SIU Runs All Boilers to Cut Pollution
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale fires all four 80 000 pound per hour steam boilers to reduce smokestack emissions below state limits while maintaining heating and cooling across campus. The move lowers particulate output from 1.17 to 0.0532 pounds per million BTU, with a projected 5 percent rise in coal use and extra maintenance from running at half capacity.
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Southern Tr'nxis University At
Carbondale
SIU
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
STU
Anthony Blass
Thomas Engram
Illinois faces extended air pollution alert
A thick blanket of smoky air covered northern two thirds of Illinois with a continuing air pollution watch into the second day. The National Weather Service blamed stagnation and factory emissions, dust, and auto exhaust. light winds hinder dispersion, and meteorologists said conditions could improve only if winds strengthen, likely remaining similar through Saturday.
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Associated Press
Illinois
National Weather Service
Pakistanis raid four airports triggers Indian emergency
India declared a national emergency after Pakistani air raids on four northwestern airports. Pakistan claimed retaliation for Indian ground attacks while India denied staging attacks. Air raid sirens sounded in New Delhi as international airlines halted flights to West Pakistan and key Indian cities.
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Associated Press
Pakistan
India
East Pakistan
New Delhi
International Airlines
London
West Pakistan
Calcutta
Srinagar
Kashmir
Amritsar
Punjab
Pathankot
Agartala
Air pirates seize Pakistani jet in Orly demand 20 tons of medicines
Pakistani International Airlines jet hijacked at Orly as two gunmen demand 20 tons of medicine for Bengali refugees. After five hours police calm, unloading of vaccines and antibiotics began while French authorities pressed negotiations. Plane had been en route from London to Pakistan.
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Paris
Redross
Orly
London
Pakistan
Beirut
Lebanon
Bangla Desh
Pasteur Institute
East Pakistan
India
East
American and Soviet Scientists Plan Joint Manned Space Flight
American and Soviet scientists plan to sign a joint space flight agreement within two months after a Moscow conference. The third session between NASA and the Soviet Academy of Sciences focused on hardware compatibility and docking concepts for separate launchings leading to an in space linkup.
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Moscow
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Jack Tech
U.S
Washington
Tech
Robert Gilruth
U.S. Manned Spacecraft
Houston
Unemployment Up As Wholesale Prices Edge Higher
Unemployment rises again while wholesale prices post a small one tenth increase last month before the price freeze ended. Farm products drive the gain in raw agricultural commodities as the overall price index reaches 114.5 percent of 1967 levels, up 3.2 percent from November last year, with consumer finished goods up two tenths. Meanwhile the dollar slides to record lows in Frankfurt and Zurich as financial markets anticipate a possible end to the international crisis.
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Washington
AIP
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Frankfurt
Zurich
London
Paris
Europe
Rome
Weekend Weather Outlook With Mild Temperatures
The forecast calls for tonight and Saturday mostly cloudy with highs around 40s and lows in the 30s. Sunday brings a chance of light rain then a return to sun next Monday and Tuesday with cooler highs in the 30s and 40s and overnight lows in the 20s to 30s.
Aid talks adjourn as Mansfield amendment stalls Indochina pullout
Washington AP Senate and House conferees quit for the weekend after deadlocking over the Mansfield amendment demanding a U.S. withdrawal from Indochina in six months. Mansfield urged a direct House vote on the measure which House members say has failed four times on parliamentary motions. Meanwhile a House subcommittee advanced foreign aid funds, bypassing authorizing committees.
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Washington
Senate
House
Mansfield
U.S
Indochina
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Carbondale Code Enforc ement orders Stalls on building violations
The Carbondale Code Enforcement Division prepared a letter to Model Cities Director Robert Stalls giving him three weeks to correct a dozen alleged building code violations in a northeast Carbondale house at 412 N Marion St occupied by a seven person family. If not done, court action possible. Stalls not comment. In Wheatfield Indiana a fire from an explosion after a train derailment was contained after four hours with half the town evacuated.
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Carbondale
Wheatfield
Ind
Unemployment Hits 6 Percent as Job Seekers Climb
November saw the unemployment rate back at 6 percent while total employment rose to a record 80 million. Job seekers reached 4.8 million, up 210000, with youth unemployment rising and nonwhite rates declining to 9.3 percent. Average earnings edged down to 3.47 an hour, weekly earnings at 128.74 dollars.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Illinois Democrats to announce slate Monday sources say
Illinois Democrats have not yet announced their 1972 slate with Lt. Gov. Paul Simon and State Treasurer Alan J. Dixon tipped for top spots. A Daley chaired committee heard candidates for governor and senator and slated officials plan to meet again to consider attorney general and secretary of state while Gov. Ogilvie’s Chicago school crisis plans delay the release.
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F. Richard Ciccone
Associated Press
Chicago
Illinois
Paul Simon
Alan J. Dixon
Richard J. Daley
U.S
Daley
Richard B. Ogilvie
Simon
Springfield
Dixon
Roman C. Pucinski
Congress
Percy
Michael J. Howlett
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Alexei N. Kosygin
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Tripuna
Joint Space Flight
Gilruth
Soviet Union
Frankfort
Inside Classified
Family Living
Model Cities
Indiana
Simon, Dixon
Slate
Thomas A. Foran
Nothern Illinois
Charles H. Percy
William J. Scott
Foran
Hanrahan
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