U S Planes Fight North Vietnam Attacks Near DMZ
U S reconnaissance plane and escort fighters clash with an antiaircraft battery 95 miles north of the DMZ as the second largest withdrawal cutback in Vietnam begins. Nine killed in Mekong Delta Viet Cong ambush and renewed fighting reported near U Minh forest.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
James d’Entremont
Demilitarized Zone
South Vietnam
Mekong Delta
Kien Thien
U Minh Forest
Vietnam
Fireman lowers guest from Stanhope Hotel blaze
Fireman John Driscoll is lowered from the Stanhope Hotel roof in New York as a two alarm fire traps guests on the 15th floor. He calmed them until rescue crews pulled them to safety. Fourteen people were injured in the blaze.
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John Driscoll
Stanhope
New York
Driscoll
Committee Votes to Raise Federal Minimum Wage Across Sectors
The House Education and Labor Committee approved increasing the federal minimum wage to 2 per hour for about 35 million workers starting Jan 1, two years ahead of Nixon’s request. An amendment would ban hiring illegal aliens with penalties up to 1000 dollars and one year in jail. The plan also covers about 0.5 million agricultural workers with staged rises to 1.50 and 1.70 by 1970.
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Washington
House Education and Labor Committee
Nixon
United States
Los Angeles
Romana Banuelos
William D. Ford
D-Mich
Rules Committee
House
Bomb damages MIT building in Cambridge
An early explosion caused extensive damage to the Grover Hermann Building fourth floor housing MIT Center for International Studies. No one was inside and no injuries were reported. Daniel Ellsberg, a part time associate at the center who leaked the Pentagon Papers, has an office on the fourth floor, which was not damaged.
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Cambridge, Mass
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grover Hermann
Institute
Center For International Studies
Daniel Ellsberg
Pentagon
U S Lifts Surcharge on Noncotton Textile Imports
The White House announces removal of the 10 percent surcharge on noncotton textiles. An agreement with Japan South Korea Taiwan and Hong Kong restrains imports retroactively to Oct 1. Japan pact runs three years with a possible two year extension others five years.
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U.S
Washington
White House
United States
Japan
South Korea
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Ronald L. Ziegler
David M. Kennedy
Seoul
Peter Peterson
Blast damages Iranian Consulate in San Francisco
An explosion at the Iranian Consulate caused a massive interior blast with gas-fed fires and shattered windows. Fire Chief Calden said the blast appeared to be from a powerful bomb. four unidentified youths fled in night clothes. No injuries reported.
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San Francisco
Keith Calden
Calden
Smalley Urges Governor on Welfare Policy Amid Virginia Debate
Democratic State Senate candidate Robert W. Smalley pressed Governor Linwood Holton at a Frederick County press conference, alleging Virginia diverts school funds to welfare. He cited Clarke County as example where State Welfare Department withheld education- earmarked sales tax revenues and demanded local salary increases, prompting cuts to county funds. Continuous on-page dispute over revenue sharing and administration costs highlighted by Smalley.
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Virginia
Robert W. Smalley
State
Senate
Linwood Holton
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Smalley
Clarke County
State Welfare Department
Clarke Board of Supervisors
Mr. Smalley
Clarke County Board of Supervisors
Welfare Department
Board of Supervisors
Kissinger Prepares Nixon China Visit Within Six Weeks
Dr. Henry Kissinger will lead a 10 day mission to mainland China to draft the agenda for a presidential trip. The planning team will route via Andrews Air Force Base to Travis, Hilo, Guam, Shanghai, and Peking with an Anchorage return.
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Washington
Nixon
Peking
White House
Henry A. Kissinger
China
India
Indira Ghandi
Kissinger
United States
Presidential
Ralph D. Albertazzio
Hilo
Hawaii
Andrews Air Force Base
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Guam
Shanghai
Anchorage
Alaska
Chou En-lai
Mao Tsetung
Mixed Views On House Consumer Bill
The House passed the consumer bill 344 to 44 with praise from Virginia Knauer as a victory for consumer protection. Ralph Nader’s allies urged scrutiny of the bill’s details, while Nader dismissed the vote as ensuring no strong measure advances this year. Rosenthal criticized the legislation as mediocrity and compromise.
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Washington
Nixon
House
Senate
Ralph Nader
Consumer-Protection Agency
Government Operations Committee
Virginia Knauer
Knauer
Nader
Congress
Benjamin S. Rosenthal
Dn.y
Rosenthal
Harvard Economist Kuznets Wins 1971 Nobel Prize
Harvard professor Simon Kuznets won the 1971 Nobel Prize in economics for his empirically based interpretation of economic growth. The award, worth 88 000 dollars, cited his deep insights into the economic and social structure and development through the past century.
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Stockholm
Simon Kuznets
Harvard University
Royal Academy of Sciences
Kharkov
Russia
Kuznets
Earl Sutherland
Vanderbilt University
Swedish Academy
United States
Columbia University
Weather Richmond High Pressure Forecast For Weekend
A high pressure system will maintain generally fair weather across Richmond this weekend. For county matters contact Donald Baughman at the listed number after 7 p.m. for questions or issues concerning Shawnee District.
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Richmond
Mingitte Fedage
Shawnee Dist
Donald Baughman
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