16 Oct 1970
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1970
Page
1
Readers ask where to sell poetry or get manuscripts reviewed. The Enterprise suggests using The Writer’s Market, a library reference listing publishers and submission guidelines, plus study of target magazines. It notes publishers rarely accept work and cites Margaret Mitchell’s experience with multiple rejections.
The Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy ruled by Queen Juliana with a bicameral Parliament. The Upper Chamber has 75 members serving six years, and the Lower Chamber has 150 members serving four years. Beatrix is heiress apparent, married to Claus von Amsberg, and their 1967 son became the first male heir since 184.
A local boy scout seeking a Japanese counterpart for exchange ahead of the 1971 World Scout Jamboree reports no reply after writing to the World Bureau of Scouting in North Brunswick New Jersey. The reader suggests retrying, this time in Japanese and with proper troop number age and address details to improve the match.
A reader asks where to obtain insects and the answer points to Edmund Scientific Company at 300 Edscorp Building Barrington New Jersey 08007. They offer bugs of all kinds in various sizes of glass for laboratory experiments.
A special grand jury in Ravenna, Ohio indicted 25 individuals for 43 offenses connected to May 1 to May 4 unrest around Kent State University. The panel cleared Ohio National Guardsmen of homicide or injury charges, noting rioting and unlawful assembly, with charges pending notification to those charged.
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act amid threats of insurrection in Canada and moved to ban the Quebec Liberation Front. Police report 238 arrests, with raids yielding firearms and anti‑secession literature, many arrests in Montreal and Quebec City.
A Soviet airliner carrying 45 hijacked passengers resumed to the Soviet Union from Trabzon with the body of a slain hostess and two wounded crewmen. The hijackers remain in Turkey as authorities weigh extradition versus political asylum, while discussions continue on asylum grounds and possible Turkish trials.
American casualties in Vietnam show nonhostile deaths nearing combat deaths. Over the past two weeks nonhostile fatalities matched or exceeded battlefield deaths, with 46 killed last week and 37 noncombat deaths previously, as combat deaths stay at a five year low.
About 100 members of the Business Council including heads of major corporations meet in Hot Springs Virginia with Nixon economic aides. They warn prolonged General Motors strike could delay an upswing, with unemployment seen near 5.5 percent unless resolved by Thanksgiving.
Prime Minister arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa this morning as reporters note a car radio remark. An earlier office statement announced the War Measures Act had been invoked due to terrorism.
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