Ulster election marked by mortar and sniper attacks
British security forces guarded polling booths as voters went to the polls in Northern Ireland's assembly election seen as peace’s last chance. Attacks disrupted two Belfast and Londonderry polling sites with no injuries reported. turnout neared 75 percent, with 210 candidates from 17 parties competing for 78 seats. The counting to begin the next day. Gerry Fitt urged moderates and goodwill to help the assembly work. An army spokesman noted mortar rounds hit Kelvin Street schoolyard in West Belfast and an empty bus was struck.
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UPI
Northern Ireland
Londonderry
Northern
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Assembly
Gerry Fitt
Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Party
SDLP
Kelvin Street
West Belfast
Food shortages loom in month in wake of profit squeeze
In Chicago reports warn that profit squeezes on food processors and retailers may curtail production, risking shortages within a month. Middletown area stores report normal supplies with no shortage warnings, while grain inventories show real shortages and warnings have reached mills. Beef packers operate near normal, but rising live cattle costs threaten further cuts. ceilings on meat and other items already limit prices, with shortages likely lasting at least three months unless policy changes.
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Nixon
Middletown
Daitch Shopwell
Agway
William Speirs
Buffalo
Gordontown
N.J
Speirs
Teamsters reach 35 cent per hour wage pact
Washington UPI reports the Teamsters Union and trucking industry officials signed a 33 month contract. The agreement, aimed at three years of labor peace, covers about 400,000 workers and provides a 35 cent per hour pay increase.
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UPI
Teamsters Union
Trucking Industry
Truckers union contract hikes pay and benefits
A trucking industry spokesman says a new contract raises hourly pay by 35 cents effective July 1 with 30 cent increases in each of the next two years. The union sought 50 cent increases. Additional gains include per mile boosts and weekly employer contributions to pension and health funds, plus cost of living adjustments.
Dollar slump and inflation curbs dominate world news
Global markets reacted as the dollar fell to new lows against West German, Belgian, and Dutch currencies, with gold dropping to 121.75 per ounce in London. EEC finance ministers agreed on inflation controls, while Uruguay’s military-led government faced faltering strikes and Egypt claimed an Israeli jet downed. Drought in West Africa worsens, and China announced a hydrogen bomb test aimed at breaking nuclear monopoly.
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Italy
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Uruguay
Montevideo
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Bordaberry
Egypt
Hong Kong
China
New China News Agency
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Nixon to name energy czar and new energy department
President Nixon will propose to Congress a plan to cope with the energy crisis and names Gov. John A. Love of Colorado as a White House aide to coordinate energy efforts. He seeks a Department of Energy and Natural Resources and a new energy research and development agency to coordinate federal efforts, with Atomic Energy Commission functions folded into the new agency.
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White House
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