with no injuries.
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Geneva
N.Y
Hobart College
UAW Debates 30 and Out Retirement Plan in 1970 Talks
Detroit report outlines a proposed UAW retirement scheme offering retirement after 30 years of service, regardless of age. Jack Wagner of Buick Local 599 promotes the plan with about 1,200 local endorsements as leaders push to shape demands for the Atlantic City convention and the April constitutional meeting.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
Jack Wagner
Buick
Flint
Wagner
UAW
Atlantic City
Walter P. Reuther
Egyptian Aircraft Hit Twice As Israelis In Sinai Desert
TEL AVIV AP Egyptian planes raided Israeli forces in the Sinai twice today and seven raiders were shot down. An eighth plane was listed as probable kill. Eight Egyptian aircraft were engaged in two crossings of the Suez Canal with dogfights over Ras al Misalla and the gulf area.
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Sinai Desert
Egypt
Gulf of Suez
Cairo
Sinai
Suez Canal
Canal
Ras al Misalla
Port Suez
House Designed Tax Bill Faces Senate Challenges
Washington AP reports the House tax reform framework aims to curb tax gimmicks by high earners. It raises capital gains to 24–32 percent, tightens holding periods, and trims the top earned-income rate from 70 to 50 percent. Senate challenges threaten its fate as lawmakers dispute the plan.
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Senate
Washington
House
Prime Beef query on city firemen dance catering bids
A reader questions why the City Firemen’s Association has not advertised for bids to cater the annual dance. The letter notes many individuals and firms could be interested in bidding and invites responses.
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City Firemens Assn
Fire guts NBC star Johnny Carson office in Rockefeller Center
Fire swept through the seventh floor office of television host Johnny Carson in Rockefeller Center New York destroying furniture scripts clothes and a portrait of Mrs Carson. Carson said things look pretty bad and everything is gone as he viewed the waterlogged room.
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New York
Johnny Carson
Plan for 30000-Resident City Near Macedon
A developer plans a new city of 30,000 near Macedon New York with no public housing. Stewart D. Moot of the Wayne County Planned Unit Development Corp says the project emphasizes neighborhood living. Federal Urban Development Corp cites five new communities for Rochester area growth.
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Macedon
N.Y
New York
Stewart D. Moot
Wayne County Planned Unit Development Corp
Federal Urban Development Corp
Rochester
GM to Raise Average Car Price by $119
General Motors announced an average price hike of $119, from $3,070 to $3,189, with $38 of the increase converting optional equipment to standard. The rise ranges by model, averaging 2.1 percent and would total $125 including federal tax. Cadillac and Chevrolet models see increases from $98 to $199. Chairman James M. Roche cited higher labor and material costs and taxes as the main reasons.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
James M. Roche
Underground A-Bomb Blast Shakes Colorado Gas Hunt
An underground nuclear explosion near Grand Alley Colorado produced an explosion equivalent to 40 000 tons of TNT and aimed to free natural gas from rock formations. The AEC reported no radioactivity escaped into the air, with results to be assessed next spring.
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Grand Alley
Colo
Colorado
Atomic Energy Commission
Navy Deck Officer Guilty In Subic Bay Collision
Lt. (j.g.) Ronald C. Ramsey pleaded guilty to three charges of negligence and dereliction of duty after the June 3 collision between the destroyer Frank F. Evans and the carrier Melbourne in the South China Sea. He received a reprimand and a reduction in seniority. four charges were dropped.
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U.S
Frank F. Evans
Melbourne
J.g
Ronald C. Ramsey
Navy
South China Sea
Ramsey
U.S. Navy
Subic Bay
Evans
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