Senate plans new Vietnam withdrawal bid amid funding debate
The Senate committees advance a six month withdrawal plan tied to a $3.2 billion foreign aid bill. The measure seeks to bar funding for most Vietnam War actions while limiting operations in Laos and Cambodia. Fulbright doubts Nixon will heed the amendment even if passed.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Indochina
Foreign Relations Committee
Nixon
Foreign Relations Panel
Senate House
Mike Mansfield
South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Ho Chi Minh
John Sherman Cooper
R-ey
Frank Church
U. S
J. W. Fulbright
Casualties fall in Vietnam as pullback continues
Five American servicemen were killed in combat in Vietnam last week, the lowest weekly death toll in over six years, amid ongoing U.S. withdrawal. Wounded rose to 84, and 15 more service members died from nonhostile causes such as illness or accidents, up from the prior week.
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Saigon
Vietnam
U.S
Multiple Traffic and Court Notices From City Court
The Record lists speeding and traffic offenses including Tony Radican 70 in 60 zone and running a stop sign with $30 plus costs, Donald Taylor 70 in 65 zone with $25 plus costs, and Cleo B. Fenton disobeying a stop sign with $10. Also violations for parked on roadway, failure to dim lights, no valid license, dog at large, and various filings in civil cases and dissolutions of marriage.
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Tony Radican
Monahans
Guillermo Guebara Jr
Oak St
Anastacio Natividad
Pecan St
Donald Taylor
Mt. Pleasant
Antonio Rodriguez
Elm St
Zenon Cazarez
Apt. 80-B
Cleo B. Fenton
Ross Blvd
Marconis Martinez
Dog
Western Europe hails Brandt pick
Western European leaders and papers celebrated Willy Brandt receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for seeking rapprochement with the Soviet bloc. Moscow papers ignored the award, Pravda praised his policies, and a Soviet Communist party paper credited his government with prioritizing peace. East Germany and Poland announced the prize briefly.
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London
Europe
Willy Brandt
Moscow
Pravda
Communist Party
Brandt
East Germany
Poland
Oslo
Jacques Chaban Delmas
France
Prime rate cut fails to steady stock market
New York banks trim the prime rate to 5 3/4 percent led by Morgan Guaranty Trust. The move, endorsed by the Nixon administration, did not stop the Dow Jones industrial average from sinking 12.78 points to 855.65 amid a six day decline.
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New York
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co
Bank of America
San Francisco
Chase Manhattan
Continential Illinois
Chicago
Girard Trust
Philadelphia
Citizens & Southern
Atlanta
Wall Street
Deaths Mrs Evelyn Burns 55 Pecos resident dies in Houston
Mrs Evelyn Burns of 1718 Alabama Street Pecos died Tuesday at 11 40 p m in M V Anderson Hospital Houston She was a member of the Church of Christ and lived in Pecos since 1955 Survivors include husband Ben F Burns son Frank W Burns Alpine mother Vera Cunningham Rosebud three brothers Arden Cunningham Rosebud Robert D Cunningham Marvin Cunningham Angleton Richard Cunningham Dallas and three sisters Dorothy Bennett Taft Margie Lehman Richardson and Helen Johnston Ft Worth Services set for Friday at 2 p m at the Church of Christ with interment Evergreen Cemetery
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Evelyn Burns
Alamo St
M.V. Anderson Hospital
Houston
Church of Christ
Evergreen Cemetery
Burns
Pecos
Ben F. Burns
Frank W. Burns
Alpine
Vera Cunningham
Rosebud
Arden Cunningham
Robert D. Cunningham
Marlin
Marvin Cunningham
Angleton
Richard Cunningham
Dallas
Dorothy Bennett
Taft
Margie Lehman
Richardson
Helen Johnston
Ft. Worth
Alaska Natives Win Land and Cash Settlement
The House approved a bill to compensate Eskimos Aleuts and Indians with 925 million dollars and 40 million acres of land over time 425 million in cash 10 years 500 million in royalties and 18 million acres to be opened for village expansion Native commissions would manage awards and fund projects from hospitals to water systems The measure moves to the Senate as court challenges delay the oil pipeline plans.
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Washington
Alaska
Congress
House
United States
Russia
Senate
Senate Interior Committee
House Interior Committee
New strike talks sought in three week miners dispute
Federal mediators press to reopen deadlocked talks in the 80 000 miner strike that halted much U S soft coal production The union leader cites union busting penalties while the industry demands a strike penalty clause to curb wildcat stoppages and seeks wage and welfare gains for members
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Washington
U. S
Robert W. Donnahoo
United Mine Workers
W. A
Tony” Boyle
Bituminous
Boyle
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Academic community to dot Phase 2 posts
President Nixon taps academic leaders for Phase 2 pay and price panels. Dr C Jackson Grayson of SMU will head the seven member Price Commission after the Phase 1 freeze ends. Rumsfeld says public members may come from academia as boards near formation.
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Washington
Nixon
C. Jackson Grayson
Southern Methodist University School of Business
Grayson
Dallas
Price Commission
Harvard
SMU
Tulane University
School of Business
Donald Rumsfeld
Cost of Living Council
National Press Club
Rumsfeld
Connally Says 10 Percent Import Surcharge May Last
Treasury Secretary Connally tells the American Bankers Association that the 10 percent import surcharge will stay for a while to improve the balance of payments. he emphasizes the policy is temporary and that the U S will push for fair trade and a new world currency structure while maintaining free trade ideals.
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San Francisco
Treasury
John B. Connally
Connally
American Bankers Association
United States
Nixon
United States of America
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Pecan
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