Laird Announces 1.25 Million Defense Job Cuts Planned
Secretary Melvin Laird says the forthcoming fiscal 1971 budget will eliminate about 1.25 million military and civilian defense jobs. He notes reductions include 300,000 military personnel and 72,000 civilian posts, with further cuts in government civilian and private defense employment. He stresses inflation control and that the budget aims for a credible, prudent defense level while acknowledging impact on national security.
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Laird
Los Angeles
UPI
Defense Department
Melvin R. Laird
Congress
Pentagon
Birth control pill viewed as long term cancer risk study
Medical authorities testified before a Senate panel that it may take five to ten years to know if birth control pills cause cancer. Nine million U S women use the pill with twenty million worldwide. some experts urge banning sequential pills and favor other methods until long term effects are clear.
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William B. Mead
Washington
UPI
Hugh J. Davis
Johns Hopkins University
United States
Subcommittee
Nelson
Roy Hertz
National Cancer Institute
Rockefeller University
New York City
FDA
Advisory Committee On Obstetrics and Gynecology
Five U.S. planes down weekly in Laos secret war sources say
Allied sources report 290 to 300 U.S. planes lost since Nov 1 1968 as Communist gunners deploy new missiles and anti aircraft guns in Laos. Up to 150 American airmen are prisoners while Pathet Lao claims over 100 war criminals. Two operations Steel Tiger and Barrel Roll target the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Laos
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Pathet Lao
Thailand
My Lai
MIT Waits Out Demonstrators At President’s Office
About 40 demonstrators occupied MIT President Howard W. Johnson’s offices in Cambridge. Dan Niehart read a trespass warning via bullhorn and said protesters would be considered trespassers if they stayed. The group had seized the offices on Thursday amid tense stand-off and noisy exchanges.
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Cambridge, Mass
UPI
Howard W. Johnson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dan Niehart
Niehart
Johnson
Pressure kept on peace talk
United States and South Vietnam will continue pressuring Communist negotiators to agree to semi secret Vietnam peace talks. Allied sources say restricted sessions may break the year long deadlock as open meetings remain the Communist stance.
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Ray F. Herndon
Paris
UPI
United States
South Vietnam
Vietnam
UC tuition hike proposed to fund future students
University of California President Charles Hitch asks the Board of Regents to raise tuition to 480 for 1970 71 and 660 for 1971 72 with nonresident charges near 1860. Total revenue 18.6 million next year and 38 million the following year funds aid services and capital outlay. Also reports on UC student papers note mixed quality amid criticism. Intermittent rain and strong southerly winds forecast with tides and small craft warnings.
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Los Angeles
UPI
University of California
Charles J. Hitch
Board of Regents
Hitch
California
Regents
Observers Say No Genocide Seen in Biafra War Zones
A foreign observer team invited by Nigeria reported no evidence of genocide or mass starvation in the newly liberated areas near Owerri Aba and Umuahia. They warned their tour was brief and admitted seeing only refugees in towns and on roads, not in rural bush areas.
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Lagos
UPS
John L. Drewy
Canada
Biafra
Drewy
Yngve Berglund
Sweden
Douglas Cairns
Britain
Col
Jozef Biernacki
Poland
Owerri
Aba
Umuahia
Port Harcourt
White House says inflation curbs working
The Nixon administration claims inflation controls are beginning to work as Commerce Department data show slower gains in the wholesale and consumer price indices in late 1969. Personal income rose minimally last month, and GNP for Q4 1969 showed no growth.
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Norman Kempster
Washington
UPI
White House
Nixon
Pres
Ronald L. Ziegler
Commerce Department
Ziegler
Rainy Valley Storm Totals Rise in Lompoc Area
Rain showers drenched Lompoc Valley with 1.37 inches in the storm and 5.37 inches for the season. Runoff swollen ditches and river flow as Cachuma Dam rose to 6.69 feet below the spill point while inflow modestly affected lake volume. No injuries or incidents reported.
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Lompoc Valley
Santa Ynez
Cachuma Dam
Cachuma
Cachuma Lake
Teller backs atomic blast for super canal plan
Dr Edward Teller, Berkeley physicist and father of the H bomb, endorsed the idea of using nuclear explosives to build an interoceanic canal across Central America. He dismissed opposition as short sighted and warned against excessive conservatism in engineering projects.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UPI
Edward Teller
Teller
University of California At Berkeley
Central America
Agnew heckled in New Zealand amid protest and threat arrest
In Auckland vice president Spiro Agnew faced the harshest heckling of his Asia Pacific tour as crowds of about 500 clashed with police outside the hotel. A man, Sydney James Clarke Arthur, 32, was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Agnew and underwent a mental exam. Agnew defended U.S. noninvolvement in Southeast Asian defense and downplayed any nuclear shield plans for Australia and New Zealand.
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Auckland
New Zealand
UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
Keith J. Holyoake
Agnew
Holyoake
Waikato
Angew
Asia
Pacific
Sydney
James Clarke Arthur
United States
Australia
Singapore
Vietnam
America
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