All-volunteer Army Here to Stay Says Pentagon Official
William K. Brehm, assistant secretary of defense for manpower, asserts the all-volunteer force will sustain a regular military of about 2.1 million and improve quality and readiness. He notes recruitment has exceeded goals in early fiscal 1975, with Navy shortfalls and GI Bill education benefits driving enlistments amid inflation and postwar attitudes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L.edgar Prina Copley
Washington
William K. Brehm
Brehm
Air Force
Marine Corps
Navy
Army
Capitol Hill
Man and Medicine Smoking is risky for doctors too
A doctor recounts personal experience with smoking from teens to adulthood and notes how medical advice, Surgeon General reports, and statistics link cigarettes to higher cancer and heart disease risk. The piece emphasizes quit benefits and long term cancer survival odds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irwin J, Polk
M.D. Copley News Service
Charles
Capital move sparks riot in Draguignan as prefecture shifts
Angry Draguignan residents protested government orders transferring the Var prefecture to Toulon. Riot police used tear gas while demonstrators threw rocks and burned cars. Dozens injured, including four officers and five civilians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Draguignan
France
UPI
Var
Riviera
Jacques Chirac
Toulon
Tehran Mehrabad roof collapse kills 16 and injures 11
Tehran authorities say 16 people died and 11 were injured when the snow laden roof of Mehrabad airport passenger terminal collapsed. Among the dead are two Americans, Larry Upton and Michael Nimitz. A 500 strong rescue team recovered all bodies as debris were cleared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tehran
UPI
Mehrabad
Hushang Arbabi
Iranian Civil Aviation Board
Larry Upton
Jackson
Mich
Michael Nimitz
Wisconsin
Nimitz
Upton
Tehran Towers
Arbabi
Price of chicken due for 6 cent a pound hike
Floods droughts and freezes reduced corn and soybean crops driving up feed costs. Agriculture Department economists project wholesale broiler prices rising from 38-40 cents in late 1974 to 44-46 cents in second quarter 1975. Output is expected 15 percent below year ago, boosting consumer prices by about six cents per pound by next summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surgeon General
Department of Agriculture
Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Broiler
Five victims fall for $1150 television sale fraud in Scottsdale
Patricia Rivers of a Mesa restaurant says a man calling as Don Price offered five consoles and three portables to sell at 250 and 160 dollars each. Four residents plus Howard Lee paid 1150 at The Broadway loading dock but the suspect vanished, and Broadway staff confirm no such employee, with the receipt later tied to stolen Broadway documents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesa
Tempe
Scottsdale
Patricia Rivers
Don Price
Rivers
Howard Lee
Broadway Department Store
E. McDowell Rd
Lee
Price
Broadway
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Robert L. Blodgett
Rose Circle Gardens
62Nd ST
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BUY
Hes
Blodgett
Paradise Valley
Arizona
Frank Lloyd Wright
Los Arcos Mall
Club Woolco
Tri-City Mall
W. Main
Malley Fair Shopping Center
Southern & Mill Ave
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