Call for repeal of most U S smut laws amid porn debate
The Federal Communications Commission divides over pornography rules, urging repeal of most federal and state adult material laws while endorsing limited child protection. The report notes no proven link between explicit material and crime, cites rising rape arrests, and backs broad sex education for adults and youths with a flexible moral framework.
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Ashington
Ea Commission
Wrans
Denmark
Congress weighs drugs to calm misbehaving students on spillover use
House subcommittee heard testimony on stimulant drugs used to modify children's behavior in schools. Witnesses described parental pressure for medication in Omaha and Little Rock, while critics questioned drug merits. Harvard lecturer Jatin Mither warned overactive children may be mislabelled and medicated to quiet classrooms.
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Neb
Little Rock
Ark
Harvard
Jatin Holt Mither
Cornelius FH Gallagher
D-Nj
Ronald Lipman
National Institute of Mental Health
Thomas Points
Department of Health Education and Welfare
Air Force eases policy on women with children
The Air Force abandoned its ban on keeping mothers with children in uniform citing shifts toward women’s rights and a yet unspecified Pentagon policy. Capt Tommie Sue Smith, a divorcee and Air Force lawyer, had sued claiming the old rule violated constitutional rights. Under the change, active duty status remains unless the woman chooses discharge after adopting or gaining custody of a minor child.
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Wasilington
Air Force
Gea
A. J. Russell
Pentagon
Defense Department
Tommie Sue Smith
Dobason City
Ten
Breakable eyeglasses ban urged by FDA
Washington reports the FDA proposed a regulation to require prescription glasses and sun glasses to be made of shatter proof laminated glass heat tempered glass or plastic. It notes only about a quarter of prescription glasses worn by Americans each year break and that using emery glass would raise prices by about 3 per lens. The agency will allow 10 days for comments and expects to publish final rules making soft glass lenses illegal under the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, with exemptions for contact lenses and certain impact resistant prescriptions.
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Washington
UPI
Food and Drag Administraion
FDA
Jenses
PDA
Jordan Faces Fresh Battle With Palestinian Guerrillas near Irbid
United Press International reports renewed fighting between Jordanian troops and Al Fatah guerrillas in Irbid, with dawn attacks by mortars and machine guns. A Jordanian government spokesman cited continued clashes as the Arab League ordered a truce withdrawal from Amman, while King Hussein warned of action against noncompliant guerrillas. The same day saw the release of the last six American hostages, and Israel signaled willingness to continue the ceasefire amid regional tensions after Nasser’s death.
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Jordan
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Beirut
Irbid
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Miy
Arab League Committee
Amman
Bahi Tadgham
Am Man
Hussein
Ibid
Red Cross
Dissenting report on obscenity panel at odds with ACLU
Three dissenters charge the Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography was steered by the ACLU through chairman William Lockhart and counsel Paul Bender. They warn the majority seeks Denmark style freedom for porn, while insisting society may defend moral standards and government interest in safeguarding them.
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UPI
Presidential Commission On
American Civil Liberties Union
Morton A. Nill
Morality In Media
W. C. Cink
Hermitage, Tenn
Charles H. Keating Jr
Citizens For Decent Literature
Commission
Objs
Wil
Liam Lockhart
Paul Bender
Path
ACLU
Lockhart
Bender
ACL
Link
Keating
United States
Nixon extends draft lottery for 3 months in 1970 pool
President Nixon issued an executive order extending the draft lottery by three months. The measure affects only relatively small numbers of registrants and applies to men who lose deferment or exemption and become 1-A in 1970 after their local boards have called numbers. #
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Washington
Nixon
Selective Service Syswin
Air Vietnam DC3 crash near Da Nang kills 28
A twin engine DC3 passenger plane from Pleiku to Hue crashed in bad weather near Hai Van pass eight miles north of Da Nang while attempting a landing at Nha Trang Air Base. Police say all 28 aboard believed killed and no details on Americans or emergency cause yet.
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Vietnam
Air Vietnam
Hai van Pass
North Vietnam
Pleiku
Hue
Nha ‘Rang
Daigorn
Cambodian troops call cease-fire for religious holiday
Cambodian troops along Highway 4 near Kompong Som declare a unilateral cease-fire for Pchum Ben. Field officers say no clearing operations will occur until the holiday ends as Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces pressure the road to the capital.
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Punom Penh
Cambodia
Kompong Som
Dhay
Aid
UPC
Barney Seibert
Freed in Chile Rev. John Thomas Asquire Kidnapped
The Rev. John Thomas Asquire of the Carmelite Fathers in Barrington Illinois left his Santiago Chile parishioners after a farewell then was kidnapped by locals who released him upon learning he was only departing on vacation. He refused to reveal the kidnapper's identity.
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Carmelite Fathers
Barrington
Ill
Santiago
Chile
Father Asquire
North Vietnamese general cites 29 slain at Binh Duong village
Gen Hoang Xuang Lam said an investigation found 29 people killed at Binh Duong 48 miles southwest of Da Nang. He acknowledged some civilians died but denied a massacre by South Korean Marines. Witness accounts varied and an apparent massacre was not proven. the only certain casualties included a woman and child found in a tunnel.
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Vietnam
Saigon
National
My Laint
Hhear Lam
Binh Duong
Republic of Korea
Lam
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