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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1971
Page
4
The National Highway Safety Bureau reports 99,300 traffic deaths in 1970, down 1,100 from 1969, the first decline since 1967 when safety standards began. Experts credit seat belts, collapsible steering wheels, and padded interiors, while noting interstate highways and roadside safety devices also helped.
UPI reports Judge Richard B. Austin dismissed the suit by the ACLU Illinois chapter and others charging Army civilian surveillance violated rights. He called the program a waste of taxpayers money yet ruled no constitutional breach. Edward M. Kennedy was hospitalized for back injury tests after a 1964 plane crash.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover reported continued threats from racial disorders police attacks and subversive activity in 1970 with a decline in school racial incidents. He cited 160 disorders in secondary schools this year vs 299 previously and noted Black Panthers caused multiple police deaths and injuries. He highlighted organized crime convictions and leaders arrested.
Four FLQ members Jacques Rose Paul Rose Francis Simard and Bernard Lortie faced formal charges for the kidnapping and murder of Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte last fall. They were ordered to appear in court to set a trial date while a coroner's inquest revealed Simard's unsigned statement claiming the Rose brothers strangled Laporte with his religious medal chain on October 17 after his kidnapping on October 10.
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