Pension reform aims to secure retirement benefits nationwide
Washington reports on HR 2 pension reform aiming to guarantee benefits for workers. The measure creates vesting, contribution rules, stricter fiduciary standards, and a government guaranty to protect plans if they fail, with broader tax breaks for certain professionals and self employed. 30 million workers are covered, and the bill seeks to boost private pension assets beyond $150 billion.
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Washington
93Rd Co
Ager Sedma
al Ullman
D-Ore
House
Senate
Ullman
Senate House
Congress
Ate
Guaranty Corp
Labor, Treasury and Commerce
Nixon Brezhnev Hold Nuclear Talks In Yalta Visit
Nixon and Brezhnev fly from Moscow to Yalta for continued nuclear arms discussions. They sign a 10 year economic accord and observe large Crimea crowds as trade aims for long term expansion between the United States and Soviet Union. Henry M Jackson leads Senate critics of Soviet policy on emigration and dissidents.
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Yalta
U.S.S.R
Nixon
Leonid Brezhnev
Moscow
Black Sea
Brezhnev
Air Force One
Eropol
Crimea
Sunshine
Ukrainian Communist Party
Vladimir Shcherbitsky
Washington
White House
Soviet Union
Senate
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Butte Writer Wins National Award in Federation Contests
Betty Ann Raymond of the Montana Standard won third place in personal columns for The Livin' End in the National Federation of Press Women contest. Other Montana winners include Kathryn Wright, Roberta Donovan, Farrell Stewart, and LaDonna Fehlberg for entries in special editions and interviews. Dorothy Johnson of Missoula named Woman of the Year by Montana Press Women and featured as a national honoree.
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Mee
Bismarck
N.C
National Federation of Press Women, Inc
Federation
States
Mexico
Betty Ann Raymond
Montana Standard
Montana
Kathryn Wright
Vo Gazette
Roberta Donovan
Lewistown News Argus
Farrell Stewart
LaDonna Fehlberg
Billings
Montana Institute of the Arts
Anaconda Co Hopes to Avert Copper Strike Increase
Most of the nations 35000 copper workers prepared to strike at midnight after Kennecott and Anaconda rejected wage offers. Union leaders viewed a walkout as virtually inevitable, potentially idling seven eighths of major copper mines and smelters. Talks continued with Magma and ASARCO as 30,000 plus workers would be affected. Weather: warm to hot through Thursday.
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Phoenix
Ariz
United Steelworkers Union
Suny
Kennecott
and Co Co
Cass Alvin
Anaconda
Burlingame
Calif
Magma
Arizona
American Smelting and Refining Co
San Francisco
Station Consolidated Co
Miami Copper Co
Miami
Montana
Nevada
New Jersey
Alvin
Democrats Launch 21 Hour Telethon For Campaign Funds
Democrats aimed to build a 1974 war chest and retire more of their 1968 debt with a 21 hour fundraising telethon beginning Saturday night. The program, largely live from Los Angeles, was set to start at 10 p.m. EDT and run to 7 p.m. EDT Sunday on a television network.
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Carl P. Leubsdorf
Democrats
Los Angeles
Democratic National Committee
House
Nixon
Hubert Hrey
D-Minn
Bo National
Robert S. Strauss
Edward Kennedy
Dmass
Ey Jackson
Dwash
Edm Muskie
Dmain
Gunmen surrender after 17 hour Lakewood standoff
In Lakewood California two armed men surrendered after a 17 hour siege at the Flite Room restaurant bar. Ray Johns and Bill Mitchell released two hostages a 55 year old cook with heart disease and a 61 year old embo emphysema sufferer. Both hosts were unharmed. Police feared gas exposure and delayed forceful action.
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Lakewood
Calif
Sheriff's
Flite Room
Ray Johns
Pomona
Bill Mitchell
Fullerton
Loreles
Peter Pitch
Barney Fraser
Tony Silva
Pitchess
Johns
Mitchell
Ping
Abbery
Fraser
Silva
Massive Andean landslide kills hundreds in Colombia
A massive landslide 95 miles east of Bogota buried more than 20 vehicles and damaged the highway toward Villavicencio. Authorities said at least 200 people were killed and 100 others hospitalized as rescue workers labored under the threat of further slides and a possible flood.
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Bogota
Mauricio Forian
Jose Jaime Rodriguez
Colombia
Rodriguez
Villavicencio
Meta
Quebradablanca
Forian
Slide
Antonio Segura
Mechanical Heart Boom Opens New Medical Frontier
American and Soviet teams announced a joint effort to develop artificial hearts for humans. Calves have lived days with external power as researchers say feasibility exists but much work remains. Dr. Lowell T. Harmison calls the task formidable.
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New York
Lowell T. Harmison
Then who's the real mom
A postcard mailed in Montana and addressed to Mike and Mark Gustafson was delivered to the South St. Paul brothers though it bore no address. The note signed Mom claimed to have visited Wisconsin and Colorado, but their mother says she did not mail it and was not in Montana.
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South ST. Paul
Minn
Montana
Mike
Mark Gustafson
Custer Battlefield National Monument
Mark
Wisconsin
Colorado
Gustafson
Philip Gustafson
Postal Service
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Melvin Mattix
Butte
Joanna Walters
Jackson Hole
Wyo
Oystein Boveng
Kalispell
Cliff Moore
Nixons
Kremlin
Treasury
W . Simon
Dorothy Johnson
Missoula
Miss Johnson
Montana Press
Lewstown
Johnson
University of Montana
Betty
Raymond
Anaconda Co
Butte Weather
Moee
Companies Union
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