Marines Accused of Racial Quotas In Recruiting
A UPI report details congressional testimony by Reginald Brown alleging Marine Corps used secret race quotas to limit Black enlistees and offset shortfalls by accepting lower quality White recruits. Brown cited test score manipulation and raised questions about racial targets in fiscal 1975.
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UPI
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Defense Manpower Commission
Brown
House Military Manpower Subcommittee
World Food Conference warned of mass starvation
Clifton Wharton Jr. of Michigan State University warned that millions may die of starvation in the next decade due to food deficits and runaway population growth. He urged urgent action to bring excessive population under control.
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Ames
Iowa
Clifton Wharton Jr
Michigan State University
California Crisis Bill Shapes SACRAMENTO
Legislative conferees shaped a short term crisis bill to aid schools and break a stalemate on the stalled 12.86 billion state budget. The Senate Assembly conference committee met off and on and adjourned with only general agreement on a school assistance concept. Senate leaders Sen Albert Rodda and Assemblyman Leroy Greene indicated willingness to discuss a compromise while the Serrano case awaits a court ruling.
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Senate Assembly
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Albert Rodda
Leroy Greene
Senator Says Wiretap Bill a Bummer Sparks Civil Liberties Fears
Senator John V. Tunney assailed a new wiretap bill as ambiguous and risky, warning it could enable eavesdropping on U.S. citizens and blur lines between neighbors in a Nazi Germany echo. Kennedy defended the measure as a needed safeguard for foreign intelligence surveillance.
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UPI
John V. Tunney
California
Democrat
Intelligence Oversight Committee
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Executive Branch
Tunney
Nazi Germany
National Security Agency
U S considers Mexican prisoner exchange proposal
A U S State Department official said Washington will seriously weigh Mexico’s proposal to exchange prisoners. Deputy Assistant Secretary William H Luers told a House subcommittee the issue sits within broader U S Mexican relations amid hundreds of Americans jailed in Mexico largely for drug offenses. He noted U S concerns over prison conditions and said Washington has decided to pursue the exchange idea with Mexico.
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UPI
United States
Henry Kissinger
State Department
William H. Luers
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Mexico
Luers
House International Military and Political Affairs Subcommittee
Kissinger
Longet Trial Faces Suppression Hearings In Colorado
Aspen Colorado Tuesday district attorney Frank Tucker said suppression of evidence in the Vladimir Spider Sabich shooting could affect Longet's felony manslaughter case. A diary and hospital blood test results may be excluded. He said the diary details a deteriorating relationship with Sabich. Longet has pleaded not guilty and faces an August 20 trial.
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Colo
UPI
Frank Tucker
Vladimir
Sabich
Claudine Longet
Tucker
Charles Needman
George Mohr
Miss Longet
Andy Williams
Needman
Mother cries for justice after Marine drill death
Betty McClure Calhoun, mother of Pvt. Lynn McClure, expresses anger and faith in punishment for drill instructor S. Sgt Harold Bronson, acquitted of all charges in the pugil stick death during December training. She says Marines should have stood by Lynn and laments the outcome.
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Texas
UPJ
Marine Corps
Betty McClure Calhoun
Lynn McClure
Harold Bronson
McClure
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