Drug Abuse by U S Servicemen in Vietnam Sparks Alarm
House subcommittee chairman G Elliott Hagan warned the drug problem could threaten America as U S command reports 70 percent more drug arrests in Vietnam in 1970 than 1965. Most arrests involved marijuana and other drugs. amphetamines and barbiturates led hospital gas cases among Army personnel.
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D-Ga
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Extreme cold grips Arizona and Southwest energy supply
Record cold sweeps the citrus region with potential 50 percent crop loss. Utilities shift from gas turbines to fuel oil as El Paso Natural Gas curtails supplies. Magma Copper lays off 1000 workers in San Manuel. Schools and offices shut in New Mexico and New Mexico towns. Residents seek warm housing through TV station led efforts. airmen from Kirtland AFB receive aid from UNM sorority.
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Federal Insurance Corp
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Kirtland Air Force Base
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University of New Mexico
CSCLB tensions rise as campus protest erupts over hearings
The CSCLB coalition demands justice as Student Senate censures President Horn for failing to make the hearings reviewable by students. A memo to four top administrators circulated, with the president defending closed hearings under Executive Order 116, and student groups rallying to press their case amid a campus confrontation.
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Tice
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Cold snap bites California avocado crop hopes
Long Beach Mercury notes a midwinter freeze though officials downplay damage to a 100 million pound avocado crop. Weather winds 25 mph to 45 mph across regions, with lows near 28 to 38. London man Keith Long, 27, jailed two years for kissing a stranger on a city street.
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Reagan Accuses Legal Aid of Abuses in Aid for Poor
Gov Reagan alleges that California’s CRLA abused public funds by political lobbying and ideologically driven actions against the poor. The report urges private funding or a Medicare like legal aid model, citing instances including involvement in a Davis meeting plot and staff criminal defense. It questions focus on prison cases and labels CRLA’s work as ideological warfare against individuals.
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San Rafael
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al Soledad
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Stender
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Soledad
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Carthy
Nixon Signals Vietnam Drawdown With May 1 Target
In interviews Nixon outlined a measured withdrawal with a May 1 deadline for ending ground combat roles. Laird in Paris cited a mid summer aim to end U.S. combat duties, while advisers expect remaining forces for advisory, air, and artillery tasks. Analysts foresee further reductions by June 30 toward about 229,500 troops, from 343,000. The plan could aim to curb protests and frame future troop handling by late next year.
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Marler Named GOP Senate Leader in California
SACRAMENTO UPS Sen Fred Marler of Redding was chosen unanimously Wednesday as the minority floor leader by Republican senators in the upper house He pledged to keep a unified party and to sidestep partisan politics to handle the people’s business Richardson Arcadia remains GOP caucus chairman Republicans lost control of the Senate last November and now trail Democrats 21 to 19 Ted Leaves Hospital Kennedy Leaves Hospital after checkup for back injury from 1964 plane crash at New England Baptist Hospital Boston Mass
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Redding
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Arcadia
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