Cabinet overhaul names Brinegar transportation secretary
President Nixon completed a Cabinet reshuffle by appointing Claude Brinegar of Los Angeles as transportation secretary succeeding John A. Volpe who becomes ambassador to Italy. The move caps the Cabinet changes for Nixon's second term with more sub-Cabinet switches expected and Kleindienst anticipated for attorney general. In other items Expo 74 construction begins in Spokane a 5500 square foot building to be finished in 60 days. In Boise Idaho Robert Bolinder becomes president of the Associated Taxpayers of Idaho with Fred Humphreys as vice president and Lloyd Hill re-elected treasurer along with Max Yost reappointed executive manager.
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UPD
Nixon
Claude Brinegar
Los Angeles
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John A. Volpe
U.S
Italy
Richard G. Kleindienst
Spokane
Boise
UPI
Robert Bolinder
David Little
Emmett
Associated Taxpayers of Idaho
Fred Humphreys
Lloyd Hill
Max Yost
Imelda Marcos Stabbed During Civic Ceremony Near Manila Airport
Mrs. Imelda Marcos was stabbed with a curved bolo knife while presenting awards at a Nayong Filipino ceremony near Manila International Airport. Guards shot the assailant dead. Marcos was wounded but in good condition and transported to a hospital. A congressman was also lightly injured.
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Manila
UPD
Imelda Marcos
Fernand E. Marcos
Manila International Airport
Pickets Withdrawn Until Apollo 17 Flight
About 70 members of the IA M and Aerospace Workers withdrew from picket lines at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston after rejecting a contract offering a 25 percent wage cut. The strike against Kentron of Hawaii, Ltd. suspended negotiations until after the Apollo 17 flight ends December 19.
Supreme Court curbs unions fines on resigning members
In an 8-1 ruling the court upheld the NLRB and ordered Granite State Joint Board to rescind fines against 31 workers who resigned during a 1968 strike at International Paper Box Machine Co. Nashua New Hampshire. Justice Douglas noted post strike events and family hardship can affect resigning members.
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UPD
Supreme Court
Granite State Joint Board
Textile Workers of America Local 1029
Afl-Cio
International Paper Box Machine Con
Nashua
N.H
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
William O. Douglas
1St U.S. Circuit of Appeals
Boston
Douglas
Man carrying unstable dynamite faced federal charge
FBI agent testified at a Denver hearing about Ronald Illingworth 34 carrying unstable crystalized dynamite at the airport. He planned to blast stumps on his Iowa farm and told a United agent he would blow up the plane. He is charged with carrying a dangerous substance near an aircraft.
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UPI
FBI
American Falls
Idaho
Iowa
Ronald Lee Uingworth
United Air Lines
Des Moines
Gary Rayburn
U.S
Royce Sickler
Illingworth
United
U.S. Customs
Rayburn
Mllingworth
Strauss Proclaims Self as Democratic Unity Candidate
Texas businessman Robert Strauss declared on NBC Today he could unify the fractured Democratic Party and would pursue replacing Jean Westwood as party chairman. He rejected a compromise suggested by Westwood and said a Saturday motion to vacate the chair would fail to shake his centrism. Westwood aides questioned his stance, while Strauss claimed to have helped start reform and pledged to build on the party’s past.
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UPI
Robert Strauss
Texas
Jean Westwood
National Committee
Strauss
Westwood
Utah
Democratic National
Liberals
Reform Movement
Hotel Workers May Walk Out At Davenport Spokane
Spokane's Davenport Hotel faces a potential walkout by about 100 staff including waitresses cooks busboys and dishwashers if back wages owed since November 20 are not paid by Friday noon. A hotel spokesman expected funds to arrive and hoped the strike would be averted amid a lean financial period and reorganization.
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Spokane
UPI
Davenport
Second Longest Delay In Apollo 17 Launch
UPI notes the Apollo 17 launch faced a two hour and 40 minute delay, the longest since Gemini 6’s three day postponement in 1965. Gemini 6 delays stemmed from a rocket malfunction shortly after ignition, the era’s longest among 27 manned flights starting with Shepard’s May 1961 suborbital. Weather then delayed Shepard’s Apollo 14 launch by 40 minutes on January 31, 1971.
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Houston
UPI
Alan B. Shepard
Shepard
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