Fund freeze halts Marion Collinsville regional office plan
Illinois governor Richard Ogilvie announced a funds freeze as part of belt tightening that may stop the Marion and Collinsville regional state office projects. The Mixinois Building Authority and IBA say bids must be readvertised and construction could take 18 to 20 months once started. Junior college programs are not affected, per college officials.
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Ilinois
Richard Ogivie
Marion
Collinsville
Mixnois
Ford
IBA
Veterans Hos
Richard Ogilvie
John A. Logan College
Nathan A. Ivey
Ivey
Trey
James M. Snyder
Rend Lake College
Mt. Vernon
Sinvijs Building Authority
Ina
Snyder
Shawnee Junior College Board
Ulin - Grand Chain
Blacktop
Loren FE. Klaus
Illinois lawmakers weigh higher education costs rise
Springfield legislators begin discussing how to curb soaring state costs for higher education as the Illinois Board of Higher Education proposes operating spending over 940 million and capital needs around 450 million for the next two years. The plan includes 50,000 more students and expanded vocational offerings, with hearings set for Tuesday. Also on the docket are Cook County election and corrections bills and a model donor law for body parts.
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Springfield
Richard
Ogilvie
Ilinois
Ilinois Board of Higher Exurcation
House Appropriations Committee
Chicago
Iinois
Illinois
Senate Elections Committee
Cook County Election Commission
Senate Municipal Corporations Committee
Cook County Department of Corrections
Nixon to Visit West Berlin Amid East German Threats
President Nixon plans a five nation Europe trip including West Berlin despite East German threats to disrupt the March 5 election. Press Secretary Ziegler stated the President will fly to West Berlin and return to the White House after a weekend stay. The White House also issued directives on labor, Taft-Hartley coverage for farm workers, and possible sharing of income tax receipts with state and local governments.
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Kay Biscayne
Fla
Florida White House
Flay
Nixon
West Berlin
West Germany
Ronald L. Ziegler
Europe
Ziegler
Trent
United States
Great Britain
France
White House
Secretaries of Labor and Agriculture
Secretary of the Treasury
Refuge for 1000 stranded on Tappan Zee Bridge in storm
An East Coast snowstorm left about 1,000 motorists stranded on the three mile Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River. Many sought shelter in churches firehouses and a Roman Catholic church in Tarrytown and Nyack while police and volunteers provided food and drink and Red Cross aid began. Buses carrying skiers were also snowbound and housed in Catskill area shelters.
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Tarrytown
N.Y
Red Cross
Ernest Kindgren
New York Thruway
Frehouses
American Legion
Orangetown
Nyack
Catskill
Catskill Armory
Suburbs paralyzed as 15 inch storm shuts New York area
A blizzard dumped 15 inches of snow across New York and New Jersey, halting stock exchanges and railways. Travel collapsed with 90,000 commuters cut off, airports closed, roads blocked, and power failures reported as crews battled the storm.
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American Stock Exchanges
Long Island
Penn Central
New Haven
Albany
New York City
Tappan Zee
Hudson River
Tarrytown
Kennedy International
la Guardia
Newark
Kennedy
Montreal
Niagara Falls
New Jersey
Erie « Lackawennia Railroad
Crenton
N.J
Connecticut
Canaan
Westchester County
Boston Edison
Boston
New City Hall
New Hampshire
Maine
Massachusetts
Portsmouth
N.H
Washington
Baltimore
Maryland
Airlift Sought to Feed 600 Stranded at Kennedy Terminal
National Airlines urged a helicopter flight to Kennedy airport to drop food for about 600 people camping at the terminal after a snowstorm. About 500 were at the National terminal with no food since 8:30 p.m. yesterday, including 20 children and passengers with medical issues. Pan Am gave coffee and juice, TWA served complete breakfasts to about 2,000. Port Authority police aided several people, including heart and ulcer attack victims.
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New York
National Airlines
Kennedy Airport
National Terminal
National
Pan American
Trans World Airlines
TWA
Port Authority
Enormous enemy rocket cache found near Saigon
AP reports fifty 240mm rockets plus thousands of smaller munitions unearthed in War Zone C near Saigon, with bicycles used for transport and six launchers found. Spokesmen say the stockpile could equip two North Vietnamese regiments and blunt enemy offensives around Tet.
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Saigon
Moscow
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Ecache
Artillery duel claim in Jordan amid Israel clash
The Jordanian government says it fought a seven hour artillery duel with Israel in the Ghor Safi area south of the Dead Sea and accuses Israel of starting the exchange with no Arab losses reported. In Beirut Al Nahar reports Jordan seeks Cairo talks over PLO move. Meanwhile in Israel six Arab youths and a teacher are expelled from the occupied West Bank for alleged anti Israel activity.
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Associated Press
Jordan
Israel
Ghor Safi
Dead Sea
Amman
Beirut
al Nahar
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Egypt
Jordan River
Bahrat ‘Talhouni
Cairo
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Talhouni
Yasser Arafat
West Bank
Thant Stranded Delays Urgent Middle East Security Council Meeting
United Nations officials said a Security Council session on the Middle East issue was delayed because Secretary-General U Thant was stranded at his suburban New York home by a snowstorm. A meeting could still be held on Tuesday.
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United Nations, N.Y
Security Council
Middle East
U Thant
New York
Weather forecast fragment for a future day
Partly cloudy tonight with low around 30. Tuesday brings sunny skies and cooler conditions with highs near 30s.
Trial testimony links Shaw to Kennedy plot
New Orleans AP reports Perry Russo testified at Clay Shaw's trial that he overheard Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald, and David Ferrie plotting to kill President Kennedy. Russo, 27, described a party at Ferrie's apartment in September 1963 and cited aliases and identifications of Oswald. He said the three discussed triangulation of fire and flying gunners to safety. Oswald and Ferrie are dead.
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New Orleans
Perry Raymond Russo
Clay Shaw
Shaw
Lee Harvey Oswald
David W. Ferrie
John F. Kennedy
Russo
Fertie
Sandra Moffett
Asst. Dist
Atty
James A. Alcock
and Russo
Harold McMaines
Deas Moines
Iowa
Alty
Jim Garrison
Forre
Clem Bertrans
Oswald
Ann Oswald
Ferrie
Leon
Kennedy
Planx
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