Senate panel weighs year delay for ABM test program
A Senate Armed Services subcommittee explores a one year delay to deploy the ABM system while radar and computer components undergo testing. The advisory recommendation aims to avert a Senate showdown over Nixon’s Safeguard program as lawmakers prepare to draft a $25 billion procurement bill.
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Senate Armed Services
Senate
Edward W. Brooke
Rmass
Thomas J. McIntyre
D-N.h
Stephen M. Young
Ohio
Nixon
Enesi attacks Thay voy as Saigon reports surged strikes
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese rockets and mortars struck more than 1000 allied bases and towns in 24 hours. U S and South Vietnamese casualties included dozens killed and wounded, with 82 enemy initiated incidents reported. Targets included Bien Hoa base and U S divisions near Saigon, signaling pressure ahead of the Midway talks.
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South Vietnam
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Nguyen van Thieu
Midway Island
Midway
U.S
Big Bien Hoa
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Fulbright says limited Vietnam withdrawal has little value
Sen. J. W. Fulbright chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and says a small troop pullout from Vietnam would be meaningless unless it leads to broader cuts and a political settlement. He criticizes President Nixon's speech as echoing Johnson era policies and doubts the Midway Island meeting with President Thieu will yield progress.
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J. W. Fulbright
U.S
Vietnam
Arkansas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nixon
Administration
William P. Rogers
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Midway Island
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Theiu
Fulbright
Johnson
Dean Rusk
Sen
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Income Surcharge Said In Trouble
Washington AP The chief Republican tax expert Rep John W Byrnes says President Nixon s proposal to extend the income surcharge is in trouble Democrats blamed Byrnes says dropping the surtax now would undermine inflation fight Ways and Means committee to study extension June 30 expiration Byrnes notes Democrats lack leadership and unity Nixon seeks 10 percent rate through year end then 5 percent for six months Vanik doubts extension will pass.
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Nixon
John W. Byrnes
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Ways and Means
Charles A. Vanik
Ohio
North Carolina House backs gray squirrel as state mammal
The North Carolina House approved a bill to designate the gray squirrel as the official state mammal. During debate Rep. Henry Boshamer of Carteret County quipped that an animal that can bury nuts could be dangerous to the General Assembly.
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N.C
North Carolina
House
Henry Boshamer
Carteret County
General Assembly
Tatars protest in Moscow over Crimea return demand
A small Tatar group staged a five minute demonstration on Mayakovsky Street in Moscow calling for Crimea to be returned to Tatars and demanding freedom for dissenter Pyotr Grigoryenko. Police seized banners and escorted participants to a subway room as a crowd watched in silence.
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Mayakovsky Sina
Oscow
Crimea
Stalin
Pyotr Grigoryenko
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Inre
UNM TA Lio nel Williams Faces Backlash Over Poem Controversy
Lio nel Williams, a University of New Mexico teaching assistant, expects turmoil next year as protests and suspensions around a poem controversy ripple through the English department. He plans to finish his doctorate and remain through summer, though he predicts campus scrutiny and stricter oversight upon return.
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Albuquerque
Lionel Williams
University of New Mexico
San Francisco
Williams
Funeral reflections on academic freedom and a free university
A speaker defends taxes funding a free university and teaching as a life, saying frontiers must change and scholars should stand for beliefs. He recalls avoiding harassment after publicity, moving his family, and noting racial overtones in discourse about a poem.
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Baldwin
Prison escapee observed in Gallup city area
A man suspected of prison escape was encountered in Gallup on Sept May 1989. He was taken to St. Mary's Hospital for shock and treated before release. The taxi driver Amada Buster Villani of 303 Valentina was involved. a minor was also said to be present.
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Pashkent
Whent
Fielp
Gallup
St. Mary's ‘Hospital
Amada Buster
Villani
Valentina
Cattle Drive Planned to Back Alianza Land Claim
AP reports Ti Joaquin Tijerina urged followers at a night rally in northern New Mexico to dramatize their claim to the San Joaquin land grant through a cattle drive along New Mexico 96 and a planned municipal building for the free city states. The four day rally marks Alianza summer activities with peaceful camping as supporters gather from other states.
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Lopez Tijerina
New Mexico
Tijerina
Federal Alliance of Free City
San Joaquin
Spain
Carson and
Santa Fe National
Ali- Anza
Alianza
Newmentee
National Science Foundation Official Responds to Marijuana Debate
A National Science Foundation head and Dr Philip Hansler discuss marijuana policy. They warn against prohibition without medical justification and compare it to alcohol controls, noting historical positions from 1967 and calls for careful evaluation of health risks and social impact.
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