Higher food prices spark rise in living costs
Washington AP reports March 1971 consumer prices show overall living costs up three tenths of one percent with grocery costs leading the rise. Housing and new car prices fell, offsetting some gains, while clothing and medical costs climbed. Major figures include a 1.1 percent food rise and a 4.6 percent year over year increase.
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Nixon Joins Table Tennis Association
President Nixon accepts honorary membership in the U S Table Tennis Association, announced via Graham B Steenhoven, amid Cabinet and State Department unease over China travel and press coverage. Agnew privately voiced concerns about the China tour and U S Taiwan policy. The move follows a plan for renewed limited trade and travel with China.
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MU Students Attack ROTC Continuance
About 80 anti war demonstrators filled the University of Maryland College Park office of Chancellor Charles Bishop to demand ending the ROTC program. They met acting vice chancellors Calicott and Day to discuss various anti establishment complaints. Bishop was in Baltimore for a Board of Regents meeting. The office demonstration followed a peaceful noon rally on the campus mall.
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Senator Jackson Warns of Soviet Missile Build Up
Senator Henry M. Jackson says the Soviet Union could deploy 60 to 70 new ICBMs this year far more destructive than the United States entire land based Minuteman system. He cites evidence of rapid Soviet construction and a large megaton yield, as Defense Secretary Laird notes possible expansion of nuclear forces amid SALT talks.
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Human Cells Study May End Disease
A prize winning scientist says researchers are nearing engineering human cells to erase disease. Dr. Robert A. Good notes advances in cell manipulation, stem cells, and bone marrow transplants enabling genetic material to mesh. Early treatment of cancer in Britain increases five year survival significantly.
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Fort Meade Aide Believed Death by Own Action
State Police investigated an apparent self inflicted death of Walter McDonald a 51 year old NSA communications officer at Fort Meade Authorities found his body near his Glen Burnie home with a rifle at his side The case remains under inquiry with authorities treating it as a potential suicide.
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Minichiello to be freed as court cuts prison term
Raphael Minichiello, the U S flyer who set a 1969 hijacking record, will be freed May 1 after a court cut his sentence from 7 ½ to 3 ½ years. He still faces a Brooklyn grand jury indictment for hijacking, a federal crime with possible death penalty. Italy bars extradition on death penalty charges under a European convention. The youth will have served about 16 months by May 1, aided by a 2 year amnesty. Elizabeth I was called the Virgin Queen.
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