FTC probes Bethlehem Steel strip mining ads
The Federal Trade Commission launches a preliminary inquiry into Bethlehem Steel's four color full page ads in Time Newsweek Business Week and Saturday Review claiming strip mining in Eastern Kentucky's Beth Elkhorn division is temporary and restoration is thorough. A staff attorney will inspect the Bethlehem strip mine area in the coming weeks.
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Bethlehem Steel Corp
Appalachian Mountains
F.T.C
Thomas Grady
Commission
Bethlehem Steel
Time
Newsweek
Business Week
Saturday Review
Bethlehem
Beth-Elkhorn
Kentucky
Pike and Letcher
Bethhlehem
Interior Department
GI pay hike threatens draft bill as Senate readies return
A House Senate compromise on a 2.4 billion dollar GI pay raise for an all volunteer army faces new trouble in the Senate draft bill. The deal shifts most cuts to privates and lieutenants while generals keep large raises. Antiwar senators threaten a filibuster to restore the Indochina pullout deadline, with Sen Gordon Allott aiming to restore the full 2.7 billion package. The dispute surfaces as the draft bill resumes after a September recess.
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House
Gordon Allot
R-Corp
Nixon faces critical editorials during Maine trip
President Nixon enjoys lobster on Minots Island Penobscot Bay while facing front page editorials in Bangor Daily News and Manchester Union Leader. Editors urge wage price controls amid inflation while McCloskey opens NH campaign HQ as Nixon contemplates China policy and Democratic rivals loom in New England weekend visit.
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Maine
Penobscot Bay
Bangor Daily News
William Leeb
China
Peking
United States
Leeb
New Hampshire
Nashua
N.H
Paul McCloskey
Calif
Nixon Nixon
New England
George McGovern
South Dakota
Henry M. Jackson
Washington
Birch Bayh
Indiana
1st Brigade Furls Colors for Return from Vietnam
The U S 1st Brigade 5th Mechanized Infantry Division furls its colors at Quang Tri marking deactivation after three years guarding the DMZ. About 5 000 men depart as two other brigades assume colors of the 4th Division at Ft Carson.
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5Th Mechanized Infantry Division
United States
Quang Tri Combat Base
Dmz
Ft. Carson
Colo
Khe Sanh
Laos
101St Airborne Division
Quang Tri
Hoang Xuan Lam
South Vietnam
Harold H. Dunwoody
The
United
Vihear Suor
Mekong River
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
da Nang
Brakes fail on bus carrying Deaf School students
A bus transporting 20 deaf students from Cave Spring School for the Deaf in Georgia headed home from a camping trip in Manchester Tennessee lost its brakes on Monteagle Mountain. The vehicle plunged down an embankment after striking a guardrail. All 21 aboard, including driver Lesley Bowles, were hospitalized with non life threatening injuries.
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Monteagle, Tenn
Monteagle Mountain
Lesley Bowles
South Pittsburg
Cave Spring
Georgia
Manchester
Tenn
Cave Spring School For
Bowles
Chattanooga
Brezhnev to Visit Yugoslavia as Ties Seek Stabilization
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev plans an official visit to Belgrade next month, his first in five years, signaling efforts to reset Soviet Yugoslav relations. Officials say the trip aims to secure Yugoslavia's pledge not to challenge Moscow’s model in its Eastern European satellites and to renew pledges of sovereignty and non interference.
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New York Times
Belgrade
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Yugoslavia
Communist Party
Tito
United States
Marshal Tito
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union
Brezhnev
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Moscow
Bulgaria
Balkan
Republic
Macedonia
U S official urges broadening vocation over college
U S commissioner of education Sidney Marland Jr calls higher education a national fetish and urges a shift toward broadly based vocational and career education at secondary and community college levels. He says many should be valued as skilled workers and aims for 50 percent of youth to choose career education.
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U.S
United States Commissioner of Education
Sidney Marland Jr
Marland
Blue men of the Moroccan desert gain nickname from robes
Indigenous desert dwellers known as blue men owe their name to indigo robes whose color rubs off on hands faces and beards.
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