Union set to accept settlement ends statewide public strike
Harrisburg UPI The policy committee of Pennsylvania's AFSCME voted to accept a two year wage package totaling 85 million dollars. It includes a 12 percent raise for 73 000 members and immediate 3 5 percent pay hike. Workers will return to work as the state defers large increases.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Pennsylvania
American Federation of State
Afscme
Gerald McEntee
Milton J. Shapp
Shapp
E State
McEntee
U.S. Labor Department
Christ Zervanos
Kissinger urges Israel to push for peace concessions
Secretary of State Kissinger says the United States is committed to Israel's survival but Israel must take a chance on progress toward peace with concessions to Arab states. He cautions that all options are difficult and warns that avoiding peace could lead to war.
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Washington
Kissinger
Caribbean
United States
ABC
Israel
Middle East
Apollo crew brushes up on Russian for space rendezvous
CAPE CANAVERAL Florida UPI reports astronauts Thomas Stafford Vance Brand and Deke Slayton are sharpening Russian language skills and reviewing flight plans at Johnson Space Center Houston ahead of the July 15 nine day Apollo mission. They studied in flight checklists meal prep and gear stowage as Brand prepared to train in a T38 trainer.
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Cape Canaveral, Fla
UPI
Thomas Stafford
Air Force
Vance Brand
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Donald K
Deke’’ Slayton
Rime
Cape Canaveral
Slayton
Mercury
The
Space Agency
Apollo
Brand
Ford hosts Suharto to discuss Southeast Asia stability
President Ford and Indonesian leader Suharto met at Camp David for eighty minutes and a joint session, focusing on regional stability after Indochina upheavals. Kissinger attended, with talks described as friendly. Suharto pledged confidence in U.S. aid amid Southeast Asian concerns.
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Ford
Suharto
Indonesia
Camp David
Richard E. Lerner
David
UPI
South Vietnam
Cambodia
U.S
Southeast Asia
Indochina
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Caneel Bay
Virgin Islands
Maryland
Catoctin Mountains
Ron Nessen
Kissinger
Adam Malik
Nessen
White House
Susan
Betty Ford
Aspen Lodge
Asia
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
The
World Oil Cartel
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Malaysia
Singapore
Thailand
Philippines
Holiday crash claims four young lives in Pa.
A July Fourth weekend crash on Interstate 80 near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania killed three children and left two others in critical condition. Ann Marie Young, 10, and Charlotte Deetz, 11, both from East Stroudsburg, and Cory McKeegan, 7, of Hazelton, died at the scene after a pickup veered from the road and overturned. The National Safety Council estimated 480 to 580 nationwide traffic deaths over the holiday period, with 545 deaths recorded in 1974 for a four day weekend.
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United Press International
Stroudsburg
Ann Marie Young
Charlotte Deetz
East Stroudsburg
Cory McKeegan
Hazelton
Pennsylvania
National Safety Council
Indian journalists press for lifting censorship in emergency
Indian journalists urged Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to lift or ease the emergency censorship as police round up leaders of 26 outlawed parties. A six man delegation met Gandhi while arrests continued in Kashmir and Bombay with officials warning against opposition plots.
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New Delhi
UPI
Pime
Indira Gandhi
Nation Union of Journalists
Gandhi
Kashmir
Presidenterdinand Marcos
Phili
Bombay
Y.B. Chavan
FBI closes Pine Ridge Reservation amid helicopter crash probe
The FBI closed Pine Ridge Reservation to nonessential traffic as FAA investigates a helicopter crash near the site during a search for 16 suspects in last week's shooting. Four aboard the helicopter escaped injury while two FBI agents and a Native man were killed earlier in a hillside shootout. The United Sioux Tribes seek a meeting with state and federal officials to address violence on South Dakota reservations. Agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler, both 28, and Joseph B. Stuntz, 24, were killed in the prior incident.
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Oglala
S.D
UPI
FBI
Pine Ridge
Federal Aviation Administration
Clay Brady
FAA
Pineidge
United Sioux Tribes
South Dakota
Edward Levi
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Morris Thompson
William Janklow
Richard Kneip
Atlas of Cancer Mortality Maps Nationwide Death Rates
Color coded maps from the National Cancer Institute show regional patterns of cancer deaths from 1950 to 1969 across 35 body sites. The atlas highlights high mortality clusters in places like Brown County Texas and St. Louis County Minnesota, and raises questions about environmental and genetic factors without answering them. Future reports will include non whites and expand cancer site coverage.
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Washington
UPI
Brown County
Texas
South
St. Louis County
Duluth
Minn
The
National Cancer Institute
NCI
Institute
United States
New Jersey
New York
Cancer rate map by region and sex in the United States
The report notes high cancer rates in the Northeast for certain cancers and contrasts with higher rates in the South and Appalachia for lip mouth and throat esophagus cervix skin eye and bone among females. It also cites urban Great Lakes areas Buffalo Cleveland Detroit Chicago and Milwaukee with high cancers of mouth throat esophagus large intestine rectum larynx breast and bladder in males and low rates in southern central regions.
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Nevada
Las Vegas
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Great Lakes
Buffalo
Cleveland
Detroit
Chicago
Milwaukee
South
Appalachia
Dakotas
Regional Cancer Patterns in the Midwest and South
The study maps Minnesota, Wisconsin and upper Michigan showing high rates of stomach kidney prostate cancer in men and lymphosarcoma and reticulosarcoma in women, with rural North experiencing elevated ovarian and testicular cancers. Death rates are low in the South, while cancers of salivary glands pancreas nose brain and other nervous system and connective tissue appear in an apparently random distribution.
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Minnesota
Wisconsin
Upper
Michigan
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