Congress Offsets President's Glee in U S Soviet Trade Pact
Washington AP The United States and the Soviet Union sealed a landmark trade accord plus a WWII era Lend Leases debt settlement. Rogers says the pact could generate $1.5 billion in three years and establish MFN status and Eximbank credits, but Congress may block MFN over Russian Jewry and demands on the debt settlement.
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Kansas Governor Docking Will Miss Revenue Sharing Signing
Gov. Robert Docking cannot attend the Friday signing of the federal revenue sharing bill in Philadelphia. He telegraphed President Nixon that Kansas funds will be held in trust pending legislative action and urged using the state share to reduce property taxes. Docking backs tightening the property tax lid and supports a homestead relief plan and a circuit breaker approach for tax relief.
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Protestant War Ends After Belfast Riots and Truce
Belfast AP report says Protestant guerrillas of the Ulster Defense Association suspended hostilities with the British Army after two nights of shootings and rioting that left at least four dead and 80 wounded. Talks yielded a promise to reduce heat while each side seeks controls, with UDA claiming up to 50,000 armed men. IRA activity included sniper fire and bombings. Catholic targets and a church were damaged amid the sectarian violence.
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Population Up In Kansas Cattle On Feed
A Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service release shows a 24 percent rise in cattle and calves on grain feed in Kansas feedlots. As of October 1 the total reached 1,150,000 head for slaughter, up from 930,000 a year earlier and 20,000 more than September 1. Large feedlots of 1,000 head or more housed 919,000 head, with 231,000 in smaller operations.
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Lyons Queen Caps Family Homecoming Legacy
Lyons Kansas AP Connie Chappell, once a Lynds cheerleader, becomes Lyons High School homecoming queen following sisters Rhonda Reatha and Marylyn who held the crown in 1962 1967 and 1968. She was nominated by the football team and elected by the student body the youngest Chappel to wear the crown in years.
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Soviet Easing Lets 20 Jewish Families Emigrate Tax-Free
Soviet sources say twenty families may leave for Israel without paying the education tax if they depart by October 28, while officials warn the levy is not ended. The six families once faced about $200,000 in reimbursement. Reports also note widespread payments of 2.4 to 3.6 million dollars monthly in education taxes for emigration.
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Nobel Prize Honors German Novelist Heinrich Boll
Nobel Prize toStockholm Heinrich Boll, 55, a war veteran and German novelist, first since Thomas Mann 46 years earlier. Appointed International Pen Club president last year, cited for broad perspective on his era and sharp characterization that renews German literature. born 1917 in Cologne, wounded on the east front in World War II. literary debut 1949, his novels pierce postwar bourgeois life.
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