Teamsters, Truckers Reach Tentative 33 Month Pact
The Teamsters and trucking industry reach a tentative 33 month contract for about 400,000 drivers. Total wage hike 95 cents an hour over 33 months with 35 cents July 1 and 30 cents each subsequent year plus cost of living raises up to 11 cents. Improved vacation holidays and health benefits included. Ratification to begin immediately ahead of Saturday midnight contract expiry.
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Washington
Teamsters Union
Teamster
Board of Directors
Trucking Employers Inc
Senate ultimatum on Nixon and bombing halt
The Senate moves to force Nixon to choose between halting bombing in Cambodia and cutting federal pay. Critics push for anti bombing provisions in debt ceiling and continuing resolution bills as votes loom. Eagleton and Mansfield warn the President must stop the bombing or funding will halt government operations.
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House
Sen
Thomas F. Eagleton
Dmo
Congress
Senate Appropriations Committee
U. S
Cambodia
Laos
Senate
Eagleton
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Judge freezes educational funds tied to Nixon impoundment
United States District Judge Joseph C. Waddy ordered $380 million in educational money blocked from transfer to the general revenue fund as Pennsylvania and 10 other states challenge President Nixon's impoundment. The funds remain frozen pending a ruling on the preliminary injunction against the action.
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Nixon
General Revenue Fund
State of
Pennsylvania
Joseph C. Waddy
White House questions Dean over memory and Nixon links
Exiled counsel John W. Dean III defended his memory and his charges against President Nixon amid a White House counterattack. Sen. Inouye read 39 questions from J. Fred Buzhardt, with Nixon reportedly briefed on the inquiry. Dean insisted he recalls key September, February, March and April meetings and denied deliberately leaking stories or plotting a cover up.
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Washington
John W. Dean III
White House
Nixon
J. Fred Buzhardt
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
Inouye
Buzhardt
Dean
Senate Watergate Committee
Atty
John N. Mitchell
E. Howard Hunt
Schlesinger Confirmed as Defense Secretary by Senate
The Senate approved James R. Schlesinger for defense secretary after Sen. William Proxmire dropped his objections. Proxmire pressed for details on a potential bombing resumption in North Vietnam, which Schlesinger tied to major North Vietnamese aggression violating Paris accords. Schlesinger previously led the CIA and the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Nixon
James R. Schlesinger
Defense
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Proxmire
Schlesinger
U. S
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Senate Armed Services Committee
Central Intelligence Agency
Atomic Energy Commission
China tests hydrogen bomb defies nuclear monopoly
China announced it tested a hydrogen bomb for defense aims to break the nuclear monopoly of the superpowers. Peking Radio said the explosion occurred over the western Chinese mainland Wednesday, noted by several other countries as detected.
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Tokyo
China
Peking
Illinois Senate approves land trust disclosure bill 49 to 1
The Illinois Senate approved a measure to force disclosure of money interest holders in land trusts doing business with government, with a maximum penalty of 14 years for false statements. Sen. Harris Fowell sponsored, Sen. John A. Graham opposed. The bill returns to the House for possible amendments.
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Illinois Senate
Harris Fowell
Naperville
John A. Graham
Barrington
House
Senate
U. S. Supreme Court
Walker
Cook
LaSalle
Madison
Williamson
Man claims flying saucers hold key to world peace
John Stewart of The Southern Illinoisan reports Wayne S. Aho founder of the New Age Foundation Inc spoke at SIUC Carbondale to 200 attendees about contacting extra planetary beings via inner sensory perception. He links saucer encounters to end of money and potential nuclear war with interplanetary trade by 1988.
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John Stewart
Southern Illinoisan
Wayne S
Aho
New Age Foundation Inc
Southern Illinois University At Carbondale
SIUC
Earth
Mojave Desert
California
Japan
Middle East
St. Louis, Mo
Committee For the Future
Michael Gibbons
Agencies' budgets on docket for spring session
The Illinois House Appropriations Committee weighs mammoth state department budgets for public aid and mental health as part of the spring session. Gov. Daniel Walker’s $7.1 billion fiscal 1974 plan is under cursory review while university aid requests exceed his overall higher education funding.
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Springfield
State Departments of Public Aid and
Mental Health
House Appropriations Committee
Daniel Walker
House
Walker
Senate
Illinois Junior College Board
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Edwardsville
Nixon orders immediate embargo on high protein soybeans
The Nixon administration restricts exports of high protein soybeans and oilseed products to curb feed costs. Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz calls it drastic but not lightly taken, estimating about 30 million bushels saved, worth roughly $300 million at current prices. Commerce Secretary Dent says the embargo lasts until next fall harvest.
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Washington
Nixon
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Commerce
Frederick B. Dent
Chicago Board of Trade Today
Butz
Dent
Contempt ruling sent case back over Illinois liquor post
A federal appeals court refused to halt contempt actions against Gov. Daniel Walker for not rehiring Donald G. Adams as Illinois Liquor Commissioner. The 7th U.S. Circuit sent the case to Judge Omer Poos in Springfield for another contempt hearing related to a restraining order. Adams held the post six years before his firing.
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Daniel Walker
Donald G. Adams
Illinois Liquor Commission
U. S. Court of Appeals
U. S. District Court
Omer Poos
Springfield
Poos
Walker
Adams
Elroy Sandquist
Chicago
Wilbur F. Pell
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Richard B. Ogilvie
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