Hot Cop Scam Exposes Crimelike Tactics in Bars and Stores
The piece describes an undercover sting where an informer poses as a seller of stolen TV sets to trap buyers. It recounts the Sylvania Squad operation, noting nine participants including a 14 year old, and quotes defense lawyers about alleged innocent, respectable locals. The narrator recalls a personal grocery tale with a "hot" apricot pun and ends with a satirical take on door-to-door hawkers and police.
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Sylvania Squad
Space laser links for satellite communications
An illustration by Lockheed Missiles and Space Co shows how a satellite in space could communicate by laser with other orbiting satellites. Laser beams directed from multiple dish arrays carry data, with microwave options also shown. A Lockheed laser system can transmit 70 television channels at once or digital data at one billion bits per second, equaling all 23 volumes of Britannica in two seconds.
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Lockheed Missiles and Space Co
Soviet leaders cool to meeting Nixon before China trip
In Vienna sources say the Soviet leadership is reluctant to a Nixon Kosygin summit before Nixon’s trip to Peking. They doubt any gain, fear Sino American collusion, and worry about Nixon’s broader policy, including Vietnam. Russia’s stance remains cautious as Washington signals a possible early end to the war.
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Holdup of draft law won't stop new lottery
Washington UPI report notes the Selective Service will hold its third annual draft lottery on August 5 at the Commerce Department auditorium to determine when 19 year olds will be drafted in 1972. It continues under the draft law despite Congress allowing Nixon to order inductions to expire. Defense Secretary Laird has not set a fixed draft need, with expectations of fewer draftees as Vietnam disengagement rises and manpower drops from 3.5 million in June to 2.5 million by mid-1972.
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Fremont hosts Nordic Scouts en route to world jamboree
Fremont to host six local families who will shelter about 170 Bay Area hosts for visiting Finnish Norwegian and Swedish scouts enroute to the world jamboree in January. The article notes draft lottery details with dates and numbers, explaining how birth dates and lottery numbers determine order of call.
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Galbraith urges economic controls to curb inflation
Economist Kenneth Galbraith proposes a government driven plan to regulate wages and prices, including a six month wage price freeze, abandoning Keynesian policy. He argues unions and corporations wield power to set wages and prices, with exemptions for farmers and many service industries. He notes President Nixon called himself a Keynesian, while Keynesian theory he says is obsolete.
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Youth Symphony eyes Czech tour from San Francisco
California Youth Symphony, a 100 member teen ensemble from the San Francisco Bay Area, plans a August trip behind the Iron Curtain for a three concert tour of Czechoslovakia. They will perform at the International Festival of Youth Orchestras in Lausanne before Czech hosts in Prague.
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Bay Area park hearing slated in San Francisco
The House Interior Committee sub panel will hear testimony in San Francisco on August to establish the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The session, led by Rep Roy A. Bone of the National Parks panel, starts at 9 am in Room 119 of the State Office Building.
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UPI
Wayne N. Aspinall
D-Colo
House Interior Committee
San Francisco
Golden Gate National
Roy A. T. Dn.c
Committee On National Parks and Recreation
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Humphrey condemns Nixon policy on large deficit
Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey told the International Longshoremen's Association in Miami Beach that the Nixon Administration presides over the largest federal two year budget deficit since World War II. He urged action including tax relief, job creation financing, expanded unemployment programs, higher minimum wage, Social Security, and a wage price profits board to curb inflation.
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Mean Marine Drill Instructor Fined At Parris Island
Staff Sgt. W. L. Sutton, 27, from Vigo Indiana, was fined $100 and relieved of drill instructor duties after allegedly forcing recruits to perform pushups and other exercises causing five marines to suffer rhabdomyolysis or athletes kidney. Two other drill instructors faced charges. Recruits, all Marines under a week of training, endured up to 15 minute exercise bursts five times in a 12 hour span.
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Gophers Cost BART Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars
A report from San Francisco states the University of Minnesota Gophers incurred a cost of 700000 dollars to BART. The figure reflects financial concerns tied to the Gophers' event or arrangement with the transit agency.
Obituaries from Fremont and Newark Notices
Funeral services for Mark Govea a 15 year old boy killed in a Fremont bicycle accident will be held at Fremont Memorial Chapel at 8 30 this morning then at Santa Paula Catholic Church for a Requiem Mass he was a native of Oakland survived by parents a brother sister and two grandparents and was a student at Irvington High School. Ade laide P Carreira 75 of Newark mass will be said at St Edward s Church tomorrow at 9 am Rosary at 7 30 tonight another service will be held next Monday in New Bedford Mass followed by interment at St John s Cemetery she is survived by her daughter Irene C Jesus of Newark three daughters and two grandchildren Merle Howen of Fremont died yesterday funeral services will be held at Fremont Memorial Chapel at 11 am tomorrow interment at Lindenwood Cemetery she was a native of Minnesota member of the Order of Eastern Star wife of C a F Howen and mother of two
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