Draft Pool Could Take Students
Government could tap a pool of about 500000 educated graduates to avert armed services depletion if the draft extends. Officials note 500k to be draftable with deferments expired. 1.5 million in college could sustain draft for three years. Laird warns Army readiness at risk without resumed calls. Congress debates extension with optimism noted by Selective Service. Also: 4.1 million with dependency deferments and 400000 with occupational deferments face possible vulnerability. Also: Never-Never Land gift shop burglarized. $952 in merchandise taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freds. Hoffman
Washington
Armed Services
Selective Service
Nixon
Senate
Congress
Pentagon
Secretary of Defense
Melvin 8
Laird
White House
Pesticides on Fruit Linked to Cancer
FDA findings tie a carbamate pesticide family to cancer in rats and warn of ETU a carbamate byproduct. EPA weighs bans or tighter limits while noting no imminent hazard. Scientists warn synergists may boost chemical effects in humans. uncertainty remains as authorities review risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Environmental Protection Agency
William M. Upholt
EPA
Virgil O. Wodicka
Bureau of Foods
Associated Press
Wodicka
American Chemical Society
R.M. Philpot
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Research Triangle Park
N.C
Ernest Hodgson
North Carolina State University
Attica Prison Hostage Crisis Details Emerge
Oswald cites multiple reports of hostage neck injuries and describes a chaotic evacuation after the rebellion at Attica. Edland confirms limited neck wounds, while authorities warn of misreports amid intense fighting as 38 guards and staff were taken hostage. 40 bodies found, 31 inmates and nine hostages dead. 190 inmates moved to other prisons with 1,200 held in a temporary cell block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oswald
Edland
Buffalo
Attica
American diet labeled a national disaster by UC scientist
Dr George Briggs chair of nutritional sciences at California warns malnutrition is real in the US and linked to physical and mental problems, cost billions. He cites high sugar fat and wheat flour intake totaling 276 pounds annually per person and says poverty education and food fortification gaps fuel the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. G. McDaniel
Chicago
University of California
George M. Briggs
University
Department of Nutritional Sciences
United States
Vitamin Information Bureau
New York City
Briggs
California
Senators urge Nixon to scrap school lunch rules
Forty four senators petition President Nixon to keep the old school lunch regulations, warning new rules will cut federal funds for districts, force cuts in meals, and leave needy children without lunches. They name states and dollar losses and cite testimony from state directors and a Senate hearing.
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Austin Scott
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Gale McGee
D-Wyo
Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee
Robert Byrd
West Virginia
Agriculture Department
Missouri
California
Massachusetts
Ohio
Georgia
Florida
Congress
Philip Hart
Dmich
George McGovern
D.D
McGovern
Agriculture
Clifford Hardin
Committee On Nutrition and Human Needs
Department
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