U S Builds CBW Deterrent With Large Pentagon Investment
The Defense Department spends 230 million this year on chemical and biological warfare research seen as a vital deterrent. U S campuses 52 colleges engage in CBW defense oriented work with 6 bases as centers, while private firms and contractors support vaccine, detection, and stockpiling efforts.
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Seymour M. Hersh
Pentagon
CBW
United States
U.S
Pearl Harbor
Soviet Union
Washington
Red
China
Detrick
Frederick
Vietnam
Ark
The
Pine Bluff
Edgewood Arsenal
Defense Department
Rocky Mountains Arsenal
Denver
Newport
Ind
Desert Test Center
Dugway
Utah
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Rhode Island
Civil Defense
Public Health Service
Litton Industries Inc
Baoz-Allen
General Mills
Westing
House Electric Corp
Beckman Instrument Corp
Fullerton
Calif
General Electric Corp
du Pont
Arthur D. Litulenc
Army
Air Force
Navy
Ohio State University
Johns Hopkins University
University of Pennsylvania
Associated Press
Peole
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Johnson
Boating Safety Bills Advance In Hartford Committee
Hartford legislators advanced four boating safety bills in the General Law committee. A Webber proposal would require life preservers on motor boats and set ventilation and fire extinguisher standards. Other measures mandate boat operation courses for youths, boat numbering with annual renewals, and enforcement powers for law officers and the Boating Safety commission.
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Hartford
Albert R. Webber
New Haven
Mitchell Kurman
Westport
John W. Boyd
Louis J. Stroffeling
Webber
U.S. Coast Guard
General Law Committee
Boating Safety Commission
Mary B. Griswold
Edward
Gudelski
D-New Haven
Alaska prepares centennial tourist facilities series
Anchorage Alaska readies new attractions for the 1967 Centennial of the Alaska Purchase including a camper park a big game trophy exhibit a historical museum a fine arts center a gold mine exhibit and a native cultural center per the American Automobile Association.
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Washington
API
Anchorage
Alaska
American Automobile Association
AAA
Legislative Pensions Favored by Committee
Hartford AP report states the Rules Committee approved a bill granting veteran legislators pensions starting at 95 with no contributions. Benefits equal $10 per year of service, minimum 10 years. example 26 years yields $260 monthly. Effective July 1, 1969, cost projected over $46,000 yearly.
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Hartford
Fife
House
General Assembly
Senate
Appropriations Committee
George J. Conkling
Anthony Miller
Meriden
Rubin Cohen
Colchester
Meriden Man Killed In Bridge Crash In Cheshire
A 38 year old Meriden man Samuel A DelPretaro died when his convertible struck a bridge abutment and plunged into ten feet of water in the Ten Mile River below. The car landed upside down in the water.
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Cheshire
Meriden
Ten Mile River
Samuel A. DelPretaro
Deadline May 3 For Bullard Union Bid Briefs
Representatives of the United Steel Workers and Bullard co vie over the bargaining unit in a National Labor Relations hearing led by examiner Haywood Banks. May 3 is set for briefs as parties dispute whether about 260 foundry division workers or a broader manufacturing assembly unit should vote, with a mid May decision not expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Steel Workers of America
Aflcio
Bullard Company
Dwight Fanton
Pullman, Comley, Bradley and Reeves
Main Street
Haywood E. Banks
National Labor Relations Board
Bullard
Fanton
Chief Justice denounces court authorized bugs in eavesdropping case
Chief Justice Earl Warren blasts court authorized police listening as a star chamber proceeding. He cites lack of public records and secret proceedings in a NY eavesdropping law challenge connected to Ralph Berger’s bribery case.
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Washington
Earl Warren
Warren
N.Y
Supreme Court
New York
Massachusetts
Nevada
Oregon
Maryland
Georgia
Lester Maddox
England
Police Use of Recorded Conversations Upheld
A district attorney assistant argues that conversations carried through wires to a listening post and recorded may be used as evidence. The defense cites the Constitution while noting the recordings involve a conspiracy and align with Supreme Court rulings on admissible fruits of crime.
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Supreme Court
Ralph Berger
Chicago
Martin C. Epstein
New York State Liquor Authority
Berger
New York
Joseph A. Sarafite
Manhattan
H. Richard Aviller
Assistan
Bi Pd
Norway
Engi
Aviller
Connecticut House votes to keep polls open until 8 p.m
The Connecticut House passed a bill to standardize polling hours so polls stay open until 8 p.m in all elections. Currently polls close as early as 7 p.m for state and nationwide results, with local options for closing at 6 7 or 8 p.m. The bill heads to the Senate.
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House
Hartford
Connecticut
Senate
Robert D. King
R-Willington
Morris B. Hogan
Burlington
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Tagon
J.H. Rothschild
Army Chemical Corps
Europe
Federation of American Scientists
Physicians For Social Responsibility
White House
Southeast Asia
New York-New Jersey
George Clark
Wolfschmidt
VICTOR FISCHEL & CO_TAG
MLM
Y. Toon
WISE
Gray
Frogoct OF
OSS
Korvette
Trumbull Shopping Park
Trumbull
Conn
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