Farmers plan legal challenge to unconscionable cotton contracts
Francis Hare Sr of the law firm representing farmers says contracts will be challenged as unconscionable and possibly illegal. Buyers allegedly misled farmers about price trends, with some contracts bought for 300000 to resell at 800000, seeking a federal court ruling within about two weeks.
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Francis Hare Sr
Hare
Georgia
Bleckley County
South
Millsap
Man Arrested After String of Rapes Across Counties
A woman testified she was raped in a wooded area south of Decatur and abducted from Decatur Shopping Center. She alleged the assaults continued in Birmingham before the suspect drove her back to Morgan County and left the car near Interstate 65 and U.S. 31 north of Cullman. Schull was arrested four days after the last rape and transferred to Mt. Meigs for a parole hearing before returning to Morgan County Jail.
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Decatur
Birmingham
Morgan County
U.S. 31
Cullman
Schull
Mt. Meigs Medical and Diagnostic Center
Gas price rise and farm contracts spark farmer fear
Banks and individuals invest in Treasury bills while Nixon moves to raise gasoline prices amid price ceilings. Morgan County farmer Curtis Stroup describes alleged foreknowledge by buyers and calls for a compromise on cotton contracts to protect farmers’ investments and profitability. He cites a California precedent where an equitable contract was forced.
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Treasury
Nixon
Cost of Living Council
White House
Curtis Stroup
Morgan County
Stroup
California
South
Peron Wins Argentina Presidential Election in Landslide
Argentines by the hundreds of thousands paraded through Buenos Aires to hail Juan D. Peron, who won nearly 62 percent of Sunday’s four‑way election. His wife Isabela was elected vice president and both are to be sworn in on October 12, with Peron achieving more than double his nearest rival.
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Buenos Aires
NYT
Juan D. Peron
Isabela
Perons
Peron
Park Service abandons beach defense at Cape Hatteras
Washington emphasizes surrender as the National Park Service shifts to noninterference policy after spending about 21 million dollars since the 1930s to build and maintain artificial sea walls. Officials say Congress must approve and residents may oppose the move amid erosion concerns.
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Washington
Nyt
National Park Service
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Joseph C. Rumburg
Park Service
Richard C. Curry
Interior Department
Congress
Cape Hatteras
Fund Release Pushed in Suit Over Impounded Mental Health Funds
A DC federal suit filed Monday seeks release of 126 million in impounded funds for mental health and alcoholism programs. Plaintiffs include 21 organizations 10 individuals and two states led by Massachusetts and Turtle Mountain Counseling. Defendants are Weinberger Schultz Ash Staats and Dr Bertram S Brown.
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Washington
Nyt
Nixon Administration
United States District Court For
District of Columbia
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Turtle Mountain Counseling and Rehabilitation Board of
Belcourt
N. D
Casper W. Weinberger
Meat prices seen rising despite near term fall
Chicago industry leaders at the American Meat Institute meeting warned that past low meat prices are gone. They cited price controls and boycotts as shrinking supplies, with producers delaying expansion and some farmers slaughtering stock to cut losses. Prices may dip temporarily before stabilizing higher than recent lows. Agriculture officials urged higher production to lower costs. optimism remains about long term U.S. capacity to feed the nation.
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Chicago
American Meat Institute
Jess Harvat
Swift Fresh Meats Co
Institute
Richard E. Lyng
Lyng
Harvat
Meat Institute
Clifford B. Cox
Earl L. Butz
Boyle rises in Montana miners union history
Boyle Boyle, a Montana native and former hard rock miner, rose from assistant to president of the Montana District of the United Mine Workers. He served under John L. Lewis from 1948, became vice president under Thomas Kennedy after 1963, then ascended to the presidency, later facing an insurgent challenge led by David McKee Yablonski.
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Boyle
Montana
John L. Lewis
UMW
Lewis
Thomas Kennedy
Kennedy
Yablonski
Alabama PSC set Oct 4 hearing on Power Co rate cut
In Montgomery the Alabama Public Service Commission scheduled an October 4 hearing on citizen Jim Zeigler of Sylacauga request to force Alabama Power Co to lower rates citing a 64 percent rise in net earnings in the first five months of 1973. In Knoxville TVA chair Aubrey Wagner warned that turning off lights offers little help without a long term energy plan.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Public Service Commission
Alabama Power Co
Jim Zeigler
Sylacauga
Zeigler
PSC
Hunt Faces Shadowy Ties in Watergate Probe
Senate sources say ex-spy E. Howard Hunt Jr may be linked to more than the Elisberg burglary and Watergate. Evidence reportedly ties him to a May 13 1972 break in at the Chilean Embassy, with files rifled but nothing stolen. Nixon lawyers contest court jurisdiction over tapes. Caulfield hospitalized with ulcers, Hunt testifies about Colson’s early knowledge of a broader intelligence plan.
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Washington
E. Howard Hunt Jr
Senate
Hunt
Democratic
Watergate
Nixon
U.S
John J. Sirica
Charles W. Colson
Senator Hunt questions Baldwin burglary legality dispute
Senator Daniel K. Inouye pressed Hunt on whether Baldwin notifying police about the Watergate break in would be illegal seeking to defend the burglary as legal and accusing Baldwin of disloyalty if he betrayed the case. Senator Weicker challenged Hunt's claim Baldwin has a Democratic uncle in Connecticut noting the relative is Republican former senator Raymond Baldwin known as Mr. Republican.
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Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
Hunt
Baldwin
Lowell P. Weicker Jr
Conn
Connecticut
Weicker
Raymond Baldwin
Pryor Field Study Okayed by City Council Action
Athens council approves $13,600 master airport study for Pryor Field and future relationship with Calhoun Junior College. FAA grant funds $9,000. study covers 5 10 and 20 year futures and relocation questions ruled out. Authority board chair warns of loss of federal help without the study.
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Sonny Turner
Athens
Pryor Field Airport Authority Board
Federal Aviation Administration
Pryor Field
Calhoun Junior College
Limestone County Commission
Morgan County Commission
Decatur City Council
Authority
Frank Troup
Henry Padgett
Padgett and Dinning Engineering
Bowling Green
Limestone Commission
Padgett
FAA
Educator Dies at 89. Neill Pioneer of Summerhill
A. S. Neill, influential educator and founder of Summerhill School, died at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. He advocated child autonomy with classes optional and student governance, influencing many educators despite initial criticism. Neill was 89.
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London
NYT
A. S. Neill
Summerhill
Aldeburgh
Suffolk
Neill
Leiston
American Indian chief proclaims discovery of Italy in Rome
Adam Nordwall, an American Chippewa Indian chief and California State University lecturer, arrived in Rome in tribal regalia and announced via prologue that he was taking possession of Italy by right of discovery, paralleling Columbus and questioning the prior habitation of Italy.
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Rome
Adam Nordwall
California
Italy
Christopher Columbus
America
Nordwall
California State University
Cambodian appeal to U S for aid amid shortages
Phnom Penh reports the Cambodian government saying it is short of many items and has appealed to the United States for increased assistance. In Beirut a separate item notes President Hafez al Assad meeting Syria’s high command in Damascus on Monday.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
NYT
United States
Beirut
Hafez al- Assad
Syria
Damascus
Kissinger calls for comprehensive UN peace plan
At the United Nations Kissinger warned against uneasy truces and blocs. He urged a broad, institutionalized peace anchored by the UN, beyond bilateral diplomacy and pragmatism.
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United Nations
N. Y
NYT
Henry A. Kissinger
United States
Kissinger
General Assembly
U.S
Rothschild urges reassessment of Britain luxury items
Lord Rothschild argued Britain should reexamine costly programs including the nuclear reactor project and the Concorde, suggesting a tougher second look at national spending and potential profits.
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Britain
Lord Rothschild
Peace Pact Offer Fails to Move China
Brezhnev said Moscow offered Peking a nonaggression pact in mid June but Chinese leaders showed no reply amid what he called frenzied anti Sovietism. He accused Chou En Lai of empty calls for normal relations and urged concrete steps while warning Western powers against stirring up disputes between the Soviet Union and China.
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Moscow
NYT
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Peking
Tashkent
China
Palestinian guerrilla leadership pledges full Syrian support
The Palestinian liberation organization executive committee meeting, led by Yasir Arafat, announced that Syria remains allied with the Palestinian cause despite reconciliation efforts with Jordan's King Hussein. Radio Damascus quoted Assad affirming Syria's full support for the Palestinian struggle.
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Yasir Arafat
Syria
Hussein
Jordan
Radio Damascus
Assad
Palestinian Liberation Organization
Tighten Belt says Britain could fall near bottom if Queen Victoria dream ends
Lord Rothschild heads a government economic think tank warning that Britain may become one of Europe’s poorest nations by 1985 unless the country abandons grandiose selfimage. He critiques the idea of Britain as a wealthiest, influential power and calls for pragmatic belt tightening.
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Britain
Europe
Lord Rothschild
Central Planning Review Staff
Victoria
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