Firms seek price hikes as Phase 4 starts
The Cost of Living Council reported about 20 to 25 major firms proposed price increases on the first day of Phase 4. Chrysler and Armco Steel announced bids with Ford expected to join. beef slaughter rose to 100000, while officials said smaller firms may follow as Phase 4 raises consumer costs.
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Cost of Living Council
Charles Emery
Chrysler Corp
Armco Steel Corp
Ford Motor Co
Council
John T. Dunlop
Emery
Chrysler
American Motors
Armco Steel
Bethlehem Steel Corp
National Steel Corp
Longest air war ends at midnight in Cambodia
The last U.S. bomb to Cambodia will fall by midnight ending history's longest air war. The conflict dropped 7.4 million tons of explosives and left insurgents controlling about 80 percent of Cambodian territory. Pentagon officials warn of uncertain postwar outcomes and continuing tensions in the region.
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U.S
Cambodia
Indochina
Vietnam
Iitory
Pentagon
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Laos
Southeast Asia
Six DEA agents face dismissal over Collinsville raids
Six federal narcotics agents involved in mistaken raids on Collinsville homes on April 23 face firing in 30 days unless they rebut the charges of conduct prejudicial to the government. Acting DEA head John R. Bartels cites Civil Service rules. agent demotions and reassignment follow, with appeals possible.
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Collinsville
John R. Bartels, Jr
U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration
DEA
Washington, D. C
Civil Service Commission
Robert Feldkamp
Rnodea
Feldkamp
Bartels
William C. Dwyer
Leon Phillips
Kenneth R. Bloemker
Dennis W. Harker
Michael W. Hillebrand
Dennis R. Moriarty
Springfield
Edmund C. Irvin
St. Louis Dea
Irvin
Herbert Giglotte
Donald Askew
Askews
Giglottes
Askew
Edwardsville
Madison County Grand Jury
Alton
U S Air Attacks End as Cambodian Capital Faces Threat
American warplanes hammered Khmer Rouge around Phnom Penh on the final day of U S air attacks in Indochina with B52s F4 Phantoms and A7 Corsairs. The end of U S air support is set for 11 a m Cambodian time.
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Dennis Neeld
Phnom Penh
U.S
Indochina
Saigon
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Khmer Rouge
Tonight’s cooler with fair skies and brisk low 60s
Forecast calls for a clear night with temperatures dipping to the lower sixties. Wednesday will be partly sunny with highs around the mid 80s.
Lightning strikes Seattle bank building during storm
A bolt of lightning hit the Seattle First National Bank Building, famously called the box the Space Needle came in, as a electrical storm swept through the city. The image is a two minute time exposure.
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Seattle, Wash
First National Bank
Seattle
Island residents form levee board to plan long range fixes
Randolph County commissioners appoint a four member board on Kaskaskia Island to study long range levee plans. The Army Corps of Engineers will restore the present levee after breaks from the spring flood. A future option is a south end levee connecting to Missouri Route 51 near the Chester Bridge to shorten access to Chester.
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Kaskaskia Island
Randolph County Board of Commissioners
United States Army Corps of Engineers
Missouri Rt. 51
Missouri
Chester Bridge
Chester
Dora
Union County road repair funds approved
A federal grant of 144000 will fund Union County road and bridge repairs after the Mississippi River flood and May flash flood. Of the funds 130000 targets Road District 1A bridges and Road District 2A resurfacing, 14000 for county road resurfacing. Twelve bridges have been replaced in 1A and repairs begun in 2A. Civil Defense estimates total damage at 160000.
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Union County
Loren Hinkle
Hinkle
Civil Defense
Teen may testify in mass murder grand jury hearing
Houston District Attorney Carol Vance presented the largest mass murder case before a grand jury. A teen witness, Billy Ridinger, described as present during killings, is expected to testify along with two detectives as the investigation expands into 27 bodies found near Houston after the Corll case surfaced.
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Jim Barlow Houston
Carol Vance
Billy Ridinger
David O. Brooks
Harris County
Elmer Wayne Henley
Pasadena
Dean Allen Corll
Gulf Coast
Houston
Cox releases detailed summary of Watergate tapes
Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox filed a 68 page brief seeking a court order to compel President Nixon to surrender the tapes. The filing cites nine conversations from June 1972 to April 1973 and argues full access is crucial for grand jury knowledge.
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Donald M. Rothberg
Washington
Archibald Cox
Cox
Nixon
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
White House
Agnew May Turn Over Records In Maryland Probe
An aide says Vice President Spiro Agnew may hand over financial and tax records to federal prosecutors in the Maryland political corruption inquiry. Press secretary J Marsh Thomson indicated Agnew will provide everything pertinent at the appropriate time.
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Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Maryland
Dean Named Vesco Case Conspirator
The government names former White House counsel John W. Dean III as a co conspirator in the Vesco influence peddling case. Dean is tied to an alleged attempt to obstruct an SEC investigation of financier Robert Vesco and to possible funding of Watergate figures. The $200000 Vesco contribution to Nixon reelection was returned.
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New York
White House
John W. Dean III
U.S. Atty
John N. Mitchell
Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
Paul Curran
Dean
Securities and Exchange Commission
Robert L. Vesco
Vesco
Nixon
G. Gordon Liddy
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Lee Burch
Harold Pike
Travers Dora
John Klein
Corps of Engineers
Mel Doernhoefer
Mississippi
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Union County Road Repair Funds
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Democratic National Committee
H. R. Haldeman
Senate
Watergate Committee
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Committee
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