Connally vows tough enforcement of wage price freeze
Secretary Connally said Nixon’s 90 day wage, price and rent freeze will be strict and all inclusive with no exceptions. He warned penalties of up to 5000 dollars for violations and urged banks to avoid evading the rules while the Cost of Living Council reviews post freeze steps.
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Washington
Nixon
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Connally
Cost of Living Council
American Motors
Ameri
Justice Department
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Buildup On Syrian Border Signals Tense Standstill
Ramtha Jordan reports mounting border tensions with Syria as about 15 000 Jordanian troops and 200 tanks array along the six mile line near Dar a amid stalled diplomatic efforts in Cairo Damascus and Riyadh. Arab mediators press for de escalation while distant cross border movement remains restricted.
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Dar’a
Ramtha
King Hussein
Damascus
Beirut
Egypt
Hussein
Jordan
Anwar Sadat
Hassan Sabry el Khaly
Omar Sakaff
Yasir Arafat
Kholy
Work Comes To Halt In Troubled Ireland
Three Pennsylvanians including the son of North American Rockwell chair escaped injury when a small private plane crashed into a haystack near Farmington Pennsylvania on Sunday evening. Civil disobedience in Northern Ireland halted much daily life as 10,000 Catholics and civil rights supporters disrupted Londonderry services, shops, buses, and mail amid sectarian tensions and IRA activity.
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NEW Boston
Willard F. Rockwell Jr
North American Rockwell Corp
Stephen Rockwell
Farmington
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Londonderry
Judge rules Wallace cannot override desegregation orders
Federal Judge Sam Pointer Jr. states Governor Wallace cannot set aside court orders and must have Jefferson County schools comply with desegregation directives. Wallace plans another executive order to keep Hobson City and Oxford schools as they are, and may urge parents to challenge bus distances.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Wallace
Jefferson County
Nixon
U.S. Dist
Sam C. Pointer Jr
Pointer
Hobson City
Oxford
A. W. Clemon
Queen Finalists Chosen at Somerset County Fair
Jeanne Barbera Bonnie Lou Ream and Amy Reffner were named finalists for the sixth annual Somerset County Fair queen contest. Judges including Roger Kissman of General Telephone and Ralph Barnett spoke with seven contestants at a Town and Country Inn dinner. Local dignitaries and the county fair association members attended the event.
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Somerset County
Jeanne Barbera
Bonnie Lou Ream
Amy Reffner
Somerset County Fair
Barbera
Ream
Reffner
Joyce Shaffer
Boswell
Myrtle Barron
Somerset
Ann Gnagey
Meyersdale
Wanda Saylor
Rockwood
Somerset County Fair Association
Nixon policy boosts dollar in overseas markets starts strong
After a curtailed trading day the dollar showed early strength as Nixon policy aimed to bolster the dollar abroad. Reports said there was no widespread retaliation, but exchange markets were uneven with light dollar trading and holidays closing several markets.
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New York
Nixon
Europe
France
Italy
Belgium
England
Germany
Switzerland
America
London
Paris
United States
U.S
Tax Budget Fight School Subsidy Vote Due Today
Harrisburg AP reports a bipartisan subsidy plan for public schools would cost 105.8 million this year and 155 to 160 million in 1972 73. It raises per pupil payments and adds poverty and super poverty funds while seeking districts with low spending. House leaders aim a Tuesday vote amid GOP concessions calls.
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Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
K. Leroy Irvis
Kenneth B. Lee
Lee
House
Senate
Witnesses Called In Medina Case At My Lai Trial
Army witnesses testified that Charlie Company soldiers killed unarmed villagers at My Lai without provocation. Medina was not present during the shootings and faces charges of premeditated murder and assault for the March 16 1968 attack. Prosecutor Maj. William Eckhardt said Medina is personally accused of killing two villagers and responsible for others as commander. Gregory Olsen a Charlie Company machine gunner testified Medina warned soldiers this would be revenge.
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FT. Mcpherson
My Lai
Ment
Maj
William Eckhardt
Medina
Charlie Company
Charlie
Olsen
Bombers Strike In DMZ Break 3 Year Vietnam War Pause
U S B52 bombers operated in the southern DMZ for the first time since the halt in bombing nearly three years ago. Reports say up to 200 strikes targeted four North Vietnamese regiments and a new road across the western DMZ. North Vietnamese forces pressed shelling and ground attacks, with South Vietnamese claims of over 200 enemy killed and 33 dead on their side, two American advisers wounded.
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Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
North Vietnam
Dmz
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Albert Anderson
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Stormont
Irish Republican Army
Dublin
IRA
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Ulster
Pennsylvania
Daily American
Meyersdale Fairgrounds
Wallace Order
Queen
Freeze
Japan
German Industrial Federation
Capt
Gregory Olsen
Portland, Ore
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