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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1969
Page
1
A reader asks about football defensive interference in the end zone and scoring. Our sports writers say the offense gets first down at the one yard line. Other questions cover adopting shelter animals, marriage license rules, Edsel car values, cleaning brick with muriatic acid, rat control in a barn, and locating piano tuners in High Point.
Jury selection continues in the trial of eight men charged with conspiring to foment violence during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In Chicago protests, 19 demonstrators were arrested and two injured amid melees near the U.S. Courthouse. nine police and two city prosecutors were also hurt. Mayor Daley condemned demonstrators as provoking confrontation. Defendants include Abbie Hoffman and David Dellinger among others, with security tight around the federal building.
ATLANTIC CITY NJ AP The steelworkers president J W Abel urged an all out labor campaign for a four day work week saying automation will threaten millions of American jobs. He said industry already can replace assembly line workers with computers and that a four day week with three day weekends could be achieved in four years with no pay cuts via bargaining and congressional action. He warned next recession could hit workers harder due to automation. Abel also joined AFL CIO President Meany in criticizing the Nixon administration for delaying school desegregation while pressuring building trades unions to set racial quotas.
The Czech government closed borders to casual Western visitors as the Communist Central Committee met to purge liberals and consider removing Alexander Dubcek from the Presidium. Police tightened security, visas were suspended, and city officials faced purges while Dubcek faced pressure to resign.
Washington AP report says President Nixon will not let differences over the oil depletion allowance derail tax reform. Treasury Secretary Kennedy and Nixon favor 27 percent, not 20, while House support is 20. A deputy counsel letter implied a correction of testimony. administration clarifies it still prefers 27 percent.
In Londonderry Northern Ireland clashes between Protestant and Catholic crowds left one dead and six injured after stone throwing. Police and troops reinforced The Diamond with barbed wire checkpoints as 55 year old William King a Protestant, was killed early in the day. The streets near the county court house saw heavy troop deployment including 50 troops pushing through mobs. The surge of violence followed pressure from civil rights activists for reforms in jobs housing and local election rules.
Pasadena AP reports NASA plans Mariners 8 and 9 to map 70 percent of Mars and identify unmanned landing sites for 1973 Viking program synergy. Each 2,200 pound craft will orbit 1,000 to 10,500 miles, return thousands of pictures, and assess seasonal polar cap changes to inform future manned missions.
U S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said Hanoi had not replied to U S peace moves and appeared more rigid. Returning to the U S after the 15th Paris session he said North Vietnam rejected peace terms and demanded a U S withdrawal with no sign of readiness to negotiate. He urged Hanoi to stop belittling U S troop withdrawals and to reciprocate. He noted Nixon’s order to pull 60 000 soldiers by mid December.
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