Frontier justice and guns rise with Texas crime wave
A United Press International roundup notes eight criminals shot in a week as more Texans, from bank clerks to motel managers, arm themselves. Police and critics debate frontier justice, dangers of violence, and the need to protect property and lives amid rising robberies.
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Texas
United Press International
UPI
ZA. Booth
Irt
Riesel
Dallas
Aangover
Southwest
Bleeding Hearts
Detroit
New York
Butz May Butz A Few Critics
Secretary of Agriculture Karl Butz signals a prominent role in Republican farm policy campaigns next year. He faces Democratic opposition during confirmation battles and expects to defend Nixon era farm policies before Farm Belt constituencies. He stresses a balanced view of farmers from small to large amid political pressure.
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Karl Butz
Doctor Buzz
Walter Hickel
Senate
Hickel
Butz
Associated Press
Purdue
Doubtful Safety in Head On Crashes Across Car Sizes
Test results from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety show small cars suffer more damage than large cars in head on crashes at 40 to 50 mph. Belts failed in all trials, with lap and shoulder restraints tearing or breaking, prompting calls for more dependable safety harness design as small cars rise to 30 percent of sales by 1980.
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Insurance Institute For Highway Safety
William Haddon, Jr
Institute
Hartke declares presidential bid despite slim odds
Indiana Senator Vance Hartke announces a Democratic bid for the presidency aiming at New Hampshire first. He portrays himself as a liberal alternative to McGovern, cites antiwar credentials, and forms Hartke for President clubs in three states while facing questions over campaign financing and Senate reelection.
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Washington
Indiana
Vance Hartke
Hartke
Fred Slarris
Harold Hughes
New Hampshire
Florida
Edmund Muskie
Los Angeles
Sam Yorty
George McGovern
Yorty
McGovern
California
New York
Charles Roche
Roche
Democratic National Committee
White House
Harris
Ashbrook challenge seen as minor threat to Nixon
Washington insiders view Ashbrook as a limited threat to Nixon in the New Hampshire primary, with conservative backers and the Devine group shaping expectations. Other political maneuvers involve Muskie Rizzo talks and Linowitz advising Chilean Allende regime amid broader liberal agitation.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
John Ashbrook
Ohio
Ashbrook
Paul N.peter McCloskey
California
New Hampshire
Ashbrok
William Loeb
Manchester
McCloskey
Ronsli N
California and Sons
Stromp Thurmond
South Carolina
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
John Tower
Texas
House
Sam Devine
Republican House
Devine
Mr. Ni
Florida
L. EB
Tommy Thomas
Chile
Sol M. Linowitz
U.S
Organization of American States
Johnson
Salvador Allende
Justice Department
Linowitz
Lanewite
Allende
Pass It On Peculiarly and Social Notes
L M Boyd humor column explores dating odds for rich versus poor single women citing Dr Paul Glick. It quips about extinctions of living things and jokes about dragsters surpassing cheetahs. It ends with a Mars intelligence quip and an address in Fort Worth Texas.
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Paul Glick
Bureau of Census
Hollywood Screen Heroes
Budapest Fliers Convicted by Hungarian Military Court
Four American airmen were convicted by a Hungarian military court for border violations and fined 360,004 forints about $20,000. A government statement said they confessed and accepted the verdict.
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Lubbork Avalanche
Budapest
Hungary
The Three Wise Men and Their Colossal Relics
The article traces the legend of the Magi who visited Jesus, notes scholarly debates on the Star of Bethlehem, and chronicles the claimed journey of their relics. It follows how Empress Helena, Crusaders, and Barbarossa moved bones to Milan and finally Cologne, where relics rest in a velvet chapel.
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Washington
Jesus
Bethlehem
Jerusalem
Matthew
Cologne
Sand
Joe
Herod
St. Thomas
India
Helena
Constantine the Great
St. Sophia
Constantinople
Milan
Frederick
Barbarossa
Christmas ecology debate from Environmental Quality issue
A Virginia Payette column critiques the magazine Environmental Quality and its Christmas season push for ecological awareness. It highlights pollution dangers, endangered species, and messaging like grim posters and bumper stickers, then contrasts with cheerful Santa imagery and holiday tradition.
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Santa
Environmental Quality
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Americans For Democratic Action
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Robert Novak
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