Canada to Control Fuel Exports
Ottawa AP Canada imposes temporary export controls on gasoline and heating oil citing strong U S demand. Energy Minister Donald Macdonald says details will follow and that voluntary limits are not assured due to price differences. Duration tied to improved international supplies and eastern refinery capacity expansion.
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Ottawa
Canada
U. S
House of Commons
Energy
Donald Macdonald
Macdonald
Japanese envoy Takeshi Yasukawa named U S ambassador
Takeshi Yasukawa, 59, counsellor at the Foreign Ministry, will succeed Nobuhiko Ushiba as Japan’s ambassador to the United States. He has held posts including director of the American Affairs Bureau and ambassador to the Philippines. He is expected to take up the post after a July 16-17 Tokyo meeting of the Japan U S Joint Committee. His first task is to prepare for talks between Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and President Nixon in Washington July 31 to August 1.
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Tokyo
Takeshi Yasukawa
Foreign Ministry
Nobuhiko Ushiba
United States
Yasukawa
American Affairs Bureau
Philippines
Washington
Joint Committee On Trade and Economic Affairs
Kakuei Tanaka
Nixon
Safety board ends hearings on air crash linked to Watergate
The National Transportation Safety Board wrapped two days of hearings after Sherman Skolnick alleged sabotage and a Watergate link to United Air Lines Flight 260 crash near Midway Airport on December 8, 1972. No evidence was produced, and the board will study testimony before final report in about two months.
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National Transportation Safety Board
Sherman Skolnick
United Air Lines
Isabell Burgess
Skolnick
E. Howard Hunt
Watergate
Midway Airport
Hunt
Skylab 1 crew plans for return to Earth from space
With a week left in their 28 day mission Charles Conrad Jr Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz adjusted sleep schedules and tested Apollo systems. A Saturday undocking reentry and landing simulation will precede splashdown as recovery ship Ticonderoga sails from San Diego toward the prime splashdown area about 800 miles southwest.
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Earth
Mission Control
Kerwin
Conrad
Weitz
Ticonderoga
San Diego
California
Space
Campora Visits Peron in Madrid as Illness Upsets Return Plan
Argentine President Hector J. Campora arrived in Madrid to prepare for Peron’s return to Buenos Aires. Peron did not meet Campora, cited as indisposed, though Campora visited Peron at his Madrid home and was greeted by Gen. Francisco Franco at the airport. They plan to depart June 21 after a five day official visit to Spain.
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Hector J. Campora
Madrid
Juan D. Peron
Peron
Campora
Francisco Franco
Buenos Aires
Spain
Belfast militant leader tied to killing of kin in raid
Gunmen burst into a Belfast home and fatally shot Michael Wilson, brother-in-law of Tommy Herron deputy leader of the Ulster Defense Association. Police said the attackers aimed at Herron and were unsure if ultramilitant Protestants or IRA guerrillas carried out the crime. Wilson was the 824th fatality in the IRA campaign.
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Tommy Herron
Ulster Defense Association
Michael Wilson
Herron
Kissinger hints Cambodia cease fire possible in coming weeks
Senate backs war cutoff denying more time for Cambodia action as Kissinger hints at a private understanding and a possible cease-fire in the next weeks. He notes Paris talks and a Vietnam cease-fire communique may influence events, while Congress weighs bans on bombing in Indochina.
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Henry A. Kissinger
Cambodia
Senate
Kissinger
Ambodia
Indochina
Tillinois
Charles Percy
Adlai Stevenson III
House-Senate
Congress
U. S
Paris
Vietnam
le Duc Tho
Tho
New Vietnam Cease-Fire Off To Shaky Start In Saigon
Rockets artillery and mortars fire marked the cease-fire’s start amid no progress on the 14 points. Fighting and U S air strikes continued in Cambodia as the Kissinger Tho accord stalls. Commanders did not meet and Paris talks on internal matters delayed two weeks.
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Henry A. Wissinger-Le Duc Tho
U. S
Cambodia
Kissinger
Tho
Saigon
Viet Cong
Paris
United States
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Mekong
Henry A. Kissinger
Hamoi
le Duc
Dollar declines once more in European markets
The dollar fell again on European money markets with gold rising to 120 to 121 per ounce in London and Zurich. The pound firmed to 2.5838 dollars in London while the dollar traded at 2,7412 guilders in Amsterdam amid Nixon era inflation anxieties and Watergate fallout.
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Amsterdam
Nixon
United States
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