Paris Talks Near Climax in 14th Secret Peace Talks Session
Kissinger and Le Duc Tho opened the 14th secret Paris peace talks in Gif-sur-Yvette, with subcommittees meeting to hammer out details. A sign of progress followed as both sides kept secrecy, while French and Bangkok reports fueled expectations an accord could be signed in Paris within days.
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Paris
Henry A. Kissinger
North Vietnam
le Duc Tho
Gif-sur- Yvette
Kissinger
Tho
Peking
Chou En-lai
Bangkok
U.S
Leonard Unger
Thailand
William J. Porter
William Sullivan
Xuang Thuy
Ngueyen Co Thach
Merit Board Commended By Crime Council
The Vigo County Coordinating Council Crime and Delinquency Committee praised Terre Haute Police merit system procedures amid a lawsuit filed Monday by Assistant Police Chief Robert Kable. Committee chairman William Adams said the merit board will be commended for objective, fair appointments in the first round. A temporary injunction hearing continues.
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Vigo County Coordinating Councils
Terre Haute
William Adams
the Tribune
Merit Board
Vigo County Coordinating Council
Robert Kable
Freezing Rain Closes Schools as Ice Shuts Terre Haute Roads
Terre Haute area wakes to a glaze of ice for the second time this week. Police report minor accidents with no injuries as drivers help each other from ditches. Schools are closed in Vigo and nearby counties, delighting some children and frustrating working parents. Forecasts call for possible more freezing rain later, with a turn to rain then snow and diminishing flurries by Wednesday. Winds shift east to southeast at 10 to 20 mph and lows dip into the upper 20s.
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Terre Haute
Vigo
Weather summary for Terre Haute area and Indiana Illinois
National Weather Service report notes occasional rain tonight turning to freezing rain and light snow, with flurries by Wednesday. Highs in 30s, lows upper 20s, river stage 9.8 feet and falling, dirt dust count 42 micrograms per cubic meter. Sunrise 8 02 a.m., sunset 5 27 p.m.
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Indiana
Illinois
Aumn
Thieu Proposes Christmas Peace Plan Amid War Talks
President Nguyen Van Thieu unveiled a Christmas cease fire plan offering release of all POWs and a hold on hostilities while peace talks in Paris proceed. The Viet Cong denounced Thieu as an obstacle to peace and rejected the proposal.
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U.S
Thieu
National Assembly
Paris
Vietnam
Tieu
North Vietnam
Republic of Vietnam
National Liberation Front
Wage-Price Controls Studied for Revision
Treasury Secretary George P. Schultz led closed door talks to shape a revised wage price control system Washington plans to keep in effect. The administration aims to decide early in January and extend controls beyond April 30 while preserving the Cost of Living Council the Price Commission and Pay Board. Schultz also announced a federal spending cap of 250 billion for the current year and a hiring freeze until the budget is submitted with no pay raises for executives senators congressmen and federal judges in 1973.
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Treasury
George P. Schultz
Nixon
Cost of Living Council
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Pay Board
Shultz
Newsmen
Congress
Astronauts Reach Moon Surface In Thrilling Apollo 17 Trek
In Taurus Littrow two Americans Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt rested after a near perfect first lunar landing. They plan a second day of exploration including a drive to a south massif slide to collect rocks dating to the moon’s beginnings. Ronald Evans orbits aboard America as the crew begins a historic surface program.
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Ronald K. Evans
Moon
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Schmitt
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Lunar
Mission Control
Earth
Taurus-Littrow
Five Boston area hitchhiker victims raise fear of more
Five young hitchhikers were strangled in the greater Boston area from July to November. A sixth woman remains missing, intensifying worry about a growing pattern as officials note the influx of college students in the region. Victims include Kathleen O Gorman Debra Rae Stevens Kathleen Ann Randall Elien A Reich Sandra J Ehramjian and Damaris Synge Gillispie with one more missing.
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Boston
UPI
Kathleen O'Gorman
Brockton
Blue Hills
Milton
Debra Rae Stevens
Lynn
Boston University
Kathleen Ann Randall
Centerville
Nashua
N.H
Elien A. Reich
Emerson College
Sandra J. Ehramjian
Cambridge
BU Coed Damaris Synge Gillispie
Bedford
N.Y
Vigo County Trustees Hear School Cost Comparisons
Vigo County School Corporation trustees discussed elementary school construction and cost comparisons to the 1969 Physical Facilities Assessment Survey. Superintendent C. Kenneth Cottom outlined a total program of about 44.56 million, with administration proposing 12.43 million and a remaining 9.62 million left to complete Phase II.
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Vigo County
Vigo County School Corporation Board of Trustees
Supt C. Kenneth Cottom
Cottom
Rio Grande
Chauncey Rose
Honey Creek
Apollo 17 power system lights 75-watt bulb
The decay of plutonium powering Apollo 17 surface experiments provides energy only sufficient to light a 75-watt bulb.
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Apollo 17
Basket Fund Donations Mount for Tribune Star Christmas Aid
Cash gifts to The Tribune Star Basket fund aid needy families in Vigo County. Donors submit at The Tribune Star office 721 Wabash Ave and gifts are published. Basket recipients must apply in person December 4 to 15 at Salvation Army, Light House Mission, Planned Parenthood, Lockport Housing, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and Hyte Community Center.
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Tribune Star Basket Fund
Tribune Star
Wabash Ave
Tribune Star Fund
I City
Vigo County
The
Salvation Army
19Th
Locust Sts
Light House Mission
Eagle
Planned Parenthood
S. 6Th St
Lockport Housing Project
Lockport Rd
Big Brothers
Big Sisters
S. 8Th St
Hyte Community Center
13Th
College Ave
Warning issued on delinquent child support in Vigo County
A Monday meeting set the plan for cracking down on overdue support. County clerks report many calls from women and men checking delinquency and payment amounts as Vigo County enforces cross checks with welfare rolls. Delinquent fathers three weeks behind will get letters. repeated nonpayment triggers arrest warrants and jail time with daily work shifts and doubled weekly payments to cover back balances. Judge C Joseph Anderson and Clerk Leland Larrison lead the effort to uncover unreported cases and protect recipients.
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Vigo County
Vigo Circuit
C. Joseph Anderson
Leland Larrison
Anderson
Larrison
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