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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1973
Page
3
Two East German engineers with their families tunneled under the Berlin Wall on July 27 and emerged through a drainage pipe in West Berlin. Police confirmed nine refugees and praised the careful planning of the tunnel while noting a crackdown on professional refugee smugglers.
The Bexar Metropolitan Criminal Justice Council projects 2,815,000 in 1974 Justice Department funds. Bill Holchak says the 120 page Metropolitan Criminal Justice Plan has been sent to the Texas Council, with state allocation based on population crimes and needs. The plan will also aid the Alamo Area Council of Governments regional plan. Council members include Sheriff W. B. Hauck, Dist. Atty. Tec Buller, Constable Bill Hancock, and City Councilmen Leo Mendoza and Alvin Padilla.
Washington reports the Army failed to meet recruitment goals for July at 74 percent of target. Black enlistees reached 35 percent, three times the population share, while low IQ scores rose to 11 percent, the highest in four years. Air Force and Navy surpassed quotas though the Marines lagged. Overall black recruits reached 31 percent for July, prompting Pentagon official remarks on jobs over race.
George A. Wiley, 42, a civil rights leader, is missing and presumed drowned after falling from an unstable railing of his 23 foot cabin cruiser into Chesapeake Bay near Dares Beach Maryland. State police said Wiley went overboard late Wednesday as seas were heavy, about 40 miles east of Washington.
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