Hijacking Legislation Conflicts With Refuge Policy
Washington faces a clash between deporting hijackers to their takeoff nations and granting asylum to escapees from Communist countries. Two East Germans forced a Polish Airlines flight to West Berlin, landing at Tegel amid international debate. The U S, Britain, and France consult on response while ICAO and UN moves push measures to curb hijacking.
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Washington
West Berlin
East Berlin
Tegel Field
United States
Britain
France
ICAO
United Nations
Holland
Scott Rebukes Agnew Over Viet Statement
Senate GOP leader Hugh Scott rebukes Vice President Spiro Agnew without naming him over Vietnam remarks. Scott urges tolerance and free debate, saying protests will not be stifled, while Secretary Rogers defends peace efforts and criticizes antiwar demonstrators as seeking dramatic expression.
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Washington
Hugh Scott
Spiro T. Agnew
Vietnam
Scott
White House
GOP
Senate
Pennsylvania
New York
William P. Rogers
Rogers
Council of Churches
Nixon
Rogers C. B. Morton
Maryland
Agnew
Man Deluged Under Books in Miles City
Jack Coffrin found 4,990 pounds of unordered books in 74 cartons at his Miles City home after a business trip. A freight bill for 8976.99 and publisher invoices for 9095.53 accompanied the shipment. He believes the books were mixed with a bookstore order and totals far exceeded his roughly 200 dollar purchase.
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Miles City
Mont
Jack Coffrin
Coffrin
Agnew Defends Southern Stand at Mississippi GOP Dinner
Vice President Spiro Agnew told a Jackson fundraiser that Republicans will treat all Americans fairly without racism. He rejected a Southern strategy, defended Haynsworth’s nomination, and criticized liberal critics and New Left leaders for protesting the Vietnam War only to the United States government and not Hanoi.
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Agnew
New Orleans
Scott
Mixon
J. W. Fulbright
Foreign Relations Committee
Whch
Vietnam
Jackson, Miss
Spira T. Agnew
Republican Party
South Carolina
Supreme Court
Haynsworth
South
New Left
Hanoi
National Democratic Party
Baltimore pretrial release saves city over 500000 in jail costs
Baltimore officials report the first year of a pretrial release program cut jail costs by more than 500000. Of 86 approved for release without bail only six failed to appear. 363 defendants were freed from 2167 applicants, with many later found innocent.
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Baltimore
Richard O. Motsay
Supreme Bench
Motsay
Baltimore City
Butterfly Gets Trip To Coast
A Monarch butterfly hatched from a chrysalis in Maryland and travels to California after second grade students at George Cromwell Elementary arrange the trip with United Airlines. The butterfly was handed to a stewardess at Friendship International Airport and rerouted to Monterey due to rain in San Francisco.
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Butterfly
Annapolis
California
Maryland
Jane Chapman
George Cromwell
Monarch
United Airlines
Friendship International Airport
San Francisco
Monterey
Deteriorating Rapidly Merchant Fleet In Peril
Washington report warns that since World War II the U S merchant fleet has deteriorated with 96 percent of imported raw materials arriving on foreign ships. Helen Bentley urges immediate action while Nixon seeks 30 percent of overseas trade on American ships by the mid 1970s. The piece details ship counts, age, costs, subsidies, and the rise of a foreign-flag run fleet, plus potential U S yard capacity and Great Lakes shipping implications.
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Washington
U.S
America
Us, Maritime Commission
Helen D. Bentley
Russia
Nixon
Atlantic City
Congress
United States
Korea
Vietnam
Soviet Union
Nussia
Great Britain
Japan
United Kingdom
Ussr
Liberia
Norway
Ship Building Council of America
Alaska
Paul Hall
SIU
St. Lawrence Seaway
Great Lakes
Atlantic Ocean
Hall
Sault St. Marie
Panama Canal
Safety bills eyed as US sees 19th century work hazards
Congressional hearings detail dangerous conditions in uranium mines and cotton mills. 600 to 1,100 uranium miners may get lung cancer from radiation. British tests find byssinosis in cotton workers. Other substances like asbestos and talc pose risk. 14,000 die annually from job injuries, two million disabled. inspectors scarce. Bills push for uniform codes, better stats, and research.
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Washington
Congress
England
Vietnam
James O'Hara
Woman Fears Woodpecker That Follows Her for Years
Seattle AP reports Diana Neilson describes a woodpecker that has followed her for about five years. She recalls the bird pecking holes in their Kent home and once hanging upside down to tap at her through sliding doors. Authorities refused to permit killing the protected bird.
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Seattle
Diana Neilson
Kent
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Roney Motor CO
Chrysler
Chrysler Motors Corporation
THE
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Div. of Mare, Inc
Evergreen Park
Rte. 15
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Treeland Murseroes, Inc
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