Editorial: Traffic toll could be cut with telethon effort
The piece argues traffic deaths and injuries could be reduced by up to 90 percent through improved road safety funding. It highlights the Highway Safety Foundation founder Dick Wayman and Sammy Davis Jr as telethon hosts for a Memorial Day weekend fundraiser intended to finance driver training and life-saving research.
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Wayman
Cleveland
Sammy Davis Jr
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Sammy
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Vietnam
The trouble with treaties editor notes at Wounded Knee
The AP piece discusses the fragility of Indian treaties. It notes how treaties become law but can be amended or repealed by new laws, leaving tribes often unable to compel compliance. It traces the historical debate on Indigenous land rights from colonial times to the present.
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Wounded Knee
Pine Ridge
South Dakota
United States
America
Don McLeod
Associated Press
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U.S
Charles V
Spain
Ferdinand and
Isabella
Franciscus de Victoria
University of Salamanca
Victoria
Charles
Continental Congress
George Washington
Congress
England
David Ramsay
Six Nations
Wiandot
Delaware
Chippewa
Ottawa
Europe
Arapahoe
Supreme Court
Plumbers and Ellsberg Case Highlight White House Scandals
Two of John Ehrlichman's White House plumbers sit in jail while a fourth holds a sub-Cabinet post and refuses to speak. Ehrlichman admitted the group spied on Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist and the leak milieu tied to Liddy and Hunt. Krogh and Young offered limited comment amid the Watergate fallout.
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E. Howard Hunt
G. Gordon Liddy
Ellsberg
David Young
National Security Council
White House
Egil
Bud'’ Krogh
Transportation Department
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FBI
Young
Krogh
Seattle
Amtrak
Liddy
Hunt
Treasury Department
Charles W. Colson
Liddy and
National priorities vs government budgets analyzed
The article contrasts household spending with government outlays in 1971 and shows growth trends in federal, state, and local budgets. It highlights education, health and welfare, defense, and the expanding share of national income controlled by government levels, warning about public money influence.
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Washington
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Calls Bemidji Police Chief Search
The Minnesota Chippewa Tribal Executive Committee adopts a resolution urging Bemidji to hire a racially sensitive police chief. The resolution, approved 10 for 0 abstaining 0 against at Vineland on April 30 1973, calls for advertising statewide to find the best qualified candidate.
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Minnesota
Minnesota Agency
Bureau of Indian Affairs
U.S. Public Health Service
Minnesota Department of Education
Bemidji
Minnesota Chippewa Tribal Executive Committee
Vineland
Paris eyes revival of budget flea bag hotels
Paris policymakers weigh reviving the budget tourist sector as small, characterful hotels decline at about 20 a year. A government rebate of 900 dollars per new room in the lowest price tier aims to spur construction, but owners say subsidies still favor pricier properties and many "flea bag" hotels may disappear.
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Rolland Buffat
Notre Dame
Buffat
Things a man may still have left to try
Hal Boyle offers a pithy list of quirky untried aims that reveal how a busy life can still hold unseen odds and ends. From quixotic tasks to improbable careers, the piece invites readers to expand horizons beyond routine acts and dull certainty.
Scrambler Puzzle Teases Words and Weird Clues Across and Down
A playful puzzle lists odd phrases and puns about daily life and humor. It then presents a crossword grid with Across and Down clues ranging from dance to continents, asking for solution words and names in a light puzzle tone.
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