Labor leaders Rally to Address Wage Freeze Protest
Washington AFL-CIO executives meet with White House emissaries amid fury over Nixon wage-price controls and a ban on strikes. George Shultz and J D Hodgson are dispatched to field questions at the AFL CIO executive council meeting as unions view the move as a grave crisis.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Afl-Cio
George Shultz
Secretary of Labor
J.D. Hodgson
France backs two level dollar rate plan at Brussels talks
Finance ministers from Britain and six Common Market nations meet in Brussels amid debate over coping with Nixon's dollar gold policy. France and the Common Market Executive Commission push a two level rate with fixed official dollars and a free market rate for capital, while West Germany favors a fully floating system. The talks also explore concessions tied to the 10 percent import surcharge and yen revaluation.
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Brussels
Britain
Nixon
France
Common Market
Executive Commission
Europe
West Germany
Germany
Belgium
Nixon presses military strength amid economic plan rollout
President Nixon travels across the country to Dallas for the VFW convention while arguing his economic program will keep the nation number one financially and militarily. He stresses defense strength as essential to peace, announces tax code amendments to aid conservation donations, and highlights farm export expansion.
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Associated Press
Moran
Wyo
Nixon
United States
Grand Teton National Park
Dallas
Tex
Veterans of Foreign Wars
California
China
VFW
Springfield
Ill
U.S
Wyoming
Jackson Lake
Teton Range
National Park
Idaho Falls
Idaho
America
Knights of Columbus
New York
Abraham Lincoln
Congress
Pentagon Defense Aid Plan Sparks Legislative Clash
The comptroller general says Congress should cut the 2.1 billion dollar military aid program until the Pentagon discloses a long range assistance plan. The Pentagon argues no such plan exists, setting up a clash over executive privilege between Congress and the Nixon administration.
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Washington
Congress
Pentagon
Nixon
Executive Branch
Federal housing program risks pricing out the poor
Washington officials warn that cost and management problems in HUD subsidized apartment programs threaten to push low income tenants out. Projects in the red require rent hikes to cover basic expenses and investors may abandon buildings after tax shelters expire. Norman V. Watson warns that approving doomed projects harms families.
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Washington
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Norman V. Watson
Descendants seek new trial for Dr. Mudd conspiracy conviction
John Mudd, a Miami attorney and great grandson of Dr. Samuel Mudd, says he has urged President Nixon to reexamine the evidence behind Dr. Mudd’s 1865 conviction as an accessory after the fact in the Lincoln assassination plot. He argues the military tribunal lacked proper jurisdiction.
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Miami
John Wilkes Booth
Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Samuel Mudd
John Mudd
Dr. Mudd
Nixon
Tropical storm nears Caribbean and threatens flash floods
Torrential rains soak Barbados as a tropical low moves west at about 20 mph. Air Force reconnaissance places the center near Martinique, about 1,300 miles southeast of Miami and 200 miles off Venezuela's northwest coast.
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Miami
Barbados
National Hurricane Center
Air Force
Martinique
Venezuela
Kasabian Ends Testimony in Tate Murder Trial
Linda Kasabian, who testified 18 days in the Sharon Tate case, finished her Star witness time in the Tex Watson trial. She testified Watson led the Manson followers who killed actress Sharon Tate and six others in August 1969, and she said Watson washed blood from his hands with a garden hose after the stabbings at the Benedict Canyon home.
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Los Angeles
Linda Kasabian
Sharon Tate
Charles ‘‘Tex
Watson
Big Four in Berlin ends with no agreement
The Big Four talks in Berlin ended early without a deal as US Britain France and the Soviet Union failed to agree on a Soviet price for access to West Berlin. Ambassador Kenneth Rush said another session is set for Monday after marathon talks that stretched into the night.
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Berlin
West Berlin
U.S
Kenneth Rush
Rush
FDA says poison eggs not harmful
The FDA acknowledges that an unknown quantity of contaminated eggs has been eaten by consumers after a month of reporting a persistent poison leaking into fish meal used for poultry and livestock feed. The AP report notes ongoing investigations and safety reassurances despite the contamination.
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FDA
Washington
Food and Drug Administra
Ralph Nader
Japan
United States
Nader
Sayin
Wilemington
N. C
Department of Agriculture
Holly Farms
Union says dock strike to continue in full force
West Coast longshore union leader Har ry Bridges says the 40 day dock strike will continue in full force while negotiations with the Pacific Maritime Association resume. He proposes escrow funds for wage increases if needed and plans a Monday meeting of the ILWU West Coast Strike Strategy Committee.
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San Francisco
Nixon
Harry Bridges
West Coast
Bridges
West Coast Dock Union
Pacific Maritime Assocition
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
ILWU
United States
U.S
PMA
Edmond J. Flynn
Teamsters Union
Teamsters
Federal grant funds Kentucky acid mine runoff project
A $460,000 federal grant supports a Western Kentucky pilot project to treat acidic water from strip mine sites and use the purified water to irrigate vegetation on reclaimed land.
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Frankfort
Western Kentucky
Justice Department seeks Corpus Christi bus delay
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to delay busing about 15 000 Corpus Christi students amid claims of de facto and de jure segregation. The memo argues Mexican Americans face policy driven discrimination and that delaying allows courts to assess boards obligations and funding needs, with initial costs around 1.7 million dollars.
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Justice Department
Corpus Christi
Washington
Supreme Court
Tex
John N. Mitchell
Hugo L. Black
Department
Nixon
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Austin
White House
Griswold
Norman
U.S. Circuit Court
New Orleans
National Wage Freeze Shocks State Local Workers
Washington officials announce the Cost of Living Council governs a 90 day wage-price-rent freeze. Government employees face delayed raises if their contracts start after Aug 15. Federal workers and military pay are affected amid White House economic guidelines and diplomatic talks.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
Thaddeus J.dulski
House Post Office Committee
New York Democrat
Jane
U.S
Afl-Cio
Executive Council
Lion
George P. Shultz
Office of Management and Budget
James D. Hodgson
J. Curtis Counts
Federal Mediation Service
Ottawa
Canada
Finance
E. J. Benson
Jean Luc Pepin
Treasury
John B. Connally
Pentagon
Secretary of the Treasury
Fighting and bombing intensify near Camp Carroll
Reports say heavy fighting and U S bombing continued along the DMZ in its second week. South Vietnamese forces and North Vietnamese troops clashed near Camp Carroll with 142 North Vietnamese and 22 South Vietnamese killed in 18 hours, and 51 South Vietnamese wounded. Fire Base Fuller faced 300 mortar shells, two South Vietnamese dead and six wounded. The engagement yielded captured weapons and equipment, and coincided with anniversary observances in the region.
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Saigon
U. S
Demilitarized Zone
Camp Carroll
U.S
Fuller
Ho Chi Minh
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Japanese yen likely to float amid pressure for revaluation
Tokyo papers report that Japan faces pressure to revalue the yen upward though officials deny imminent moves. Sources say the currency may be adjusted despite deflation risks, with the Bank of Japan defending the dollar at 360 yen and banning new dollar borrowings by Japanese banks.
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Tokyo
Tokyo Newse
Sankei Shimbun
Japan
Asahi
Bank of Japan
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Cost of Living Council
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