Women's Liberation Movement Still Active But Quiet
New York AP report notes ongoing but quieter effort for equality amid rising sex discrimination cases. Betty Friedan says movement crested yet public resolve endures, with more than 16,000 women filing discrimination complaints in five years and a notable victory for Lorena Weeks in a six-year fight for equal pay and a switchman position.
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Women’s Liberation Movement
Jukate Kazickas
New York
Dem
Women’s Liberation
Betty Friedan
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Lorena Weeks
Wadley
Southern Bell Telephone
Women gain rights but many laws still limit them
The piece notes California allows bartenders and Wisconsin permits equal hours and overtime for women while many states keep restrictions. It highlights weight limits, job bans, and husband approvals affecting women's work. It also cites efforts toward a federal equal rights amendment and stats on women in the workforce and Congress.
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California
Wisconsin
Universities Wasting $6 Million Annually On Computers
Gov Ogilvie administration cites waste of six million yearly on university computer operations. Acting finance director McCarter urges a freeze on computer buying and renting after a six week study. 30 percent of university computer time deemed wasted. Study under Deputy Director Gentile targeted central planning and potential waste higher than 30 percent.
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Ogilvie
Springfield
Ill
Richard B. Ogilvie
David Regner
Illinois
Department of Finance
John L. Gentile
McCarter
Reiner
Board of Higher Education
Chicago Sun Times reveals secret Vietnam papers
The Chicago Sun Times reports on secret documents showing U.S. officials considered ousting South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. Memo by State Department aide Roger Hilsman urges coup if Diem seeks neutralization talks with North Vietnam. Nixon to release full Pentagon study volumes to Congress. coverage notes cross‑printing by other papers.
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State Department
Ngo Dinh Diem
North Vietnam
Chicago Sun-Times
Bulletin Washington
Nixon
Congress
Pentagon
U.S
Diem
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Nhu
DRV
United States
Sun-Times
Hilsman
The
National Security Council
Robert S. Py Mn
Maxwell D. Taylor
Viet
Washington
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Wayne Andreas Voted New President of CGH Board
The Community General Hospital board unanimously approved a new officer slate for the year. Wayne P Saske is named president, Jack W einsti as vice president, and Mrs Audrey Mennes as secretary. The board also reappoints the medical staff and outlines ongoing expansion, with the patient floor due for Aug 1 occupancy and third floor air conditioning work to begin. May occupancy rose to 64.3 percent across departments. accounts payable of 87919.72 was approved.
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Community General Hospital Board
Bernard M. Dewey
Wayne P Saske
Jack Weinsti
Audrey Mennes
Dewey
CGH
Theodore Kruse
Sion
Kruse
Road Tax Referendum Planned for Sterling Township
Sterling Township road commissioner Gene Broderick announced a referendum within 30 days to reimpose a permanent road tax at 6 cents per $100 assessed valuation, yielding about $40,000 for maintenance and construction. A two year approval sought, past vote defeated a 1.6 cent proposal by 242 to 1. Broderick says bituminous reconstruction on 16th Avenue and talks with city officials to upgrade remaining roads are planned.
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Gene Broderick
Sterling Township
Broderick
Sterling
Nixon's 1951 complaint on publishing classified papers
Nixon charged the Truman administration with suppressing documents for political reasons. He urged release of the MacArthur wake island talks report used by the New York Times, arguing if classified materials are to be public, Congress and the public deserve full access, including material favorable to MacArthur.
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Richard M. Nixon
Truman
Nixon
Korea
the Times
MacArthur
Wake Island
Times
Japan
California
Committees
Congress
Senate backs nine month Indochina pullout if POWs freed
The Senate approved a nonbinding Mansfield amendment urging a nine month US troop withdrawal from Indochina with staged prisoner releases and a ceasefire, contingent on all American POWs being freed. The White House dismissed it as Congress opinion and House leaders signaled it would not advance.
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Senate
U.S
Indochina
White House
House Armed Services Committee
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
Ronald L. Ziegler
Hebert
House
Mansfield
Paris
Vietnam
Vietnam War Study Excerpts Stir Pentagon Debate
Chicago Sun-Times reports excerpts from the Pentagon study on Vietnam. Kennedys aides allegedly mapped plans to thwart South Vietnam peacemaking moves with North Vietnam. Concurrently Britain cleared terms to join the European Economic Community with six Common Market nations.
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Great Britain
Britain
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