Pesticide Experiments in California Under Scrutiny
A California based consumer group accuses 49 farm laborers in Tulare County of harmful exposure during pesticide tests using Ethion and Guthion. The tests, conducted under state health supervision, involved blood tests paid at 3.50 each and reportedly followed a 30 day field entry wait after spraying.
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Tulare County
Bob Dammans
Chemagro Corp
Kansas City
San Jose
Calif
Niagara Chemical Co
Middleport
N.Y
California Health Department
Ralph Nader
Jim Hightower
Environmental Protection Agency
Niagara
Hightower
State
Treaty Bans Nuclear Tests Beneath Seas
Washington reports a landmark disarmament pact signed by more than 60 nations banning underwater nuclear tests. The ceremony in Moscow and a later Washington signing, with Kosygin and Dobrynin present, mark a step toward demilitarizing the seas, with ratification by 22 signers required to take effect.
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Romania
Czechoslovakia
London
Geneva
Racial Separation Deepens in Nation’s Urban Areas
Washington report shows segregation rising in the 67 largest metros with whites moving to suburbs and blacks increasing in central cities. In 1960s core cities like Washington DC Atlanta Newark and Gary maintained high black shares while suburban white populations grew sharply.
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Marines Return to DMZ With 1500 Troop Landing Team
U S Marines of the 3rd Division moved back toward the DMZ after a year, with a 1 500 man landing force aboard a helicopter carrier and ships from the 7th Fleet. They prepared to reinforce U S and South Vietnamese troops if North Vietnamese forces attack.
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U.S
Dmz
U. S
Laos
Ho Chi
Viet Cong Claims U S Forces in Laos Escalation
Paris talks halt as Mrs Nguyen Thi Binh claims 50 battalions of American and puppet troops have invaded Laos with 10 battalions of U S infantry and armor. The United States denies ground forces but provides air and logistic support to South Vietnamese operations in southern Laos. Xuan Thuy accuses Washington of a massive military push to spread the war.
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Paris
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Laos
U.S
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Provisional Revolutionary
United States
Xuan Thuy
Indochina
Pham Dang Lam
South Vietnam
Snow White Rewritten by Merseyside Women's Lib Group
Merseyside activists in Liverpool reveal a project to rewrite male oriented fairy tales. Snow White joins the dwarfs in mines and both heroines and heroes share equal roles, with a nontraditional ending and no marriage at the end.
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Snow White
Women’s Liberation Movement
Merseyside
Liverpool
Snow White Aid
Snow
White
Labor group calls for tighter federal controls on credit bureaus
The AFL-CIO Maritime Department urges stronger laws to curb privacy invasions by credit bureaus. It warns of a nationwide private intelligence network with files on 110 million Americans and calls to ban gathering politically or religiously sensitive data and to restrict data sharing. It says credit checks invade personal life and may ruin careers and finances.
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Miami Beach
Afl-Cio
Maritime Department
Real Estate Tax Break Dropped From Task Force Report
The Citizens Task Force on Tax Reform will not recommend real estate tax cuts when it reports to Gov. Gilligan. It instead backs an individual income tax and a business franchise tax, names a higher municipal tax cap without a referendum, and proposes repealing the intangible personal property tax on interest earnings and securities.
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Citizens Task Force On
John J. Gilligan
Wade
Ohio
Weather Outlook Warmth Returns With Possible Showers
The forecast calls for a warming trend with a chance of showers tomorrow. Lows tonight near 38 to 40 degrees, highs in the 50s. Yesterday reached 27 and this morning dropped to 20.
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