Cotton Board approves 10 million for research and promotion
The Agriculture Department approves a 10 million dollar program proposed by the Cotton Producers Institute. It will fund research and promotion through a one dollar per bale assessment on upland cotton, with the budget split roughly evenly between the two activities. The program moves to the national Cotton Board for final review.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Cotton Producers Institute
National Cotton Board
Pope Paul VI Arrives in Jakarta for 16 Hour Visit
Pope Paul VI lands in Jakarta for a 16 hour visit as crowds form along the city route. Officials say a Mass in a sports stadium may draw about 100000 worshippers, with President Suharto leading a welcome party of 500 schoolgirls and military officers at the airport after a seven hour flight from Sydney.
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Jakarta
Paul VI
Indonesia
Suharto
Air Force
Pontiff
Sydney
Australia
Bloc meet ends in East Berlin with full agreement
The Soviet Bloc summit in East Berlin lasted one day and announced full agreement on all topics but offered no details. Western Big Three protested East Berlin traffic interference as Warsaw Pact leaders met to bolster East German regime under Walter Ulbricht.
Marcello Probe Details Flood District Tied to Marcello
A legislative committee heard that Carlos Marcello initiated and benefited from a publicly funded flood protection levee and drainage district intended to transform his swamp land into a city of 100000. Witnesses disputed minor Life Magazine claims but agreed taxpayers would pay for the project.
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Baton Rouge, la
Carlos Marcello
Legislative Committee
Life Magazine
Marcello
Life
My Lai Suit Filed in Columbus Ga by Dutch Attorney
Attorney Paul Narkin filed a 400 million damage action for 58 My Lai survivors against the U.S. government and three other defendants in Columbus Georgia. He seeks an injunction to halt Lt. William L. Calley Jr. court martial until villagers can testify before the military jury.
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Columbus, Ga
U.S
My Lai
Paul Narkin
Amsterdam
Netherlands
William L. Calley Jr
Three Oil Firms Fined For Offshore Safety Violations
Three major oil companies pleaded no contest to charges of failing to follow federal safety rules on offshore platforms. Shell Oil Co faced a separate claim tied to a rig wildfire ten miles off the Louisiana coast. Humble, Union and Continental each received the maximum $2,000 per count after a federal grand jury indictment linked to a Chevron spill and platform fire earlier this year.
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New Orleans
Shell Oil Co
Louisiana
Humble
Union
Continental Oil
Chevron
Gulf of Mexico
Pesticide Labels Marked Hard to Read by Study
A two year University of Illinois study for Washington shows that pesticide labels are fairly difficult to read. The report finds that a high school dropout has little chance to understand the words printed on poison packages or bottles. The study rated label readability as low using a standard formula.
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Washington
University of Illinois
Oil Slick Threatens 50 Miles of Florida Coast
Florida officials accuse the U S Navy of dumping over 500000 gallons of black oil into Atlantic coastal waters. If southeast winds stay steady, the slick could begin washing ashore along 50 miles of beaches south of Jacksonville.
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Jacksonville
Fla
U.S. Navy
Florida
Navy
Atlantic
Florida Marine Patrol
Vote On SST Nears Senate Vote Amid Environmental Clash
The supersonic transport faces a pivotal Senate decision as critics label it an environmental hazard and a burden on taxpayers while supporters insist it secures U.S. lead in global aviation.
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Washington
Senate
Jet exhausts tied to skin cancer claim investigated
Senatorial and Congressional figures cite Dr. James E. McDonald of the University of Arizona warning that exhaust from SSTs could trigger up to 10 000 new skin cancer cases yearly in the United States. The Nixon administration faces charges of suppressing the finding amid SST funding debates.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Nixon
Senate
Department of Transportation
James E. McDonald
University of Arizona
Missing C123 transports haunt central South Vietnam search
U S planes and helicopters scoured the central South Vietnam mountains for the wreckage of two C123 transports missing since the weekend with 38 Americans and 85 Vietnamese aboard. Cloud cover hindered the search, no trace found, and officials cited poor visibility as a factor in the losses.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Doubt on Consumer Legislation Hits House Action
In Washington a 7-7 House Rules Committee vote blocked the federal consumer protection agency bill, jeopardizing major consumer reform. Supporters seek a parliamentary maneuver as Senate passage had occurred, while criticism grew from groups who say the administration and Congress ignore consumer needs.
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Washington
Federal
Consumer Protection Agency
Bob Echardt
D-Tex
House Rules Committee
Congress
House
Benjamin S. Rosenthal
D-N. Y
Rosenthal
Government Operations Committee
Chet Holifield
D-Calif
Ership
Senate
Consumer Federation of America
Rules Committee
Virginia Knauer
Consumer Protection Division
Justice Department
Richard Bolling
DMO
Bolling
French West Indies
Just Not His Day Over Parking Ticket Mayhem
John Buick of Youngstown paid a $5 speeding fine then found a $3 parking ticket. He returned to city hall for a quick hearing and, after paying, kicked a door, was reprimanded, and then shattered the entrance glass. He was charged with destruction of property.
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Youngstown, Ohio
John Buick
Youngstown
Minimum Draft Age May Be Lowered To 18
Draft director Curtis W Tarr considers asking Congress to lower the minimum draft age from 19 to 18 based on 109 youth advisers recommendations. The plan, part of 36 suggestions, faces possible national opposition and would also consider lottery numbers at age 17 to reduce induction doubt. Weather in Southwest Texas west of Pecos partly cloudy warm days cool nights through Friday highs near 87.
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Washington
Curtis W. Tarris
Congress
Selective Service
Tarr
Texas
Pecos
Atrocity Claims Reported by Vietnam War Witness
Former Army intelligence officer Kenneth Barton Osborn testified at a war crimes inquiry that American soldiers tossed two Vietnamese prisoners from helicopters to extract information. He described a Marine stabbing a prisoner's ear with a peg and claimed a Vietnamese Chinese woman agent was killed by a military intelligence captain.
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Washington
Army
Kenneth Barton Osborn
525Th Military Intelligence Group
Vietnam
Osborn
Pentagon
American University
Baltimore
Nixon pledges no NATO troop cuts without reciprocal Soviet moves
Nixon declared during a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels that the United States will not reduce its Europe forces unless the Soviet Union does so. He urged all NATO members to maintain and strengthen forces with open ended limits beyond 1972 and to begin exploratory talks on European security. Rogers chaired the briefing as part of NATO’s semiannual review amid West Berlin tensions and calls for detente through a broader security conference.
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National Academy of Sciences
Department
Associated Prss
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Morris K. Udall
D-Ariz
Brussels
Nixon
United States
Europe
William P. Rogers
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
U.S
Congress
Cials
Rogers
East
Soviet Bloc
West Ber
Lin. Rogers
Britain
France
West Germany
West Berlin
East Germany
Berlin
Germany
Soviet Union
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Red Bloc
Florida Beach
Frank Lange
Llano
Culberson County
S. Vietnam
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Tuk Khleang
White House
Russia
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