Three Area Youths and Cairo Man Die in Weekend Accidents
Three pedestrians died in Greater Troy Area highway crashes over the weekend. Victims include Donald J. Woroby aged 31 and a 15 year old North Greenbush boy among others. Police identified Craig J. Weir 7 Kathleen Monk 18 and William G. Boyles 84 as among the deceased. Woroby died after a Route 4 and Route 40 collision with driver James F. Johnson 77. Edward J. Hauenstein 18 sustained a concussion and another teen Clark Stammenl 15 escaped injury by leaping into a ditch. Woroby died at Albany Medical Center Hospital after being transported there. Coroner Theodore J. McShane planned a ruling on the cause of death.
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North Greenbush
Greater
Troy
Donald J. Woroby
Woodland Rd
Craig J. Weir
Main St
Argyle
Kathleen Monk
Curry Rd
Rotterdam
William G. Boyles
Third St
Cairo
Route 40
Rensselaer County Sheriff's
James F. Johnson
North Lake Ave
Woroby
Edward J. Hauenstein
Mazzaway Ave
Clark Stammenl
Columbia Turnpike
East Greenbush
Young Woroby
Albany Medical Center
Albany County
Theodore J. McShane
Levitt paints bleak future for Pure Waters debt
Albany New York Pure Waters Authority shows a 7.5 million deficit in an audit by Comptroller Arthur Levitt. The agency is overstaffed and failed to secure expected business. only 46 of 413 potential municipalities engaged. If contracts double, only a small portion of the debt could be repaid.
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Albany, N.Y
UPI
Pure Waters Authority
Arthur Levitt
Levitt
New York State
State Health Department
Budget Cuts Near $700 Million In Rockefeller Plan
Republicans guiding New York’s fiscal committees reached a tentative budget cut package of $600 to $700 million. The merged Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means proposals aim to reduce tax increases in Gov. Rockefeller’s plan and remove or soften several levies. They target ending the motor vehicle tax hike and may drop the 10 percent income tax surcharge while debating the sales tax increase. The group plans final agreement this week and filing of an amended $8.45 billion spending plan next week.
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Rockefeller
Senate Finance Committee
Assembly Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Assembly
Earl W. Brydges
Perry B. Duryea
GOP
Rockefeller backs prepaid group medical practice plan
Governor Rockefeller touted prepaid group medical practice as a needed supplement to universal health insurance. He said a bill to encourage such practice will be central to his program and submitted to the legislature, arguing it complements fee for service rather than replaces it.
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New York
Rockefeller
Albert Einstein Medical College
Insurance Company
Welfare Department
Laos and North Vietnam Face Heavy U.S. Air Strikes
U S jets bombed North Vietnam and Laos to aid retreating South Vietnamese forces along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. U S reports say more than 100 rockets hit a Ranger post near Phu Loc with high casualties while battles continued near Lao Bao. The raids, the 18th protective strike of the year, targeted SAM sites and depots without confirmed American losses.
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Saigon
United States
Laos
U.S
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Phu Loc
Lao Bao
Air Force
Laos-North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
North
Hanoi
Vietnam
Quang Binh
Ha Tinh
South Vietnam
U S Families Flee Besieged Laotian City
U S dependents fled Luang Prabang after a rocket attack on Luang Prabang airport as the U S Embassy arranged nonessential personnel evacuation to Vientiane. About 120 women and children traveled on Air America cargo planes while European citizens were given the option to depart.
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Vientiane
Laos
U.S
Luang Prabang
Air America
New British Troops Sent To Ireland Amid Belfast Unrest
British forces dispatched 300 Royal Artillery officers and men with a total 1,300 promised troops to Northern Ireland after Prime Minister Chichester-Clark resigned. A Belfast blast destroyed a hair salon and a fire broke out at a bottling plant as security rings the area amid possible IRA or Protestant militant involvement. Ulster Unionist leaders move to choose a successor while Dublin warns against mass internment.
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Northern Ireland
Britain
James Chichester-Clark
Irish Republican Army
London
Reginald Maudling
Jack Lynch
Irish Republic
United States
IRA
Dublin
Ulster Unionist Party
Chichester-Clark
Royal Artillery
Liverpool
Landslide Buries About 100 Natives in Telefomin Area
In Telefomin about 500 miles from Port Moresby a landslide buried around 100 native villagers. Civil defense director Ian Skinner said a chartered plane with a medical team landed to assist and Australian officials were told to charter all planes to evacuate survivors. About 830 people live in the villages in the area.
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Port Moresby
Earth Day Celebrations Mark First Day Of Spring
United Nations Secretary General U Thant hailed Earth Day as a new chapter of united world history during spring’s vernal equinox observances. In New York about 3,000 participants joined events in Central Park while others held plantings in Philadelphia and Albuquerque, with some protests and barriers in Sheep Meadow.
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United Nations
U Thant
United World History
New York
Central Park
Sheep Meadow
Philadelphia
Albuquerque
N.M
Earth
New York City
Thant
Japan
Thanti
U.N
Belmont Plateau
Fairmount Park
Edward W. Furia
Conti Testimony Read in Calley Court Martial
Lt. William L. Calley Jr.'s six man court martial heard a rereading of Dennis Conti's testimony about the My Lai killings. Conti described Calley firing on civilians and a woman he saw shot.
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William L. Calley Jr
Dennis Conti
My Lai
Cavalrymen Defy Order Near Lang Vei in Vietnam
Two platoons of Americal Division armored cavalry refused to advance along Highway 9 near the Laotian border. Capt. Pavilla, commander of Bravo Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry, was relieved. The unit had suffered several casualties from rocket, grenade and mortar attacks while securing damaged equipment.
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Quang Tri
South Vietnam
Highway 9
U.S
Betwen Lang Vei
Pavilla
1St Squadron
1St Cavalry
Americal Division
Arrests Halt Rock Concert At Pirates World Florida
Police arrested 11 youths and halted the sold out show at Pirates World Amusement Park in Diana Florida after disturbances erupted during a Grand Funk Railroad Blood concert. Two Broward County sheriff cars were damaged by rocks and Molotov cocktails but no injuries were reported.
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Diana, Fla
UPI
Broward County
Diana
Ed Baxter
Grand Funk Railroad
Blood
Pirates World Amusement Park
Planned Social Security Increases Target Specific Groups
Congress has approved two Social Security raises totaling 25 percent in just over a year and may add another increase late this year or in 1972. The forthcoming provisions likely focus on targeted groups and welfare reform, possibly including a widow’s benefit upgrade and revised earnings test, as part of a broader welfare bill under WayMeans scrutiny.
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Washington
Congress
House
Ways and Means
Senate
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