Laird Sees South Viet Laos Drive On Schedule
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said the South Vietnamese Laos operation is on schedule and will help meet or beat the plan to withdraw 50,000 more troops by May 1, lowering U.S. strength to 284,000. He noted 10,000 U.S. backup troops in South Vietnam and emphasized compliance with congressional limits on Laos and Cambodia.
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Melvin R. Laird
Laos
United States
South Vietnam
Laird
Senate Armed Services Committee
Cambodia
Saigon
U.S
Scott
Ment
Vietnam
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Nixon
Harold FE
Hughes
Dtowa
Nguyen van Thieu
Robert J. Dole
Kansas
Dole
America
Bomb found under seat at Radio City Music Hall
A cleaning woman discovered an explosive device under a seat at Radio City Music Hall in New York and partially dismantled it before alerting security. Police report the device contained explosive powder and a wristwatch timing mechanism with wiring and three camera flash bulbs. The theater, part of Rockefeller Center, seats 6,200 and hosts films, the Rockettes, and performances.
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New York
Radio City Music Hall
Rockefeller Center
Court Denies Berrigan Bid For Freedom
A federal appeals court rejected Berrigan's appeal of his six year sentence for pouring blood on Baltimore draft board records. The 4th Circuit held the sentence was not excessive and noted the judge based the term on Berrigan's ongoing intent to violate the law, not solely on later related acts.
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Richmond
Philip Berrigan
Draft Board
Baltimore
Circuit Court of Appeals
Berrigan
Edward S. Northrop
Catonsville
4Th Circuit
Northrop
Railway Clerks Set Strike Deadline
Washington AP The Railway Clerks Union set a 12:01 am EST March 1 strike deadline saying Congress will not again intervene to delay a nationwide rail walkout. BRAC president L Dennis noted 200,000 members have not yet received a retroactive pay raise and warned that in the absence of new agreements BRAC is free to strike on March 1 1971 while offering to exempt passenger trains military goods and coal for electric plants.
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Washington
Congress
Railway Clerks Union
L. Dennis
The
Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks
Afl-Cio
Dennis
BRAC
Bar Approves Wiretapping To End Crime
The American Bar Association backed federal use of secret electronic listening devices in investigations of organized crime and foreign subversion. The House of Delegates approved standards and rejected amendments to limit surveillance, citing the Omnibus Crime Act of 1968. Leaders praised wiretapping as a tool against gambling and narcotics. opponents warned against legal overreach and urged caution.
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Chicago
American Bar Association
ABA
House of Delegates
U.S. Supreme Court
Jerome J. Shestack
Philadelphia
Richard G. Kleindienst
Kleindienst
William J. Jameson
Billings
Mont
Jack G. Day
Cleveland
Five Die In IRA Land Mine Blast On Irish Border Trail
Five men including two BBC technicians and three construction workers were killed by a land mine on a Brougher Mountain trail near Enniskillen while heading to inspect a damaged transmitter. In Belfast, Catholics' funeral processions faced Protestant interruptions as British troops attempted to separate crowds amid ongoing sectarian violence.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republic
British Broadcasting Corp
Brougher Mountain
BBC TV
Barney Watts
Watts
Provisional
Irish Republican Army
Enniskillen
Trish
Trillick
Omagh
Duke of Kent
Mental Hospitals Fail Alcoholics in Maryland
Maryland state mental hygiene chief says hospitals are no more effective than jails for alcoholics. Alcoholics now 52 percent of admissions since 1968 law classed alcoholism as a sickness. Readmission at state hospitals runs about 25 percent, many chronic alcoholics becoming revolving-door patients.
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Baltimore
APD
Chronicle
Maryland
Carson
Male Legislator Proposes Random Parking for Women
Maryland delegate Robert E. Stroble introduces a resolution urging equal rights for women by distributing reserved Circle parking via random drawing to all healthy General Assembly members, in a bid to attack male chauvinism.
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Annapolis
Maryland
House of Delegates
Del
Robert E. Stroble
R-Balto County
State Circle
State House
General Assembly
Legislature Maps Change In Districts
ANNAPOLIS AP reports a measure to grow Maryland General Assembly from 185 to 188 members in 47 districts moves for introduction in the House of Delegates. Drafted by Speaker Lowe, it backs equal district populations with each electing one senator and three delegates, shifting to 47 senators and 141 delegates, aligning ratio concerns after court decisions. The plan stands as a constitutional amendment proposal to be ratified by voters in 1972 for a 1973 effect, altering district sizes and representation.
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Maryland General Assembly
House of Delegates
Thomas Hunter Lowe
D-Talbot
Mandel
Marvin Mandel
General Assembly
Senate
House
Maryland
Baltimore City
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