Turnpike shutdown by protesting truckers in Ohio
Trucker protests over diesel costs halt a 42 mile stretch of the Ohio Turnpike between Toledo and Fremont. Ohio patrols clear highways using tear gas and arrests as 1,700 trucks block state roads. Nationwide actions in several states prompt warnings and countermeasures as fuel prices surge.
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Ohio Turnpike
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Fremont
W.A. Stern
Columadus
Ohio
Interstate 290
Arkansas
Connecticut
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Indiana
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Michigan
New York
New Jersey
South Dakota
Itate
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Ark
Larry Morris
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Gerald L. Warren
Washington
Transportation
Claude S. Brinegar
Truckers Movement
California to cut speed limit to 50 or 55 mph
California moves toward a 50 or 55 mph speed limit after President Reagan's sign, joining about a dozen states. A national 55 mph limit is before Congress, with delays to adjust schedules and signs. Senate backed the bill 27-4, Assembly 63-4, amid debate on energy savings and possible impacts.
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Nixon
Congress
Senate
George Zenovich
Fresno
Zenovich
Joe
Santa Barbara
Ed Reinecke
Energy Planning Council
Department of Transportation
Reinecke
Mervyn Dymally
Los Angeles
Public Utilities Commission
George Moscone
San Francisco
Houston I. Flournoy
Moretti
Ford sworn in as 40th vice president in historic ceremony
Ford, aged 60, was sworn in as the United States 40th vice president by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger before a packed Congress and watching nation. He pledged loyalty to the Constitution and spoke after the House approved him 387 to 35, a step tied to the 25th Amendment amid Nixon's Watergate crisis.
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Ford
Warren E. Burger
Congress
House
Spark M. Mstsunga
Hawaii
Senate
Spiro T. Agnew
United States
Mike Mansfield
Michigan
Peter W. Rodino Jr
D-N.j
House Judiciary Committee
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Haldeman
White House
Haig
81 Percent Southland Gas Stations To Close
A survey by the Automobile Duty of Southern California finds about 81 percent of gas stations in Southern California will close this Sunday and many will not reopen until early Monday. About 18 percent will stay open Sunday, with few open all day and 1 percent undecided.
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California
Automobile Duty
Produce Cut Off in Tieup and Unions Move
Amid a nationwide food fight two retailers Cole's and Arden-Mayfair along with Better Foods and Jorgensen's signed interim contracts with unions. A Los Angeles court barred mass picketing by a coalition of Teamsters operating engineers machinists and meat cutters limiting pickets to four per entrance and six feet distance. In Paris about 30 youths claimed to act for the French Communist youth movement occupied the Chilean Embassy hanging red flags before police intervened and several arrests were made.
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Better Foods, Inc
Jorgensen’s
Couneil
Arden-Mayfair
Los Angeles
Campbell M. Lucas
Paris
Communist Youth Movement
Ex Nixon aide Chapin to fight perjury charge
Former presidential appointments secretary Dwight L Chapin pleaded innocent to four counts of making false statements before the grand jury about Donald Segretti. Judge Gesell released Chapin on recognizance. Segretti pled guilty to three misdemeanors and will cooperate with prosecutors. A trial date was set for February 19.
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Dwight L. Chapin
Watergate
Donald H. Segretti
Gerhard A. Gesell
Chapin
Segretti
FBI
Florida
Lompoe
Calif
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Boston
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R-N-Y
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Carl Albert
D-Okla
William ‘Fishpait’ Miller
James C. Rastland
D-Miss
Supreme Court
Henry A. Kissinger
Southland Gas Stations
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