Migrant workers win breach of contract ruling in Oregon
Judge Alfred T. Goodwin ruled a Washington County berry farmer breached contracts with Mexican-Americans recruited to pick berries. Observers said the ruling marks a first for migrant workers suing an employer as a group. In Mexico City, Treasury Secretary Antonio Ortiz Mena resigns. Hugo B. Mirgain to replace him as Luis Echeverria nears office.
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Portland, Ore
Alfred T. Goodwin
U. & District Court
Goodwin
Washington County
Mexico City
Treasury
Antonio Ortiz Mena
Hugo B. Mirgain
Mexico
United States
Mena
Luis Echeverria
Echeeverria
Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
GM Pays Off Nader In Privacy Settlement
Ralph Nader received 425000 from General Motors in an out of court privacy suit settlement. He plans to use funds to monitor GM on safety pollution and consumer relations, calling it financing their own ombudsman. The suit, filed in 1966, claimed GM hired private investigator Vincent Gillen to probe his private life after Unsafe At Any Speed.
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New York
Ralph Nader
General Motors
Nader
Vincent Gillen
Nixon era notes surface in July economic data
Economic briefings from Commerce and Federal Reserve show July gains in industrial output and personal income while a revised Gross National Product indicates stronger real production than earlier estimates. The reports shade optimism with consumer spending as the key unknown for a still fragile upturn.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Federal Reserve Board
Israeli Air Strikes Hit Jordanian Positions
Israeli air force planes attacked Jordanian army positions today according to the military command, marking a step up in hostilities amid the faltering Middle East cease fire.
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Jordan
Tel Aviv
Israel
Beisan
Beisan Valley
Maoz Haim
Yardena
Middle East
United States
Amman
U.S
Beirut
Hussein
Cairo
Egypt
Suez Canal
Jerusalem
Senate to Override Nixon Veto On Education Bill
The Senate is expected to follow the House in overriding Nixon's veto of a 4.4 billion education bill. The House already voted 289 to 114 to sustain the veto, while two other vetoes were sustained on an omnibus 18 billion appropriation. The education bill focuses on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the impacted areas program. Israel Jordan tensions and U S peace plans feature in regional notes.
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Washington
Senate
House
Nixon
Space Agency
Appropriations Committees
Capitol
Mike Mansfield
Saigon Forces Shrink by About 15000 Amid reshuffle
In Saigon region American combat units are reduced by about 15 000 as two full brigades depart and a large base moves to South Vietnam. South Vietnamese troops assume border blocking duties while Tay Ninh base camp is turned over to the 18th Infantry Division. General Abrams resumes command after convalescence.
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Saigon
3Rd Military Region
Vietnam
United States
U.S
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Creighton W. Abrams
Thailand
Japan
Cambodian
South China Sea
Tay Ninh
18Th Infantry Division
Michael S. Davison
South Vietnam
Nix
Judge To Rule On Gas Dumping Today
A U S District Court judge planned a ruling on halting the Army's disposal of surplus nerve gas as 2,675 tons of gas aboard the LeBaron Russell Briggs were loaded for a final voyage 282 miles east of Cape Kennedy. The Environmental Defense Fund argues the ship could break up, releasing gas. Florida Gov. Claude Kirk joined the suit seeking delay for safety study.
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Washington
Army
Atlantic
Sunny Point
N.C
U. S
June L. Green
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Lola Lea
Environmental Defense Fund
Florida
Claude Kirk
New Storm Poses Florida Menace
A tropical depression near the Bahamas is moving toward Florida with winds around 60 mph and could rapidly develop into a hurricane. The National Hurricane Center warns of heavy squalls and immediate threats to boating and island areas along the Florida east coast this weekend.
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Miami
Bahamas
Florida
National Hurricane Center
North Caicos Island
Judge allows sea burial of nerve gas off Florida coast
Federal district judge Jane L. Green denied a temporary restraining order to block the dumping of 2,675 tons of deadly nerve gas 282 miles off Florida. She urged the Defense Department to designate a different site for the disposal.
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Washington
Florida
Jane L. Green
Defense Department
Penny For His Thoughts: Man Swallows Pennies
A 62 year old man at West Penn Hospital underwent abdominal surgery after doctors removed two pennies and a 1.5 inch plum seed from his small intestine. Curtis Kastler recalled swallowing the pennies 53 years earlier while rolling them down his forehead.
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Pittsburgh
West Penn Hospital
Curtis Kastler
Weather East of the Pecos Forecast
West of the Pecos region remains partly cloudy and hot tonight with a few afternoon thundershowers mainly over mountains. Highs Saturday projected 85 to 102 with lows tonight 54 to 72.
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Pecos
FDA expected to ban cyclamates in diet foods
Washington AP reports the FDA plans to reverse six months of policy and bar cyclamate use in diet foods after markets close. The move, driven by medical advisory advice and stockpile concerns, would affect fuel for canners and leave millions in unsold cyclamate-containing products.
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Washington
Nixon
Commission On Pornography
Charles H. Keating Jr
Robert N, C, Nix
D-Pa
White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Federal Aviation Administration
Carl F. Maisch
FAA
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Charles C. Edwards
National Canners Association
Health
Robert H. Finch
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