Four Rail Unions Merge to Form United Transportation Union
Four rail unions approve a merger creating the United Transportation Union UTU with about 280000 members including retirees. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers declined to join. UTU aims to boost safety, income, and a mass transportation agenda for Congress.
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Chicago
United Transportation Union
Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Order of Railway Conductors
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Charles Luna
Cleveland
Luna
UTU
Afl-Cio
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
H. E. Gilbert
Clyde F. Lane
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Neil P. Speirs
Buffalo
N.Y
John H. Shepherd
Israeli Egyptian Jet Clash Over Red Sea Reported
Israeli and Egyptian jets clashed over the Red Sea near Sharm El Sheikh with Israel claiming an Egyptian MIG17 was shot down. The Israeli air force said all its jets returned safely after the encounter with two MIGs over the sea.
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Red Sea
Sharm el Sheikh
Sinai Peninsula
Dozen bases shelled in clash near Saigon
Reports say enemy fire hit a dozen bases and towns near Saigon in escalating clashes across the South Vietnam theater. Marines and ARVN units responded as shelling spread through the South China Sea coastal area.
Meade River encirclement tightens in South Vietnam
Operation Meade River tightens a 50 square mile cordon as Allied troops probe near Dien Ban and An Loc. In heavy fighting north of Saigon, U S forces clash with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops. 14 Americans killed and 17 wounded. enemy casualties cited as 45 in one day. Montagnard villages west of Pleiku see 125 homes burned and leaders abducted.
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South Vietnam
Dien Ban
Saigon
Highlands
An Loc
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
7Th Division
U.S
25Th Division
Central Highlands
Pleiku
Campus violence spreads across nation in college protests
Militants confront administrators at five colleges as violence erupts. San Francisco State saw 22 windows shattered and 220 police break up a crowd of about 1,000. At Northern Michigan University a Black Panther salute halted a basketball game, leading to cancellation after 45 minutes.
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Associated Press
San Francisco State College
San Francisco State
Northern Michigan University
Marquette
Nixon May Name Shriver U N Ambassador
President elect Nixon weighs a high profile Democrat for the United Nations post with Sargent Shriver reportedly in line after talks in New York and Washington. Shriver, ambassador to France, met Nixon and Kennedy family aides before returning to Paris. Kennedy ally Sen Edward M. Kennedy weighs in as possible influence on the decision.
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New York
Nixon
U. S
United Nations
Sargent Shriver
Shriver
France
Washington
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
Air France
Paris
Kennedy Airport
Kennedy
Ronald L. Ziegler
Hubert H. Humphrey
U. N. Post
Ziegler
U. N
William McChesney Martin
Federal Reserve Board
Martin
New York Stock Exchange
White House
Robert J. Brown
High Point
N. C
William Safire
Brown
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
B&c Associates
NLF claims U S air strikes rise after bombing pause
The National Liberation Front charged that since Johnson halted North Vietnam bombing the U S has doubled B52 sorties and tripled bombing over South Vietnam. Spokesman Duong Dinh Thao accused the U S of intensifying the war and cited a Da Nang attack. He also attacked Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, likening him to Hitler.
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Paris
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
Johnson
North Vietnam
U.S
South Vietnam
NLF
Duong Dinh Thao
United States
Saigon
Thao
Nguyen Cao Ky
Hitler
Clifford seeks mutual Vietnam troop withdrawal within 40 days
Secretary Clark Clifford said the United States hopes Paris peace talks make progress in 40 days toward a mutual withdrawal of troops from South Vietnam. He cautioned that no withdrawal is guaranteed and noted a possible North Vietnamese winter offensive. Clifford also discussed Pentagon budget needs and arms control talks with the Soviet Union.
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Washington
Clark M. Clifford
Paris
United States
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Clifford
Creighton W. Abrams
U.S
Vietnam
Pentagon
Army
Navy
Air Force
Soviet Union
Richard M. Nixon
Johnson
Russia
Black Sea
Credit bureaus probed in Senate hearing over ruined credit
Leon B. Sanders of Shreveport told a Senate subcommittee that a mistaken report said his car had been repossessed and that Ford Motor Credit Co. notified bureaus the 1964 report was false yet they did not follow instructions. Spafford urged focus on overall bureau accuracy amid complaints.
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Washington
Senate
Ford Motor Credit Co
Leon B. Sanders
John L. Spafford
Houston
Tex
National Association of Credit Bureaus
Subcommittee
Sanders
Philip A. Hart
Hart
D - Mich
Antitrust and Monopoly
Slayer receives two long prison terms for five killings
Thomas Charles Fuller II, 19, was sentenced to two consecutive 70 to 99 year terms after pleading guilty to the April 27 farm killings of five Cox children near Mattoon. Judge Harry S. Hannah noted the enormity of the crime and ordered transfer to the Joliet Diagnostic Center.
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Charleston
Thomas Charles Fuller II
Circuit Court
Harry S. Hannah
Coles County
Fuller
William Cox
Mattoon
Louise Cox
Louise
Hannah
Illinois Diagnostic Center
Joliet
Jury Drops Powell Probe
A federal grand jury examining Adam Clayton Powell expired without an indictment for misusing about 40000 in public funds. The Justice Department said evidence did not warrant criminal charges though civil action to recover funds was possible. Powell had faced censure by the House in 1967 and may still be barred from seating in upcoming steps.
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Washington
Adam Clayton Powell
Justice Department
Powell
Department
House
H. R. Gross
Iowa
Soviet defense budget rises to 17.7 billion rubles
The Soviet Union boosts next year’s budget defense total to 17.7 billion rubles, an all time high, as Finance Minister Vasily Garbuzov outlines a 133.8 billion ruble national budget. Western observers estimate hidden military costs halve the official military figure.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Vasily Garbuzov
Weather outlook warms through midweek with clearing trend
The forecast calls for warming from clear to partly cloudy skies tonight and Wednesday. Lows near 30 tonight with highs in the low to mid 50s Wednesday. Map page 13.
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Lune
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Gilbert
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineen
Lane
Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen
Speirs
Tel Aviv
South Chung Sea
Marines
Miles
Pan American College of
Edinburg
John X. Jamrich
Washington University
St. Louis
New York City
Leo McLaughlin
Fordham University
Oshkosh
Wis
Dallas, Tex
Roman C. Pucinski
D Ill
Pucinski
House Committee On Education
U.N. Post
Ers
Pierre
James Keogh
Greenwich
Conn
Martin Anderson
Columbia University
Graduate School of Business
Asso
Safire
NFL
Hanoi
Credit Bureaus
Shreveport
Spafford
Slayer of Five
Jury
Family Living
Mae Perr
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