Memorial Day traffic toll forecast and health cost claim
The National Safety Council estimates 350 to 450 traffic deaths over the Memorial Day weekend from Friday 6 p.m. to Sunday midnight. In Washington, Sen. Ribicoff presses Medicare and Medicaid cost controls as hospital daily rates may reach 1000 in major cities within a decade.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Senate backs Cambodia withdrawal plan amid new arms shipment disclosures
The Senate approved 82 to 11 language endorsing a June 30 spending cutoff for U S military activities in Cambodia to align with Nixon's withdrawal timetable. The White House stance against the main amendment by Sherman Cooper and Frank Church remained unchanged despite disclosures of additional arms shipments.
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Washington
Senate
White House
U. S
Cambodia
Nixon
Sens
John Sherman Cooper
ReKy
Frank Church
DeIdaho
Pentagon faces clash over race tinted school plan
The Air Force could receive 2.3 million for an elementary school at Bolling Air Force Base for military dependents, a proposal added by the House Armed Services Committee to a large military construction bill. The measure, not requested by the Air Force or DOD, aims to serve children mainly from white families attending Washington DC's black schools. The House approved the provision. it awaits Senate action.
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Washington
Pentagon
Senate
Air Force
Bolling Air Force Base
Defense Department
House Armed Services Committee
House
Economist Expects Economy to Rebound by Year End
Los Angeles AP report quotes Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, saying the economy has not slipped into recession and shows encouraging forces. He cites limited inventory buildup, rising demand for output, improved after tax income, and looser money for loans and mortgages.
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Los Angeles
Nixon
Paul W. McCracken
President’s Council of Economics Advisers
Methadone Treatment Reduces Relapses and Aids Social Recovery
A study of over 2800 heroin addicts in a methadone program found none who stayed in the program returned to daily heroin use. Most reduced antisocial behavior and gained employment or education. The treatment followed methods developed by Dr Vincent Dole and Dr Marie Nyswander at Rockefeller University, used at Morris Bernstein Institute Beth Israel Hospital and allied hospitals.
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New York
Vincent Dole
Marie Nyswander
Rockefeller University
Morris Bernstein
Beth Israel Hospital
Allied Hospitals
South Vietnam and Cambodia Resume Diplomatic Ties
South Vietnam and Cambodia announced the restoration of diplomatic relations and the exchange of ambassadors. The pact followed talks between Cambodian Foreign Minister Yem Sambour and Saigon officials at the South Vietnamese Foreign Ministry.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Yem Sambaur
Panel OKs Borrowing Increase for Nixon
The House Ways and Means Committee unanimously approved an $18 billion rise in borrowing authority for President Nixon. It also noted the economy is more adversely affected than official estimates show. The debt limit rose from $377 billion to $395 billion, with $380 billion permanent and $15 billion temporary, to be reviewed before July 1, 1971.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Nixon
Congress
Joint Committee On Internal Revenue Taxation
Ways and Means
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Lasker
Cambodia
Subcommittee
Senate
Youth Panel Sets Emergency Meet
Vice President Agnew calls the President's Council on Youth Opportunity to a rare emergency session to review summer employment commitments and plans. Unemployment among urban black youths peaks with 45 percent in Los Angeles and 40 percent in Detroit, and nationwide near 30 percent.
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Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
Council On Youth Opportunity
Office of Economic Opportunity
Los Angeles
Detroit
Smaller NATO Members Back Exploratory Talks on Security Conference
At Rome the smaller NATO members support a British plan for exploratory talks on a European security conference with the Soviet Union. The United States and West Germany oppose the idea as the NATO council discusses its agenda. British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart proposes mutual exploratory talks open to neutral, Communist, and Western nations with a possible East West standing committee.
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NATO
United States
West Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Council of Ministers
Chiakes
Soviet Union
U. S
William P. Rogers
Europe
Michael Stewart
France
Belgium
Holland
Norway
Turkey
Denmark
Greece
Luxembourg
White House Dinner Aims to Reassure Economy Leaders
President Nixon hosts a White House dinner for financial and business leaders to calm fears over a sluggish economy and address the U S move into Cambodia. The session follows mixed signals from the stock market and a Labor Department price report, while Congress debates wage and price guidelines and debt limits.
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John M. Pearce
Washington (Ap
Nixon
White House
U. S
Cambodia
Bernard Lasker
New York Stock Exchange
Labor Department
Capitol Hill
House
Council of Economic Advisers
World Stock Markets Plunge Across Major Exchanges
The global stock market slide from the United States spilled into London Toronto Montreal Paris and other centers. Dow Jones fell 19.20 points to 631.13 marking its lowest since November 1962 with a 70 point drop over five sessions.
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New York
London
Financial Times
United States
Toronto
Montreal
Wall Street
Paris
Paris Presse
Nixon
Weather and international market moves clash with Wall Street drops
West of the Pecos foresees partly cloudy warm weather with possible thundershowers tonight and Thursday. Meanwhile European stock markets fall after Wall Street decline. Frankfurt and Amsterdam slide while Tokyo and Milan rally late. Analyst Thurlow cites opportunistic buying by Europeans.
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The
Pecos
Switzerland
Zurich
Wall Street
Frankfurt Exchange
Amsterdam
Tokyo
Milan
Bradbury K. Thurlow
Hoppin Bros
New York
U.S
Arab-Israeli Fighting Flares On Two Fronts
Arab-Israeli fighting intensified on the Egyptian and Jordanian fronts as Israeli patrols entered southern Lebanon for a third day of police action. Lebanon's Rashid Karami discussed inviting Morocco and Tunisia to aid Lebanon, while Syria and Egypt weighed possible help. Casualties were reported and shelling continued across the Suez Canal and in Jordan and the Golan Heights with no confirmed deaths.
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Hal McClure
Associated Press
Tel Aviv
Lebanon
Rashid Karami
Beirut
Morocco
Tunisia
Kamal Jumblatt
Karami
Syria
Rocan
Suez Canal
American Planes Return Fire Over North Vietnam
Air Force F4 phantom fighters dodged antiaircraft fire after North Vietnam opened on a U S reconnaissance plane about 90 miles northwest of the DMZ. Ordnance hit enemy gun positions with unknown results. no U S losses reported. Command plans B52 strikes in Cambodia post evacuation of ground troops.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
U. S
Demilitarized Zone
U. S. Command
Air Force
U.S
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Defense Department
Washington
Cambodia
Oregon Voters Reject 19-Year-Old Voting Change
Oregon voters on Tuesday rejected reducing the voting age to 19 with nearly two thirds voting no. Governor Tom McCall and State Treasurer Robert Straub campaigned for the change as campus unrest spurred reaction. Blumenauer, a Lewis and Clark College senior, warned the backlash could reach Congress.
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Ore
Oregon
Earl Blumenauer
Tom McCall
Robert Straub
McCall
Portland State University
Blumenauer
Lewis and Clark College
Congress
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