Rebel Prisoners at Attica Demand List for Hostage Release
In Attica New York rebel inmates with help from activists including William Kunstler draft a 30 point demand list to trade for hostage freedom. Six inmates meet with 30 intermediaries in a 4 hour session. next talks set for 10 a.m. The list seeks removal of Supt Vincent Mancusi. Hostages estimated up to 39 with minor injuries.
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Ben de Forest
Associated Press
Attica
N.Y
William Kunstler
Attica Prison
Kunstler
Vincent Mancusi
Chicago 7
Black Panthers
U.S
Herman Badillo
D-N.y
Congress
Tom Wicker
New York Times
Judge Denies More Selling Time in Tobacco Markets
U S Eastern District Judge Algernon Butler denied the Border Belt Warehouse Association’s request for extra selling time and for a new sales-time plan. He ruled the 1971 season should continue under the current marketing schedule and noted no immediate irreparable harm.
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Clinton
N.C
Border Belt Warehouse Association
U.S
Algernon Butler
Border Belt
Butler
FDA seeks larger force to guard food supply and recalls
FDA Commissioner Charles C. Edwards told a House subcommittee that strengthening federal safety efforts would cost about 200 million dollars to build a beefed up inspection team. He outlined licensing of processors, mandatory tainted food reporting, more frequent inspections of 60 000 plants, enhanced imports checks, and rapid response for disasters, referencing botulism cases in Bon Vivant vichyssoise and Campbell Soup chicken vegetable soup. Campbell's E M Nuckols Jr said the investigation continues and safety steps have been added including tighter cooking margins and additional controls.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
America
FDA
Charles C. Edwards
House Public Health Subcommittee
Edwards
Bon Vivant
Newark
N.J
Campbell Soup Co
Paris
Tex
Campbell
E.M. Nuckols Jr
Draft Law Up Against Big Fight
Senator Alan Cranston and other war critics vow to block a two year extension of the draft despite Defense Secretary Melvin Laird warning of national security risk. Cranston calls the compromise measure worse than the July original and opposes early Vietnam troop withdrawal and large military pay raises.
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Washington
Melvin Laird
Senate
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Cranston
Vietnam
House
U S and Japan Split on Taiwan Policy After Talks
After two days of cabinet talks the United States and Japan differed over Taiwan at the United Nations and Red China. Japan pressed to drop Nixon’s import surcharge and resisted a U.S. bid to co sponsor a Taiwan resolution, while Britain and Thailand signaled support for Red China admission.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Taiwan
United Na
China
U.S
Nixon
William P. Rogers
U.N
Khrushchev Reported Dead at 77 in USSR
Unofficial Soviet sources reported Nikita S. Khrushchev died today of a heart attack at 77. He was ousted in 1964 and had lived in retirement near Moscow. Tass had not confirmed the report and gave no immediate statement on his death or location.
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Moscow
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Communist Party
Tass
Khruschev
Kremlin
Khrushchev
Joseph V. Stalin
New Pesticide Law Could Be Stringent
The House Agriculture Committee approved a broad pesticide controls draft giving EPA new authority while excluding some foreign and noncontiguous products. The plan would cover home sprays and farm products but not fertilizers or coffee and bananas. Debate continues over hearing rules and foreign opposition ahead of a full House vote.
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Washington
Pro
House Agriculture Committee
America
Environmental Protection Agency
Continental
United States
W. R. Poage
D-Tex
Page Belcher
Oklahoma
State Department
Britain Backs Red China Seat at UN Despite Risks
British officials say London will back Communist China's entry into the United Nations even if it costs Nationalist China its seat. The move follows Tokyo's refusal to cosponsor a U.S. plan allowing Taiwan to stay in the UN, complicating U.S. hopes for both Chinas to be seated during the General Assembly debate.
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Peking
Security Council
London
Britain
Taiwan
U.N
Arthur L. Gavshon
China
United Nations
World Organization
U.S
Red China
William P. Rogers
Japan
Edward Heath
Rogers
General Assembly
Washington
Taipei
Yippie Justice Trial by Arbitration Panel in Village Apartment
The counterculture leaders Abbie Hoffman and Forcade use a three person arbitration panel to settle Hoffman's $8,500 royalties dispute over Steal This Book. The informal sessions avoid lawyers and press, held first in a Greenwich Village church and then in a Bowery apartment, with Rex Weiner as mediator.
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Lynn Sherr
Associated Press
NEW York (Ap
Oneudge
Bob Dylan
Abie Hoffman
Hoffman
Thomas Forcade
U.S. Capitoless
Forcade
Alestablishment
Rex Weiner
East Village Other
Weiner
Howard Levy
Green Berets
Mayer Vishnu
Win Magazine
Craig Karpel
Esquire Magazine
Greenwich Village
Bowery
A. J.eberman
Riots Ease After Curfew in Ayden as High School Bombing Arrests Loom
Ayden North Carolina tension eased by curfew as officers restore order after seven Black youths are charged in a high school bombing. Earlier in the week a white patrolman shot a Black farm laborer during an arrest, triggering widespread arrests and curfew violations throughout the town of 3540.
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Ayden
N.C
North Carolina
William Earl Murphy
Whiteway
Billy Day
Ayden-Grifton High School
Pitt County Sheriff's Department
Sheriff's Co
Weta
7 Bureau of Atuonen
Cohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division
Treasury Department
Bob Scott
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Spencer Day
Ernment
White House Treaty Room
George Bush
Philadelphia
Carl C. Craft
Ter
Yippie Justice
Golden Frinks
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Frinks
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