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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1971
Page
2
Weather report for 24 hours ending 7 am Monday. High 67, low 41. Chance of showers or thundershowers mainly north tonight, more widespread Tuesday. Cloudy statewide through Tuesday with little temperature change. Lows tonight 40s north to low 50s south. Highs Tuesday upper 60s north to low 70s south.
A three-group Italian women’s liberation congress survived two days of heated rhetoric as moderates and militants clashed over strategy. The movement backs divorce law reform and abortion legalization, seeking to gather signatures to push the issue in Parliament. Participants, mostly under 30, favor makeup and attire not common among militants, stressing pragmatic goals like equal job opportunities and free nurseries.
In Londonderry Bogside ambush, a British soldier died after attackers threw 10 petrol bombs at a patrolling landrover. A second British serviceman died later in hospital. IRA and Irish Republican Army snipers and gunfire echoed through Belfast streets as violence intensified. Police and army responses followed with additional arrests and ongoing unrest across Northern Ireland.
Senators Adlai Stevenson II and Margaret Chase Smith received the Herbert H. Lehman Ethics Award from the Jewish Theological Seminary at a Miami Beach dinner. Stevenson urged Arab recognition of Israel's sovereignty and boundaries as a condition for peace in the Middle East.
The article covers U S SST funding battles as Volpe warns against environmental harm and workforce costs. It notes opposition hearings in Congress, potential budget votes by March 16, and comparison to Soviet Tu-144. Also mentioned are Arkansas budget cuts and Abernathy planning renewed fasting to promote SCLC demonstrations.
President Nixon launches the 1971 campaign with a Des Moines stop and a Rochester trip to promote revenue sharing, government reorganization, welfare reform, and health insurance ideas. Cabinet members Stans Morton Romney join in, as plans to abolish several departments and transfer duties to new agencies are outlined. A national message on an $11.4 billion revenue sharing program will follow, stressing law enforcement at state and local levels.
Warren Arkansas AP Gov Dale Bumpers will be marshal of the Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival parade on June 12. The annual event precedes the tomato harvest in South Arkansas, drawing regional spectators.
The Associated Press reports Egypt accuses Israel of refusing to give up all occupied Arab territories, closing the path to a Middle East peace while Sadat vows continued effort. Israel studies partial withdrawals but rejects prewar borders and stresses no separate peace. Sadat asserts an Arab solution and links talks to Palestinian rights.
Informants said up to 16,000 more U S troops were flown to the northern sector as South Vietnamese forward HQ updated Laos casualty figures with 390 Saigon dead 99 missing and 981 wounded while field reports cited far higher losses. North Vietnamese casualties numbered 3 227 with Maj Richard Gardner stating 1 400 enemy deaths from air strikes.
The Supreme Court agreed to decide if Massachusetts may bar distributing birth control devices to unmarried people. The 91 year old law was ruled invalid by the Boston appeals court for conflicting with fundamental rights. Massachusetts argues it protects purity and chastity.
Reversed and remanded or affirmed appellate actions across Pulaski, Logan, Sebastian, Ashley, Washington, Hot Spring, Greene, and Mississippi County circuits. Notable orders include reversals, remands, and denials of rehearing. Cases involve medical board v Grimmett, Lyle Brown v Spakes, Burks Motors v International Harvester, and State claims against Lois Rogers and Gary's Butane Wholesale.
Little Rock officials deny police brutality in obtaining confessions from four men linked to the 1515 Building burglary. Three acquitted, one guilty, defense claiming confessions were beaten out. city officials call the charges unfounded.
Multiple concise notices record the deaths of C P Munn Goldie Collums Harvey Foster Bonnie Halbert and Thomas H Morris in Arkansas and California with service details and survivors. A late obituary notes Msgr Castex aged 99 in Ontario and Oscar Serlin aged 70 of Life With Father fame in New York.
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