Armed Services Change Policies On Women In Uniform
Washington AP The armed services review rules affecting women in uniform amid sex discrimination charges. Army will allow married or custodial women. Navy suspends pregnancy discharge policy. Air Force permits adoption and custody of underage children but pregnancy still disqualifies. Civil suits contest stepmother policy and other individual cases prompt policy reviews while wholesale enlistment remains limited.
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Washington
Armed Services
Army
Navy
Air Force
WAF
Susan Struck
Capt. Struck
San Diego
Marine Corps
Gail Waugh Downen
Anniversary Marked Prohibition In Kansas On Lively Debate
Topeka Kan AP Kansans marked the 90th anniversary of the Prohibitory Liquor Law amid legislative bickering over allowing mixed drinks in public places. The 1881 act banned alcohol. the bone dry law of 1917 intensified penalties, and 1948 restored packaged liquor stores and private clubs. An attempted adoption last November to lift the constitutional ban failed.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Patricia Krenwinkel details Tate and LaBianca killings
In Los Angeles AP report Patricia Krenwinkel testifies in grisly detail confessing to stabbing Abigail Folger in the Tate mansion lawn and stabbing Lionel LaBianca wife and husband, carving War on LaBianca’s chest, while insisting Charles Manson was not involved. The jury weighs death versus life imprisonment.
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Los Angeles
Patricia Krenwinkel
Sharon Tate
Abigail Folger
Actress Tate
Lena LaBianca
LaBianca
Charles Manson
Susan Atkins
Miss Tate
Malibu
Manson
Leslie van Houten
Air Mail Strains Grow as Airlines Cut Flights
Washington AP reports United States Postal Service officials plan to study buying or leasing cargo planes to move long distance mail amid widespread late night flight cancellations by economically troubled airlines. Hargrove notes delays up to a day as bags wait at airports. a Postal Reform Act gave authority to operate planes, but economics are poor.
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Washington
U.S. Postal Service
Hargrove
Postal Service
Postal Service Authority
Nixon offers AFL-CIO unions wage-price board or full controls
President Nixon proposes two paths for AFL-CIO construction unions two options a national stabilization board to pre review wage and price disputes or a broad wage-price freeze with no union say. The plan aims to curb soaring costs while Congress questions enforceability and practical reach of such measures.
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Miami Beach
Nixon
Afl-Cio
White House
Secretary of Labor
J.D. Hodgson
Congress
Hodgson
Construction
National Stabilization Board
Stabilization Board
Ape art prize twists as five year old orangutan wins contest
In Hutchinson Kansas three judges crowned D James Orang, a five year old orangutan at Topeka Zoo, as the top entry in a 4 to 8 year old art contest. They later learned the artist’s identity and called the result unpremeditated and a joke to raise funds for a mate for Djakarta Jim Crang.
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Hutchinson, Kan
Kansas Recreation and Parks Association
Shirley Schmidt
Jinx Wright
Hutchinson High School
Thelma Jones
Central Junior High School
D. James Orang
Topeka Zoo
Wright
Schmidt
Djakarta
Jim Crang
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