Milk Price Boosts in AMPI Probe Linked to Nixon Policy
Former AMPI official testified that the Milk Producers Inc cooperative overpaid for manufacturing grade milk in Minnesota and Wisconsin in 1970 and bid up cheese prices to influence federal price supports. The case ties to antitrust suits and Watergate investigations into Nixon era dairy policy.
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Siloam Springs
Ark
Dwight L. Morris
Associated Milk Producers Inc
AMP
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Green Bay
Wis
Morris
AMPI
George Mehren
Medical group urged to lead juvenile delinquency prevention
Harrisburg AP Attorney General Israel Packel asked Dr. Ralph Wilde of the Pennsylvania Medical Society for practical preventive programs in which the medical profession could play a leading role. He queried about early defect detection in young children and fair treatment to cut delinquency and gang activity.
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Harrisburg
Israel Packel
Packer
Ralph C. Wilde
Pennsylvania Medical Society
Western Pennsylvania Weather Outlook Thursday to Friday
Western Pennsylvania sees partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures into Friday. Highs reach mid 70s to low 80s with Thursday night lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s. A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms persists Thursday and Thursday night.
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Pennsylvania
Nixon Says Interference in Others Affairs Undermines Detente
President Nixon told Naval Academy graduates that pressuring other nations on their domestic policies could rupture detente. He linked the issue to Soviet Jewish emigration and trade bill delays, warning against isolationism and stressing the choice between detente and nuclear arms-driven conflict.
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Annapolis
Nixon
Soviet Union
Naval Academy
Middle East
Congress
House
Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
Charles A. Vanik
Ohio
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Bolivian Troops Quell Coup Attempt
Infantry loyal to President Hugo Banzer halted an attempted coup in La Paz led by two lieutenant colonels Rene Lopez Leyton and Gary Prado Salmon. No shots were fired as Banzer forces neutralized the Tarapaca armored regiment and ordered the leaders to stand trial on rebellion charges.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Hugo Banzer
Banzer
Tarapaca Armored Regiment
Rene Lopez Leyton
Gary Prado Salmon
Senate Rejects Effort to Slow New Bomber Program
The Senate defeated an anti B1 bomber amendment 59 to 31 as debate continued on a $21.8 billion weapons bill. A scaled down $769 million supplemental procurement was approved for the current year, far below the Nixon administration's request. The B1 prototype testing would receive $200 million if the amendment passed, with production decisions due in fall 1976.
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Washington
Senate
George McGovern
D-S.d
White House
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
U.S
Europe
Countywide police radio network nears approval with 16 of 17 towns on board
County plans for a county wide police radio network move forward as 16 of 17 municipalities sign mutual cooperation agreements. Addison Township has not replied yet. The plan aims to simplify dispatch with a central toll free number and mutual aid while meeting Governor's Justice Commission criteria for state aid. The system would include 14 to 15 mobile radios 20 to 30 walkie talkies and 10 monitors costing about 30000 dollars with state funding covering about 75 percent.
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Lawrence Krupnik
County Planning Commission
Addison Township
Krupnik
Addison
Benson
Berlin
Boswell
Central City
Confluence
Hooversville
Indian Lake
Jenner
Jennerstown
Meyersdale
Paint Township
Rockwood
Salisbury
Shade Township
Somerset
Stoystown
Governor’s Justice Commission
New York City
Commonwealth
Sherriff
Justice Commission
Percy hints at 1976 presidential bid on Capitol Cloakroom
Sen. Charles H. Percy said he probably will seek the GOP nomination for president in 1976. He warned he could support a Senate filibuster against any income tax cut as inflationary and said Nixon’s resignation or Ford’s rise could change his mind about running.
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Washington
Charles H. Percy
Illinois Republican
Senate
CBS Radio
Capitol
Percy
Nixon
Gerald Ford
Nixon Impeachment Panel Hears Milk Price Tapes
House Judiciary Committee members heard tapes of White House talks on March 23, 1971 about raising milk price supports. They questioned ties to dairy contributions, noting pledges of about 2 million dollars but finding no proof of a direct link to policy. Meanwhile Nixon brothers testified in a separate Watergate probe involving Hughes money to Rebozo.
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Ampi
Watergate Milk Fund
Nixon
White House
House Judiciary Committee
Senate Watergate Committee
Washington
Treasury
John B. Connally
Congress
Connally
Agriculture
Clifford Hardin
Capitol
Edward
Donald
Senate
Howard Hughes
C. G. “Bebe’’ Rebozo
Kidnappers Seize Earl and Countess in Ireland
Police and troops hunted in Wicklow Hills for the Earl and Countess of Donoughmore abducted from their Tipperary home by three masked gunmen. Authorities fear the elderly couple may be held to pressure hunger strikers in British prisons as IRA ties loom in the broader political danger.
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Dublin
Ireland
Wicklow Hills
Earl
Northern Ireland
IRA
Dolours
Marion Price
London
Sir Alfred Bell
Republic
House of Commons
30th D-Day Celebration Underway in Normandy
The 30th anniversary events open in Ranville with a wreathlaying at a British cemetery and include parachute drops and a cliff assault by U S Rangers. Gen Omar Bradley leads the American delegation with veterans and allied officials from Britain France Belgium Canada Norway and the Netherlands. HMS Undaunted anchors offshore as Omaha Beach shows tranquil sands and historic ruins.
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Ranville
France
Europe
U.S
Normandy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Omar N. Bradley
Omaha Beach
Utah Beach
Britain
Belgium
Canada
Norway
Netherlands
Plane Crash Kills Man in New Jersey Field
A Pennsylvania man died when his small single engine plane crashed in Marlboro Township Monmouth County near Route 79 and Conover Road. George J. Hamm 67 of Allentown was alone in the four passenger aircraft.
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Marlboro Township
Pennsylvania
Monmouth County
George J. Hamm
Allentown
Route 79
Conover Road
Morganville
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