Nixon orders jobs push to cut veteran unemployment
President Nixon directs federal agencies and contractors to expand training, placement, and counseling for Vietnam era veterans. The plan targets 1.1 million annual GI separations with a six step approach including a Jobs for Veterans drive and increased on the job training funding. Unemployment among 20 to 29 year old Vietnam era veterans stands at about 10.8 percent, roughly 370,000 people, compared with 8.4 percent for non veterans.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
James D. Hodgson
National Alliance of Businessmen
Hodgson
White House
Last Air West DC9 Flight Crash Victim Found
Sheriff deputies recovered the remains Sunday in Duarte believed to be the 50th and final victim of the Air West DC9 collision with a Marine F4 jet. Only 22 victims have been positively identified due to incomplete remains. Federal investigators plan a mockup to study impact positions.
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Duarte
UPI) — Sheriff' S Deputies
Air West
FDA proposes clearer labels on fats and oils
The FDA recommends new rules to require processed foods to disclose specific fats or oils used, banning vague terms like shortening or vegetable oil. If hydrogenated, labels must state hydrogenation. Public and industry comments will follow before final regulations.
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Washington
UPI
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Ford builds $200000 presidential limousine for Nixon
In Dearborn Ford workers craft a bullet proof Lincoln Continental based limo for President Nixon under secret service rules. The car, to be leased to the government for 5000 a year, features armor plating bulletproof tires and a 480 cubic inch V8 engine.
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Dearborn, Mich
UPI
Ford Motor Co
Nixon
Secret Service
White House
Johnson
Ford
Tricia Nixon Cox Wedding Kept Secret at White House
The couple wed Saturday in a White House ceremony at 4:45 p.m. EDT with about 30 relatives attending. Speculation swirled about their honeymoon location and guests noted the post ceremony rain and the president’s first public dance in years.
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Washington
UPI
Edward Finch Cox
White House
United States
Tricia Nixon
Caribbean
Palm Beach
Fla
Camp David
Maryland Mountains
New York
Edward Latch
Kahlil Gibran
Cox
Tricia
Nixon
Thurmond Attacks China Trade as Nixon Moves to Open
In Washington Sen. Strom Thurmond denounced lifting the 20 year trade embargo with Communist China just days before Nixon acted. He called the China policy a massive propaganda effort and warned of political costs from a leftward shift on domestic policy.
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Washington
Thurmond
Nixon
China
Senate
Philip’m. Crane
Ill
Nonuplets: Four Survivors Struggle at Sydney Hospital
Doctors fought to save four of the nine children born to socialite Mrs. Geraldine Brodrick at Sydney Royal Hospital for Women. Only one baby weighed one to two pounds and was in satisfactory condition. Two babies were stillborn and three died overnight. The four survivors include four girls and five boys born more than a month premature and placed in incubators. The mother is reported in satisfactory condition with one girl showing some concern for the others.
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Sydney
UPS
Geraldine Brodrick
Royal Hospital For Women
Brodrick
Cities Receive State Tax Shares in May Totals
The city of Scottsdale received $120,311 and Paradise Valley $12,680 as shares of state transaction sales taxes for May. Paradise Valley also collected $4,150 in the same period. State tax receipts are apportioned to cities on a population basis, with the city adding a one percent local sales tax that yielded $252,630 in May for April sales.
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Scottsdale
Paradise Valley
Cosmonauts vote from space in Soviet parliamentary polls
In orbit aboard Salyut, cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Parsayev cast ballots for the Communist bloc while nursing cabbage and onion plants. Tass notes they grow Chinese cabbage using hydroponics to study plant development in weightlessness.
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Moscow
UPI
Salyut Orbital Laboratory
Georgi Dobrovolsky
Vladislav Volkov
Viktor Parsayev
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Bloc of Communists
Tass
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