Grain Sales To Arabs May Double
U.S. wheat and grain exports to the Mideast may double this fiscal year, with projected sales near 800 million dollars. Agriculture Department analyst John B. Parker cited rising prices and higher import needs in Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran, noting no embargo impact.
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U.S
Mideast
Agriculture Department
John B. Parker
Department
Economic Research Service
Egypt
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Parker
USDA
Lebanon
Jordan
Israel
High School Students Rally Over Smoking Lounge Request
About 200 Pattonville Senior High School students staged a one hour sit down to protest a school board refusal to authorize a student smoking lounge. Principal Ken Buhlig asked the Pattonville Maryland Heights School Board to permit the lounge but was denied. The group circulated a petition urging repeal of the law barring under 18s from smoking in public places. The school has roughly 2,500 students in this St. Louis suburb.
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Maryland Heights
Pattonville Senior High School
Ken Buhlig
Pattonville- Maryland Heights
St. Louis
FTC Probing Plan for Large Hog Farm in Missouri
Senator Tom Eagleton says the FTC is examining a proposed massive hog farm in Clark County Missouri. A Senate antitrust subcommittee may hold hearings, and the Justice Department has advised the FTC it does not plan action for now. University economists are studying the proposal.
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Clark County
Federal Trade Commission
Tom Eagleton
D-Mo
Senate
Eagleton
Justice Department
FTC
Senate Antitrust Subcommittee
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Stuart Symington
Missouri Foods International Inc
Missouri
Cosi Fan Tutte Set For April at University Hall Theatre
University of Missouri Opera production class presents Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte at the old Hall Theatre on Cherry Streets. Performances run April 3 4 and 5 starting at 7 30 p m. Local readers are invited to attend the spring production.
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University of Missouri Opera
Old Hall Theatre
Cherry Streets
California Needy Split Over SLA Hearst Food Ransom
San Francisco reports poll of Californians on the SLA demand to feed the poor with 70 dollars per person. Some reject the food as coercive while others see benefit despite the crime. Notable quotes reflect mixed views from Ed Roberts Helen Little and residents of Los Angeles Inglewood and San Mateo.
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San Francisco
California
Patricia Hearst
Miss Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
Ed Roberts
Berkeley
Coalition For Social Rights
Helen Little
Northern
William Dirstime
Los Angeles
SLA
Saigonese Battle Along Delta Highway
Saigon, South Vietnam—Fifty seven Viet Namese were killed in fighting along the main highway from Saigon through the Mekong Delta Wednesday, the Saigon military command said today. South Vietnamese officials said the Communists initiated the attacks and are trying to disrupt Saigon's already frail economy by keeping rice from the city's markets.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Mekong Delta
Court Ruling Allows Girl on Boys Cross Country Team
A Champaign circuit court judge ruled that girl athletes may compete with boys in non contact sports on Illinois high school teams when no girls’ team exists. Diane Bell, 15, was allowed to run for Urbana High School’s cross country team, with the court barring IHSA removal and finding several IHSA rules unconstitutional including coaching by women and uniform and trophy pricing restrictions.
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Ill
Illinois
Roger S. Little
Urbana High School
Diane Bell
Illinois High School Association
IHSA
Little
Ilinois
Mexico Ledger Boys Lead Cross Country Team
Miss Brown filed suit in March and the case went to trial last fall as she and two other girls ran on the school's cross country team under a ledger report.
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Miss Brown
Judge Nixes Track Eligibility Rule for Girls’ Team
Thursday February 14 1974 temporary court order involved Miss Brown seeking to run on the school track team. Judge Littlé ruled that with the school already maintaining a girls’ track team his ruling does not apply to her case.
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Brown
Littlé
Algerian Leader Urges Saudi Oil Embargo Stand
Algerian President Boumedienne reportedly urged King Faisal of Saudi Arabia to maintain the oil embargo against the United States. Hints from a meeting with Egyptian and Syrian leaders indicated the four Arab chiefs viewed an end to the embargo as surrender to American threats.
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L Algiers
Houari Boumedienne
Faisal
Saudi Arabia
United States
Egypt
Syria
el Moudjahid
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Mike Dawson
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