Veterans protest at mall tests access for antiwar groups
Nearly 1 000 veterans in khakis remain at a Washington mall camp as a court order bans overnight tents and fires. Leaders warn of arrests while lawmakers seek alternative lodging as demonstrations cross into the day’s actions and Pentagon talks continue.
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Navy
J.G
John Kerry
Yale University
Clark
Burger
Justice Department
Capitol Grounds
Lincoln Memorial
al Hubbard
Air Force
Veterans Group
Congress
High Court
William O. Douglas
Pentagon
Calley
Daniel ‘‘Chappie
James
William C. Westmoreland
Army
U.S
Vietnam
William L.) Calley
Sam Schorr
Los Angeles
Daniel Z. Henkin
Schorr
George Perkins
Washington, D.C
Inflation slowdowns in March report details
The March consumer price index shows prices 4.6 percent higher than a year earlier with a reduced inflation pace from 5.5 percent in 1970. Commodities besides food rose 0.3 percent, consumer services up 0.2 percent, mortgage rates pulling the index down by an estimated 0.2 percent. Used cars rose 1.2 percent while new car prices fell 0.8 percent and gasoline dropped 0.2 percent nationally.
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Labor Department
Watchables rating kit targets unwary girls in suggestive scheme
A pocket size ACTION LINE column describes a girl watcher program using a rating card and sticky back pins to designate members of the Watchables auxiliary to Girl Watchers. The piece quotes critics and outlines complaints about trash on Long Beach docks and DIY divorce books as practical responses.
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Watchables
Reagin
Long Beach
Long Beach Marine Department
Larry McDowell
McDowell
Marina
Action Lime
T. S
Action Line
California
Walter T. Winter
Harry Koch
Legal Book Store
W. Second St
Los Angeles
Calif
Boggs to tell House of tapped home phone last summer
Louisiana Congressman Hale Boggs, House majority leader, will say a Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co investigator found a home telephone tap in Bethesda Maryland last summer and then removed it before inspection. He notes the company report says no tap, and cites FBI policy to deny taps.
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Washington
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
House
Bethesda
Chesapeak & Potomac Telephone Co
Boggs
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Heublein
H.E. Rasske
Kennedy accuses U S of bloodbath in Indochina hearings
Senator Edward M. Kennedy said the United States was part of a Indochina bloodbath with refugees and civilian casualties rising across Cambodia Laos and Vietnam. He cited refugee totals and deaths while opening judiciary refugee subcommittee hearings on the war and refugee crisis.
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Washington
Edward M. Kennedy
United States
Indochina
Cambodia
Laos
Vietnam
Senate
Kennedy
Massachusetts Democrat
South Vietnam
Judiciary
Nixon
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Capitol Hill
America
State Department
McCloskey
U.S. Information Service
USTS
Plain of Jars
Torrance Tot Drowns in Home Pool
A 16 month old Torrance boy named Jason Beaman died after being found at the bottom of a deep end pool in an apartment house. Police say Marilyn Beaman 22 locked both doors before she and the child naped. He was dead on arrival at 1 30 PM at Little Company of Mary Hospital Torrance.
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Torrance
Jason Beaman
Marilyn Beaman
Garnett Ave
Apt
Little Company of Mary Hospital
Wilmington cycle crash kills L.A. man
One man died and another was injured in a motorcycle crash near Harbor College in Wilmington. Patricio E. Duenas, 30, of Los Angeles, died at Harbor General Hospital. Robert Taylor Jr., 25, of Hollywood, was treated and released.
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Harbor College
Wilmington
Patricio E. Duenas
Los Angeles
Harbor General Hospital
Robert Taylor Jr
Hollywood
Earth Day draws pledges and rhetoric nationwide
High officials and citizens pledged action to keep the earth livable on Earth Day. President Nixon proclaimed a nationwide observance, while figures like Interior Secretary Morton urged systemic change. Sen Gaylord Nelson pushed legislation to curb pesticides and herbicides. A Taos architect proposed can-beam buildings from beer cans, as Taos News highlights pollution focus. Citizens statewide joined cleanup efforts and seed giveaways.
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Nixon
Interior
Rogers C. B. Morton
White House
Estes Park
Colo
Mike Reynolds
Taos, N.M
Taos
Espan+ola sand
Albuquerque
N.M
Baltimore Citizens Planning and Housing Association
Maryland
University of Baltimore Law School
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Shirley Chisholm
New York
Northland
North Korea
Law Books
The
Supreme Court
Combined News Services
Washington Star
Tammy Arbuckle
Associated Press
Agence France Presse
Bangkok Post
Irwin Block
Max Coiffait
Carl Strock
Associate Press
Torrance Tot
L.A
Earth Day
United Press International
Gaylord Nelson
Dwis
Boystown
Neb
Nelson
Brass Monkey
Imperial Secret Service
W.w.ii
Midwest
Kara-kiri
Macao
1942
China
Imperial Majesty
Inn
Hartford
Conn
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