Pentagon debates fate of all volunteer military force
Pentagon officials grow unsure volunteer forces can meet strength goals as a high level task force monitors recruitment. Generals signal doubt if no draft, while GAO warns of up to 83 000 shortfall next year unless standards shift. The administration tests higher enlistment bonuses and other recruiting measures as it weighs options including potential draft revival.
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Pentagon
United States
Secreary
William P. Clements Jr
Nixon
Creighton W Abrams
Army
Abrams
Congress
General Accounting Office
Armed Services
Aroy
Rine Corps
Air Force
Supreme Court vacates Louisiana abortion law ruling
The U S Supreme Court vacated a lower court decision upholding Louisiana's anti abortion statute and sent the case back to a three judge New Orleans panel for reconsideration in light of recent high court abortion rulings. Dr I Rosen of Amite appeals the law as vague and violating privacy rights claiming the parameter phrase incorrectly limits physicians actions and ignores a woman's right to choose.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Louisiana
High Court
New Orleans
Texas
Georgia
Amite
Rosen
Mitchell and Stans Plead Innocent in Vesco Case
Former Atty Gen John N Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice H Stans pleaded innocent to charges of perjury conspiracy and obstructing a federal probe. The indictment also names Vesco and Harry D Sears over a secret 200 000 dollar Vesco contribution to Nixon reelection effort.
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NEW York
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
Robert L. Vesco
Mitchell
Stans
Vesco
New Jersey
Harry D. Sears
Nixon
Hopes Of Finding MIAs Alive Fade
Brig. Gen. Robert C. Kingston said no Americans listed as missing in Southeast Asia are known to be alive. His Joint Casualty Resolution Center has 175 staff locating crash sites and graves as the Pentagon lists 1 300 missing and 1 100 dead. He declined to reveal any remains found at crash sites.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Southeast Asia
Robert C. Kingston
Kingston
Joint Casualty Resolution Center
Indochina
Pentagon
South Vietnam
Air Force
Army
Navy
North Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Saigon
Twin Cities Chit Chat Birthday and ROTC Camp Plans
Keith West of Monroe celebrates his 17th birthday today as friends send wishes. Randolph Jones of Monroe will attend Advanced ROTC Camp at Fort Riley Kansas this summer from June 9 to July 20. Visitors at 1710 Shannon Drive Monroe include Connie Foster and her two children Julie and John Mayson of Hammond staying with Mr and Mrs Schram while Mr Foster attends LSU banking school.
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Keith West
West Monroe
Randolph SS. Jones
Monroe
Fort Riley
Kansas
Northwestern State University
Charles FE. Schram
Shannon Dr
Connie Foster
Julie
John Mayson
Hammond
When PhDs Endure the Last Garbage Man Fortune
Satirical line noting a future where universal PhDs exist and the final sanitation worker profits. A witty musing on degree inflation and changing job value across society.
Medical Research Funds Out Planned
The Association of American Medical Colleges warns the Nixon budget would cut medical research funding by about 40 percent for non cancer and non heart lung areas. A survey of 78 medical schools shows contracts and grants falling from 446.3 to 373.4 million dollars, plus 39 million less for salaries and other costs.
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Washington
Association of American Medical Colleges
Association
John A.D. Cooper
Cooper
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York
Johns Hopkins University
Medical College of Georgia
Nixon
Ruling Upheld On Boundaries In School Mix
The equally divided Supreme Court denied Richmond Virginia district judge power to desegregate inner city schools by reaching into suburban counties with no written decision. The affirming four four split leaves metropolitan desegregation unsettled with similar suits pending in Detroit Atlanta and nine other cities.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Richmond
National Labor Relations Board
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Richmond School Board
U.S. District Court
Robert Merhige Jr
Richmond City
Henrico
Chesterfield Counties
U.S Circuit Court At
Seartion
Detroit
Atlanta
Capitol Hill
Nixon
Haldeman Quoted on CIA Memo About FBI and Watergate
In a June 23 1972 CIA memo deputy director Vernon Walters recorded H R Haldeman saying it is the President's wish that the CIA ask the FBI not to probe Mexican angles in Watergate. Helms attended the meeting with Walters Ehrlichman and Haldeman. He says he does not recall the exact invocation of the President's name.
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Washington
White House
H. R. Haldeman
CIA
FBI
Stuart Symington
D.o
Vernon Walters
Richard Helms
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Symington
Walters
Helms
Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman
Gray
L. Patrick Gray III
Weather outlook for Twin Cities with warm temperatures
Skies will be partly cloudy with warm humid conditions in the Twin Cities. A 10 percent chance of precipitation today rising to 30 percent Tuesday with possible showers or thunderstorms. Highs in the mid to upper 80s, lows in the upper 60s to low 70s, extended outlook mostly cloudy with highs near 90 midweek.
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Twin Cities
FAA
Monroe Municipal
Cox Satisfied With Powers As Prosecutor
Harvard professor Archibald Cox testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he is satisfied with the powers granted to him as independent special prosecutor in the Watergate matter. Elliott Richardson said Cox would lead a full fair and impartial inquiry and outlined tightened guidelines including staff hiring authority and court powers for warrants subpoenas and immunity grants.
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Washington
Harvard University
Archibald Cox
Cox
U.S
John F. Kennedy
Senate Judiciary Committee
Elliot L. Richardson
Richardson
Secretary of Defense
Justice Department
Robert C. Byrd
D-W
John W. Gardner
Common Cause
Judiciary Committee
Watergate Special Prosecutor Force
Inside The News-Star Highlights
The page scan lists sections and page numbers for Abby Lowman Broadway Radio TV Classified Sports Comics Theater crossword Van Dellen Editorial Women Horoscope Weather and Jumble across two sections and thirty pages. The note outlines where to find features in 1B 2B 9A 10B 12A 6A 4A 1B 6A 11B.
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Broadway
Radio-Tv
van Dellen
Skylab repair schedule tight as launch date nears
Cape Kennedy officials race to deploy a sun shade and free two stuck solar panels on the damaged Skylab as astronauts Conrad Kerwin and Weitz prep for a tentative Friday launch. If shade deployment succeeds, a 28 day mission may proceed though some experiments will be cut back.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Skylab
Orbiting Laboratory
Space Agency
Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Justices Reject Orleans Case On Parking Dispute
A New Orleans man loses his bid to take a parking dispute with a Greek diplomat to the Supreme Court. Quinet J. Peterson sues Timoleone Spiliotopoulos over line straddling parking and alleged threats, seeking $15,000 in damages.
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Washington
New Orleans
Supreme Court
High Court
Quinet J. Peterson
Timoleone
Spiliotopoulos
Peters
Petersen
River Stages Station Flood Present Change Stage
River monitoring shows fluctuating flood stage readings at stations near Monroe Camden and Fall. Measurements record stage values around 40 to 46.6 feet with noted changes across the period in fall.
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River Stages
Monroe
Camden
First Girl Begins House Page Duty
Selda Looper 18, of Heavener Oklahoma, becomes the first girl page in the House. She cites a duty to females nationwide and praises ending male-only pages. Speaker Carl Albert will formally introduce her into the all male page ranks.
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Washington
UPI
Selda Looper
Heavener
Okla
Carl Albert
O. J. Looper
Dr. O.J. Looper
Maxine
Selda
Albert
Air Force
McAlester
Oklo
Mr. Albert
Oklahoma
Edwards seeks extra 3.5 million for special education
Governor Edwin Edwards urged the Louisiana House appropriations committee to add 3.5 million to the special education budget for 1973-74 while arguing there is insufficient money for cost-of-living raises for teachers. He proposed funding from non-recurring sources and warned against unbalancing the budget.
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Baton Rouge
Edwin Edwards
Louisiana House Appropriations Committee
Appropriations Committee
Edwards
Pearce Appears Before Baton Rouge Jury Probe
Louisiana agriculture commissioner Dave L. Pearce appeared briefly before a parish grand jury investigating alleged irregularities in his department. He stayed only a few minutes, then said he was told to return in the afternoon.
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Baton Rouge
Dave L. Pearce
Louisiana
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