Nationwide action backs meat boycott begins today
Consumer groups push a nationwide meat boycott as price ceilings on beef pork and lamb take effect. NFO withholds livestock while farmers say they are harmed and Colonial Stores shifts to nonmeat ads amid demands for substitutes. John Scott says farm prices are fair for the first time in two decades.
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Carolyn Haskell
NFO
Nixon
Colonial Stores
Atlanta
John Scott
Washington, D.C
National Grange
Fayetteville
Ark
Rural New Mexico school lunch prices may rise due to costs
Food service directors from ENMU Roswell NMMI and Roswell ISD warn meat and food prices threaten lunch budgets. They say higher meals may be needed if wages or prices climb, with boards and state education officials to approve any increases.
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New Mexico State Department of Education
Nmmi Food Service
Tim Jesse
Nixon
Jesse
Tatum
Enmur
Enmu Board of Regents
NMMI
San Antonio
Tex
Cattle groups back ANCA stance on Nixon price ceilings
New Mexico Cattle Growers Association joined the American National Cattlemen's Association in regretting Nixon’s beef price ceilings. ANCA President John Trotman argued ceilings depress production, raise long term prices, and fail to address inflation. He urged a return to fair compensation for productivity and wages.
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Albuquerque, N.M
New Mexico Cattle Growers Association
American National Cattlemen's Association
Nixon
Charlie T. Lee
The
New Mexico Association
National Cattlemen’s Group
ANCA
John Trotman
Trotman
Roswell Resident Flown After Pickup Struck by Wire
H. E. Woods of 209 East Lewis was taken to St. Marys Hospital after his car became hung on a guy wire near the Eastern New Mexico University Roswell campus. Police said charges are pending and authorities gave no word on his age or injury extent. Tornadoes ripped central Georgia causing fatalities in Athens and Monroe and widespread damage across Clayton County with downed trees and power lines.
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Roswell
H. E. Woods
E. Lewis
St. Mary's Hospital
Eastern New Mexico University
Atlanta
Georgia
Athens
Monroe
Clayton County
Final POWs head home from Clark Air Base
The last group of American prisoners freed from Hanoi prisons heads home as Army Captain Robert T. White arrives to Clark at Operation Homecoming. 588 Americans have made the trip since February 12 with a crowd greeting the returning men.
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Clark Air Base
Philippines
Hanoi
U.S
Clark
Saigon
Robert T. White
Newport News
White
Andrews Air Force Base
Sheppard Air Force Base
Tex
March Air Force Base
Calif
Travis Air Force Base
Lloyd Oppel
Laos
Pathet Lao
Air Force
Keith H. Lewis
Goldsboro
N.C
United States
Commmunists
Nixon
Hanoi- Haiphong
Former POWs recount brutal North Vietnamese torture practices
At New York and Santa Fe news conferences, Navy Lt. Charles P. Zuhoski and fellow POWs described rope restraints, beatings, and denial of intellectual pursuits. They recalled rope methods, leg irons, and long periods of solitary confinement as they asserted lasting resilience and refusal to be brainwashed.
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Navy
Charles P. Zuhoski
New York
Zuhoski
New York City
Wayne K. Goodermore
Berlin
N.Y
Charles D. Rice
Setauket
New York State
North Vietnam
Rice
Air Force
James Lindberg Hughes
Santa Fe
N.M. Hughes
Jane Fonda Calls Returning POWs Hypocrites and Liars
Academy Award winner Jane Fonda branded American POWs who alleged torture in North Vietnam as hypocrites and liars in a KNBC TV interview. She cited eight pilots she met, describing some as not tortured or starved and questioning the others’ motives.
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Burbank
Calif
Jane Fonda
Hughes says Hanoi captors prepared him for antiwar visitors
Air Force Col James Lindberg Hughes, freed after six years in North Vietnam prisons, said his captors prepared him for questions from an American antiwar delegation. He declined to name the visitors, added they caused torture and deprivation, and said no legal action would be taken.
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Zuhoski
Jamesport
N.Y
Hanoi
Miss Fonda
North Vietnam
Santa FE
N.M
Air Force
James Lindberg Hughes
Hughes
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