State Department Orders Wide Job Cuts Across Agencies
State plans to fire 8 250 workers and cut 134 vacancies across two institutions and multiple departments including Education Public Service Transportation and Health, with closures of armories and state facilities and layoffs totaling about 2 839 filled positions plus 820 later, amid a $200 million budget reduction. Governor Rockefeller warns personnel cuts are unavoidable.
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Lam Son 720 Inching Into Laos Amid Valley Incursion
reports indicate South Vietnamese forces including two regiments of the 1st Infantry Division and two Marine brigades push into the A Shau Valley as part of Lam Son 720. U.S. Airborne officials avoid confirming Laos targets while Khe Sanh witnessed fresh enemy truck activity along Highway 9.
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SUNY enrollment cuts amid budget moves and policy
SUNY will reduce enrollments by 2,000 and hold to 1970-72 levels pending budget review. Rockefeller proposed raising from 129,699 to 139,991 students to cover costs for 10,000 more learners with about $45 million more from the governor. The budget passed with a $12.6 million campus-wide cut, limiting study abroad, research grants, library and supply funds, and ending state support for the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
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Cambridge Faces Parking Ticket Shortage and Fines Loss
Cambridge Massachusetts police run out of parking tickets as the Middlesex County prints them and awaits 1971 budget approval. Officials say the city, the county’s top ticket producer, earned 359121 dollars last year from illegal parkers.
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Earth Week Begins with Drives to Clean and Green U S
Earth Week actions across the country urge citizens to recycle plant trees ride bicycles and reduce car use. New York Madison Avenue traffic closures inspire mixed reactions as a cab driver protests while students and colleges join the green effort in Cadiz Wofford Ursuline Academy Spartanburg and more.
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Loan Offer For TriStar Under Study
Washington AP The Nixon administration plans a possible government backed loan to rescue Lockheed’s TriStar jetliner project Treasury officials say no final decision has been made and it would be up to President Nixon to present a proposal to Congress Connally indicates many participants seek a government guarantee amid Rolls Royce bankruptcy and stalled engine supply negotiations
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Assassins Kill Former Bolivian Minister
Former economy minister Col Alberto Larrea Humerez, 48, was shot to death at his sister’s Miraflores home in La Paz as assailants fired through his bedroom window. He had been tied to investigations of Bolivian slayings. the killers fled.
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A Tip For Taxpayers Increase Withholdings
The IRS notes Congress raised the Standard deduction from 10 to 13 percent, affecting withholdings. A 13 percent deduction applies to all wage earners not receiving the low income allowance, while the standard deduction tops at 1500 dollars on the tax return.
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ICC Raps Penn Central Accounting Secrets Exposed
ICC cites Penn Central's former management for hiding financial troubles with special accounting methods and a memo praising an accountant for adding millions to net income. The 1500 page study details dividends amid worsening conditions, notes grave outlook, and stops short of criminal charges while outlining the carrier's decline under bankruptcy.
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Pennsy
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Zambian Airline Hires Doctor to Promote Birth Control
Deputy manager Lawernce Moola of the national carrier says a gynecologist has been hired to highlight birth control importance to air hostesses after one third of the trainees become pregnant before finishing the course.
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Zambia
Lawernce Moola
Bangkok Hotel Fire Kills 21
A hotel fire at the Imperial in Bangkok killed at least 21 people, including some Americans. The blaze began in the coffee shop on the ground floor, with police reporting 21 bodies found and more may be discovered. Authorities could not yet confirm the number of American casualties.
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