Mexican land expropriation plan halted in Sinaloa protests
In Culiacan hundreds of peasants abandon camps as President Echeverria delays expropriation of 33 345 acres in Sinaloa to calm tensions before Lopez Portillo takes office. Landowners defend ownership while workers seek stricter limits on farm holdings and a fair distribution.
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Culiacan
Mexico
Luis Echeverria
Jose Lopez Portillo
Sinaloa
Arizona
Gilberto Franco Felix
Alfonso Calderon
Carlos Sparrow
Sinales
Sonora
East Germany Offers $1 Million WWII Compensation to U S Jews
Vienna AP reports Simon Wiesenthal decried East Germany's onetime offer as absurdly small and a mockery to Nazi victims. He noted 12,000 East Germans convicted for Nazi crimes and contrasted West Germany's $25 billion in reparations. ADN cited a committee proposal but did not confirm the sum, while the Claims Conference in Geneva rejected the amount.
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Vienna
Austria
Jewish Documentation Center
U.S
Simon Wiesenthal
Communist Party
Erich Honecker
Wiesenthal
East Germany
West Germany
ADN
The
Jewish Claims, Conference In
Geneva
Nellie Ross 100th Birthday marked by Wyoming letters
Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman governor, turns 100 as Wyoming students flood her with birthday notes. She recalls her 1924 election and two years as governor, later directing the U S Mint from 1933 to 1953, a milestone in women’s equality debates.
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Washington
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Wyoming
U.S. Mint
Ross
Yellowstone National Park
Equality
Cochairman
Democratic
William B. Ross
Black Lawyer Can Practice After 8 Years
Virgil Hawkins, aged 70, wins Florida Supreme Court approval to practice law without taking the state bar. He faced eight years of appeals after being denied admission to the University of Florida law school for being Black. The court cited a conscience claim and diploma privilege from his New England School of Law degree.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
Florida Supreme Court
Virgil Hawkins
Hawkins
University of Florida Law School
State Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
New England School of Law
New England School
Survivors Seek Swine Flu Shots in Danville Clinic
Vermonters remembering the 1918 19 influenza plague lined up for free vaccines as officials reported a Missouri swine flu scare. Florence Beck 67 recalled horse drawn hearses and canceled football while her husband Theodore noted the town’s many losses. State director David Scott said over 60 percent of high risk seniors have been immunized with two weeks left in the program.
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Danville
Florence Beck
State Health Department
Theodore
St. Johnsbury Academy
Vermont
Beck
West Danville
Samuel Slater
Pawtucket
R.I
Missouri
Scott
In Hospital Barnard Martin In Critical Condition
Barnard Martin, brother of Mrs. Bessie Copeland, both of Kansas City, is in critical condition in a cancer hospital in Kansas City. Mrs. Copeland and Mr. Martin were formerly of Mexico.
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Barnard Martin
Bessie Copeland
Kansas City
Poison Kills 600 Birds In Calif City
In San Luis Obispo nearly 600 pigeons and blackbirds lay dead in the streets over three days after a street sweeper found a large cluster downtown. City officials and state experts say poisoning is likely though a definitive cause has not been determined.
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San Luis Obispo
Calif
David Romero
Public Service
Hugh Thompson
State Department of Fish and Game
Thompson
Warsaw Pact Ends Summit Creates Foreign Ministers Panel
In Bucharest, Warsaw Pact leaders from the Soviet Union and alliesPoland Bulgaria Czechoslovakia East Germany and Romania closed a two day summit. They established a committee of foreign ministers and a unified secretariat to boost political coordination though not binding. A new Helsinki accord draft was discussed to curb first use of nuclear weapons.
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Bucharest
Romania
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Poland
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Moscow
United States
Canada
Victoria Palace
Cells Redesigning People From Extreme Weather
Iowa City AP report quotes University of Iowa physiology expert Dr. G Edgar Folk on how the body adapts to Arctic cold and summer heat. Over 16 years Folk and his wife studied animals and humans, noting hormonal changes and metabolism shifts that raise calorie needs and alter pain perception as temperatures vary.
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Iowa City, Iowa
University of Iowa
G. Edgar Folk
Mary
Arctic Circle
Falk
Folk
Cylinders Lose Ground as Salt Boxes Gain Shelf Space
In San Francisco AP report producers move from cylindrical salt containers to rectangular boxes to save shelf space. Leslie Salt Co of Fremont and Safeway Oakland say boxes fit better on shelves and kids use cylindrical cartons for play. Morton doubts box strength, warning leaks during handling.
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San Francisco
Leslie Salt Co
Fremont
Safeway Food Stores
Oakland
Ron Murphy
Leslie
Morton
Clem Teeters
Dinner To Pay Teasdale Debts Dinner To Pay Teasdale Debts
A $125 plate dinner is planned for December 17 to help Gov elect Joseph Teasdale pay remaining campaign debts. William E. Clarkson, chair, expects about 1000 attendees including Senator Thomas Eagleton at the Radisson Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Joseph Teasdale
William FE. Clarkson
Thomas
Eagleton
Radisson-Muehlebach Hotel
Clarkson
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