Multiple Global Crises and Political Moves Across 1960s Newsroom
Reports from Saigon note the highest enemy shelling in a month with three U.S. aircraft lost while 16 American and five South Vietnamese troops died and 29 Americans and 16 Vietnamese wounded. Britain France and the U.S. propose new Big Four talks on West Berlin with key details pending. A federal grand jury probes United Mine Workers affairs in Tennessee and Kentucky following an insurgent killing. In Cincinnati a 19-year-old faces first degree murder charges in a coed slaying and another man’s murder. A Jacksonville barge collision creates an oil slick along the St Johns River. Ohio advances a bill to fund a state insurance guaranty association for bankrupt firms. Washington politics see a debate over the Democratic National Committee chair with Humphrey meeting governors after O Brien declines.
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U.S
Cincinnati
Otis Fairbanks
University of Cincinnati
Ohio speaker calls erasing abortion laws at conference
Don E. Weaver conservation editor for Scripps-Howard Newspapers urged at the Ohio Conservation Association conference in Dayton that Ohio delete abortion laws from criminal statutes. He framed the issue as a matter of conscience between a woman and her physician.
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Dayton
Ohio
Ohio Conservation Association
Don E. Weaver
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
Nixon pushes $2 billion cuts as inflation cools
President Nixon asks Congress to trim 57 programs from school milk subsidies to the tea tasters board to help a 1971 budget surplus. Labor reports wholesale prices easing and the leading indicators index dropping 1.8 percent in January, signaling slower inflation.
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Nixon
Congress
Board of Tea Tasters
Labor Department
Commerce Department
Agnew Urges Governors to Fight Kooks and Extremists
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew told the National Governors Conference that America must march back to normalcy by driving bizarre extremists from front pages and TV screens. He warned the threat is a danger to the republic and urged decisive action by leaders. Governor Tom McCall offered a contrasting, quieter approach to dissidents.
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Spiro T. Agnew
Vietnam
Agnew
Congress
Demonstrations Turmoil Near UCSB Campus Escalates
Demonstrators clashed with police in a Santa Barbara suburb as 300 to 500 protesters faced tear gas and rocks. One protester was shot, another hit by a police car. four officers and a demonstrator injured. Curfew violations led to 25 to 50 arrests amid a third night of campus turmoil.
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Santa Barbara
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University of California At Santa Barbara
Bank of America
Buffalo
N.Y
State University of New York
House Rules Block Desegregation Inquiry Fight
The House Rules Committee narrowly blocked an attempt to open a desegregation inquiry led by Rep. Edith Green a second ranking Democrat. The panel avoided action but highlighted deep divisions in the Education and Labor Committee and urged that the investigation be handled there.
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House Rules Committee
Committee
House
Education and Labor Committee
Oregon
Edith Green
Rules Committee
James G. O'Hara
D-Mich
O'Hara
Floor Fights Loom On HEW Bill Debate in Senate
Senate debate began on a $19.4 billion HEW bill amid tensions over desegregation and new spending controls. An amendment giving President Nixon 2 percent across the board cuts and up to 15 percent on any item was approved, as Republicans argued it could avert a veto. Nixon previously vetoed a $19.7 billion package for Labor and HEW after objecting to education and health increases.
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Washington
Nixon
Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare
Senate Appropriations Committee
Norris Cotton
R-N.h
Meigs FFA feeds treasury with pig market program
Sunday report by Gloria Cross notes Meigs High School Future Farmers club boosting funds through a feeder pig market. The piece previews championship weekend in Southeastern Ohio with Ohio University, MAC title bid against Bowling Green in Athens, and sectional finals across several districts including Nelsonville York.
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Eastern
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Miller
Nelsonville
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