High Court Backs Students On Right To Wear Long Hair
The Supreme Court denied Wisconsin school authorities a further appeal, upholding a 7th Circuit ruling that expulsion of Thomas Breen and James Anton for wearing long hair violated their constitutional rights. The decision reinforces personal freedom protections for students, with broader death penalty issues to be addressed in a later term.
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UPI
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Oklahoma City
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Ohio
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House Committee Cuts Nixon Foreign Aid Request
The House Appropriations Committee on Monday approved a 1.6 billion dollar foreign aid bill for the next fiscal year, about 25 percent below President Nixon's 2.2 billion dollar request. Nixon remains constrained by the prior year’s spending ceiling.
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UPI
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House Foreign Affairs
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Dallas
Tex
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House Commerce
Two TV Crews Missing In Cambodia
Eight Americans from CBS and NBC are missing south of Phnom Penh since Sunday. Paratroopers search after their cars were found abandoned. three reporters George Syvertsen Gerry Miller Wellis Haagen feared captured by Communist forces along Highway 3.
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UPI
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NBC
George Syvertsen
Gerry Miller
Wellis Haagen
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Cambodia
Stocks Regain Losses Amid Optimism On Market
New York stocks rose for the fourth straight session as investors grew more confident. Dow Jones closed up 9.92 points to 710.36, with 1,063 advances and 344 declines among 1,587 issues. Marketwide indicator up 1.89 percent. NYSE average up 59 cents. Mapperley Festival prize went to C. Sharpe in piano solo.
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New York Stock Exchange
Cambodia
Pathet Lao, North Vietnamese join in Cambodian fighting
North Vietnamese troops attacked a South Vietnamese base near the DMZ, suffering heavy casualties. Pathet Lao forces were reported allying with Hanoi in Cambodia to secure lines from Laos toward Phnom Penh, as battles persisted across eastern Cambodia and along the Mekong River.
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UPI
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Stung Treng
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South
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Indochina
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Treng
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Treasury Proposes Tax Reforms Not Likely This Session
Representative Wilbur Mills says the Treasury Dept is drafting proposals for tax areas not in the 1969 act. He doubts Congress will act this session, noting possible next year only. Mills urges periodic reviews of past provisions to test their ongoing justify and usefulness.
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API
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D-Ark
Treasury Department
Mills
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Edison Electric Institute
Treasury
Ways and Means
EPC Chairman Proposes Energy Resources Council
Boston based Federal Power Commission chair Nassikas urged creating a National Energy Resources Council to align energy development with environmental quality. He projected electric capacity rising from 300,000 MW in 1970 to 1,260,000 MW in 1990 and nuclear generation growing to about 55 percent of thermal energy by 1990. He called for advance planning of up to 255 new sites and transmission corridors and warned against overly harsh standards without transitional compliance periods.
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UPI
Federal Power Commission
National Energy Resources Council
John N. Nassikas
Edison Electric Institute
Council On Environmental Quality
Nassikas
Manchester
N.H
Economist Samuelson links Indochina war to inflation fight
Boston UPI economist Paul Samuelson says the fight against inflation is going very badly and the Indochina war looms as the single greatest specter over the economy. He argues ending the Southeast Asia conflict could reduce public burden, cites housing shortages as worsening due to tight monetary policy, and warns Americans face higher rents and crowded conditions.
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Boston
UPI
Paul Samuelson
Southeast
Indochina
Samuelson
Southeast Asia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WKBG
Large Rice Crop in China Reaches 95 Million Tons
UPI reports the 1969 rice harvest in Communist China totaled about 95 million tons, the largest in several years, up from roughly 91 million tons the prior year, per the FAO.
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UPI
China
U.N. Food and Agriculture Oeanization
FAO
Burners of Draft Records Plead Innocent by Reason of Insanity
In Chicago federal court priest Father N J Riddell and ten others face trial for ransacking a South Side draft office and burning thousands of records. The defense contends insanity as a defense, while prosecutors seek court-ordered psychiatric examinations for the Chicago 11 and others involved.
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UPI
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Milwaukee
Wis
South Side
Selective Service
Father Riddell
William Durkin
Miss Quint
Durkin
Edward Gargan
Chicago 11
U.S
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Richard Makarski
Miss
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