Pakistan Offers Top Job To Chief Of Bangladesh
Bangladesh leader Mujibur Rahman describes genocide by West Pakistani forces and the 1971 crackdown. He recounts torture, wartime arrest, and the collapse of communication and industry in East Pakistan. Bhutto’s India posture and regional seizures are noted. He warns of starvation and mass casualties amid ongoing conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Mujib
East Pakistan
West Pakistan
India
Swaran Singh
Bhutto
Legal challenge frames death penalty as violation of civic decency
Attorney Anthony G. Amsterdam argues the death penalty is a freakish, discriminatory act incompatible with democratic government. He represents Earnest James Aikens Jr. and William Henry Furman, while Branch of Texas and Lucious Jackson Jr. of Georgia face rape sentences. Citations note 1967 executions and uneven racial application.
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Anthony G. Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Stanford University
Earnest James Aikens Jr
California
William Henry Furman
Georgia
Elmer Branch
Texas
Lucious Jackson Jr
Branch
Melvyn Carson Bruder
Dallas
Jackson
Jack Greenberg
New York
Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund
United States
Colorado
Louis Jean Monge
High Court
Citizens Against
Florida
Ohio
Louisiana
Pickets plan delay as West Coast dock strike looms
Pickets agreed to delay the strike until 8 a.m. PST today after a yearlong stoppage began July 1. A Taft Hartley injunction halted it to Christmas, with 80 days cooling off, followed by PMA and ILWU consent to a temporary contract to Jan 10 and then through Sunday.
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Taft- Hartley
Counts
PMA
ILWU
Nixon
Congress
Seattle
San Diego
U S Forces Report Fresh Vietnam Attacks and Bombing
The enemy staged 20 ground assaults across central and northern South Vietnam, lifting seven day total to 190. An American helicopter was shot down near Da Nang, wounding nine more Americans and destroying or damaging three vehicles by mines on Highway 16. A grenade attack in Ban Me Thuot injured six, as B52 bombers delivered 450 tons in the central highlands. Lt Gen Ngo Dzu warned of Communist buildup in Binh Dinh and nearby border areas.
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Mand
South Vietnam
U.S. Command
da Nang
Highway 16
Saigon
Ban Me Thuot
Highlands
Kontum City
Binh Dinh
Ngo Dzu
U.S
Banker bought Ringling and Walters banks in past years
Graham said he bought the Ringling bank in January 1971 and the Walters bank in July 1968. As secretary treasurer of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority he noted none of his banks received Cimarron Turnpike bond proceeds last November. He said the best rate found was five and one eighth percent and that all state banks were invited to place funds on certificates of deposit. he did not place funds in his three banks.
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Graham
Ringling Bank
Walters Bank
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
Cimarron
Two Temporary Election Board Deputies Named
The county commissioners approved the appointment of two temporary deputies in the office of county election board secretary Mrs J N Logan. The appointees are Mrs Tom Reddell and Mrs Marshall Norman who will be paid 400 dollars monthly. Reddell and family recently moved to Lawton from Oklahoma City and reside in Wichita Mountains Estates. Norman and her husband live at 419 NW 57th in Lawton and have been residents for a year.
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J. N. Logan
County Election Board
Tom Reddell
Marshall Norman
Statewide fire warnings issued amid warm windy fall weather
The National Weather Service posted fire warnings for the state as warm temperatures and high winds raise fire danger. Western Oklahoma saw extreme danger while eastern areas faced very high risk. Winds of 20 to 30 mph from the south to southwest, with low humidity, prompted caution for wildfire spread.
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National Weather Service
Oklahoma
Lawton
Senator Butz defends new food stamp rules amid bipartisan pushback
Butz argues the changes prevent hardship for food stamp participants while 28 senators from both parties had urged withdrawal of the regulations. Earlier, 15 state officials meeting in Hartford appealed to delay the regulations.
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Butz
Hartford
Conn
Agriculture Department
Group Installs New Officers at Lawton Chapter 167
Kenneth D. Moncrief $10 Park was installed president of Lawton Chapter 167, National Association of Retired Federal Employees, in ceremonies at the Museum of the Great Plains Saturday. Perry Willis of Snyder served as installing officer with officers installing for one year including Mrs. Howard Troop first vice president DePorter Burr second vice president Melvin E. Craig chaplain H. H. Kniffin parliamentarian and Miss Catherine Stolfa secretary treasurer. James Rorick is out going president.
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Kenneth D. Moncrief
Lawton
National Association of
Museum of the Great Plains
Perry Willis
Snyder
Oklahoma Association of Retired Federal
Howard Troop
Five Protesters Free On Bond
Five of fifteen protesters jailed last Friday at Shoemaker Education Center posted bond by noon today. The rest await the $400 bond to gain release as pleas of innocent were entered. trials set for January 25 on trespassing and disobeying a lawful order.
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Shoemaker Education Center
Bill Hensley
Cornell Mikey Tahdouahnippah
Hobart
Scott Rogers Cade
Frances Wise
Roosevelt Elementary
Pryor Man Dies After Cliff Fall At Lake Hudson
Arch Troy White, 73, died Sunday after slipping from a cliff above Lake Hudson while attempting to repair frozen pipes. The Pryor man, a retired aircraft plant worker, apparently fell when a safety rope broke during the attempt near his lakeside home.
Pleasant Valley Land Purchases Rewrite Neighborhood Landscape
Redevelopment plans include 50 units of public housing for the elderly and two new parks for Pleasant Valley and Rose Hill. Lawton Public Housing Authority buys 27.5 acres, with improved land for housing the poor and elderly. Ira Finley and James Robertson acquired blocks for shopping facilities on Lee Boulevard. LURA plans two more blocks for commercial development. Water lines, storm drainage, and paving work proceed along South 13th 14th Place and Lee Boulevard.
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Lawton
LURA
South 13Th
South 14Th Place
Monroe
Garfield Avenues
Stock Mart Edges Up as Markets Creep Higher
New York stocks rose cautiously with the Dow at 906.38 after a 0.3 point drop as analysts cited selective buying offsetting profit-taking. Banks and consumer sectors showed mixed movement while cattle and hog markets in Oklahoma City posted gains in slaughter categories.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Oklahoma City
Court rules on New Jersey school desegregation challenge
The Supreme Court, in an 8 to 1 ruling with Justice Douglas dissenting, upheld a lower court dismissal of a claim that New Jersey schools are unconstitutional due to minority student percentages. The decision agains t claims of racial imbalance cites housing patterns rather than discrimination.
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New Jersey
William C. Douglas
TV violence study finds limited impact on public aggression
A panel report based on 40 experiments and surveys notes aggression links to parental attitudes but says policy changes on TV balance would not easily curb violence. It argues viewers select violent material and general censorship would have wide, often undesirable, effects. The study also reports no overall rise in TV violence from 1967 to 1969, though fatalities and principal character violence declined.
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Yahya Khan
Dacca
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Sheik
Mubashir Hassan
Singh
Mata Ae National Bank
Kenneth Moncrief
Pryor Man
Pleasant Valley
Rose Hill
Gaskins
Stock Mart
Bankers Trust Co
State Department of Agriculture
Keyes
Liberal
Perryton
Alva
Manchester
Medford
Clinton
Kingfisher
Okeene
Watonga
Weatherford
Afton
el Reno
Geary
Yukon
Altus
Enid
Hillsdale
Temple
Gulf
Barley
Mangum
MILO
Supreme Court
District Court
Richmond
U.S. District Court
Robert R. Merhige
Richmond Area
Denver
Ial
Jaycees
Constitution & Press Circulation
ANDA
Dial
Southwest
Lawton Evening Constitution
D Avenue
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