FAA decision blocks fire retardant planes at Ukiah airport
Citizens near Ukiah airport protest possible fire retardant plane crash and noise. FAA bans tanker planes over congestion. city officials and fire leaders warn loss of Ukiah base harms firefighting and could delay response. FAA official due in Ukiah to reconsider.
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Ukiah
Federal Aeronautics Agency
FAA
Tom Neil
Neil
Littleriver
Ken Donohue
Donohue
Ukiah Valley
Jack Simpson
Costs less now to go into debt in inflation era
The American Bankers Association president says debt costs eased in most consumer loan areas from January 1972 to March 1973. FHA new home loans averaged 7.97 percent, auto loans 10.04 percent, mobile-home loans 12.48, general consumer goods 12.48, personal loans 12.71, while bank credit card rates rose to 17.91. Prime rate rose minimally, not driving broad price hikes.
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Eugene H. Adams
American Bankers Association
Federal Reserve
Adams
FHA
Nixon and Haldeman tied to 1962 California mailing
Bruce Biossat reports on a 1962 California mailer that targeted Democrats, later judged to impose personal responsibility on Richard Nixon and H R Haldeman. The piece links the tactic to broader campaign deceit and notes publicized details two years after Nixon lost the governorship to Edmund Brown.
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Bruce Biossat
Washington
NEA
California
Nixon
Edmund
Pat) Brown
San Francisco
Byron Arnold
Nixon linked to 1962 phony mailing in California race
Judge Arnold found Nixon personally involved in reviewing and approving a fraudulent 1962 mailing that urged Californians to vote against Brown. Leone Baxter testified that Nixon and Haldeman discussed the copy at Nixon's Bel Air home, tying Nixon to the scheme and casting Haldeman as its author.
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Brown
Nixon
California
Democratic State Committee
Arnold
Haldeman
Roger Kent
Leone Baxter
Clem Whitaker
Pioneer
Gerald O’gara
Baxter
Accuracy and mercy nuclear shift aims
A major shift in U S nuclear strategy may be on the way advocating a new generation of precise missiles to destroy an enemy’s military and industrial complex while sparing civilians. The plan contrasts with the current approach aimed at mass civilian casualties to deter war.
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Ray Cromley Washington
NEA
U.S
High Administration
United States
Bill would shift highway fund control to California Legislature
Copley News Service reports a 1973 legislative rerun over the $1 billion highway fund. Brown proposes giving the Legislature authority to appropriate highway money, challenging the current Highway Commission’s budget role. Critics warn of pork barrel politics and regional favoritism absent independent scrutiny.
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Copley
Sacramento
California Highway Commission
State Division of Highways
Willie L. Brown ,Jr
San Francisco
Wadie P. Deddeh
D-Chula Vista
Assembly Transportation and Ways and Means
Highway Commission
Division of Highways
John L.E. Collier
R-South
Pasadena
Division
Frank Lanterman
R-La Canada
California
Brown
Transportation Committee
Assembly
Senate
Ronald Reagan
Dean implicated in ITT cover up with White House aide links
Washington reports link ex White House counsel John Dean to the ITT scandal. Dean allegedly directed concealment and pressured testimony, coordinating with ITT witness counsel and pressuring agents. He arranged access to secret documents and influenced handling by the SEC and Justice Department.
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Washington
White House
John Dean
Capitol Hill
Agnew
Dean
Senate Judiciary Committee
Edward P. Taptich
ITT
Jack Gleason
Taptich
Gleason
Dita
Senate
Dita Beard
FBI
L. Patrick Gray
Gray
Howard Hunt
Daniel Elsberg
Charles Colson
Hunt
Denver
Anderson
Intertel
Robert Mardian
John Mitchell
Treasury
John Connally
SEC
Congress
House Commerce
Harley Staggers
DW. Va
William Casey
Charles Whitman
Bradford Cook
Mitchell
Whitman
Casey
Justice Department
Ralph Erickson
Erickson
Justice
House Commerce Committee
Les Whitten
John
Philadelphia Zoo opens new reptile house in 1874 legacy
The Philadelphia Zoological Garden, America’s oldest zoo opened July 1 1874 with a bear pit and lion house. It now features a new reptile house with over 300 species from a 3 inch banded gecko to a 485 pound American crocodile, showcasing growth and variety.
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Philadelphia Zoological Garden
U.S
Barbs by Phil Pastoret on Meat Embargo Critique
The column notes that women’s liberationists taunted the meat embargo as a “person cott” rather than a “boycott,” while a quip about a fool and his money being soon parted closes the item.
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China
Frederick Charles Ikle
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Tgis
Motorola Corp
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Motorola
Merry
Dean and Itt
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