Question Mart helps readers press for redress on consumer issues
The Pioneer advises readers to seek help from the State Consumer Division of the Minnesota Attorney General if a glasses adjustment dispute remains unresolved. It notes that an investigation can confirm or deny the complaint. It also answers a GI Bill query, stating the VA will not pay for tutorial assistance after benefits expire.
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State Consumer Division
Attorney General's Office
State Capitol
St. Paul
Minn
Pioneer Editorial Department
Veterans Administration
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Vets
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Information Service
Reservists Eligible for VA Hospital Care for Training Related Injuries
The Veterans Administration confirms reservists receive VA hospital and clinic care for injuries or illnesses occurring during travel to or from training. Active duty and inactive duty training count as active duty if the military service approves, so long as injuries arise during travel under reservist orders.
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Clincs
L. S
Bemidji
Vets
Adm
Information Service
St. Paul
Calley defense may seek Supreme Court reversal
Lawyers for William L. Calley Jr. plan to ask the Supreme Court for an emergency order blocking his return to military custody after the 5th Circuit upheld a ruling that he be placed back in full custody. The court said bail grounds were insufficient and the Army warned of disruptive effects. Calley had been freed on bond pending appeal of his 1971 My Lai murder conviction.
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William L. Calley Jr
U.S. Supreme Court
Calley
5Th Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. Army
My Lai
Supreme Court
U.S. District Court
J. Robert Elliott
Georgia
District Court
Army
Washington
Pentagon
Andrew J. Sullivan
Ft. Leavenworth
Kan
Nixon pledges U S nuclear aid to Egypt during Middle East tour
President Nixon announced a large U S aid program for Egypt to develop peaceful nuclear power by the early 1980s, with plans to sell reactors and fuel under safeguards. The pledge came during his stop in Jidda after talks with Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat in Cairo.
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Saudi Arabia
Nixon
U.S
Egypt
Middle East
Faisal
Cairo
Alexandria
Israel
Pyramids
Anwar Sadat
Henry A. Kissinger
Sadat
United States
Europe
Treasury
William E. Simon
Congress
Mobile court judge arrests wildcat strikers in Warren
Judge Hunter D. Stair reconvened a mobile court and ordered the arrest of 10 demonstrators outside a Dodge plant amid a wildcat strike that began Monday. He warned about contempt of court and held hearings on charges, with potential 90 day sentences, as about 30 protesters faced actions over health and safety claims.
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Stair
Detroit
United Auto Workers Local 140
Macomb County
Nixon tapes memo contradicts White House edits says he knew
Los Angeles Times reports a memo on Nixon's Watergate remarks states the president knew about several cover up aspects before the March 21 1973 Dean conversation. The memo notes discrepancies between edited transcripts and actual tapes and suggests payments and other cases were discussed.
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Nixon
Los Angeles Times
John W. Dean III
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E. Howard Hunt Jr
Times
the Times
House Judiciary Committee
William P. Dixon
Dixon
Judiciary
Peter W. Rodine
D.-N.j
Hunt
Charles W. Colson
Watergate
Frederick C. LaRue
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Daniel Ellsberg
John D. Ehrlichman
Edmund Ss. Muskie
G. Gordon Liddy
Kalmbach
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Grand Jury
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Robert L. Vesco
Treasury
Maurice H. Stans
The
Weather Underground claims credit for Gulf Oil HQ blast
A Weather Underground claim of responsibility followed a destructive blast on the Gulf Oil Corp headquarters 29th floor in Pittsburgh. No injuries reported though seven people were trapped in an elevator. authorities described the device as hazardous and linked the incident to racial policy protests abroad.
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Weather Underground
Pittsburgh, Pa
Radical
Gulf Oil Corp
Robert Coll
Gulf Asian Corp
Gulf
James Flavin
California Attorney General
Los Angeles
Symbionese Liberation Army
Patricia Hearst
Queens Quiet After Violence Over Acquittal
In South Jamaica Queens calm returned after hundreds protested a white patrolman’s acquittal in the fatal 10 year old Clifford Glover shooting. A police rib broke, cars overturned and windows smashed as one man was arrested and three others cited for disorderly conduct amid the Beame led response.
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New York
Queens
South Jamaica
Jamaica
Abraham D. Beame
Thomas Shea
Clifford Glover
Shea
Cliffie
Brooklyn
Eugene A. Gold
Area gets 45000 for future economic plans
The Headwaters Regional Development Commission at Bemidji will manage a 45000 grant from the Economic Development Administration to plan long term economic growth across Beltrami Clearwater Hubbard Lake of the Woods and Mahnoman counties. The full program totals 66744 with Commission funding of 21744.
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Minnesota
William W. Blunt, Jr
Economic Development Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
Headwaters Regional Development Commission
Bemidji
Beltrami
Clearwater
Hubbard
Lake of the Woods
Mahnoman
EDA
Headwaters
Commission
State official meets with airport unit
A Bemidji Airport Zoning Commission group meets with the State Commissioner of Aeronautics to discuss a zoning ordinance for Bemidji’s airport. The commissioner previously rejected the ordinance, and officials hope a meeting will yield an ordinance acceptable for federal and state funding eligibility. Attendees include Gene Ouradnik Jim Walker Richard Tarte Merlin Volk and Ralph Smith.
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Bemidji
Gene Ouradnik
Jim Walker
Airport Zoning Commission
Richard Tarte
Zoning Commission
Merlin Volk
Ace Host
Ralph Smith
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