Los Angeles Councilmen Vote Self Pay Raise
Los Angeles councilmen approved a dramatic pay hike from 17,000 to 30,000 dollars a year with a 2,500 dollar tax free expense allowance. The 14 to 0 vote came with no discussion and awaits federal Cost of Living Council review for acceptability alongside mayoral and other officials raises.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Federal
Cost of Living Council
Eugene F. Kidder
Sam Yorty
Yorty
Tom Bradley
Cnly
Gasoline allocations widen as majors curb deliveries
Shell Oil Co and Texaco impose limits on gas deliveries amid a national shortage. Shell stations will allocate by 1972 purchases with adjustments for fairness. Texaco caps trucks on toll roads at 35 gallons diesel. Other majors including Gulf, Exxon, Union Oil, ARCO, Cities Service, Mobil and Gelly Oil also implement or adjust quotas for distributors and dealers. Senate discussion warns shortages may affect home heating oil later this year.
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Shell Oil Co
Texaco
Restrictlyns
Shell
Houston
Gulf Oi Co
Exxon Co
U.S.A
Union Oil Co
California
Cleveland
Sun Ohio
T 9
Atlantic Richfield
Midwest
Gelly Oil
Mobil Oil
Vickers Dividend Oil Co
Denver
Colorado
Edward M. Kennedy
Senate Commercce Committee
Washington
Massachusetts
Oklahoma City Area Tornadoes Kill One, Injure Four
Violent storms sweep the southern Plains sending a deadly tornado through a rural area southeast of Oklahoma. A man died, four were injured near Lexington, Ohio, as a farm complex was leveled. Residents describe the wall of the storm moving toward them.
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Plains
Oklahoma
Lexington
Ohio
Idoe
Sof
Rollings
Ssr Douglas Elmer Aylor
Purcell Memorial
Florida Peninsula
Everglades National Park
Big Cypress Swamp
Laramie
Wyo
Needies
Calif
Convicts kill 2 officials at Holmesburg Prison
Prison officials report two guards killed during a disturbance at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia. Commissioner O Neill urged forceful action to restore order as police pour in. The facility, opened in 1996, houses around 680 inmates and has a predominantly black inmate population.
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O'Neill
Holmesburg
Philadelphia
Randolph Wise
Curran
Frombold
Warn Nixon and Paris Over Transatlantic Defense Roles
The article covers a high level White House and French discussions on the Atlantic alliance, with Rogers and Jobert addressing Mideast and Vietnam tensions, Shultz and Giscard focusing on a stable world monetary system, and Kissinger attending. Pompidou stresses maintaining U.S. troop presence in Europe and warns against unilateral troop cuts, signaling bargaining dynamics in defense concessions.
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Torney
Trade and Economic Front
Treasury
George P. Shultz
Finance
Valery Giscard d'Astaing
Ronald L. Ziegler
White House
Atlantic Alliance
Henry A. Kissinger
Pompidot
Pompidou
U.S
Europe
Skylab battery loss prompts possible space walk
Skylab faced a second battery failure reducing power and raising the option of a space walk to free a jammed solar panel. NASA ground control rerouted experiments to conserve energy as engineers study freeing the stuck panel.
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Charles Conrad Jr
Orbiting Lab
Conrad
Mission Control
Houston
Robert Crippen
Joseph ¥. Kerwit
Paul J. Weitz
United States
Neil Hutchinson
Sigleb
Pial: Forse
Weitz
First Earth
Sam Oregon
Brazil
Vest
Skylab
Nader Calls for Closure of Nuclear Plants
The suit led by Ralph Nader and the FOA marks a bold step by environmentalists against emergency core cooling systems in nuclear plants. They argue an uncontrolled loss-of-coolant accident would directly kill exposed people, raise cancer risk, especially leukemia, and contaminate large land areas.
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Dent
Alamic Industrial Forum
The
Union of Concerned Scientists
Nader
Foa
FBI agent's daughter missing near Tucson desert search
More than 50 FBI agents and local officers search a desert area south of Tucson for Leesa Jo Shaner 22, the missing daughter of an FBI agent. The FBI says she was likely kidnapped Tuesday night after failing to meet her husband at Tucson International Airport.
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Tucson
Ariz
FBI
Here
Leesa Jo Shaner
Haldeman denies asking CIA help in Watergate inquiry
Testimony shows Haldeman Ehrlichman deny seeking CIA aid to impede FBI Watergate probe while Walters says White House aides warned of CIA impact. Senator Pastore notes inconsistencies as Gray probes $89,000 linked to Nixon reelection. Separate items note Walter's CIA role dispute and potential Sept. 11 trial date for Mitch ell and others over a secret Nixon campaign donation.
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Haldeman
Ehrlichman
Nixon
CIA
FBI
Walters
White House
L. Patrick Gray
Gray
John C. Pastore
D-Rl
Cuba
Pastore
E. Howard Hunt
Daniel Ellsberg
Charles H. Wilson
House Post Office
F. T. Klassen
George B. Gould
Wilson
Edmund S. Muskie
Washington Post Office
Muskie
New Hampshire
George McGovern
Florida
New York
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Commerce
Maurice H. Stars
Robert Vesen
New Jersey
Harry Sears
Camalga
U.S
Ge Lee Gagliardi
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L.A
Shell and Texaco Limit Gas
Associated Press
Twister
Oklahoma City
Reykjavik
France
William P. Rogers
Michel Jobert
Mideast
Vietnam
Cambodia
Tween
John D. Ehrlichman
Richard Helms
Helms
Army
Vernon A. Walters
Bulle
Olr
Roos
Atkins
Los Cerritos Center
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