NYU proposes 500000 city in Southern Illinois Me tropolis dream centered near Carbondale
NYU professor Alfred DeGrazia unveiled a plan for a 100 square mile controlled environment city for 500000 people in central southern Illinois. SIU Carbondale researchers study the concept while funding and location remain undecided. The project code named M 76 targets 1976 completion and may use federal revenue sharing funds.
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Carbondale
New York University
NYU
Metropolis
Alfred M. DeGrazia
SIU
DeGrazia
Mace
Dragline crosses road to Perry County mine site
A six million pound dragline traversed Rt. 13-127 about three miles south of Pinkneyville on its route to a new Consol strip mine near Jamestown Perry County. Workmen guided the machine which laid a dirt cushion to protect the road and traffic was detoured around the crossing.
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Rt. 13-127
Pinckneyville
The
Consolidation Coal Co
Consol
Jamestown
Perry County
CIA No.2 man accuses Haldeman Ehrlichman Dean of Watergate cover-up
The CIA deputy chief alleges former White House aides Haldeman Ehrlichman and Dean sought CIA help to cover up Watergate. Separate actions include Judge Tyler turning down Richardson’s offer to be special Watergate prosecutor as Senate hearings proceed. Dean hands over classified Watergate documents while Ehrlichman and Haldeman testify.
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Washington Star-News
Associated Press
Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
White House
H. R. Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman
John W. Dean III
CIA
U. S. District Court
Harold R. Tyler Jr
Atty
Elliot L. Richardson
Richardson
Senate
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Vernon A. Walters
Armed Services Committee
Stuart Symington
Dmo
Walters
Haldeman
Ehrlichman
Dean
FBI
L. Patrick Gray II
Nixon
Miami
Bernard L. Barker
Manual Ogarrio Daguerre
Minneapolis
Kenneth H. Dahlberg
John J. Kay
Watergate hearings to be televised live across networks
The Senate Watergate committee announced live coverage of the public hearings starting Thursday with all three networks airing the events. PBS will record the proceedings for a prime time delayed broadcast. Ehrlichman is summed to appear before a Los Angeles grand jury probing the Pentagon papers break in. Three persons jailed in the Watergate burglary have been granted immunity next month, per Los Angeles officials.
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Senate
Senate Watergate Committee
Public Broadcasting Service
Ehrlichman
Los Angeles
Pentagon
Daniel Ellsberg
Gold jumps on European markets as dollar weakens
Gold rose about $5 an ounce on European bullion markets while the U S dollar fell sharply. Dealers cited fears of a fresh international monetary crisis, Watergate fallout, and Middle East oil interests as drivers of bullion buying and dollar selling. Brezhnev may discuss price arrangements with Nixon during his Washington visit next month. Gold opened in Zurich at 108 dollars an ounce, with the dollar sliding against marks francs and yen across major exchanges.
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London
U. S
Middle East
Lebanon
Soviet Union
Zurich
Frankfurt
Paris
Tokyo
Skylab Heat Problem Delays Launch as Panels Fail
Cape Kennedy report says Skylab aboard 272 mile orbit shows internal temperatures already at 109 degrees while two solar panels fail to unfold cutting power in half. Flight director Hutchinson notes heat and gyroscope issues but hopes to solve problems in days. launch postponed to Sunday.
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Howard Benedict
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Space Agency
Neil Hutchinson
Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Skylab
Hutchinson
Houston
Johnson Space Center
NASA
Nixon backs six year term study for presidency
President Nixon told congressional leaders a proposed bipartisan elections commission should study a single six year term for presidents and four year terms for House members. He cited Eisenhower and Johnson as having approved such a term. The idea may be explored but not as a specific recommendation of his.
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Nixon
Congressional
Commission On Election Reform
House
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Hugh Scott
White House
Mansfield
Bipartisan Commission
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
Walker approves Daley CTA nominee Pikarsky
Gov. Daniel Walker approved Milton Pikarsky for the Chicago Transit Authority board amid cooling ties with Mayor Richard Daley. Walker cited no personal culpability but kept probing about $22 million in state transportation bond funds. Both leaders plan a peace meeting May 22 as state law requires mutual consent for CTA appointments.
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Springfield
Daniel Walker
Milton Pikarsky
Richard J. Daley
Chicago Transit Authority
Walker
Daley
Pikarsky
Chicago
CTA
Sharp first quarter decline in U.S. balance of payments
Commerce Department reports a sharp first quarter deterioration in the U.S. balance of payments with the official reserve transactions deficit at 10.2 billion and net liquidity deficit at 6.8 billion. Deficits widen from late 1972 amid global monetary turmoil, though trade deficit improved to 900 million. Large capital outflows and bank credit expansions to foreigners, especially from Canada and Japan, contributed to the slide.
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Commerce Department
U. S
United States
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