Unemployment Peaks as Christmas Approaches
Government data show 4.6 million jobless in November the highest in seven years, with the unemployment rate rising from 5.6% to 5.8% and average weekly earnings slipping after inflation. The GM strike and broader economic forces contributed, prompting calls for policy changes and criticism from labor and Democratic leaders.
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Organized Labor
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Council of Economic Advisers
Harold Goldstein
Nixon
U.S
Nixon warns on wages and prices at manufacturing dinner
President Nixon told 2,000 guests at the National Association of Manufacturers dinner that inflation cannot continue and announced two steps to boost oil supplies from offshore and Canada. He urged labor and management to halt new wage and price expectations while police noted 125 protesters outside the Waldorf Astoria.
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New York
Nixon
National Association of Manufacturers
Secretary of Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
Winton M. Blount
Indochina
U.S. Coast Guard
Council of Economic Advisers
New York City
NATO Seeks Berlin Deal For Europe Wide Security
Fifteen North Atlantic allies urged a Berlin settlement with the Soviet Union to back a Europe wide security system. The plan offered a zone of reduced arms and troops in central Europe with Berlin as the focal point while the Soviets accused NATO hawks of blocking progress toward a mutual all European conference.
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Brussels
North Atlantic
Berlin
Soviet Union
Moscow
Kremlin
Russia
Tass
NATO
West Berlin
All City Scholastic Football Team Appears Today
The 1970 Record News announces the All City Scholastic Football team appears today on page 18 with selections featuring top local players from area high schools.
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Record Newspapers
HVCC Plans $3.7 Million Student Center
Hudson Valley Community College outlines a 3.7 million dollar Student Center to be built at the campus center. Groundbreaking is planned for early fall with operation expected in September 1972. The project receives New York State funds and county bonds. Cadman Droste will design the two story facility with dining for 1200, offices, recreation rooms, and exhibit spaces.
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Hudson Valley Community College
New York State
Rensselaer County
HVCC
Cadman & Droste
Troy Architectural and Engineering
Dwight Marvin
Peace final word for Pope ends Asian pilgrimage
Pope Paul VI concludes a 10 day Asia Pacific itinerary ending in Rome after eight stops. He urged a just peace for Indochina during messages to Vietnam and Cambodia and said my final word is peace.
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Rome
Paul VI
Asia
Pacific
Fiumicino
Vatican
Philippines
China
Hong Kong
Colombo
Ceylon
Manila
Australia
Indochina
Vietnam
Cambodia
Doctors Clear Cross of Ill Health After Captivity
Montreal AP James Richard Cross, the British diplomat held by Quebec separatists for 60 days, was given a clean health bill by doctors despite losing 22 pounds. He left Jewish General Hospital for a brief Montreal visit and planned to fly to London after reuniting with his wife.
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Montreal
James Richard Cross
Quebec
Jewish General Hospital
Havana
Cross
London
Switzerland
Winds Shift as Oil Slick Recedes From Florida Shore
West winds pushed the oil slick away from northeast Florida beaches though officials keep watch. Florida Marine Resources Director Harmon Shields says danger has diminished but not finished, while Navy aerials report no main oil body within 50 miles of shore.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Florida
Harmon Shields
Florida Marine Resources Department
Gulf Stream
Navy
State
Market hits yearly high on Dow Jones
New York stock market reached a 1970 high on the Dow Jones industrial average as trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange surged to a weekly record. Analysts noted institutions mutual funds pension funds banks and insurance companies rushing back into the market with large cash holdings.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Set To Quell Oil Rig Fire
In New Orleans AP reports firefighters led by Paul Red Adair work to control a Gulf of Mexico oil rig blaze after an explosion on Tuesday. Shell Oil drills relief wells to plug burning sources as four men die and pollution risk remains undetermined until extinguishing ends.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Paul
Red” Adair
Shell Oil Co
Shell
Louisiana
Move Bases Funds For Housing
The Federal Home Loan Bank Board will create the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp to buy up to 75 percent of conventional mortgages from savings and loan associations starting December 10. The move frees S&L funds to expand lending, joining Fannie Mae in entering the conventional loan market. Chairman Preston Martin expects easing S&L restrictions to improve housing, calling 1971 a housing year and a borrower’s market.
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Washington
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp
Savings and Loan Associations
S&ls
Federal National Mortgage Association
Preston Martin
U S Seeks To Reopen Mideast Peace Talks
The United States plans to resume talks on a Middle East peace settlement with the Soviet Union. Secret exchanges were under way to arrange a quick start to Gunnar V. Jarring's mission as Key figures including Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan influence Washington diplomacy. Rogers expected to meet Soviet envoy in coming weeks amid optimism of a renewed push.
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United States
Soviet Union
Middle East
North Atlantic Council
Brussels
U.N
Gunnar V. Jarring
Israel
Israei
Golda Meir
Nixon
Moshe Dayan
Washington
William P Rogers
Rogers
Anatoly Dobrynin
Ington
Maurice Schumann
NATO Council
Britain
Alec Douglas-Home
Hussein
Jordan
Palestine Liberation Movement
Forest Bombings Back Delta Push
U S B52 bombers pounded the U Minh Forest edge to support South Vietnamese troops advancing into the Mekong Delta swamplands. Recon showed increased sampan activity suggesting Viet Cong regrouping. Bombers also hit a suspected arms plant in the forest sanctuary about 150 miles southwest of Saigon near the Gulf of Siam as 7,000 Vietnamese infantry push deeper into mangrove swamps.
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Saigon
U Minh
Mekong
Everglades
Gulf of Siam
21St Infantry
My Lai Killings Described at Calley Court Martial
Ex GI Dennis Conti testified that Lt William Calley directed a methodical mass killing of unresisting Vietnamese at My Lai on March 16 1968. He described killings of women and children and Calley urging troops to kill. The trial includes an image of 30 bodies and alleges about 70 further executions.
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FT. Benning
William Calley Jr
My Lai
Dennis Conti
Providence
R. I
Calley
Coriti
Conti
South China Sea
Lt. Calley
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George Meany
Democratic
Lawrence F. O’brien
Goldstein
Talon
Waldorf Astoria
Bob Brier
Record
Counity Administration
Shields
Randolph Hodges
Florida Natural Resources Department
Edmund S. Muskie
Dow Jones
Move
Mideast
THE
Associated Press
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Syria
Delta Push
Nha Trang
Big Delta
U Minh Forest
Mekong Delta
South Vietnam
Phnom Penh
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