Bombs in London injure 150 outside Old Bailey
Two car bombs exploded near the Old Bailey and Whitehall offices in London causing over 150 casualties. A third blast at Scotland Yard and a fourth defused on Dean Stanley Street followed warnings. Police blamed the Provisional IRA amid a Northern Ireland referendum context. St Bartholomew's Hospital received about 30 casualties.
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London
Old Bailey
Whitehall
Scotland Yard
Westminster
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
Irish Republic
Britain
Thames River
Phillip Reynolds
St. Bartholomew’s
The
London Times
Dean Stanley Street
Biggest Jump In Price Since Korea
Wholesale prices rose 1.9 percent in February, the sharpest increase since 1951, with farm products and processed foods up 3.9 percent and industrial raw materials up 1.0 percent. The report signals continued inflation pressure amid Nixon administration policy debates and reimposed controls on petroleum products.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Nixon
Organized Labor
Herbert Stein
Council of Economic Advisers
Cost of Living Council
Bureau
Open Sessions To Break Tradition
Jefferson City Missouri AP House Reorganization Committee votes to hold open discussion sessions breaking with prior closed meetings practice. Senate changes and administration concerns cited. Also reports on licensing bills and day care center licensing. birth notice for Laura Marie Fenlon. a dog licking a child anecdote.
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Jefferson City
House Reorganization Committee
Joe D. Holt
D-Fulton
House Committee
House
Richard Rabbitt
D-St. Louis
Senate
Charles Walier
Valier
Senate Reorganization Committee
House Committee On
Sunny
Frank Kostron
Dst. Louis
Coming Changes Need Zoning Speaker Says
In Audrain County residents heard planning specialist Robert C. Simonds urge county planning and zoning to guide rapid rural expansion. The April 24 vote would empower the county court to appoint a commission representing each township. The meeting highlighted pros and cons and stressed zoning as a tool for health and safety in land use.
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Robert C. Simonds
Mexico
Audrain Betterment Association
Simonds
University of Missouri
Paul A. Lutz
Don Schutte
ABA
Milton Wood
Fulton
Mid-Missouri Regional Planning Commission
Missouri
Midwest
Ilinois
Harshbarger Warns Senate on Farm Risk and Act Extension
Don Harshbarger of the Midcontinent Farmers Association told the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee that extending the 1970 Farm Act could be strengthened by higher price support loan rates and an emergency grain reserve. He farms 820 acres near Centralia Missouri and urged loan levels of 80.85 or 90 percent parity to guard against price volatility if demand falters.
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Washington (Ap
Senate Committee On Agriculture and Forestry
Midcontinent Farmers Association
Don Harshbarger
Harshbarger
MFA
Centralia
Indians Battle at Wounded Knee Escalates as Evacuations Begin
As federal deadline looms, women and children are being evacuated from Wounded Knee while militants reinforce their line. Seven former hostages were to join the exit, leaving only one priest inside. Federal officials call for nonresidents to depart by 8 p.m. EST and warn of arrest for remaining invaders.
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Wounded Knee
5.D
Justice Department
Paul Manhart
Carter Camp
American Indian Movement
FBI
Sioux Village
Ralph Frickson
U.S
AIM
Pine Ridge Reservation
Richard Wilson
Charles Soller
Interior Department
June 27 No. 1 In Unlikely Draft
The first standby draft lottery assigned number 1 to men born June 27 1954. Numbers 95 and lower will be classified for possible induction if needed next year, while higher numbers stay in H holding. The draw involved about two million 19 year olds subject to future drafting, with 20th birthday year serving as the calendar anchor.
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Washington
Selective Service
Byron V. Pepitone
Congress
Pepitone
Lottery Numbers by Month and Draw Totals
A compiled listing of monthly lottery numbers for each day of the year, with February through December showing varied numeric results. Despite OCR noise, the table presents daily draws and totals across months, reflecting the week by week sequence of numbers drawn.
Local Draft Office Serves Four Counties
Doris J. Holliday of the Audram County Selective Service Board announced that all 18 year olds must register for the draft though calls are unlikely. The local office will serve Monroe Montgomery Callaway and Audrain counties, part of a state consolidation from 112 offices to 26 while boards stay autonomous. The plan will take effect this year with yearly lottery numbers to sequence calls if emergencies arise, 18 year olds born in 1955 would register in 1973, receive numbers in 1974, and be eligible for induction in 1975.
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Doris J. Holliday
Audram County Selective Service Board
Monroe
Montgomery
Callaway
Audrain
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Conservative Party
Labor Party
the Times
Foreign Office
Alec Douglas- Home
National Guard
Jerry W. Simmons
Fifth Army
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
128Th Field Artillery
William R. Dearley
Richard Vance
Korea
Phil Scaglia
Kansas City
Kostron
Scaglia
Pauline Adams
Division of Welfare
Laura Marie Fenlon
Robert Fenlon
Churchill Pl
University Medical Center
Columbia
Laura Marie
E.H. Fenlon
LaPlata
William Orcutt
Kahokia
Fenlon
Legion Magazine
Charles Soler
U.S. Department of Interior
Pine Ridge
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