Rationing of food predicted in United States
Washington expert Lester R Brown of the Overseas Development Council warns domestic rationing may be needed to support exports and the dollar. He criticizes Nixon export controls, predicts world food shortages for a year and possible ongoing global scarcity, urging rationing if exports are limited. In another item, 18 year old Robert Martins dies in a two vehicle crash near Masontown West Virginia as two Pittsburgh residents escape injury in the other vehicle.
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Washington
UPI
Lester R. Brown
Overseas Development Council
Nixon
Brown
International Agriculture Development
Agriculture Department
U.S. News and World Report
Congress
U. Farm
U.S
United States
Youthis
Masontown
W.va
UPD
Robert Martins
Pittsburgh
Here
Martina
John Coffy
Coffy
State welfare crisis drives bank delivery debate
Welfare recipients face hunger rent and bus rides to Harrisburg as budget stalemate drags on. Church groups aid, while officials and unions warn of strikes if no funding. Citizens urge action, criticizing inaction and calling for a stopgap or full budget passage.
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Joans
Dauphin Deposit
Robert Hoke
Welfare Department
Philip Dowling
St Elizabeth's Roman Catholy
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Conference Committee
Zenoria
Nixon urged to hold news conference to answer Watergate claims
Talmadge and Evans urged President Nixon to respond to Watergate allegations with a news conference rather than through press releases or televised appearances. They argued a conference would restore public confidence and clarify Nixon's role. Time reported Mitchell will deny approving the wiretap and contend Nixon knew nothing until March 21. House former Speaker McCormack sided with Nixon delaying appearance, while Kalmbach prepared to name Mitchell Dean Ehrlichman as arrangers of cash payments to Watergate suspects.
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White House
John W. Dean
Nixon
Talmadge
Gurney
ABC
Byrd
CBS
Rapid City
M.C
Evans
Rapid
Executive
Time Magazine
John N. Mitchell
Senate
John W McCormack
House
Boston
McCormack
Washington Star-News
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Mitchell
Dean
Jom D. Ehrlichman
Naehe
Senate Watergate Committee
Drug price practices under fire by Nelson
Sen. Gaylord Nelson accuses drug makers of using glib explanations for charging Americans higher prices than abroad. He cites a Justice Department study showing domestic wholesalers can price drugs as much as twice domestic versus overseas sales, despite transport costs. His prepared speech to the Senate includes a chart showing domestic and foreign prices from 1308 firms.
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Washington
UPI
Gaylord Nelson
b-Wis
Nelson
Sylvester E. Ryan
Chaiman
Senate Select Committee On Small Business
Eli Lilly & Co
Justice Department
Senate
Diana Rigg Weds Israeli Artist In London Ceremony
Actress Diana Rigg known for The Avengers married Menachen Gueffen an Israeli artist last Friday, she disclosed Sunday. The 34 year old said in a magazine interview she may want a baby but doubts marriage to a single woman. Rigg is on leave from the British National Theatre and will soon star in The Diana Rigg Show in the United States.
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Diana Rigg
London
UPI
Emma Peel
Menachen Gueffen
Miss Rigg
Tessihan
British National Theatre
Executive and wife slain in Ohio home shooting
C Walter Holmquist, 78, former Copperweld Steel president, and his wife Dorothy were found shotgunned to death in the basement recreation room of their Cortland home. Deputies say robbery was the apparent motive. house ransacked but nothing believed missing. Bodies discovered about 10 a.m. by a neighbor, shots at very close range early Sunday.
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Holmquist
Guerrilla Hostages Sought In Rhodesia Jungle
Rhodesian troops and trackers search jungle near the Mozambique border for African guerrillas who abducted 292 students and staff from St. Albert's mission. Thirteen hostages remain missing as most escaped during clashes. a 14 year old student collapsed from exhaustion on a patrol.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
St. Albert’s
Ian Smith
Britain
Rojek
Mozambique
Francis Markail
Rogers signs PRAGUE consular pact with Czechoslovakia
Secretary of State William P. Rogers signed a new United States Czech consular agreement in Prague, calling it a very significant step toward improving relations. The pact, formally signed with Foreign Minister Bohuslav Chnoupek, is the first of its kind between the two nations. Rogers arrived from Helsinki as the highest ranking American to visit Czechoslovakia since World War II.
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Prague
UPI
William P. Rogers
Rogers
Bohuslav Chnoupek
United States
Czechoslovakia
Helsinki
Governors discuss Watergate and energy at Midwest meeting
Washington Governor Daniel Evans urged a Nixon news conference after witnesses testify on Watergate while stressing need for energy policy and state fuel allocation. Iowa Governor Robert Ray warned of growing farm problems and meat crisis but opposed hastily drawn resolutions. Joe E Brown dies at 40 from pneumonia and heart failure per autopsy.
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Rapid City
3.D
Evans
Federal Trade Commission
Iowa
Robert DB. Ray
Ray
Los Angeles
UPI
Joe E. Brown
Brown
Rumor Heads Italy’s New Center Left Government
Rome Reuters report notes Premier Mariano Rumor leads a new center left coalition taking office as Italy’s fifth government since 1943. He vows a program to tackle inflation, crime, and a faltering economy, amid lira weakness and rising far right violence. Rumor, a Christian Democrat, resigned a center-right coalition 26 days earlier and pledged parliamentary approval for his agenda.
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Rome
UPI
Mariano Rumor
Italy
Rumor
Giovanni Leone
Giulio Andreatti
Viet Cong say two Canadian officers held in Saigon area
The Viet Cong report that two missing Canadian officers of the international truce team are alive uninjured and well. Capt. Jan Patten of Toronto and Capt. Fletcher Thomson are not confirmed for release and their exact location remains uncertain according to PRG press officer Captain Phuong Nam.
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Saigon
UPI
Viet Cong
International
Phuong Nam
Provisional Revolutionary Government
Prg-Viet Cong
Joint Military Commission
Jan Patten
Toronto
Fletcher Thomson
Call to halt sterilizing minors by major women's groups
Fourteen women’s religious and population control organizations urged ending funds for sterilizing minors. They condemned teenage girl sterilizations in Montgomery County Alabama and urged clearer federal and state law handling of such issues. In New York Central Park, five cyclists were attacked by youths using boards knives and chains. four bikes were stolen and two 14 year old Long Island boys were forced into bushes and held for 45 minutes.
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Washington
Une
Montgomery County
Alabama
New York
UPL
Central Park
Long Island
Violent Weather Roils Plains and Texas Coast
United Press International reports violent weather across the northern Plains and South Texas. Tornadoes spin over South Dakota while heavy thunderstorms drop significant rain along the Texas coast and hill country. Flooding closes highways and low water crossings as storms ease and move eastward.
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United Press International
Northern Plains
South Texas
South Dakota
Texas
San Antonio
Pennsylvania Stations In Top 50 Network Affiliates
Washington reports six Pennsylvania stations placed among the top 50 network affiliates across all programming criteria per FCC commissioner Nicholas Johnson. KDKA Pittsburgh ranked fourth, KYW Philadelphia fifth, WTAE Pittsburgh eighth, WIC Pittsburgh 15th, WCAU Philadelphia 46th, and WFIL Philadelphia 50th among 144 evaluated.
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Washington
UPI
Pennsylvania
Federal Communications Commission
Nicholas Johnson
Johnson
KDKA
Pittsburgh
KYW
Philadelphia
WTAE
WIC
WCAU
WFIL
Second suspect arrested in Pittsburgh arson murders
A second suspect, a 17 year old, was arraigned on murder and arson charges in the St. Clair Village fire deaths of Betty Jo Marber, 10, and her 1 year old brother Charles. Derrick Rhodes, 19, Pittsburgh, was already charged with murder and arson after a firebomb attack. he was bound over to the grand jury.
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UPD
St. Clair Village
Roy
Derrick Rhodes
Rhodes
Grand
Betty Jo Marber
Charles
Mercy Hospital of
Ourns
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