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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1969
Page
11
A letter argues that the October 15 moratorium dramatizes broad American disenchantment with the Vietnam War and Pace of disengagement. It criticizes token troop withdrawals and draft calls as surface moves and calls for a decisive compromise to accelerate troop withdrawals and end the war, linking it to domestic issues like race and poverty.
The United Nations ordered overseas information centers to stop accepting petitions from citizens of the countries they serve. The move follows Soviet citizens sending petitions to the Human Rights Commission. Officials say centers never had a mandate to handle petitions. Amnesty International offered to forward any UN petitions received at its London office.
The Senate voted to extend for two years the 29 state pact limiting oil and gas production. New England senators backed a Kennedy amendment seeking periodic oil import control revisions. In Wisconsin, Melvin Laird's son John said he will join Eau Claire State University students in the October Vietnam Moratorium observance, while noting his father’s awareness and lack of objection. The antitrust division said it is reviewing joint bidding by oil companies on offshore leases.
The measure authorizes government subsidy to banks for college loans and raises work study to 35 million and National Defense Education Act loans to 75 million. A Senate House conference resolved disputes over loan discrimination and interest differentials. The AP report notes urgency and fiscal details.
Preston Martin head of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Washington says the Nixon administration will ease housing shortages. He announced the FHLB has tripled loan commitments this year and pumped 3 billion into the market, enabling about 125000 home loans that would not have occurred otherwise. He cited high interest rates as curbing private mortgage funds and urged lower rates to restore balance. The board is rolling out programs to reverse the trend and reduce housing exclusion.
Washington AP President Nixon is urged to activate the National Commission on Consumer Finance created by the Truth in Lending Act. The panel, authorized for 1.5 million dollars, has been left idle by both Johnson and Nixon, with Johnson naming members but not a chair and budget not provided.
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