Nixon weighs selective freeze as inflation debate grows
President Nixon meets with economic advisers and the Labor Management Advisory Committee as the Senate prepares to vote on a Proxmire proposal to freeze all wages and prices except raw agricultural products. Officials say a selective freeze is under consideration with no firm details.
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New York Times News Service
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Consid
Senate
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Proxmire
State Department
Mike Mansfield
Supreme Court upholds Clean Air Act limits on new power plants
Environmentalists led by the Sierra Club hail the Supreme Court ruling that the Clean Air Act forbids any significant deterioration of existing air quality. EPA plans to set guidelines after June 30 while industry pushes Congress to amend the law. Nuclear options face delays from lawsuits. desulfurization and low sulfur oil options could raise costs and imports.
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Supreme Court
Sierra Club
Larry Moss
Coal and Power Industries
Congress
Moss
Carl E. Bagge
National Coal Association
EPA
Ralph Nader
Stans denies knowledge of raids in Watergate hearings
Maurice H. Stans rejected knowledge of wiretapping, political sabotage, or campaign-law violations. He admitted possible unintended violations of a new disclosure law while Senate Watergate aides, led by Mitchell and Barker, pressed for timely testimony despite his New York federal trial over a 1972 Vesco-linked contribution.
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Lawrence L. Knutson
Washington
Maurice H. Stans
Secretary of Commerce
Nixon
Stans
New York
Senate Watergate Committee
Sam J. Ervin
D-N. C
Robert Vesco
Mitchell
Robert W. Barker
Barker
Harrisburg hearing on education reforms in Illinois
Illinois education concerns dominated a Harrisburg hearing at Malan Junior High School led by State Superintendent Michael Bakalis. Ivan Swan proposed a credit based funding model and a regency-type testing system. About 40 people from 15 counties registered to testify as the panel gathered to update Action Goals for the 70s.
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Illinois
Harrisburg
Malan Junior High School
Michael J. Bakalis
Bakalis
Ivan B. Swan
Goreville
Swan
Immunity ruling on Watergate witnesses sparks coverage debate
Judge John J. Sirica denied a bid to limit media coverage of Senate Watergate testimony. He granted immunity to John W. Dean III and Jeb Stuart Magruder for their committee testimony and ordered Dean to testify before the grand jury. Cox had urged closed or radio television restricted sessions.
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Washington
John J. Sirica
Watergate
Senate Watergate Committee
U.S
Timony
Archibald Cox
Sirica
Dean
Cox
Senate
Illinois Farmer Plans 300 Acres of Soybeans West of Hurst
Joe Hicks works a planter to seed 90 acres more as he speeds to finish a 300 acre soybean crop this year. He notes heavy spring rains slowed planting and expects lower seed costs this season from saved seed, with prices rising from 3 to 4 dollars last year to 11 to 15 dollars a bushel.
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Joe Hicks
Hurst
Hicks
Southern Illinois
Butch Nevious
Talks resume on Vietnam peace plan near Paris
Kissinger and Le Duc Tho met four hours in a Paris area home and did not seal a new accord. They will reconvene at noon Wednesday in Gif sur Yvette to continue drafting a 14 point communique covering cease fire, prisoner releases, missing personnel, and future aid talks.
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Paris
Henry A. Kissinger
Hanoi
le Duc Tho
Vietnam
Gif Sur Yvette
United States
North Vietnam
Saigon
Libya seizes oil firm and vows broader nationalizations
Libyan leader Col. Muammar el Qaddafi announced the takeover of Bunker Hunt Oil Co of Dallas as part of a broader push to nationalize American oil interests in the region. He spoke at a Tripoli rally marking three years since the U S forces left Wheelus Air Base, signaling more seizures to come.
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New York Times
Cairo
Libya
Muammar El-Qaddafi
U. S
Bunker Hunt Oil Co
Dallas
United States
Middle East
Quaddafi
Qaddafi
Tripoli
Wheelus
Anwar Sadat
Peru
Idi Amin
Ugana
Bunker Hunt
Oasis
Amaseas
Occidental
Sarir
British Petroleum
Illinois official taps professor to head probe into campaign contributions
George M. Burditt as head of the Illinois Liquor Control Commission named Rubin Cohn, a University of Illinois law professor and former general counsel to the 1970 Constitutional Convention, to lead the investigation into Anthony Angelos campaign contributions. Tonight and tomorrow forecast show warm, partly cloudy weather with chances of showers and thunderstorms.
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Springfield
George M. Burditt
Illinois Liquor Control Commission
Anthony Angelos
Burditt
Daniel Walker
Rubin Cohn
University of Illinois
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Hugh Scott
Walter Mondale
D-Minn
White House
Labor Management Advisory Committee
Cost of Living Council
Environmental Protection Agency
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Edmund S. Muskie
Muskie
Justice Department
Herbert L. Porter
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Committee
Porter
Magruder
Ken Reitz
Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
State Board of Education
Cong
Viet Cong
Peo
Council of National Reconciliation and Concord
South Vietnam
International Commission of Control and Supervision
Laos
Cambodia
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