Appeal May Suspend Executions
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund urged the Supreme Court to block capital punishment by adding new constitutional challenges. It noted 648 condemned prisoners across eight states face imminent executions as prior procedural blocks fade, with many lacking legal counsel. The fund pressed for hearings or evidence on arguments challenging the death penalty itself under the Constitution.
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Rocky Mount
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Richmond
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Weather Forecast and Observation Report
Weather Experiment Station reports 24 hours ending 7 am Wednesday high 80 and low 61 with .02 inches of rain. Arkansas forecast shows decreasing clouds tonight and generally fair Thursday with night lows upper 40s northwest to 50s southeast and Thursday highs in the mid 60s to low 70s.
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Weather Experiment Station
Arkansas
Rail Signal Men Seek Progress in Wage Talks
A 13,000 member signalmen's union plans to continue preliminary discussions today under government mediation to avert a nationwide rail strike slated for next week. AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen president C J Chamberlain says the focus is on a clear legal record guiding capital punishment questions.
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Labor Department
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Nixon
Chamberlain
Israeli forces bulldoze road inside Lebanon near Ramia
Beir ut reports say Israeli engineers cut a dirt road 500 yards inside Lebanon during a three hour operation near Ramia Village as part of a broader cross border activity. A 12 man patrol two halftracks and two helicopters guarded the scene while soldiers blocked roads and searched passersby. No casualties were reported.
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al Liwaa
Sport
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Palestine
al Liwan
Strip
Stretchout on Wages Urged Stretchout on Wages Urged
Secretary of Labor James Hodgson proposed a one year delay in raising the minimum wage to two dollars to ease inflation and unemployment risk. He supported an increase to 1.80 next January but urged delaying the full two dollar jump to January 1 1974.
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Associated Press
Washington
Secretary of Labor
James D. Hodgson
Congress
Hodgson
House Labor
Civil war erupts in East Pakistan in 1971 crisis
A vivid AP report from Dacca depicts East Pakistan's brutal 1961 style upheaval as Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Awami League presses for autonomy amid a deadly crackdown. Eyewitness accounts describe a six-figure and rising death toll, with censorship and martial action marking the crisis.
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Associated Press
Dacca
East Pakistan
Ganges River
Pakistan
Mujibur Rahman
Awami League
West Pakistan
West Pakistanis In Flurries of Chauvinism. Mujib
Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan
Yahya
Blevins Class of 1971 Valedictorian and Salutatorian Named
Betty Sue Rogers is valedictorian and Carol Walters salutatorian of the Blevins 1971 graduating class. Betty, daughter of J T Rogers and the late Mrs Rogers, and Carol, daughter of Mr and Mrs Dutch Walters of McCaskill, hold Beta Club and Student Council posts and earned national merit recognition and academic scholarships.
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Blevins
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J. T. Rogers
Girl's State
Southern State College
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Denies Paying GI Kickbacks At Long Binh Clubs
Glenn Faulks testifies Higdon did not take kickbacks for cigarette orders at Long Binh clubs in 1967 68. He describes $7200 in promotional allowances to obtain free samples for soldiers, as Higdon faces charges of diverting funds and bribery with a potential 19 year sentence.
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Associated Press
Redstone Arsenal
Ala
M.set
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Vietnam
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Hogdon
Long Binh
Saigon
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East Point
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Huntsville
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James Henry Organization
Miami
Fla
Envoy International Asia Ltd
Liggett and Myrers Tobacco Co
School Head Is Charged Too Harsh
About 50 Harris Elementary patrons charged Tuesday night that assistant principal Charles Evans used unduly harsh punishment. They alleged he paddled students with a board and locked them in classrooms. The Pulaski County School Board, meeting in executive session with Evans and patrons, took no action. Harris is a predominantly black school.
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Thompson
Harris School
Harris
Ervin Backs 60 Day Trial Rule to Speed Federal Cases
U.S. Senator Sam J. Ervin urged the Justice Department to back a bill requiring federal criminal defendants to be brought to trial within 60 days. He criticized delays and secrecy around the DC preventive detention measure, noting bipartisan support and comments by President Nixon and Chief Justice Burger. He called for swift trials as an alternative to detention.
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D-N.c
Justice Department
Ervin
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Nixon
Warren E. Burger
Great Britain
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Department
D.C
Stone elected Arkansas Bankers Association president
D W Stone vice president of Simmons First National Bank in Pine Bluff was chosen president of the Arkansas Bankers Association at the group’s annual convention in Hut Springs Ark B Finley Vinson of First National Bank of Little Rock became first vice president and Van Smith of Bank of Tuckerman was named second vice president T J House of the Bank of Mulberry was elected treasurer
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Donald W. Stone
Simmons First National Bank
Pine Bluff
Arkansas Bankers Association
B. Finley Vinson
First National Bank of Little Rock
van Smith
Bank of Tuckerman
T. J. House
Bank of Mulberry
Roadblocks Set to Net Car Thieves in Arkansas
In North-Central Arkansas roadblocks were set to catch two men sought for stealing three cars during a cross state escape from Mississippi. They allegedly abducted a Texas couple near Forrest City, beating and tying them before dumping them by I-40. The pursuit raced at speeds up to 115 mph, with the car later abandoned near Greers Ferry Dam after a distant chase.
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Carlisle
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Lonoke
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