Curb Cost of Auto Repairs and Bumper Design Debate
In a postcard from Spain Tom Purvis notes a trip to the southern coast and Tangiers after WWII service. The column critiques U.S. bumper design and cost of repairs arguing for practical standards over nostalgia for looks. A federal car standards bill stalls in the House while auto insurers consider bumper based premium adjustments to push Detroit toward safer, cheaper maintenance.
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Spain
Tom Purvis
Hope
Texarkana
Tangiers
Tom
Bangladesh Nationalizes Major Industries in War Footing
Prime Minister Mujibur Rahman announces nationalization of jute textile and sugar mills, domestic banks, and insurers in Bangladesh as part of rebuilding the economy after independence. He says foreign banks and insurers are exempt and a revolutionary labor policy is forthcoming. A new constitution leaning on nationalism democracy secularism and socialism is being drafted. Rahman vows to prevent starvation and maintain nonalignment with peaceful coexistence, reaffirming friendship with India.
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Dacca
Mujibur Rahman
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Mujib
India
Witness Testifies Collapses During Senate Hearing
Denver AP report says lobbyist Dita Beard, linked White House to ITT in a memo about ITT funds for political uses, collapsed in bed at Rocky Mountain Osteopathic Hospital during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Her physician described severe chest pains and rest followed four hours after the attack.
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Denver
Dita D. Beard
White House
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Senate Judiciary Committee
Beard
Senate
Jack Anderson
Louis Radetsky
Rocky Mountain Osteopathic Hospital
Conviction Set Aside for Par tin in Antitrust Case
A federal judge set aside Edward Partin s conviction on three counts of conspiring to violate antitrust laws and ordered a new trial on an extortion conspiracy charge. Partin, 47, of Baton Rouge, was convicted March 2 on all four charges. a mistrial or verdict set aside motion was filed by his lawyers. The judge cited hearsay evidence tied to a fifth charge and said appeals courts would likely overturn the three antitrust verdicts.
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Atlanta, Ga
Louisiana
Teamsters
Edward Grady Partin
Partin
Baton Rouge
US S. District Court
James Battin
Billings
Mont
Battin
Ted F. Dunham Jr
Dunham
Bartin
U S Plans Report to Shed Light on Rising Beef Prices
The Agriculture Department will publish a weeklong study analyzing how money moves from farm to shelf showing how middlemen and cattle producers benefit while beef prices rise. President Nixon criticized blaming farmers for high meat costs and pledged action if middlemen don’t ease up.
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U.S
Washington
Agriculture Department
Nixon
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Economic Research Service
White House
Wallace Says Blacks Need Have No Fear
Florida campaign manager H G Bill France says George Wallace delegates will reassure a black couple they face no harm by attending the Democratic nominating convention. Mrs Warren, a Tarpon Springs resident, declines to be a delegate amid fears of reprisals. Sixty one delegates chosen in district caucuses.
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Miami
Fla
George Wallace
Florida
Wallace
H. G
Bill” France
Alabama
Warren
Troop Strength Below 100000 in Vietnam
American troop strength in Vietnam fell below 100000 for the first time since 1965 as U S command data show 101700 for the week ending last Thursday and estimates suggest further reductions after. Officials tally by service show Army 74400, Air Force 21500, Navy 5300, Marines 400 with 30000 airmen in Thailand and 15000 Navy personnel outside Vietnam not counted. President Nixon ordered cuts to 69000 by May 1 with prior peak levels of 543000 in April 1969 and 184300 by year end.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Vietnam
Army
Air Force
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Thailand
Sonnel
7Th Fleet
Nixon
Thousands in Ireland Strike Over British Takeover
In Belfast thousands of Protestant workers walked out paralyzing Northern Ireland amid a strike linked to Britain’s takeover of the provincial government. IRA factions issued varied signals while three car bombs in Protestant areas caused no injuries. A rally outside Belfast city hall drew about 20,000 protesters led by Ulster Vanguard’s William Craig demanding restoration of Stormont with greater powers. Banks closed airports halted trains and production stopped as the province faced widespread disruption.
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Colin Frost
Associated Press
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Ulster Vanguard Movement
Vanguard
William Craig
Craig
Stormont
Brian Faulkner
Ulster
Faulkner
William Whitelaw
Short Harland
Harland and Wolff
Aldergrove
Irish Republic
Mills Opposed to Nixon Bus Plan
Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas opposes President Nixons antibusing plan and supports a constitutional amendment to equalize standards in the North and South. He says the plan would discriminate against the South and notes he might campaign in Tennessee or other states with presidential primaries. Mills suggested the Democratic National Convention could end in a deadlock, potentially making him a candidate to break it. He spoke at the christening of a towboat named for him by American Barge Line Co, a ceremony also attended by House Speaker Carl Albert and Gov. Dale Bumpers who praised Mills as a leading legislator and workhorse of Congress.
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Ralph Nader
The
Starman
Nader
United States
Detroit
U.S
House Commerce Committee
John Moss
D. Calif
John
Nixon
Beard
John V. Tunney
Calif
White House
Tunney
Anderson
Little Rock
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Mills
South
North
Tennessee
George Wallace
Alabama
American Barge Line Co
Carl Albert
D-Okla
Church Told to Keep Noise Down in Newport
Newport Police Court Judge Ben Sampson ordered the Newport Church of God to reduce noise during revivals after fireman Leon Lucas complained the noise violated city ordinance. The church argued it has a constitutional right to worship ceremonies.
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Newport
Newport Church of God
Ben Sampson
Leon Lucas
Lucas
Supreme Court upholds cigarette ad ban nationwide
The Supreme Court affirmed the 1969 Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act ban on cigarette advertising on radio and television. NAB and six broadcasters lost their appeals 7 to 2 and 6 to 2, with Justices Douglas and Brennan seeking a hearing. The ruling cites the act signed by President Nixon and effective January 2, 1971.
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Washington
Supreme Court
National Association of Broadcasters
Broadcasting Companies
Justice Department
NAB
William O. Douglas
William J. Brennan
Douglas
Brennan
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Congress
Nixon
Six Die In Arkansas Weekend Highway Crashes
The Associated Press reports six people died on Arkansas roads over the weekend in two train related incidents. Wendell Lee Jr. and Benny Lee Jr. died after a Turrell collision with a Frisco freight train. Jerry Reed, 22, of Crossett, was killed when his dump truck struck by a train at a Mon trese crossing. Booker T. Jones, 69, Rosie Stock, 21, both El Dorado residents, died in separate accidents. Clifford A Wilkins, Little Rock, also perished when his car left a bridge west of the city.
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Associated Press
Wendell Lee
Turrell
Memphis
Benny Lee Jr
Jerry M. Reed
Crossett
U.S
Montrose
Ashley County
el Dorado
Booker T. Jones
Rosie Stock
Clifford A. Wilkins
Little Rock
All Around Town and Local Sales Totals
February U S Savings Bonds sales in Hempstead Howard Lafayette and Nevada counties are reported with yearly totals and quotas. Midway Cemetery Perpetual Care Association to hold annual meeting on Tuesday April 4 at 7 p.m. at Midway United Methodist Church. Ronnie Massanelli Hope freshman named Outstanding Colleges Athletes of America for 1972. Easter Egg hunt at First Baptist Church Grade III Department Friday afternoon. City Police investigate five school breakins and a Kroger Store breakin with milk and Wieners taken.
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U.S
Hempstead
Howard County
Lafayette
Nevada County
Midway Cemetery Perpetual Care Association
Midway United Methodist Church
Gene Ross
Ronnie Massanelli
Hope
University of Arkansas At Monticello
Victor
The
First Baptist Church
Brookwood
Berg, Henry
Hopewell
Garland
Patmos
Kroger
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