Berlin Wall Opens As Easter Pass Brings Families Together
The first Easter pass period granted by East Germany opens West Berlin to reunions after six years. A waiting son consoles his tearful mother at a wall crossing as hundreds of thousands visit East Berlin. The event aims to influence ratification of Bonn Moscow Warsaw treaties. Cafes and homes fill with reunions amid cold winds and gifts, while car access remains restricted.
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Berlin
East Berlin
West Berlin
West
East Germany
Bonn
Moscow
Warsaw
Soviet Union
Gime
Willy Brandt
Wall
East
Kleindienst Nomination Faces Senate Hearing Scrutiny
Amid Life magazine allegations and ITT connections, Senator Eastland backs Kleindienst, while Sen. Tunney seeks expanded hearings. Geneen disputes Mrs Beard testimony as she recovers, and Kennedy questions unresolved items before the GOP San Diego convention.
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GOP
San Diego
Kennedy
P Anderson
ITT
Dita Beard
Clanglomerate
John V. Tunney
R-Cahnf
Eastland
Life Magazine
Kleindienst
Life
U.S
Ard
John N. Mitchell
Geneen
Beard
Denver
Anderson
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Price policy debate spills over meat and food costs
Washington coverage shows Connally and Butz citing declines in meat and pork prices after peak in February while defending middlemen role. Eckstein counters that rising food prices stem from farmers’ prices and urges review of farm supports and controls. suggestions include a targeted price freeze if data remain weak.
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Page
Connally
Nixon
Agriculture
Earl Butz
Council of Economic Advisers
Washington
Harvard
Otto Eckstein
Price Commission
Eckstein
Commission
Congress
Presidential Council of Economic Advisers
Johnson
Trish continues as British forces clash on frontier
British troops and guerrillas exchanged fire over the Northern Ireland frontier with no casualties reported. A woman badly burned by a gasoline bomb in Armagh two months earlier died in hospital, marking the 21st fatality in 32 months of Northern Ireland violence. In London Parliament fast tracks emergency rules to run the province after suspending the NI Parliament for a year. William Whitelaw will take over as secretary of state. Faulkner and moderates seek a united front with Protestant leaders to deter violence as direct rule looms. Ulster Vanguard and Craig push a disruption campaign to oppose direct rule while seeking ironclad guarantees against IRA goals.
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Armagh
Northern Ireland
IRA
London
Britain
William Whitelaw
Ware
Faulkner
Stong
Union Party
Whitelaw
Belfast
Ulster Vanguard
Willam Craig
Brittain
Irish Republic
Craig
Postal Service Expands Authority to Move Staff
Broadly increased authority to regional postmasters general enables transfers of consenting employees among post offices to meet critical personnel needs without adding staff. By July 1 temporary workers and outside contractors are eliminated. During a 90 day freeze clerical vacancies will be filled by promotion transfer or reassignment for career postal workers. The public must see improved service and reduced costs for any rate increase, says Klassen, stressing survival depends on service.
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Klassen
U.S
Bolivia Orders 119 Soviet Embassy Staff to Leave
Bolivia's government under President Banzer announces the expulsion of 119 Soviet Embassy staff within seven days amid deteriorating ties with Moscow. Foreign Minister Gutierrez says the move concerns sovereignty and mutual respect, with partial justification tied to alleged Soviet support for leftist rebels. The action trims Bolivian diplomatic presence to essential activities as relations fraught since 1969.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Mario Gutierrez
Juan Jose Torres
Gutierrez
Yguo Banzer Suarez
Moscow
Soviet Union
Banner
Alfredo Ovando
Candia
Col
Mario Adett
National Liberation Army
Ernesto “Che” Guevera
Jestler
Court Orders Ford to Sell Spark Plug Factory
The Supreme Court ruled Ford Motor Co must stop making spark plugs for at least 18 years after finding an antitrust violation in 1961. Ford must sell its spark plug factory in Fostoria Ohio and buy half its plugs from Autolite under the Autolite name for five years. Justice Douglas led the 7-0 decision, with Burger dissenting on Topco.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Ford Motor Co
High Court
Ford
Electric Autolite Co
Fostaria
Ohio
Autolite
General Motors
Champion
William C. Douglas
M.s.mclaughlin
McLaughlin
Matercraft
U.S. District Court
Ralph, M. Freeman
Detroit
Douglas
William J. Brennan Jr
Potter Stewart
Jeyron R. White
Thurgood Marshall
Qhia
Warren Burger
District Court First
Harry A. Blackmun
Topco Cooperative Association
Burger
Rising Cost Of Hides Threatens Higher Shoe Prices
New York AP reports that a worldwide shortage has driven hides to 32 cents a pound, double last year and the highest since the Korean War. The rising cost threatens to lift American shoe prices by 2 to 3 dollars per pair, with 40 percent of the increase passed along already.
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New York
saysHarold Gessner
American Footware Industries Association
Argentina
United States
Japan
Orient
The Future, Hope, and a Shifting World View
The article surveys theologians Moltmann Metz and Braaten on how Biblical religion centers on hope in a future perfected life, driving human aspiration and social change, while facing modern disillusionment, utopias, and the tension between present effort and ultimate redemption amid global supply constraints for hides and rising shoe prices.
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Christopher Mooney
New
York
Woodstock College
Louis Dupre
Moltmann
Joohaanes B. Metz
Nuc
Tmann
Christ
God
Braaten
Karl Marx
Jesus
Dennis J. Geaney
Pannenberg
Metz
Indochina War News: US raids and Vietnamese claims
The report notes possible MIG19 and MIG21 strike preparations as US and South Vietnamese forces wage operations around Saigon Bien Hoa and Da Nang. In Saigon area a booby trap killed three American troops and wounded four as forces patrolled 31 miles east of Saigon. B52 missions and ground clashes near Hue, Danang, and the DMZ leave casualties on both sides with hundreds of munitions found near a North Vietnamese base camp.
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Page Que
Laos
South Vietnam
Bya
Saigon
1St Air Cavalry Division
Metanie
Bien Hoas
U.S. Command
Thua Thien
Kontum
Binh Dinh
A Shau
Hue
Demilitarized Zone
Sangon
Cam Lo
Dmz
Central Highlands
Highway 14
Kortum
Scheme Continues in Foreclosure Conspiracy Case
A six month probe led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony Accetta alleges a conspiracy causing FHA insured foreclosures on about 2,500 homes in Brooklyn and Hauianssium in 1970. The government says similar foreclosures could total 2,000 more in two years, costing FHA about 200 million. Dun & Bradstreet is accused of confirming false and incomplete credit information with mortgage applications.
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Anthony Accetta
U.S
Brooklyn
Hauienssium
FHA
Accetta
Dun & Bradstreet
Burial, faith, and hope amid Arlington and loss
The Kauffman family faces burial questions and community ostracism after a death, with plans to bury in Gettysburg and Arlington discussed. The text then shifts to a theological reflection urging belief in eternal life, anchored in historical events, and the human need to hope beyond death.
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Arlington
Kauffman
Gettysburg
Deferenc
Poe
Miami Beach
Ecclesiastes
Bert Camus
Braaten
University of Chicago Divinity School
Paul Tillich
Pannenberg
Sam Keen
Keen
Beef prices and future hope cited in 1951 1972 contrasts
A rancher notes beef worth 35.24 per hundred pounds in 1951 versus 32.35 in 1972, while the Nixon Administration weighs actions to curb rising meat prices. Price Commission hearings on high meat prices are set for April 12. The discussion blends economic critique with Moltmann and Toffler reflections on future change and hope.
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Trotman
Federal Price Commission
The
Price Commission
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