Oil hoax letters spark antiwar uproar in US
A California antiwar group sent about 10,000 letters to Sen. Pulbright and other senators alleging a link between US forces in Vietnam and offshore oil, prompting concern over anti establishment propaganda. Experts say Vietnam has no oil, few refineries, and foreign investment limits US aims, while a new petroleum law taxes profits, discouraging US concessions. The piece condemns the campaign as disinformation and treasonous to national interests, urging Congress to probe the group’s motives and finances.
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Washington
United States
Sen. Pulbright
Senate: Foreign Relations Committee
California
U.S
Vietnam
Senate
South Vietnam
Persian Gulf
Singapore
Southeast Asia
United States Economic Commis
Sion
Far East
Vienam
Kite Flying Contest At Washington Monument Draws Invitations
A Smithsonian invite asks U S cities to send reps to Washington for a national kite contest on the Monument grounds. The piece notes Washington can tell the city to go fly a kite, amid a discussion of child learning and behavior disorders and pep pills.
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Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Washington Monument
No fault insurance debated by editor letters
Letter to the editor discusses the no fault auto insurance plan proposed by California Senator Anthony Beilenson. It argues the plan would raise overall costs for insured drivers and reduce benefits to accident victims, urging instead safer highways, better car construction, and stricter licensing to cut premiums and harm. William P. Camusi of the California Trial Lawyers Association signs the piece.
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Anthony Beilenson
California
American Tnsurance Association
Sen. Beilenson
Urese
Tie Insurute Allthinal Association
Dént Insurers
Repethser
William P. Camusi
California Trial Lawyers Association
Los Angeles
Right to strike debate and layoffs at Lockheed
The State Employees Association presses for salary hikes and union rights while noting public policy influence by social workers. It omits that civil service protects public employees from dismissal. Lockheed cut 6,500 jobs after long service, raising questions about governor power to shrink state payroll for solvency.
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Buiter
State Employees’ Association
Social Workers
Lockheed
Lockheed Expe
Open letter laments Fremont Unified School District leadership
A citizen letter in Fremont criticizes the FUSD board and superintendent for incompetence and lack of communication. The writer accuses a divide and rule climate, questions salaries, urges citizens to vote out the current trustees and to empower a new board to remove the superintendent.
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Fastyr
Fremont
FUSD
Supt
Golt
MacDonald
Bolt
Max Rafterly
California State College
Mike Tarlows
Supt Bolt
Berk du
Drs
Ama C
Frances C
Awemiya Fremont
Britain Faces Financial Turbulence and U S Ties
Henry J. Taylor discusses Europe’s economic strain and its ripple effects on the United States. He highlights Britain’s severe productivity decline, deepening debt, and labor unrest under Prime Minister Heath, noting Britain’s coal and food imports, a record coal loss, and the potential impact on U S financial policy amid global defaults.
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Europe
Krupp
Munemann
Montredison
Italy
Rolls Royce
Great Britain
Switzerland
Sweden
Britain
France
West Germany
Denmark
Norway
Belgium
Netherlands
Connally
Edward Heath
India
Pakistan
British Africa
West Indies
Conally
Health
Campbell Adamson
Confederation of British Industries
Mr Heath
Nixon War Backlash Pushes Nixon Campaign Outlook
The piece argues the Vietnam War risks fueling youth votes against Nixon in 1972. It notes eight months since Cambodia incursions, claims intelligence failures, and morale drop among about three hundred thousand U.S. troops. It critiques administration plans, public support, and advisers while calling for shifts to reverse the war.
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Nixon
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Pentagon
Black Panther splits fuels question on wealth and power
Short takes note the Black Panther Party fractures over unity and support for the Viet Cong. Huey Newman awaits manslaughter trial in a $60 monthly Oakland penthouse while Stokeley Carmichael faces IRS inquiry into $48,193 for 1967 68. The piece questions how leaders fund a lavish lifestyle versus rank and file.
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Black Panther Party
Panthers
Huey Newson
Revolutionary Group
Oakland
Stokely Carmichael
Internal Revenue Service
Newton, Carmichael
Shrink the War Initiative Warns of Negotiated End
Robert S. Elegant argues the plan could reduce war intensity if successful, pressuring North Vietnamese to negotiate seriously to salvage any gains or retreat to guerrilla activity. The San Diego Union notes a cynical line about boys growing up to control TV.
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West Point
Clul Th
Gacun
Congress
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Robert S. Elegant
Miami Herald
SAN Diego Union
California and federal clash over air quality standards
California air pollution officials challenge forthcoming EPA automobile emission limits set to take effect April 20. Smog experts say the targets are unattainable, warning that unrealistic goals could jeopardize the progress in cleaning the air while acknowledging the good intent on both sides.
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California
Federal Environmental Protectin Agency
Burbank
Rockefeller shifts from tax plan to budget economies
Six weeks after proposing an 8.45 billion budget with a sweeping tax increase Governor Rockefeller now warns his plan could have a disastrous effect as more overtaxed industries might flee New York. He favors economies to save hundreds of millions and notes a moral about liberals in California pursuing new taxes.
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Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
California
Glendale News-Press
Soviet officials tour Midwestern cattle markets
Soviet agricultural officials have been quietly touring Midwestern livestock markets hoping to buy prime U.S. bulls and heifers for breeding stock to bolster Russian cattle herds.
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U.S
Kennedy Bid Sparks Battle Within Democratic Ranks
A Republican strategist notes Lyndon Johnson wields influence in party circles and would oppose a Teddy Kennedy presidential bid, while TBJ might back Senator Edmund Muskie if Kennedy challenges for the nomination.
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Lyndon Johnson
Teddy Kennedy
TBJ
Edmund Muskle
Quarrel Over Policy Splits US War Strategy Officials Disagree
A basic split in the Administration's war policy surfaces between Henry Kissinger, Melvin Laird, and William Rogers. Laird and Rogers urge the President to set a firm date to end US involvement to push Saigon, while Kissinger warns the timing could aid Hanoi.
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Henry Kissinger
National Security
Melvin Laird
William Rogers
Laird
Notable events weave through history and fiction
This day in history notes the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 in New York City with 146 deaths, an explosion in Centralia, Washington during a mining operation causing multiple deaths, RCA beginning summer production of color television sets in 1954, and William Faulkner’s belief that man will prevail.
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States
I Lurious
Triangle Shirtwaist Co
New York City
Centralia
Radio Corporation of America
William Faulkner
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