Cattlemen Decry Boycott Hurting US Beef Industry
Kansas City AP report shows Midwest cattlemen calling the national housewives meat boycott unfair and dangerous amid a severe winter. They warn prices vary, sale volumes fall, and packers struggle as mud and feed costs rise, with potential layoffs and milder market effects uncertain.
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Kansas City
National Housewives
Bill House
Cedarvale
Kan
Bob Thomas
Kansas City Livestock Exchange
Jim Marshall
Marshall
Kansas City Exchange
Okarche
Okla
National Feeder Services
American Beef Council
Herb Redley
Oklahoma City
Ray Davis
Grand Union Cuts Meat Prices Amid Boycott
Meat prices fell in one major chain breaking from the Nixon era ceilings by at least 10 cents a pound across beef pork lamb and veal through April. Grand Union says the move was triggered by the boycott and notes limited impact on others while retailers report mixed effects on sales and some rising trade prices. Public notices of price ceilings begin Monday as Fight Inflation Together vows to continue actions including weekly boycotts on select days.
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House
Murray Wood
LaMonte
New York
Davis
Marshall
Midwest
Associated Press
Grand Union Co
Rand 'Union
Charles G.rodman
Grand Union
Kansas
National Beef Packing Co
Liberal
Kan
New York State
State Department of Agriculture
Seattle
Safeway Stores Inc
Nixon
Fight
FIT
Teachers Ordered To Pay Fine
In St. Louis the Teachers Association must pay 540000 and the Teachers Union 140000 after a 28 day strike violated a court order. Judge McGuire has not ruled on requests to reduce the fines, while the board and unions debate how the fines might be worked off through summer service or an after school tutoring program.
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ST. Louis
St. Louis Teachers Association
Violet No 1 dye banned in foods and cosmetics
The FDA ruled Violet No 1 as a cancer suspect and forbids its use in foods drugs cosmetics and meat marking. US industry will shift to alternatives including Red No 2 and tagging while USDA adopts other marking methods. Sanctioned studies from Japan and Russia influenced the decision amid reproduction risk concerns.
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Washington
U.S
Food and Drug Administration
Agriculture Department
USDA
FDA
Japan
United States
Harry C. Mussman
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Food and Drug
Mussman
Bedfast widower attends wife's funeral after fatal crash
Independence, Missouri AP report details Howard Peel, 38, bedridden with cancer since January, to attend his wife Frances Peel's funeral and burial in Marshall, while their children, ages 8 to 17, cope at home. Frances died when she crashed into a utility pole while en route to pick up cancer medications.
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Independence, Mo
Howard Peel
Independence
Marshall
Frances Peel
Peels
Peel
Guy
Dean Won't Testify On Privilege
Washington AP The White House lawyer John W. Dean III refused to testify before a House panel on executive privilege despite rules limiting questions. Dean cited duty to perform official duties and declined the March 23 invitation from Reps. Moorhead and Erlenborn.
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John W. Dean III
House
Department of Justice
Dean
House Government Information Subcommittee
William S. Moorhead
Dpa
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John N. Erlenborn
R-Ill
GOP
Congress
Moorhead
Erlenborn
Nixon
Chinese Tortured US Airman recounts 70 years of captivity
Air Force Maj. Philip E. Smith, shot down over Hainan Island in 1985, says he was tortured and harassed during 70 years in Canton and Peking prisons. He alleges three bouts of “torture cuffs” and forced confession after being subjected to propaganda broadcasts about Nixon and Kissinger.
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Air Force
Philip E. Smith
Canton
Peking
China
Nixon
Henry A. Kissinger
Smith
Hainan Island
Kissinger
Roadhouse
Meeting Set For Indians And Officials WOUNDED KNEE
An entourage of Indians and attorneys heads to Washington to discuss a presidential treaty commission and end to the Wounded Knee siege. Russell Means and AIM leaders accompany officials in talks with Leonard Garment. Means faces multiple charges, released on $25,000 bond after a rapid city arraignment.
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Wounded Knee
Washington
Russell Means
American Indian Movement
Leonard Crow Dog
AIM
Ramon Roubideaux
Torrenzo Bad Cobb
Rapid City
Pine Ridge
Justice Department
White House
Means
S.C
U.S
James Wilson
Wounded Knee talks yield small victory for Sioux leaders
Means and other signatories described a six point agreement as a preliminary win in the Indians war with the United States over treaty rights. The pact would allow traditional Sioux chiefs to meet with the White House under the 1868 treaty. Frizzell called no side winner as AIM held the village and 11 federal warrants were issued. Hostages, mostly elderly, were freed within days though many stayed longer with personal belongings.
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Wounded Knee
Clyde Bellecourt
Carter Camp
Pedro Bissonnette
Means
United States
White House
Frizzell
AIM
Delay Seeks Move of Trial to Cole County
Jefferson City Missouri APDelay requests change of venue for Dallas Ray Delay 33 in the slayings of southeast Missouri banker Robert R Kitterman his wife Bertha and daughter Roberta. Victims found tied to trees after Kitterman withdrew 9811 from Grandin bank. Also charged are Lloyd D Cowlin Jerry W Rector all from Van Buren. Kidnapping and bank robbery charges filed in Carter County. Doyle G Cowlin charged as accessory to armed robbery. Delay held at state prison for protection.
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Jefferson City
Cole County
Ripley County
Dallas Ray Delay
Missouri
Robert R. Kitterman
Kitterman
Bertha
Roberta Kitterman
Grandin
McCord to Tell Watergate Story After Immunity Grant
James W. McCord once security chief for Nixon, granted immunity to testify about political espionage and the June 17 Democratic headquarters break in. He said he would speak to newsmen in an on the record press conference before Senate hearings likely next week.
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James W. McCord
Nixon
Democratic National
Os McCord
Senate
McCord
Sen. George
McGovern
Miami
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
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