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...Nixon will suggest to Brezhnev that Soviet cooperation-meaning putting pressure on Hanoi to observe the cease-fire-will determine the extent of U.S. help in trade and technology. Although Brezhnev may be willing, the President's bargaining position has been weakened by the threat of a congressional cutoff of funds for bombing in Cambodia...
When she got home, she took off her pink pants suit and unbuckled her patent leather shoes. She put on a pair of cutoff jeans and a green shirt with an alligator on one pocket. She hung up the pants suit, but left the shoes and socks in the middle of the floor...
...another factor was the rising fury of many members of Congress against the U.S. bombing and the President's continued failure to explain it or justify it. Both the House and Senate Democratic caucuses last week passed resolutions-the Senate group by 36 to 12-calling for a cutoff of war funds subject only to the return of U.S. prisoners. Senators George McGovern and Mark Hatfield introduced, for the third time, a similar resolution calling for withdrawal from Viet...
...Benefits for the nation's 27 million Social Security recipients are rising 20% this year; the average retired couple will now receive $271 a month, v. $244 last year. In addition, recipients can earn up to $2,100 on their own without losing any benefits; last year the cutoff was $1,680. Widows and widowers will henceforth receive the entire amount of benefits due to a deceased spouse, instead of only 82.5% as in the past. And from 1975 on, recipients will no longer be dependent on the whim of Congress for raises in benefits to keep pace with...
...Tuesday, the House Democratic Caucus passed an end-the-war resolution by a two-to-one margin, and also threatened an immediate cutoff of American funding to Indochina contingent on the release of U.S. prisoners...