Swedish Premier Appeals at UN on Vietnam Ecocide
Stockholm AP Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme denounced U S military actions in Vietnam before the UN conference on the human environment. He urged urgent international attention to ecological warfare, calling indiscriminate bombing and herbicide use an ecocide. Palme did not name the United States, but implied it.
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Stockholm
Olof Palme
Sweden
United States
Conference On
Vietnam
Palme
Russell Train
Brazil
Carlos Calero Rodriguez
Callero Rodriguez
Jack Davis
Canada
Laird urges continued arms development and modernization
Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird told House and Senate Appropriations committees that while Moscow arms limits are temporary, the United States must keep developing and modernizing weapons. He cited the B bomber, Trident submarine, and site defenses for Minuteman launchers and estimated ABM budget savings of about $5 billion over five years.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Congress
United States
Laird
Prison screens being removed to aid inmate resocialization
Albany AP reports the screens separating inmates from visitors are being removed to speed the resocialization process. A state corrections spokesman said they have come down in almost all institutions and will be gone in the remainder within a few weeks.
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Albany
N.Y
State Department of Correctional Services
Department
January Welfare Costs Dip Despite 60,000 More on Relief
Washington reports a January drop in overall welfare costs totaling 12.4 million less than December while the relief rolls rise by 60,000. AFDC payments reach 10.7 million beneficiaries at 555.8 million, with gains in Washington DC and five states. Senate Finance Committee reviews financing to curb AFDC rolls and cap federal share growth.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Capitol Hill
Senate Finance Committee
Russell B. Long
D-La
Long
HEW
California
New Jersey
Vermont
Puerto Rico
Washington, D.C
Virgin Islands
Ilinois
Indiana
Michigan
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Urge No Debt Ceiling Raise Linked to Tax Reform
Rep. Henry Reuss and Mitchell Rogovin for Common Cause urged tying a $15 billion debt limit increase to tax reform. They argued action now guards against vetoes and boosts reform, citing depreciation rules and minimum tax for high sheltered incomes, with July 1 Treasury borrowing deadline looming.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
Henry S. Reuss
D-Wis
Mitchell Rogovin
Citizens’ Lobby
Common Cause
House
Ways and Means Committee
Reuss
Rogovin
Treasury
Fear 468 Miners Feared Dead In Rhodesia Mine Blast
A massive underground explosion at Wankie Colliery near Bulawayo left 435 Africans and 23 whites underground. Rescue efforts were hindered by gas and ventilations damage. four surface workers admitted to hospital. The mine, run by Anglo-American, supplies Rhodesia’s coal.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
Wankie
Bulawayo
Manchuria
Honkeiko
United States
Monongah
W. Va
Wankie Mine
Ford Motors Delays Introducing 1973 Model
Ford Motor Co. announced a one week postponement of the 1973 passenger car introduction due to government antipollution regulations. The 1973 truck rollout will be delayed two weeks, per Board Chairman Henry Ford II and President Lee Iacocca.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Henry Ford II
Lee Iacocca
Two NY Officials Sentenced in Separate Conspiracy Trials
In Mineola Howard M. Holder and Lynotr Gershenson drew up to 12 years for conspiring to murder Holder’s wife in Nassau Supreme Court after waiving a jury. In New York Harlem Assemblyman Hulan FE Jack, 66, received three months and a $5000 fine for labor management conspiracy tied to Harlem stores.
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Mineola
N.Y
Howard M. Holder
Lynotr Gershenson
Holder
Paul J. Widlitz
NEW York
Harlem
Hulan FE
Jack
Manhattan
Bomb scare delays Long Island Rail Road train from Babylon
A bomb scare evacuated the 7.42 a.m. Babylon to Penn Station Long Island Rail Road train. Passengers reboarded after police found no threat, and the train resumed about 30 minutes late, arriving at Penn Station around 8.52 a.m.
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New York
Long Island Rail Road
Babylon
Alley Stream
Penny Station
Pleads Innocent in Newburgh Gun Slaying
Thomas Earl Brown, 25, pleaded innocent to murder in the shotgun slaying of neighbor Willard Dawson, 24, outside Brown's Newburgh home. He was ordered held without bail and remanded to Orange County Jail pending grand jury review.
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Newburgh
N.Y
Thomas Earl Brown
Brown
Charles J. Roskoski
Orange County
Willard Dawson
Amtrak to inspect NYC Montreal route options this week
Amtrak will run inspection trips Thursday and Friday to compare routes from New York City to Montreal assessing track back conditions and passenger interest. Congress agreed on a four million dollar two year funding plan to start international Amtrak service, spokesman Charles Warnick said. Jerry Bruno announced plans to form a memorial committee for Robert F. Kennedy in Syracuse with Carter Burden and George Cregg as co chairs.
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Springfield
Mass
New England
New York State
New York City
Montreal
Amtrak
Charles Warnick
Washington
House and Senate
Congress
Warnick
Syracuse
N.Y
Jerry Bruno
Robert F. Kennedy
Carter Burden
George Cregg
Kennedy
Court overturns Richmond school desegregation merger order
A federal appeals court in Richmond overturned a landmark desegregation plan merging Richmond city schools with two suburban counties. The court found the lower court judge exceeded his authority directing the consolidation.
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Richmond, Va
Richmond
McGovern Strong Favorite In California Democratic Primary
California holds its key Democratic presidential primary with George McGovern seen as the likely winner of 271 delegates. New Jersey New Mexico and South Dakota also vote. McGovern predicts victory in all four contests while Humphrey contests the California result and campaigns across the state.
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Los Angeles
California
George McGovern
New Jersey
New Mexico
South Dakota
McGovern
Albuquerque
N.M
Humphrey
Montana
Mississippi
Sens
Lee Metcalf
Dmont
James O. Eastland
Dmiss
Clifford P. Case
Rn.j
New York
San Diego
Houston
Oakland
Texas
Minnesota
Sam Yorty
Yorty
John M. Ashebrook
Ohio
Nixon
Caliefornia
Nixon Names Connally for 72 Running Mate Speculation Grows
President Nixon sends John Connally on a 15 nation world tour fueling speculation about Connally becoming vice president in 1972. Connally will discuss Nixon trips to China and the Soviet Union and meet world leaders including South Vietnam to raise his foreign policy profile.
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Connally
Nixon
Washington
John Connally
White House
Peking
Moscow
Treasury
South Vietnam
House
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Ronald L. Ziegler
Key Biscayne, Fla
China
Soviet Union
Schenectady Chemicals Pleads Innocent in Oil Spill Case
In Albany, Sche nectady Chemicals Inc. pleaded innocent in U S District Court to charges linked to an February oil spill into a Mohawk River tributary. The Army Corps of Engineers says more than 1600 gallons of tetramethyl benzene, a toxic cleaner, were involved. No trial date set. Amerada Hess Corp. paid a $500 fine for Hudson River pollution at Albany Port on July 15, 1970.
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Albany, N.Y
Schenectady Chemicals Inc
U.S. District Court
Mohawk River
Army Corps of Engineers
Amerada Hess Corp
Hudson River
Albany
Mrs Onassis Sees Bernstein Mass at Kennedy Center
Mrs Aristotle Onassis attended Leonard Bernstein Mass at the John F Kennedy Center in Washington. She toured the Hall of Nations and greeted the 200 member cast after the performance. Her first visit to the center coincides with the work she helped commission.
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Mrs. Onassis
Bernstein
J. F. Kennedy Center
Washington
Aristotle Onassis
Leonard Bernstein
John F. Kennedy Center
Kennedy
National Cultural Center
Kennedy Center
Robert Berks
Roger L. Stevens
Center
Onassis
U S Planes Hit Over 100 North Vietnamese Supply Boats
Saigon reports American fighter bombers destroyed or damaged more than 100 water craft on inland waterways, the largest strike since resumed bombing. Navy pilots from the Coral Sea claimed 69 boats along Song Ca River near Vinh, 160 miles south of Hanoi.
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U. S
Saigon
North Vietnam
U.S. Com
Mand
U.S
China
Hanoi
America
Coral Sea
Song Ca
Vinh
Demilitarized Zone
South Vietnam
Kontum
Pleiku
Hue
A Loc
Sai,gon
McGovern Seeks Democratic Unity In Texas Governors Meeting
George McGovern told Democratic governors in Houston he plans a campaign of cooperation and reconciliation rather than divisiveness. The South Dakota senator, meeting with leaders who largely remain neutral or opposed, faced doubts that his bid would affect Southern support for Nixon and GOP candidates in November.
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McGovern
Houston, Tex
George McGovern
South Dakota
Texas
Nixon
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