Senators approve amendment extending voting rights law
The Senate backed a Byrd seven year extension to the 1965 voting rights act by a 52 to 42 vote while House favored a 10 year extension. Debate highlighted opposition from Southern senators and the looming August recess. The measure would broaden protections to Spanish speaking and other language minorities with bilingual election support.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Senate
Robert Byrd
Dw.va
House
Don Edwards
Dcalif
John Tunney
D-Calif
Herman Talmadge
D-Ga
John Stennis
D-Miss
Deep South
Stennis
Kent State Guards commander unsure on loaded weapons
Brig. Gen. Robert Canterbury testified in a $46 million civil case over the Kent State shootings that he did not know if guardsmen carried live ammo and assumed they were loaded. He described a May 4, 1970 meeting where dispersing the antiwar rally was discussed and noted the school president indicated dispersal could be dangerous. Canterbury, the 56th witness in 10 weeks of trial, said unit commanders decided whether to carry loaded weapons.
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Robert Canterbury
Canterbury
KSU
Joseph Kelner
Robert White
India Extends Emergency Rule Indefinitely in Parliament
The Indian parliament ratified Indira Gandhi’s state of emergency by 336 to 59 in the lower house amid jeers. Opposition parties walked out as the ruling Congress pushed through a constitutional amendment to bar courts from hearing petitions challenging the proclamation.
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New Delhi
India
UPI
Indira Gandhi
Pro- Moscow
Communist Party of India
Ram
Mrs. Gandhi
Congress Party
Tridib Chaudhury
Army LSD tests find drug powerful but not addictive
Army experiments at Edgewood Arsenal tested LSD on 585 volunteers over 12 years ending in 1967. Results show LSD is powerful and not physically addictive, with limited after-effects in only seven volunteers. Subjects underwent rigorous screening and tests, with compensation and followups. cell damage was not caused by LSD, and caffeine caused more chromosome breaks.
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Washington
UPI
van M. Sim
Pentagon
Chemical Warfare Research
Edgewood Arsenal
Army
Sim
Kenneth Dirks
Medical Research Command
OAS votes to end Cuban isolation push favored
The Organization of American States tentatively backs a freedom of action resolution to bypass its 11 year old Cuba sanctions. Fourteen nations including the United States pledge to vote in favor, while Chile Uruguay and Paraguay likely oppose and others may abstain. The plan allows each nation to decide its own relations with Cuba, without lifting the 1964 embargo. The OAS also updates the 1947 mutual defense pact to endorse ideological pluralism.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
UPI
Organization of American States
Cuba
OAS
United States
Organization
Mexico
Chile
Uruguay
Paraguay
Brazil
Nicaragua
Bolivia
Guatemala
ILA Protests Russia Grain Sales Hit by Bread Cost Fears
Longshoremen at the AFL-CIO ILA convention vote to refuse loading grain for the Soviet Union until price increases on bread beer and living costs are addressed. ILA President Gleason will decide on loading after meetings with maritime unions and AFL-CIO officials. The strike threat targets barley barley sales and wheat shipments from Gulf ports with only a minority to West Coast ports.
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Miami Beach
UPI
International Longshoreman’s Association
Russia
ILA
Thomas Gleason
United States
Gleason
Chicago
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Earl Butz
Butz
America
Ford
Soviet Union
Oklahoma
West Coast
Montreal
Texas
Great Lakes
Puerto Rico
Gulf of Mexico
Picasso lithograph found at garage sale in Reno
Reno buyer buys $5 lithograph from a woman selling possessions to join a commune. David Burrows confirms the 1958 Picasso work Les Saltimbanques, valued between $300 and $3,000. Burrows and wife just opened an art shop and plan to move into the city. The piece shows a court jester before a king.
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Burrows
Census Finds Family Income Declined in 1974 Recession
UPI reports Census Bureau figures showing the median income of 58 million American families fell to 12836 in 1974 from 13373 in 1973. The poverty population rose 5.6 percent to 24.3 million, about 12 percent of the U S population, with white poor rising 8 percent to 16.3 million while Black poverty remained around 7.5 million. The gap between white and Black family incomes narrowed slightly as White median for a two adult two child family stood at 13360 versus 7800 for Black families.
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Washington
UPI
Census Bureau
U.S
Bureau
Bennington Banner Classified Rates and Contact Details
The Bennington Banner lists daily publication details at 425 Main St Bennington Vermont with 15 cent delivery. Subscriptions inside Vermont and nationwide rates are shown for 3 months 9.00 6 months 18.00 and 1 year 36.00 in Vermont and 9.75 19.50 39.00 elsewhere in the U.S. Classified advertising contact is 447-0332 and general telephone 447-7567.
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Bennington Banner Telephone
Bennington Banners
Main St
Bennington
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen, Inc
Vermont
U.S
New England Governors to Meet on Rail Rights and Budget
New England governors gather in Boston to discuss public ownership of railroad rights of way and the New England Regional Commission budget of 6.2 million dollars for fiscal 1976. The meeting will review energy transportation and economic development projects and coordination of state telephone regulators.
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Boston
UPI
New England
New England Bids For Solar Institute Location
New England lawmakers urged placing a Solar Energy Research Institute in the six state region citing local academic and research resources and a collaborative industrial, academic, and scientific community. They sent the letter to Energy Research and Development Administration head Robert Seamans as part of Solar Energy program advocacy.
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Washington
UPI
New England
Robert Seamans
Energy Research and Development Administration
Cochairmen
New England Congressional Caucus
Silvio O. Conte
R-Mass
Edward P. Boland
Dmass
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No. Bennington
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West Rutland
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