Wisconsin bombing suspect Armstrong extradition to Canada underway
Badger Briefs report that UW bombing suspect Karleton Armstrong will be extradited. A sealed diplomatic pouch carried the file from Washington to Ottawa and delivery to Canada’s External Affairs Minister is planned for early next week. Armstrong, 25, is jailed in Toronto pending charges of first degree murder and arson for the August 1970 Madison math research center bombing.
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Madison
Auty. Wew
Robert Warren
Dane County Dist
Gerald Nichol
University of Wisconsin
Karleton Armstrong
Canada
Washington, D.C
Ottawa
Armstrong
Toronto
Wisconsin judges urged unified salaries and court reforms
La Crosse lawyers and judges testified before the State Judicial Reorganization Study Committee in La Crosse. They pressed for equal salaries for county and circuit judges and questioned an intermediate appellate court as a solution to Wisconsin’s Supreme Court backlog. Some backed the idea, others opposed it, arguing voters seek finality and fairness in judging.
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Leonard F. Roras
Flaherty
Richard Orton
Lancaster
Orton
Grant County
William L. Reinecke
Potosi
Teamsters in Wisconsin challenge Nixon war stance
The Wisconsin Joint Council of Teamsters rebuked international president Frank Fitzsimmons over his support for Nixon's Vietnam policy. In a formal resolution the group urged ending the war in Indochina and bringing all U S troops home, asserting the Vietnamese fight for their own destiny and criticizing heavier bombing.
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Madison, Wis
Wisconsin Joint Council of Teamsters
Nixon
International Teamsters
Frank Fitzsimmons
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Indochina
Wisconsin firms face requests to disclose production data
A Wisconsin hearing on proposed industrial waste monitoring heard that the Department of Natural Resources should not require firms to reveal materials used or production figures. Attorneys argued reports would be public records, aiding competitors and undermining trade secrets while the agency plans to mail forms to all industries covered by the rules.
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Milwaukee
State Department of Natural Resources
Wisconsin
Carnation Co
Stephen MacArthur
Los Angeles
Francis Schraumnagel
Terest
Edward Nager
Madison
Nager
Atty
Robert Warren
State Justice Department
Lucey
Northern Vietnam advances threaten Quang Tri and Hue
North Vietnamese forces push to the outskirts of Quang Tri City and overrun a fire base guarding Hue as U.S. air power supporters struggle to halt the 31 day offensive. New losses include a downed UH1 helicopter and rising refugee numbers near Hue.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
Quang Tri City
Hue
South Vietnam
U.S
Hanoi
Quang Tri Province
Highway 1
Bastogne
Reapportionment Complete After Short Wisconsin Session
Madison AP reports lawmakers finished a brief session Friday by approving a corrective reapportionment bill and finalizing an Assembly approved usury measure. The push aimed to meet one man one vote rulings while tweaking district boundaries in Green Bay and Oshkosh.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Young People's Committee For Traffic Safety
Madison
la Crosse
Eau Claire
Wausau
Green Bay
Santean Wisconsin
Earl Wiehl
The
American Automobile Associat
Wis
Senate
Patrick Lucey
Oshkosh
US. Supreme Court
Astronauts reunite with families after moon mission
Apollo 16 crew John W. Young Charles M. Duke Jr and Thomas K. Mattingly II depart the USS Ticonderoga for Hawaii then Ellington Air Force Base Houston after an 11 day mission carrying 245 pounds of moon rocks film and data. Doctors report excellent health and minor heart irregularities in earlier missions. a solar flare exposure is noted as minimal.
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Uss Ticonderoga
Houston
John W. Young
Charles M. Duke Jr
Thomas K. Mattingly II
Hawaii
Hickam Air Force Base
Ellington Air Force Base
Manned Spacecraft Center
Ticonderoga
Moon
Descartes Highlands
Young
Duke
Mattingly
Pacific
Charles A. Berry
NASA
Life Sciences
David R. Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M Worden
Irwin
Scott
Apollo
Berry
Dairy associations clash over contract breaches in Wisconsin
In Fond du Lac, AMPI sues NFO claiming interference with milk shipment contracts. A May 2 court reschedule calls for evidence from both sides on membership agreements. The case seeks a permanent injunction and judgment to stop contract breaches and shifts of shipments from Dean Foods and Hawthorn Melody to NFO plants in Sauk City Stoughton and Hartford.
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Fond DU Lac, Wis
Associated Milk Producers, Inc
National Farmers Organization
AMPI
Gerald Murphy
Orig
NFO
Pure Milk Products Cooperative
Dean Foods
Elroy
Hawthorn-Melody
Whitewater
Sauk City
Stoughton
Hartford
Siege of Quang Tri Strains Highway 1 Amid Battle
On Highway 1 nine miles south of Quang Tri City barricades hold as South Vietnamese troops face North Vietnamese forces within 500 yards. Bodies litter the road and refugees seek escape while artillery and air strikes hammer the area. Evacuation for about 200 injured is blocked, and resupply convoys cannot reach the city as jets and Skyraiders drop weapons and smoke fills the southern approaches.
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Lynn C. Newland
Quang Tri
U. S
Hue
Vietnam
Quang Tri City
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