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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1970
Page
1
House testimony cited by Pentagon officials who told a subcommittee in late April that work had begun on a more accurate replacement for Safeguard. Critics argue the system would fail to defend the U S land based missile force against new Soviet attack missiles.
Dr. Michael C. Latham, nutrition professor at Cornell, accuses the cereal industry of brainwashing Americans with Communist-like propaganda aimed at children. He testifies for the Senate consumer subcommittee inquiry into the nutritional value of dry breakfast cereals amid concerns over malnutrition and infant mortality.
Congressmen examining Army plans to dump deadly nerve gas into the Atlantic were told the project poses less danger than ordinary chemical transport. Surgeon General Jesse L. Steinfeld urged speeding disposal, saying there is no reasonable alternative and it serves public health and safety.
In Washington House tax writers push toward finalizing a trade bill that would give President Nixon broad power to impose or suspend import quotas. The measure would set quotas on textiles and footwear while allowing Nixon wide discretion to suspend them for specific items or countries, based on disruption or national interest.
CBS president Frank Stanton and NBC president Julian Goodman urged Congress to keep broadcasters out of news production. Testifying to the Senate Communications Committee they rejected Sen Fulbright's bill to require prime time Senate House and judiciary coverage calling the proposal dangerously simplistic unnecessary and possibly an infringement on a free press.
On August 6 and 9 the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflect on the 1945 atomic bombings that razed their cities. Bells toll, doves rise, sutras are chanted for the dead before daily life resumes in both cities.
Senators Mondale and Javits urged HEW Secretary Richardson to explain how the 1.5 billion dollar school integration fund will be spent to promote desegregation. Richardson and aide J. Stanley Pottinger are set to testify before Mondale's committee Thursday.
U S and South Vietnam wage a large air and ground push along about 200 miles of the Laotian frontier to block war supplies. South Vietnamese divisions and a marine brigade conduct operations from the DMZ toward Da Nang as U S B 52 strikes hit Ho Chi Minh trail depots in Laos.
Corpus Christi and nearby towns reel from Hurricane Celia with 13 deaths in Texas, many buildings damaged, and losses near 233 million dollars. Federal aid declared as rescue and relief workers assist civilians, hospitals suffer damage, and floods threaten the Rio Grande region.
Israeli parliament backed the U S backed 90 day cease fire and indirect peace talks with Arabs by a wide margin. Five Arab nations planned a Tripoli meeting despite an Iraqi boycott as mortar fire in Metulla wounded five Israeli teens and troops killed three guerrillas on Lebanon Jordan borders. Prime Minister Golda Meir said Israeli forces would stay in captured areas until a binding peace is reached and would not return to the 1967 borders.
Los Angeles AP reports defense attorney Dave Shinn was jailed for three nights after a court found him in contempt for leaving a newspaper headline within reach of Charles Manson during the Tate murder trial. Judge Older said Nixon remarks tainted jurors and ordered protections. other lawyers faced short jail terms for related incidents.
Lenore Romney held a narrow lead in the Michigan Republican Senate race amid Detroit computer issues delaying results. With 73 percent of 6,044 precincts reporting, Romney had 239,804 to Robert Huber’s 221,970. Huber is state Senator and Romney's opponent in the bid. Other Tuesday primaries showed Missouri Senator Stuart Symington winning in a landslide.
President Nixon and the House Agriculture Committee approve a $55,000 per crop subsidy cap for cotton, feed grains, and wheat, but prospects are uncertain as some lawmakers push for a $20,000 limit. The bill, tied to a three year farm program, faces possible revisions and a debated payment ceiling. Weather: Southwest Texas cloudiness with showers.
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