Youths Seek End to Vietnam War and Legal Marijuana Sales
Delegates at the White House Conference on Youth call for immediate U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam and legalization of marijuana. The Vietnam withdrawal proposal fails to gain majority, Vietnamization defeated, while the marijuana measure passes with 403 to 156 and 33 undecided.
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Estes Park
Colo
White House
U.S
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Nixon
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Submarine missiles: a new plan to deter nuclear war
President Nixon's science adviser Edward E. David Jr proposes storing all nuclear missiles on submarines at sea to prevent a first strike. He says survivable sea based forces could deter war and urges SALT talks to limit both offensive and defense systems.
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Washington
Nixon
Edward E. David Jr
White House
Office of Science and Technology
Acoustical Society of America
David
Bell Laboratory
United States
Soviet Union
Soviet Union Could Deploy 76 Giant Missiles This Year
Sen. Henry M. Jackson warned in Washington that the Soviet Union may deploy as many as 60 to 70 new giant missiles this year, potentially exceeding the United States land based Minuteman arsenal. He cited a 1,750 megatons possible if 70 missiles are fielded. Pentagon officials indicated new launch silos may exist.
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Washington
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Soviet Union
United States
Jackson
Melvin R. Laird
American Newspaper Publishers Association
New York
Russia
Laird
Congress
U.S
Pentagon
Boston
World Affairs Council
U S Bomber Raids Deep in North Vietnam and Laos
U S fighter bombers hit SAM sites inside North Vietnam and along the Laos border in the sixth protective reaction strikes this week and the 27th this year. About 30 B52s dropped nearly 1 000 tons on supply routes and depots in the upper Laotian panhandle. Casualties rose with 56 Americans killed in action last week and 195 wounded, while Cambodian forces claimed 50 North Vietnamese killed in a battle near Phnom Penh.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
A Shau
Laotian Panhandle
Laos
Mu Gia Pass
Dmz
Mu Gia
Ban Karai
U.S. Command
Phnom Penh
EPA says it could have acted sooner in Birmingham pollution crisis
EPA officials say emergency powers under the Clean Air Act could have been used if the agency had known earlier. Citizens group GASP alerted EPA as five days of dense smog blanketed Birmingham. Pollution spiked to 607 micrograms per cubic meter before rainfall cleared the air.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
Birmingham
Ala
Justice Department
EPA
Federal
GASP
U.S. Steel
Universal Atlas Cement
U.s.steel
Lone Star Cement
Alpha Portland Cement
U. S. Pipe Co
Woodward Iron Corp
Woodward Iron
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Vietnam veterans protest disrupted at Supreme Court steps
Washington police dispersed a Vietnam veterans demonstration on the Supreme Court steps, about 150 antiwar activists were taken to jail. Paris reports Hanoi and Viet Cong delegates at the peace talks voiced warm feelings for U.S. antiwar demonstrators.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Supreme Court
Paris
Hanoi
Vietnam
United States
Arab anger over planned U.S. plane sale to Israel
The Associated Press reports Arabs may stage hostile demonstrations if U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers visits the Middle East in early May. State Department aides said Rogers hoped to travel there in the first week of May to discuss the arms sale and regional tensions.
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Associated Press
U.S
Israel
William P. Rogers
Middle East
State Department
Rogers
Egypt
Jordan
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
Central Treaty Organization
Beirut
Cairo
Joseph Sisco
al Liwa
Forein
Khalil Abuhamad
William Buffum
al Shaab
John Foster Dulles
Veterans Protest Viet War at Capitol Camp Disobeys Court Order
Hundreds of Vietnam veterans protest the war at the Capitol area refusing to leave despite a Supreme Court ruling. Police say no immediate action will be taken while protest leaders vow nonviolent resistance. The scene accompanies global reactions as Arab press question U.S. arms sales and Middle East diplomacy.
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Washington
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Mali
Capitol
Lincoln Memorial
Atty
Ramsey Clark
District of Columbia Police
National Park Police
Park Police
William R. Kinsey
L.H. Herring
Enormous Tax Rite Planned
The House Ways and Means Committee advances Social Security Medicare changes and a proposed payroll tax rise likely to 5.4 percent starting Jan 1 1972. The plan would lift the wage base to 10 600 and tax about 572.40 for those earning that amount, up from 405.60 this year.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Senate
Living Costs Steady Despite Higher Grocery Prices
The March 1971 Consumer Price Index rose three tenths of a percent as lower housing and new car costs partly offset higher food prices. McCracken called the report encouraging while Goldfinger warned inflation remains rapid.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Paul McCracken
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
McCracken
Nine Mayors Voice Gripes Over Urban Problems
New York AP report details nine mayors from Boston Newark Milwaukee New Orleans and others outlining their toughest challenge. They blame sluggish state legislatures and rigid bureaucracies for slow reform and funding shortfalls.
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New York
Legislative Action Committee
U.S. Conference of Mayors
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Nathaniel Goldfinger
William Proxmire
Dwis
Joint
House Senate Economic Committee
Kevin White
Kenneth A. Gibson
Newark
H. J
Henry W. Maier
Milwaukee
Moon Landrieu
Democrat
New Orleans
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