Kosygin Bearing Up Well During Canada Tour
Ottawa dispatch notes Premier Kosygin remains calm amid demonstrators in Canada’s capital and is seen as lacking Khrushchev’s magnetism. His eight day trip includes Montreal Edmonton Vancouver and Toronto with continued protests and a camouflaged attack on U S economic policy during a Trudeau luncheon.
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Ottawa
Alexei N. Kosygin
Canada
Kosygin
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Khrushchev
United States
Montreal
Edmonton
Vancouver
Toronto
Nixon
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Washington
New Drive Mounted Against Funds for War
Antiwar senators pressed a plan to cut off Indochina funding after House leaders blocked a direct vote but supported a six month war deadline. The House and Senate faced a $21 billion weapons bill with a deadline as conferees work toward a compromise.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Armed Services
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
Cooper-Church
U.S
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
John Sherman Cooper
Frank Church
Idaho
Leslie C. Arends
Ilinois
Vietnam
Rep
Charles Y. Whalen Jr
Ohio
Nixon seeks extension of wage price controls and new court
Congress moves to consider Nixon Phase 2 economic measures including extending control powers to April 30 1973 and creating a three judge federal court of appeals. Proxmire urges wage step increases after the 90 day freeze expires and exemptions for workers below the poverty line.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
Capitol
Pay and Board and Price Commission
Court of Appeals
Wright Patman
Dtex
House Banking Committee
Senate Banking Committee
William Proxmire
Wisconsin
Proxmire
Senate
House Economic Committee
Treasury
Charles Walker
Cost of Living Council
Patman
Pay Board and Price Commission
Taft-Hartley possible to clear East Coast ports
Mrs Helen Delich Bentley chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission said the Nixon administration may invoke Taft Hartley soon to reopen East Coast ports. She noted negotiations have not begun in earnest and emphasized the West Coast strike as a turning point during her talk at the Virginia Conference on World Trade in Williamsburg.
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Jack Davis
Williamsburg
Helen Delich Bentley
Federal Maritime Commission
Nixon
Bentley
Baltimore Sun
F.M.C
Virginia Conference On World Trade
Miller
Des Moines Independent
Federal District Court
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Virginia Clouds Persist Through Thursday Rain Likely
Richmond reports a strong easterly air flow keeps Virginia in cloudy wet weather with rain chances continuing through Thursday.
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Richmond
Virginia
Fifteen Die in Nursing Home Fire Near Honesdale
Fifteen elderly residents mostly in their 80s and 90s perished in a rapid fire at Geiger Nursing Home in Wayne County Pennsylvania. Coroner Robert Jennings planned a state investigation to examine possible criminal negligence as the sole caregiver escaped amid thick smoke. Fire began in a rear laundry area. nurse Vaudine Lyon reported the blaze and tried to call for help as flames spread through the residential wing.
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Honesdale
Pennsylvania
Wayne County
Robert Jennings
Jennings
Geiger Nursing Home
State Department of Labor and Industry
Department of Welfare
Vaudine Lyon
Hawley
Jyon
Shen
Brandt Wins 1971 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt won the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo receiving the diploma and prize money of about 88 000 dollars. Danish and German social democrats praised his East Europe outreach and the signing of non aggression treaties with Poland and the Soviet Union as key steps toward easing East West tensions.
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Oslo
Norway
Willy Brandt
Bonn
Alfred Nobel
Brandt
East Europe
Earl W. Sutherland Jr
Vanderbilt University
Simon Kuznets
Harvard University
Stockholm
Poland
Soviet Union
Berlin
UVa Rescinds Confederate Flag Ban
Virginia Attorney General Andrew P. Miller says UVa's rule banning Confederate flag displays at athletic events is unconstitutional and should be rescinded. The university repealed the measure after Miller’s suggestion, amid claims it targeted black students and sparked a broader free speech dispute tied to a pending court case.
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Richmond
University
Williams
Department of Athletics
Gene Corrigan
Virginia
Miller
Jerome J.curtis
Albemarle County
Curtis
Army
Judge Advocate General’s School
Charlottesville
Supreme Court
Iowa
Kissinger Arrives in Peking for Nixon Visit Plans
AP reports Henry Kissinger arrived in Peking with a 14 member party to finalize plans for Nixon's China trip. In Shanghai he was greeted by Seng Kuo shu as officials escorted them to meet Premier Chou En Lai. Foreign correspondents watched as a global unity banner appeared at the airport.
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Tokyo
Henry A. Kissinger
Peking
Nixon
Red China
Radio
Kissinger
Yeh Chien-ying
Communist Party
Shanghai
Seng Kuo-shu
Tanjug
Peking Press
People’s Daily
Taiwan
China Debate Moves Into Third Day At U N
The debate over seating the Peking government and expelling Nationalist China continues with Albanian backed proposals favored by many nations. Key speakers include the Soviet Union France Sweden Denmark Nepal Southern Yemen and Chile. The U S two China resolution gains support from Liberia Swaziland likely Colombia and Uruguay while Ecuador may abstain or vote against.
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China
Peking
United Nations
Soviet Union
France
Sweden
Denmark
Nepal
Yemen
Chile
U.S
U.N
Liberia
Swaziland
Colombia
Uruguay
Ecuador
Leopoldo Benites
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