Nixon vows cooperation with impeachment probes in State of the Union
President Nixon in a joint session pledges to cooperate with impeachment inquiries while insisting on presidential duties. He urges Congress to join in a 10 point program and to act on energy, health, welfare, privacy, and a $304.4 billion budget with higher defense spending and no new taxes. He forecasts oil embargo talks with Arab leaders forthcoming.
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Truck shutdown spreads slowly as protests surge
A nationwide trucker strike began fading in, with independent drivers roving highways in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia to pressure higher freight rates amid rising fuel costs. One driver was killed in Pennsylvania and another kidnapped in Ohio as firms in Lorain County paused operations and Turnpike gates reported lighter traffic.
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Ohio
West Virginia
Lorain County
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Ohio Turnpike
Rt. 20
Oberlin
Film Pioneer Goldwyn Dies At 91 In Hollywood
Samuel Goldwyn died at his Hollywood home at age 91 after about three weeks of undisclosed illness. The storied film pioneer was among the last of cinema’s early greats. A-3 story. The piece notes ongoing labor tensions as trucking groups threaten a nationwide shutdown over fuel prices.
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Hollywood
Council of Independent Truckers
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Cold, cloudy with possible snow flurries this night
The forecast calls for colder, cloudy conditions with a low in the upper teens and a 30 percent chance of precipitation tonight. Winds will diminish to 10 to 20 mph from the northwest. Tomorrow remains partly cloudy and cold with a high in the low to upper 20s and a 10 percent precip chance. Sunset is 6 41 p.m. and sunrise 8 39 a.m.
Oberlin College Sports Ad Buoyed by Official Ads
Oberlin College officials push the schools sports program with official ads as part of a broader index of sections including Deaths and Births, while the paper notes entertainment, finance, and NCAA investigations across related pages. The brief items reference the sports drive and ongoing inquiries without detailing outcomes.
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Oberlin College
Jet crash at Pago Pago claims ninety one lives
A Pan American World Airways 707 with 101 aboard crashed in a thunderstorm near Pago Pago Tutuila. Ninety one were killed, ten survived, many burned. Pilot Capt Leroy Peterson reported a fire as the plane hit near the runway while attempting to land after Auckland to Honolulu flight stopovers. A temporary morgue was set up at the airport and survivors were hospitalised in serious to fair condition with burns over half their bodies.
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Weales
Leroy Peterson
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Honolulu
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Nixon presses for swift energy act amid Watergate talks
President Nixon pitches a 10 point energy plan and energy self sufficiency by 1980 while pledging cooperation with impeachment panels. He stresses no recession, a just Middle East settlement, and decentralization, drawing mixed applause from Republicans and Democrats in the House.
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Middle East
House
Nixon
Egypt says Israelis looted plants along Suez
Al Ahram reports Israeli troops seized industrial plants from Suez City and shipped them to Israel. Disengagement talks appear unaffected. Moshe Dayan says Egypt honors the disengagement pact and will rehabilitate the canal and damaged cities. Sadat to meet Mashhour to discuss deepening the waterway.
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Suez
Israel
Egypt
Moshe Dayan
Tel Aviv
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Dayan
Anwar Sadat
Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour
Suez Canal Authority
Nixon vows to stay in office despite pressure
State of the President remarks depict Nixon with deepened lines and grayer hair yet firm resolve. He declares he has no intention of walking away from the job the people elected him to do. Photos compare his first day in office in January with a recent night shot.
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United States
Nixon
Nixon 10 point plan for a year of progress
President Nixon outlines a 10 point program spanning energy independence to privacy and welfare reform. Key items include breaking the energy crisis via Project Independence, negotiating peace in the Middle East, curbing price rises, expanding health insurance, reducing federal control on local government, improving transportation and education aid, protecting privacy, reforming welfare, and boosting a shared world economy through expanded trade.
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Nixon
Assault at Midway Mall: Woman Abducted and Raped
A 27-year-old Elyria woman reports being abducted at knifepoint in daylight at Midway Mall. She says a dark complexioned white man, 5 foot 6, slim, forced her into her car at 4:15 p.m. and drove away. The nude woman was later found along Jaquay Road in Columbia Township. Her Buick Skylark with a white top and gold body and clothing fragments were located miles away.
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Robert Carpenter
Jaquay Road
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