17 natl construction union presidents declare they will not initiate or endorse any wage freeze or stabilization program that applies to their indus alone

BUILDING UNIONS BAR WAGE MOVE

Lindsay in San Francisco to attend US Mayors Conf; trip is his 3d outside NYC in last 10 days

Nixon's Budget Attacked By Mayors as a ‘Setback’

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Lincoln's Birthday

Nixon releases, but reserves judgment on, proposal by his Advisory Council on Exec Orgn that FTC be abolished and its role of protecting consumers be taken over by a Fed trade practices agency with single admr

Nixon Urges Study Of Plan to Revamp Regulatory Boards

Ind Oil and Chem Workers Union pres K A McCauley says Procter & Gamble is removing enzyme additives from its detergent Tide; co spokesman refuses to confirm or deny rept; indus continues to deny enzymes are health hazard; Colgate-Palmolive spokesman says co has been reducing enzymes in its detergent products; health hazards reptdly linked to enzymes noted

Enzymes Reported Dropped From Tide

NY Port Auth says it is accelerating plans for rail link to airport from NYC and Newark

Port Authority to Restudy Its Role in Mass Transit

Grand jury probing 4 prison deaths in Manhattan repts that it can find no evidence to support criminal charges against correction officers involved in case; rept includes series of recommendations for upgrading training program for correction officers, improving med and psychiatric care for inmates at Manhattan House of Detention for Men and creating minimum security facility for certain prisoners; also recommends that correction officers S Benjamin, R Jones, S Limongelli and J Shank, who had been suspended following death of R L Moore, be reinstated; rept's findings and recommendations outlined; vanden Heuvel issues statement charging that jury's rept is incomplete because, among other things, it failed to resolve contradictory testimony; Correction Officers Benevolent Assn pres Zeferetti comments; McGrath announces that he will reinstate guards who had been suspended

GUARDS CLEARED IN 4 JAIL DEATHS

Foreign population living in France estimated at 3-million people, including 800,000 women and children, with 75,000 living in bidonvilles around indus towns

Poor Left Behind in Europe's Boom

HUD Dept Regional Admr Green announces that Fed Govt has ordered immediate embargo on its contributions to city's slum-clearance program, charging that dry had failed to find decent, safe and sanitary housing for families displaced by program, news conf; program has provided city with hundreds of millions of dollars for land acquisition and demolition of slum bldgs and city had expected about $25-million in aid for new projects in '71; Green says that action was taken after 2 audits by his staff showed widespread deficiencies in city's relocation operations; charges detailed; HDA Admr Walsh and Housing Auth Chmn Golar, conceding that some conditions in bldgs are deteriorated, assail Green's announcement as being precipitous, unfounded and potentially destructive

U.S. FREEZES AID EXPECTED BY CITY TO MAR SLUMS

Nixon, at Washington ceremony for signing of treaty barring nuclear weapons from ocean floor, holds US considers treaty only step toward greater goal of controlling nuclear weapons; notes that SALT talks will resume in Vienna Mar 15 and expresses hope they will make progress; Kosygin, in Moscow ceremony, says USSR will do its utmost to find further ways of ending arms race

BAN ON ATOM ARMS ON SEABED SIGNED IN THREE CAPITALS

S Vietnamese forces reptdly push deeper into Laos in 5th day of drive; enemy AA fire on Ho Chi Minh Trail is heavy; at least 8 Amer, 2 S Vietnamese helicopters downed; US casualties are 8 killed, 2 missing, 5 wounded; 15 on S Vietnamese craft are all missing and presumed dead; 20 S Vietnamese, 60 enemy reptd killed in combat; US mil spokesmen still silent on extent of US support; Tchepone is reptdly near capture by S Vietnamese; US effort is centered in Quangtri Prov just below N Vietnamese border; new dirt airstrip at Khesanh does not work out; resulting increase in cargo truck traffic on Route 9 causes delays and losses from enemy attacks; map

Resistance Termed Light As Laos Drive Continues

Census Bur issues data on black and white income levels in '60s; most striking gains were among 532,000 Northern black families with husband and wife under age 35 both present; these families now avg $8,900 yrly, 91% of what their white counterparts avg; black avg was 62% in '60; for 1.5-million black families with no father present there was no gain at all relative to whites; income of black families of all types in South gained only slightly; other data

CENSUS DATA SHOW BLACKS STILL POOR

Cardinal Koenig to visit Cardinal Mindszenty

Pope Paul Wants to Resign, Austrian Cardinal Says

Violent bomb blast near Vatican City walls sets off rumors of bomb plot against Pope; police, after probe, rept bomb exploded 1,000 ft from Pope's bedroom outside walls; link blast to racketeers fighting over control of free-lance moving vans

Bomb Blast Near the Vatican Laid to Feuding ‘Little Mafias’

US helicopter pilots take some of worst fire of war over Laos; incidents described; 4 craft shot down in Laotian border region, at least 6 shot down in Laos

U.S. Copter Pilots Taking Some of Worst Fire of War

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (Reu ters)&#8212;David M. Kennedy, for mer Secretary of the Treasury, was assigned by President Nixon today to help South Vietnam repair its war&#8208;ravaged economy and to plan for peace full development when the Indo china conflict ends.

DAVID KENNEDY GETS SAIGON ASSIGNMENT

reptdly is slightly improved; Pres Nixon reptdly sends over Amer dr to treat him

Cambodian Premier Improves, But Total Recovery Is in Doubt

102d session of Paris peace talks; Communist reprs charge 10 US bns fight in Laos; Bruce charges other side with hypocrisy by condemning allied action in Laos and Cambodia without mentioning N Vietnamese presence there, news conf; Xuan Thuy indicates at talks session that N Vietnamese troops arc in both countries

Communists at Paris Talks Say 10 U.S. Battalions Fight in Laos

N Vietnamese Foreign Min charges US warships invaded N Vietnamese waters off Quangbinh Prov, shelled civilian vessels and killed and wounded a number of persons; charges US arty shelled Vinhson and Vinhgiang

Hanoi Accuses U.S.

about 20,000 to 30,000 Laotian civilians reptdly are moving away from threatened areas near Long Tieng and San Thong; US planes drop supplies to them along mt passes; refugees, numbering about 226,000 throughout country, receive aid under US program; reinforcements sent to Gen Vang Pao in response to his appeal

20,000. Being Evacuated From Periled Laos Area

several hundred, protesting Stanford Univ involvement in war, clash with police, Palo Alto, Calif; 12 jailed, 1 hs student shot

12 Jailed and Student Shot In Stanford Clash on War

Ruggedness of mt jungle country in Laos raises doubts that troops will be able to reach site of helicopter shot down with 4 press photographers aboard

DRIVE TO CRASH SITE IN LAOS IS DOUBTED

US official sources in Saigon say US reconaissance teams operate inside Laos, but only in intelligence-gathering role; deny presence of US combat troops in Laos

U. S. Reconnaissance in Laos

ABC and CBS broadcast repts that US ground troops take part in S Vietnamese drive into Laos; US Defense Dept and Pres press sec Ziegler denial

AMERICAN TROOPS REPORTED IN LAOS

total of 12 rockets strike Pnompenh and its outskirts, not 4 as originally reptd; 10 fired into Kompong Cham

Pnompenh Corrects Report

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February 12, 1971

Headlines from February 12, 1971

BUILDING UNIONS BAR WAGE MOVE

Nixon's Budget Attacked By Mayors as a ‘Setback’

Lincoln's Birthday

Nixon Urges Study Of Plan to Revamp Regulatory Boards

Enzymes Reported Dropped From Tide

Billboard 200

All Things Must Pass

Jesus Christ Superstar

Chicago III

Abraxas

Tumbleweed Connection

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for February 12, 1971