Israel marks year 5731 with double blast at Soviets
Israel ushered in the Jewish year 5731 with a strong rebuke to the Soviet Union over its Egypt role and Jewish emigration bans. Extra security was posted in Jerusalem as Arabs mourned Nasser and Jews gathered at the Wailing Wall for the ram’s horn. Prime Minister Meir and President Shazar urged peace while noting Soviet escalation. Stores and businesses closed for Rosh Hashana. reopening after the Sabbath.
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Rosh Hashana
Prisoners exchanged for hijacked hostages
Seven Palestinian guerrillas were released by Britain, West Germany, and Switzerland in exchange for the hijacked airliners’ hostages. Leila Khaled, a prominent figure in the hijacking campaign, was among those freed and flew to Cairo for Nasser’s funeral. Arab truce monitors oversaw Jordan withdrawal around Amman as clashes fell quiet in Irbid and Ramtha, with casualties reported.
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Edward Horton dies at 84 after cancer battle
Hollywood actor Edward Everett Horton former Broadway star and film and TV character favorite died of cancer at age 84. The Brooklyn native known for nervous comic turns appeared in Springtime in the Rockies The Gay Divorcee Ruggles of Red Gap and Top Hat and his final TV role airs October 14 on The Governor and J.J. He never married and is survived by two brothers and a sister.
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Red China marks 21st birthday with anti US drive
Hong Kong dispatch reports Mao Zedong and Lin Piao addressing crowds for China 21st anniversary. Lin declares a new upsurge against US imperialism as Mao greets visitors including Edgar Snow. Chou En-lai warns revolution remains main trend amidst superpower tensions.
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Grocers Not Hiking Prices For Welfare Recipients
A UPI report notes the Agriculture Department found no pattern of price increases after welfare checks in seven cities during 1969. Shoppers bought standardized lists of foods in poverty areas before and after welfare payments. total costs rose less than one tenth of a percent, despite rising prices overall.
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Purmont Exit Sign Demolished and Survey Price Shifts
A Concord report describes an exit sign for Purmont that never existed as the interchange was built over the site. A Washington survey compared prices across ten cities, finding 75 percent of stores changing prices between trips and a 3.6 percent rise in food at home from April to August 1969.
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Martha Mitchell Milk Milking Debate Sparks Readers
Martha Mitchell drew readers’ complaints after on television she demonstrated milking from the left, while an Oakland farm adviser said cows should be milked from the right. The incident contrasted Arkansas practices with her rural background as she appeared on the Mike Douglas show.
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University of California
Agnew assails decency assault over obscenity report
Vice President Spiro Agnew denounced the pornography commission as a liberal attack on American decency. He urged electing a Congress that would back President Nixon against what he called a culture of obscenity, citing movies, rock festivals, and public nudity as evidence. He labeled the commission lame duck and warned Main Street would not become Smut Alley while Nixon is president.
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Dissenters condemn President's Commission on Obscenity report
Three of the panel’s dissenters charge the study was inaccurate and biased. Rev W C Link of Nashville accuses the ACLU of steering the commission and says leaders refused other viewpoints while aiming to support a predetermined goal.
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W. C. Link
Nashville
Link
Tennessee Commission On Youth Guidance
Charles Keating
Cincinnati
Ohio
Morton A. Hill
New York
The
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University of Minnesota School of Law
Paul Bender
ACLU
Patrolman Shot and Killed in Atlantic City Stop
Atlantic City police say Patrolman John Burke 27 was shot at close range by one of two men he stopped near a boardwalk bar while investigating two suspicious persons. The gun was hidden in a green laundry bag. suspects, both black in their 20s, fled on foot. A search spanned New Jersey Pennsylvania and Delaware as police sought a dark Plymouth with New Jersey plates.
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