Experts Seek Way To Stop Drunk Drivers
Washington reports experts argue the alcoholic driver, not the social drinker, causes most traffic fatalities. Proposals include physician reporting of alcoholism, restricted licenses, life-insurance rules, and rehabilitation measures to remove alcoholics from highways.
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Noted Coast Physicist Given Medal
President Nixon awarded the National Medal of Science to six researchers including Dr. Wolfgang Kurt Herman Panofsky of Stanford University. Panofsky, 50, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, was honored for probing elementary particles of matter. He led SLAC from 1958 to 1961 and oversaw the $114 million facility's completion.
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Young Scientists Criticize Elders at AAAS Meeting
A Boston panel of young scientists denounces corporate influence in science at the AAAS annual convention. MIT and Harvard students condemn industry driven drug research, IBM computer systems harming competition, and NASA as a military focused subsidy program. They urge political solutions and protest Vietnam War era policies.
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YPI
Allen S. Weinrug
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
American Association For the Advancement of Science
AAAS
Weinrug
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MIT
Stephen J. Carak Jr
International Business Machines
IBM
Rick Paul
Department of Biophysics
Stephen Kaiser
Mechanical Engineering Department
U.S. Space Agency
NASA
National Aerospace Subsidy Administration
Moon Landing Tops 1969 News Polls by Editors Worldwide
European editors rate manned lunar landing as 1969's leading story with De Gaulle's resignation, Song My Massacre disclosure, Brandt's election and SALT talks among top items. Asian list places Vietnam War and Paris peace talks near the top. Latin American picks focus on rising military regimes and regional unrest.
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Willy Brandt
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Mark
Vietnam
Ulster
Nixon
Paris
United States
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Tan Duc Thang
Song My
Edward M. Kennedy
Caappaquiddick
U.s.-Russia
Per
Bolivia
Latin America
U.S
de Gaulle
Brandt
Open Housing Law Extended Adds Coverage to Single Family Homes
Washington reports the 1968 Civil Rights Act extends open housing protections to single family houses sold or rented via brokers. HUD says about 34.9 million more units fall under the act, with total coverage rising from 53.4 million of 69 million housing units to broader inclusion. The act first took effect April 11, 1968 covering one million federally assisted units, and by January 1, 1969 coverage reached 17.5 million units, mainly multiunit dwellings.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Pakistan on the road back to constitutional government in 1970
Under military rule Pakistan edges toward a constitutional framework. Yahya Khan seeks to calm unrest after Ayub Khan and amid East Pakistan demands. Elections are scheduled for Oct. 5, 1970, with reforms including higher East Pakistan representation and four new provinces.
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Agha Mohammed
Yahya Khan
Yahya Kahn
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Punjab
Northwest Frontier
Baluchistan
New Zealand Builds Its First Aluminum Smelter
New Zealand plans its first aluminum smelter at the Bluff port on the South Island. The plant will process alumina imported from Australia and is expected to meet domestic demand with a surplus for export after importing more than $6 million worth of aluminum in the last fiscal year.
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