House panel mulls broad Nixon quota powers in trade bill
House Ways and Means writers seek to resolve a bitter trade bill dispute by granting President Nixon wide authority to impose or suspend import quotas. The plan includes quotas on textiles and footwear and a basket clause extending restraints to other foreign goods. The approach would let Nixon act without Tariff Commission studies, using national interest grounds and price shifts to justify actions.
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Associated Press
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U.S
Ways and Means
United States
Spain
Tariff Commission
L Alworth May Declare Bankruptcy In San Diego
San Diego AP report says tight money and poor investments may force Lance Alworth to retire from the Chargers. His lawyer Don Augustine noted no official announcement, citing a high likelihood of personal bankruptcy after overextension. ISA Phoenix confirms Alworth sought a lucrative post with International Sports Associates.
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Lance Alworth
San Diego Chargers
Alworth
Don Augustine
Augustine
International Sports Associates of
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Ariz
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Anthony J. Nicoli
Arkansas Weather Outlook Report for Wednesday
Experiment Station report for 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Wednesday notes a high of 97 and a low of 72. Forecast from The Associated Press Arkansas calls for partly cloudy, hot and humid conditions through Thursday with widely scattered afternoon and early evening thunderstorms. Highs today and Thursday in the mid 90s to low 100s. Lows tonight in the 70s.
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Sextuplets Born in Rome Die Four in Early Hours
A Rome case reports six babies born to Mrs. Loredana Luzzitelli Petrone after fertility drug treatment. Four of the sextuplets—three boys and three girls—died in the night. doctors fear the outlook for the remaining two is poor. The birth follows more than 20 earlier sextuplet reports since 1900.
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Rome
Loredana Luzzitelli Petrone
Petrone
Martin Danoff
New York
Pornography effects discounted by presidential panel
The President's Commission on Pornography concludes there is no evidence that obscenity causes sex crimes or damages youth morals. The draft cites studies showing arousal without changing attitudes, and that pornography does not drive misconduct among youths or adults. The report faces House challenge and rewrite before final release.
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Associated Press
Washington
President's Commission On Pornography
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House
Presidential Commission of Experts
Congress
House Postal Operations Subcommittee
Robert N. C. Nix
D-Pa
Nix
University of North Carolina
Urban Renewal Plan Approved in Hope Arkansas
Kiwanis heard M. Kelly announce Hope Arkansas earned final Urban Renewal approval on May 13 after three years of work. A $2,388,000 project covers 77 acres downtown and south of the MDP with a Project Area Committee of about 47 landlords and tenants to study needs and guide redevelopment. Guests included Dick Powell and Hubert Thrash.
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Bill Butler
Mike Kelly
Housing Authority
Kiwanis Club
Kelly
Hope
United States
Dick Powell
Hubert Thrash
Nixon backs $55,000 farm subsidy cap amid divided House
President Nixon and the House Agriculture Committee endorse a $55,000 per crop limit on farm subsidies for cotton, feed grains, and wheat, while some Republicans and lawmakers push a $20,000 cap. The split reflects broader debate as the three-year major farm bill faces passage with the present program set to expire.
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Robert 4. Hunt
Associated Press
Wester Washington
Nixon
House Agriculture Committee
House
Agriculture Committee
Silvio 0. Conte
Rmass
Paul Findley
R-Ill
Page Belcher
R-Okla
House Committee
Hale Boggs
Lousiana
Boges
Dufford Hardin
Belcher
Rules Party Expansion Illegal
Circuit Judge Tom Digby ruled that the recent expansion of the Pulaski County Democratic Committee was illegal. He issued the ruling on a motion seeking elections for contested positions within the county committee.
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Little Rock
Tom Digby
Pulaski County
Democratic Committee
Digby
Conty Committee
Cole Calls His Interviews From Russia Dead Story
Conway Ark AP William Cole CBS News correspondent says his Voices from the Russian Underground report on Soviet repression felt like a dead story. He details the risk, the three interviewed dissidents, and how film was partly confiscated on leaving Moscow. He praises Amalrik Bukovsky Yakir as brave martyrs.
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Conway, Ark
Wilhiam Cole
CBS News
Soviet Union
Cole
Conway
Free World
CBS
U.S
Moscow
Andre Amalrik
Vladimir Bukovsky
Pyotr Yakir
Russia
Amalrik
Bukovsky
Yakir
Conway High School
Hendrix College
Paris
Middle East
Rockefeller Hopes For GOP Nomination Without Runoff
Gov Winthrop Rockefeller told a Little Rock news conference he expects to win the Republican gubernatorial nomination outright with 75 000 to 100 000 primary voters on August 25 far above 1968 turnout He cited meaningful race factors and local contests including county and district races as boosting participation He defended his record and cited Faubus prisons and the states financial structure as key issues.
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Little Rock
Winthrop Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Orval E. Faubus
Faubus
Arkansas Industrial Development Commission
Masonry Course Offered at Red River Vocational School
Red River Vocational Technical School announces a one year masonry course starting in September. It covers masonry materials blueprint reading and construction with clay products concrete and hydite blocks. Twenty spaces available applications accepted weekdays 9 to 4 through cooperation with Arkansas Brick Manufacturers Association Structural Clay Products Institute Bricklayers Local No 2 Texarkana and the State Department of Education.
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Red River Vocational Technical School
Arkansas Brick Manufacturers Association
Structural Clay Products Institute
Bricklayers and Plasterers International Local No. 2
Texarkana
State Department of Education
Inmates Seek Sentence Set Aside in Arkansas Case
Two Cummins Prison Farm inmates Otis H. Reed Jr and Wil lam E Coulter testified in U S District Court that they lacked legal representation when pleading guilty on March 25 1969 in Drew County Circuit Court to six felony counts They seek habeas corpus relief claiming coerced pleas Judge G B Col vin Jr allegedly promised 21 years per count and threatened a total 126 years if they went to trial The Supreme Court practice of releasing Mondays decisions has been abolished
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Cummins Prison Farm
U.S. District Court
Drew County
Otis H. Reed Jr
Wilam E. Coulter
Monticello
Coulter
Reed
G. B. Colvin Jr
James Ross
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