07 Dec 1969
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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1969
Page
1
A feature noting that over half of graduate students are married in American colleges and universities with wives often funding households. It outlines long training periods for doctors lawyers PhD candidates and the late arrival at independence, rising after World War II with the GI Bill and returning servicemen.
U.S. and Russia reached enough progress at Helsinki to launch substantive disarmament talks in January. Preliminary two week sessions in Helsinki could wrap before a Christmas recess, with delegations reconvening after New Year to pursue curbing the strategic arms race.
A brief note on politeness as an air cushion in social exchanges. It suggests kindness softens friction even when no harm is present, promoting smoother daily encounters.
The United Mine Workers of America face fears of ballot irregularities as they near a high stakes re election. Joseph A Yablonski campaign aides claim mismanagement and secrecy in ballot handling threaten a fair vote.
In the Central Highlands combat, Communist forces downed a U S Army helicopter killing Col. Nguyen Van Lien 36 chief of the 24th Special Tactical Zone and four South Vietnamese officers along with six American crewmen The loss was described as one of the war’s costliest.
The Senate voted 52 to 24 to impose a flat 5 percent minimum income tax on forms of income not currently taxed, including half of capital gains. A separate Kennedy proposal for a graduated tax on tax-free income was defeated 52 to 24. The chamber also rejected efforts to curb losses by wealthy hobby farmers and set a 6 percent annual payout rule for foundations.
Secretary of State William P. Rogers told a Belgo American Association dinner the Nixon administration opposes a European security conference as unrealistic and premature. He criticized the Warsaw Pact plan as nebulous and stressed issues like Berlin and the two Germanys remain unresolved. NATO welcomed talks but linked them to positive Communist attitudes and ground conditions.
In New Orleans south of the Mason Dixon line bumper stickers declaring Spiro is my hero replace Agnew jokes. Democrats and Republicans discuss Agnew’s rising appeal with Wallace, Thurmond, Bush and Gore cited as figures in a shifting regional balance.
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