Wholesale prices rise while leading indicators slip
The Labor Department reports a 0.2 percent May rise in the wholesale price index with gasoline contributing to costs for motorists. Food prices show mixed results as meat and fish fall while vegetables and dairy rise. The leading indicators index falls 6.1 percent, signaling slower near term changes in the economy. In Newark, police raid a narcotics operation, seizing over $100,000 in drugs and arresting six.
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Labor Department
Nixon
Commerce Department
GNP
Newark, NJ
UPD
Budget Estimate Off Solons Say Budget Estimate Off Solons Say
The House Ways and Means Committee backed Nixon’s request for $1 billion more borrowing authority but warned the economy is weaker than the administration estimates show. The panel raised the debt limit to $395 billion and issued staff projections lowering the June 30 deficit to $22 billion with the legislation, or $2.4 billion without it.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Nixon
Congress
Manson's Youth Pleas and Agnew Youth Council Meeting
Three female Manson followers grin as they await Judge Older. Kanarek tries to substitute for Hughes but is rebuked. The court delays the substitution. Agnew calls a rare Youth Opportunity Council meeting to address looming urban summer unemployment, with Javits proposing a $100 million boost for the Neighborhood Youth Corps.
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Patricia Krenwinkel
Leslie van Housten
Susan Atkins
Charles Older
Irving Kanarek
Older
Kanatek
Manson
Kanarek
Dist
Atty
Aaron Stovitz
Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
Council On Youth Opportunity
Fummer
Office of Economic Opportunity
Los Angeles
Detroit
Jacob Javits
R-N.y
Javits
Senate Appropriations
Jets Go After Bombers Over Florida Gulf Mission
Unidentified B 52 bombers passed over the northeast Gulf of Mexico on a training mission Tuesday prompting scramble of F 4 Phantom jets from Homestead Air Force Base south of Miami. Homeowners in St Petersburg reported broken windows and foundation damage from sonic booms as the incident drew Air Force comments.
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Washington
UPD
Homesteade Air Force Buse
Miami
Fla
Gulf of Mexico
St. Petersburg
Air Force
Rampage by Blacks in Melbourne After Council Meeting Snub
In Melbourne Florida a Black crowd of about 100 vented grievances by blocking streets and smashing store windows after being turned away from the city hall meeting. Three whites injured as missiles hit a bus and glass shattered. A 15 man police line sealed a 40 block area while talks with Mayor Adger Smith were arranged.
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Melbourne
Fla
UPI
Stanerd
Ne- Bra
Adger Smith
Robert Cotton
City Hall
Florida Institute of Technology
Kenneth Watts
Frank M
Bomb hits Los Angeles draft office on Broadway
An explosive device blew out plate windows at the Los Angeles local draft board office at 7412 S. Broadway in the early hours. Police said two devices were placed outside the door, one failed to detonate, and investigators pursue leads.
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Los Angeles
Draft Board
S. Broadway
NATO Debates On Rus NATO Denmark Britain Seek Talks
The United States and France joined in resisting large summit talks with the Soviet bloc to keep peace in Europe. French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann and Secretary of State William P. Rogers favored East West negotiations in smaller groups. Britain urged exploratory talks with many European nations plus the United States and Canada. West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel was expected to visit Moscow next month to discuss a formal renunciation of force with the Soviet Union. The clash occurred at the NATO Council meeting.
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United States
France
Europe
Maurice Schumann
William P. Rogers
Britain
Canada
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Walter Seheel
Moscow
West Germany
Soviet Union
North Atlantic Council
Schumann
State College Aid Cuts and Higher Ed Budget Shifts
A conference committee backed Reagan era cuts, reducing the Academic Senate and Higher Education Coordinating Council by refusing funding. The panel approved a 5 percent pay rise for state workers and shifted the Department of Education budget including transferring its computer to General Services and eliminating a division. Assemblyman Leo Ryan led the subcommittee recommendations.
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Senate
Department of Education
Max Rafferty
Department of General Services
Reagan
Academia Senate
Coordinating Council For Higher Education
Leo Ryan
D-Burlingame
Southern California Teamsters threaten wildcat action
Wildcat Teamsters in Southern California say they will not return to work until employers promise no reprisals, planning continued pickets. About 3,000 members remain, despite official warnings from Teamster leaders in Los Angeles and San Francisco and a partial agreement. Northern California teams declined to support the Southern California walkout.
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Los Angees
San Francisco
Alto
California
Teamsters
Southern California
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