Wallace faces uphill north primaries in 1972 race
George Wallace may struggle to translate Florida momentum into the North as he eyes Illinois Wisconsin Rhode Island Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Muskie leads Maine but faces pressure from Humphrey and McCarthy. Wisconsin and Illinois emerge key states with Muskie seeking strong showings. Wallace lacks a robust northern organization while Muskie and Humphrey campaign in a shifting, cautious mood across the five states.
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D.C
George C. Wallace
Florida
Monitor
Illinois
Wisconsin
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Sen
Edmund
Muskie
Maine
New Hampshire
Wallace
Wallace Florida
Hubert H. Humphrey
Sen. Humphrey
Humphrey
David Carley
Henry M. Jackson
Sen. McGovern
McGovern
Boston
Springfield
Milton Shapp
Conference links FHA to city resegregation and housing bias
Chicago reports that 1 100 representatives from 89 cities condemned the Federal Housing Administration as chiefly responsible for resegregation. Delegates urged grassroots action to salvage inner city neighborhoods and demanded Romney resign for HUD. They planned to reconvene in Baltimore to consider the protest and acts against perceived block busting and discrimination.
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Chicago
UPI
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
George Romney
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Romney
Baltimore
USIA fights for funds as largest U.S. propaganda arm expands
The U.S. Information Agency seeks 198 million dollars for 1973 to finance books magazines pamphlets films radio TV programs and overseas outposts including Luluabourg and Maseru. VOA remains its most objective unit while Congress debates abolishing or trimming USIA amid CIA linkage rumors and concerns over scale and tone.
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Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe
Congress
Pennsylvania Avenue
U.S. Information Agency
USIA
Luluabourg
Republic of
Zaire
Maseru
Lesotho
United States
Attica
Voice of America
Capitol Hill
VOA
Nixon
China
Nixon moves to end forced busing and pause constitutional fix
President Nixon proposes two bills to curb busing and urges study of a constitutional amendment. A key House member, Rep Albert Quie, says the anti busing amendment is effectively dead. The first measure would impose a court ordered busing moratorium to 1973 or until the second bill passes. the second, the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1972, would require courts to exhaust alternatives before ordering busing and would allocate 2.5 billion dollars to upgrade underperforming city and rural schools.
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UPI
Nixon
House
Albert H Que
R-Mini
GOP
House Education and Labor Committee
Congress
Senate
White House
Justice probes ITT deal cites lack of written records
Justice Department says no written instructions were given to a Wall Street consultant and no written report from a Treasury consultant in the ITT antitrust settlement. Senate Judiciary Committee inquiry into the case, tied to ITT and GOP convention funding, paused as California seeks federal action against the RNC, ITT, and Sheraton over a $100,000 donation for the San Diego convention.
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USIA
Frank Shakespeare Jr
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Washingtoniups
Justice Department
Senale
Wall Street
Treasury
ITT
Department
Senate Judiciary Committee
Richard Ramsden
HITT
Hartford Fire Insurance Ca
Los Angeles
UPL
California
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Republican National
Sheraton Corp
Iwt
GOP
San Diego
Stile
Nixon pushes drug abuse battle in New York visit
President Nixon flies to New York for a three hour focus on drug abuse with law enforcement officials undercover operatives and customs agents. He will attend a narcotics officials meeting with Gov Nelson A Rockefeller and inspect a regional center of the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement.
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Washington
Nixon
New York City
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Office of
Myles J. Ambrose
U.S
Poland Holds 97 Percent Turnout As Gierek Regime Ends
The Communist party in Poland claimed 97 percent voter turnout in yesterday’s parliamentary election to back Edward Gierek’s policies. Winners names were not released in the limited-choice election for the 460-member parliament, as all 625 candidates had been preapproved to show popular support for his consumer-focused reforms following the 1970 unrest and Gomulka’s departure.
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Warsaw
Communist Party
Edward Gierek
Poland
Gierek
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Iraq call to unite against peace plan across Arab world
Baghdad Radio reported Unite to block peace plan urging Arab governments and guerrillas to form a single front against King Hussein's Jordan River west bank autonomous proposal. The communique followed talks in Baghdad with Yasir Arafat of Al Fatah. It outlines four points: unify guerrilla groups, create a united front of progressive Arab forces, merge Arab confrontation countries, and form a single military front against Israel with closer Arab socialist ties.
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Hussein
West Bank
Jordan River
Baghdad Radio
Baghdad
Yasser Arafat
al Fatah
Israel
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