Nixon proposes major environmental and regulatory reforms
President Nixon sent Congress a wide package of environmental bills including a 6 billion three year program for water treatment plants and federal power to curb construction and transport noise. The AP survey shows municipal power departments face steep fuel price increases passing costs to customers. The Presidential Advisory Council on Executive Organization urges streamlined agencies with single administrators to oversee transport power stocks and consumer protection.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
American Public Power Association
Presidential Advisory Council On Executive Organization
Forest Fires Soar Across U S In 1970
Forest Service annual report by Edward P. Cliff shows national forests faced 15,000 fires burning 555,831 acres in 1970. Seven firefighters died and natural resources damage ran into untold millions. fires reached the highest acreage since 1934 while the fire count equaled a 1960s peak.
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Washington
Forest Service
Edward P. Cliff
The
Cliff
FHA expands credit limit for farmers to $100,000
Washington AP reports new legislation raises Farmers Home Administration credit cap from $60,000 to $100,000 to reflect higher land values and larger farm sizes. FHA Administrator James W. Smith notes the old limit was outmoded after a decade.
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Washington
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
James Wv. Smith
General Dynamics to Move HQ to St. Louis by Summer
General Dynamics Corp. will relocate its corporate headquarters to St. Louis by summer, announced by Board Chairman David S. Lewis from St. Louis. He notes headquarters personnel will have quick access to major operating locations.
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New York
General Dynamics Corp
St. Louis
David S. Lewis
Lewis
McDonnell Douglas Corp
Personel
Connally Praises Plan In First Treasury Speech
In his first speech as Treasury Secretary John Connally praised President Nixon's revenue sharing plan as superior to other proposals. He spoke to a closed Business Council meeting and excerpts were released by the Treasury Department.
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Washington
Treasury
John Connally
Nixon
Texas
Business Council
Treasury Department
Deep South Cold Snap Edges Into The Panhandle
A severe cold spell lingered across the Deep South with temperatures dropping to the low 20s and possibly lower. Warm southerly winds began pushing a mid winter thaw into much of the midcontinent for a second day.
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Associated Press
Deep South
Florida Panhandle
Ford Fund Questioned Over Unreported Contributions
House Republican Leader Gerald R Ford allegedly did not report 11,500 in campaign contributions from stock brokers oilmen bankers doctors and a union group. The checks were routed through party headquarters and about 12,233 was returned to Ford's district to cover post election debts.
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Washington
House
Gerald R. Ford
Ford
Union seeks Nixon aid over Lockheed Rolls layoffs
Burbank California union leaders urge President Nixon to intervene in the Lockheed Aircraft Roll-Royce dispute after 6500 workers were laid off. The action underscores rising unemployment at the defense contractor and aerospace supplier amid industry pressures.
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Calif
Nixon
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Rolls Royce
Lockheed
Marines Return to Vietnam Front as DMZ Tensions Rise
U S Marines of the 3rd Division return to the Vietnam war for possible combat roles near the DMZ aboard ships of the 7th Fleet. A 1500 man landing team with tanks sails from Okinawa to the coast below the DMZ ready to reinforce allied forces if North Vietnamese launch an offensive.
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Siagon
U.S
Dmz
Laos
Ho Chi Minh Trail
3Rd Marine
Vietnam
Quake Toll Reaches 53 in California Disaster
Los Angeles reports 53 dead in the California quake with 1,000 injured. Evacuation extended for 80,000 residents near the cracked Van Norman dam amid fears of collapse. Damage exceeds 300 million with Olive View Hospital among the major losses.
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Associated Press
LOS Angeles
California
Sam Yorty
Veterans Administration
Yorty
San Fernando Valley
van Norman Lake Dam
Charles F. Richter
Spiro T. Agnew
Ronald Reagan
Agnew
Nixon
van Norman Lake
State Division of Highways
Rogers backs plan for Asian conference on Indochina peace
Secretary of State Rogers endorses convening an Asian conference including China and the Soviet Union to draft a lasting Indochina peace. Soviet officials reject a new Geneva style parley while Moscow cites delays by North Vietnam Viet Cong Pathet Lao and sihanouk loyalists. Senator Aiken and Senate Leader Mansfield caution Congress cannot decide on a peace plan now.
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Washington
William P. Rogers
China
Soviet Union
Indochina
Geneva
Rogers
Moscow
Britain
North Vietnam
Pathet Lao
Laos
Norodom Sihanouk
Sen
George D. Aiken
Vermont
U.S
Congress
Senate
Mike Mansfield
United States renews Indochina conference push
In Paris the United States renewed its bid for a new Indochina peace conference and rejected Communist claims that U.S. forces entered Laos. Ambassador David K. E. Bruce stated Washington still favors Laos neutrality and the 1962 Geneva accords calling for foreign force withdrawals from Laotian territory.
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Paris
United States
Laos
U. S
David K.E. Bruce
Washington
West of the Pecos Weather Forecast
The west of the Pecos region expects fair conditions tonight and Friday. Cooler Friday with highs from 55 to 68 and overnight lows from 25 to 38.
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Pecos
Racial Separation Grows in Largest Urban Areas
A Census profile shows sharper racial separation in the 67 largest metropolitan areas during the 1960s. Whites move to white suburban rings while inner city black populations rise, with Washington DC Atlanta Newark and Gary as notable centers of change.
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D.C
Atlanta
Newark
N.J
Gary
Ind
Washington, D. C
Students Protest Invasion Of Laos Across U.S. campuses
Demonstrations nationwide against the U S backed South Vietnamese invasion of Laos drew thousands in Boston New York and Madison with many peaceful protests. Some clashes injuries and arrests occurred including police injuries in Baltimore Chicago and Berkeley. December protests included a 90 minute rally at the University of Washington and a war crimes trial and effigy burning at Northwestern University.
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Bob Monroe
Associated Press
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Laos
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Idaho
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Calif
Washington
White House
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New York City
Times Square
Rockefeller Center
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Madison
Social Security
Patrick J. Lucey
University
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California
Stanford
University of California
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Dowtown
Ware Memorial Auditorium
Hopkins Plaza
Dirksen Federal
Chicago
Northwestern University
Evanston
Nixon
New Haven
Conn
University of Washington
Seattle
Kent State University
Ohio
Apollo 14 Astronauts Return to Houston in Quarantine
Apollo 14 crew Alan Shepard Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa leave the USS New Orleans for Pago Pago then Houston arriving about 1 a.m. Friday. They will remain in Lunar Receiving Laboratory quarantine until Feb. 26 with 12 others as moon rocks totaling 95 pounds are shipped ahead for study seeking samples 4.6 billion years old.
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USS
New Orleans
Meon
Samoa
Houston
Manned Spacecraft Center
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Edgar D. Mitchell
Stuart A. Roosa
Pago Pago
American Samoa
South Pacific
Fra Mauro
Shepard
Mitchell
Robert Gilruth
Center
William Carpentier
Space Agency
R.H. Culbertson
Carpentier
Earth
Roosa
Aline
Culbertson
Lunar
Atomic Treaty Signed Bans Nuclear Weapons From Seas
Washington reports a broad disarmament pact on seabed nuclear weapons with over 60 nations. Nixon to speak at State Department ceremony as Moscow signs with the United States Britain and the Soviet Union. Ambassadors Beam Gromyko Wilson sign for their nations and 40 other countries join. The treaty requires 22 ratifications to take effect and follows earlier arms control accords.
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Nixon
State Department
Moscow
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Alexei II
Kosygin
Jacob D. Beam
Andrei A. Gromyko
Duncan Wilson
London
Geneva
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Aiken
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