Leaders Divide as Meat Boycott Ends Amid Price Hold
The week-long meat boycott ends with leaders split on future protest plans while prices stabilize. Some stores announce next week price cuts, and nationwide sales remain generally low with scattered drops. FIT plans lobbying in Washington and extending boycotts, while other groups urge continued actions into May.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
James E. Godfrey
Godfrey Co
Washington
Fight
FIT
Hobart Donavan
June
House Banking and Currency Committee
Donavan
Welcome Home Guttenberg POW S Sgt Daniel Hefel Returns
Sgt Daniel Hefel, a Guttenberg resident and Vietnam War prisoner of war for over three years, completed the last leg of his journey home. About 1,200 well wishers greeted his arrival at Dubuque airport as his grateful family welcomed him back.
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Daniel Hefel
Guttenberg
Iia
Vietnam
Dubuque
Thomas Hefel
Hefel
Denver
Guttenberg Municipal Building
Iowa Pride Packing announces large layoff amid boycott
Ottumwa Iowa Pride Packing Co. said 134 production workers will be laid off effective Monday due to the meat boycott and shortages of cattle and hogs. The plant, formerly John Morrell and Co., has orders down from Eastern stores and now runs about 700 workers after last week’s 225 layoffs.
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Ottumwa
Iowa Pride Packing Co
John Morrell and Co
McCord Testifies About Escorting Mitchell Daughter
James McCord says in a sworn deposition that during a two week period last April he escorted former Attorney General John Mitchell's daughter Martha to school almost daily at the Mitchell apartment. He adds he and a driver were sometimes met by Mitchell for pleasantries and conducted security checks including looking for bugs and even x raying furniture. He recounts accompanying security chief of C P Telephone Co to receive a death threat call. He notes he and his family fear for safety amid threats and harassment following his Watergate involvement.
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Washington (Ap
James McCord
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Martha
McCord
Committee
Watergate
Pioneer 11 Begins Data Hunt Near Earth
The Pioneer 11 space probe, weighing 570 pounds, started measuring the Van Allen radiation belt after sweeping past the moon on Friday. NASA officials report all systems normal as the craft, following Pioneer 10, aims to study Jupiter and assess conditions for potential life.
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Pasadena
Calif
Jupiter
Earth
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Negotiator Warns of Militants at Wounded Knee Arm Shelter
A peace accord aimed at arming surrender by Indians at Wounded Knee faces risk from diehards. Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kent Frizzell cautioned 5 to 10 militants may resist as federal officials prepare a Washington meeting with tribal leaders.
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Wounded Knee
Washington
U.S
Morneral Kent Frizzell
Frizzell
Masters Tourney Postponed by Rain in Augusta
The third round of the 137th Masters Golf Tournament was postponed by rain on Saturday at Augusta Ga AP reports. The article also notes unrest as insurgent Indians seized a village, released 11 hostages unharmed, looted a museum valued at 150000 dollars, stole artifacts, and vandalized gas pumps near the trading post. No permanent structures were significantly damaged.
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Augusta
Nixon Objects to Integration Plan in Richmond School Case
The Nixon administration opposes broad consolidation of Richmond city with Chesterfield and Henrico counties as a desegregation remedy. It urges tailored relief confined to the Richmond system and argues the metropolitan merger is too drastic and potentially unconstitutional. The case, argued in April before the Supreme Court, tests whether courts may order cross district busing or system mergers to desegregate.
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Washington
Nixon
Supreme Court
Richmond
Uled
High Court
US. District Court
Robert Merhige
Chesterfield
Henrico
U.s.circuit Court
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People's Legal Defense Fund
Chile accuses U S of degree of connivance in ITT ties
Chilean Foreign Minister Clodomiro Almeyda charged US officials with a degree of connivance with ITT to subvert Chile's 1970 electoral process that brought Allende to power. He spoke at the OAS and urged ending the Cuba embargo and halting U S sovereignty in the Canal Zone.
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Washington
Chile
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Clodomiro Almeyda
Senate Foreign Relations
ITT
Central Intelligence Agency
Salvador Allende
Organization of American States
OAS
General Assembly
Almeyda
U. S
Cuba
Canal Zone
Thieu Satisfied by Trip Ends Visit in Texas and Rome
President Thieu of South Vietnam, after a six day US tour, reported gains in short term economic aid and possible military help. He left for Austin for a luncheon with Mrs Lyndon Johnson, then to Rome to meet Pope Paul VI, saying he was satisfied with the mission. He warned he would not beg for US ground troops and urged restraint from China and the Soviet Union in arming Hanoi.
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Washington
Thieu
South Vietnam
Texas
US Air Force
Austin
Lyndon Johnson
Rome
Pope Paul VI
National Press Club
Congress
Goroun
North Vietnam
China
Soviet Union
Hanoi
Missing US Helicopters Reported In Saigon
In Saigon two US piloted helicopters carrying 11 International Control Commission members were reported missing Saturday. An Indonesian source said one craft was shot down, while a Canadian statement said it met with an accident. An Indonesian delegation spokesman provided the update.
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Saigon
International Commission of Control and Supervision
Four Party Commission
Pilot Killed as Australian Plane Shot Down Over Cambodia
An Australian air force observation plane was shot down by ground fire over Cambodia today. The pilot, the lone occupant, was killed and his name will be released after next of kin notification.
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Honolulu
Air Force
Cambodia
Helicopters Reported Down In Quang Tri Recon Mission
Commission officials say two helicopters possibly hit by ground fire near Lao Bao in Quang Tri Province with loss of contact. Delegations from Canada Hungary Indonesia and Poland were aboard along with civilian pilots. US sources note Americans may have been among crew.
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Thorthern Quang Tri Province
Commission
Canada
Hungary
Indonesia
Poland
Hue
South Vietnam
Lao Bao
Quang Tri
U_ S
Haig to Visit Southeast Asia on Fact-Finding Tour
President Nixon said Gen. Alexander Haig would travel to Cambodia Thailand Laos and South Vietnam on a 12th fact-finding trip to assess military economic and political developments. Ziegler said there is no plan to reintroduce American forces into Indochina.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Alexander Haig
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Haig
Henry Kissinger
Army
Wil
Thailand
Laos
South Vietnam
Washington
Ronald Ziegler
Southeast Asia
Indo- China
Ziegler
Southeastsia
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Patty Twyman
Massachusetts
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Mass
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Barbara Shuttleworth
Gazette
Earl Baraach
Ite Net
Iowa
C&p Telephone Co
Brand X
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