Critics Build Case Against AT T Rate Hikes
In New York AP report critics argue AT T needs higher rates to fund service and expansion, while AT T officials defend increases as necessary as inflation and demand rise. Industry and FCC figures debate risk, capital costs, and past missteps in financing Bell System growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
At&t
NEW York
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Asher Ende
Federal Communications Commission
American Telephone
Bell System
F. Mark Garlinghouse
Garlinghouse
David Kraushaar
FCC
Rock of Gibraltar
Ende
Grassroots Action Inc
New York Telephone
Bell
Ocean Mining Could Affect World Metal Prices and Economies
A U N study warns ocean bed mining could depress cobalt manganese and nickel prices, harming poor nations while benefiting advanced economies that switch to sea sourced metals. It notes potential international regulation and compensation schemes, with nations like India South Africa and China as current manganese producers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
U. N
Howard Hughes
Hughes
Demag Co
West Germany
Canada
Zaire
Congo-Kinshasa
Zambia
Morocco
Hawaii
India
South Africa
China
Conscientious Objectors Win Lottery Case
A federal judge in Newark ruled three conscientious objectors Richard Frentzer Howard Sims and James Spatz should not be drafted. Their lottery numbers were called out of order and local boards ordered them to alternate service. The judge placed them in second priority status to prevent military call.
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Newark
N. J
UPI
U. S. District Court
Leonard J. Garth
Richard Frentzer
Howard Sims
James Spatz
Garth
Elect New President At Rotary Convention
Rotary International opened its 63rd annual convention and elected William C. Carter of London its president for 1973 74. The current president Ernest G. Breitholtz of Kalmar Sweden urged focus on vocational service and reducing human life waste from war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
UPI
Rotary International
William C. Carter
London
Ernest G. Breitholtz
Kalmar
Sweden
Lovelorn GI Drives Tank To Retaliation In German Bar
In Gelnhhausen Germany 19 year old Sgt Robert Paschall of Newark California used a tank from Coleman barracks to return to a bar after a German waitress refused a date. He knocked over a fence damaged steps aimed the tank at the doorway before being wrestled off by an American major and others and handed to MPs. He faced charges of misappropriation of government property and damage to government property and personal property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gelnhausen
Germany
Robert Paschall
Newark
Calif
Coleman Barracks
Paschall
Bank robber flees after teller tests account claim
In Arlington Washington a robber demanded $1 000 in twenty dollar bills from teller Thelma Lindstrom. She asked if he had an account. He said yes but grew confused and fled the scene empty handed.
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Arlington, Wash
UPI
Thelma Lindstrom
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General Telephone & Electronics
General Motors
Moody’s
Hughes Tool Co
U. N. Legislative Machinery
Cmdr
Yoshio Masuda
Japan
Pacific
Soviet Union
Nickel
Rotary
Jimmy Hatl
Bully Gravy
Tlook
Sears
Kenmore
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
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