Nixon signs bills that push past budget by 671 million
President Nixon signed three bills increasing budgeted domestic program spending by 671 million, approving health, economic development and airport aid despite prior promises to curb such costs. The move favors Congress on spending while maintaining veto power against irresponsible bills.
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Nixon
Washington
White House
Congress
House Banking Committee
Economic Development Administration
Sarasota
Fla
Evansville
Ind
New Hampshire
John Ehrlichman
Food prices to rise 12.5 percent in 1973
UPI reports Agriculture Department projects 1973 average grocery prices will climb about 12.5 percent from 1972, the largest one year increase in 26 years, aided by Nixon's price freeze which may cap mid-year levels.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Department
Nixon
Postal Service and unions reach tentative contract agreement
United States Postal Service negotiators and union leaders reached a tentative contract covering APWU and three other unions. Wages exceed the government standard, with no agreed city wage differentials. Postage set to rise to 10 cents, with ratification required, and no strike clause deletion.
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Postal Service
Washington
UPI
U.S. Postal Service
Elmer T. Klassen
Francis S. Filbey
American Postal Workers Union
APWU
Filbey
New York City
Orange County Publication Rates Notice
Publication address and rate card for the Orange County daily, issued by the Orange County Publications Division of Otta way Newspapers Inc. It lists home delivery at 1.05 dollars per week and single copy street price of 15 cents, with Sunday edition at 30 cents and postage paid at Middletown, NY.
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Orange County
Ottaway Newspapers, Inc
Mulberry St
Middletown
Seton Tross
Welcome home Peron sparks mass crowd in Buenos Aires
Argentina welcomes ex president Juan Peron after 18 years in exile as crowds flood the capital. Campora’s civilian government seeks stability while guerrilla groups promise support for a “Socialist Argentina.” In other cities, kidnappings target foreign firms and Belfast braces for sectarian violence amid Protestant militant threats.
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Buenos Aires
UPI
Juan D. Peron
Peron
Argentina
Hector J. Campora
Campora
API
John R. Thompson
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Juan Kurdt
Silvana Company
Thompson
Dollar rallies as gold slips. Pass found guilty of murders
The dollar rose against European currencies with London closing at $2.5735 per pound and gold easing in London and Zurich while Hong Kong saw a new high. In Erie, Albert Pass was convicted of murder in the 1969 killings of UMW reform leader Joseph Yablonski and his family, with a post trial hint of further arrests and a claim that someone in Washington approved the action.
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London
UPI
Frankfurt
Amsterdam
Zurich
Hong Kong
Erie
United Mine Workers
UMW
Albert Pass
Joseph
Jack” Yablonski
Richard Sprague
Washington
Pass
Two Die in Atlanta Melee Over Black Newspaper Sales
In Atlanta a wild downtown gun battle left two dead including a police officer and three wounded. Police say a Muslim newspaper peddler was tying papers to pedestrians when an officer asked him to stop, sparking the shooting.
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Atlanta
UPI
John Inman
Inman
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