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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1973
Page
9
Protesters urge an increase in Illinois Arts Council funding from Gov. Walker. Supporters meet with about 75 participants to push for a $1.2 million request, while Walker recommended $497,000 for the next budget.
The Soviet Union agrees to allow American specialists into the Soviet mission control center for the Apollo Soyuz test project, with Americans in the Soviet center and Soviets in the American control center during the 1975 mission. The move marks the first partial opening of Soviet launch oversight to U S personnel.
California toxicologist backs Arizona autopsy findings that David Whiting died from an overdose of methaqualone. The 26 year old business manager for Sara Miles was found dead in Miles’ motel room February 11. The coroner’s jury will reconvene. Miles and Burt Reynolds testified about the night of the death.
The Senate debates amendments to extend Nixon wage price controls for another year. Proxmire stalls on restoring federal rent controls and requiring federal approval of large wage settlements and major price hikes. Absent votes loom as lawmakers push limits on inflation and consider Alaska pipeline and food price freezes.
In Khartoum the Palestine Liberation Organization distance itself from the Black September group blamed for assassinations of three diplomats in Khartoum. The eight attackers now face charges without PLO support as Sudanese authorities prepare to try them.
Marine Sgt. Ronald L. Ridgeway of Houston says he wants to visit the graves near St. Louis where Marines killed in the Khe Sanh ambush on February 25, 1968 were buried. Ridgeway, listed dead in 1968, was released after five years in a Viet Cong prison camp and reunited with Maj. Paul J. Montague at Camp Pendleton.
Senate Judiciary Committee hearings resume on Patrick Gray II as FBI director nominee. Aide to Attorney General Kleindienst reportedly ordered withdrawal of offering all senators access to FBI files on the Democratic National Committee bugging. Access will be limited to the committee chair and ranking minority member, a move tied to the President's stated policy on raw FBI files. Gray supported the FBI probe of the June bugging and defended his offer to let senators inspect the files.
The dollar showed a mixed day across world markets with gains in some centers and declines in others. Traders described conditions as very unsettled after Paris adopted a new floating exchange rate system last Friday. Gold prices stayed largely steady near 82 dollars an ounce in London and Zurich as market activity remained light. In Tokyo the dollar closed at 263 yen, down from 264.90, while Frankfurt opened at 2.816 marks, below prior levels. London Paris and Brussels also saw early weakness.
Residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation petitioned the federal government to order an election to dissolve the Oglala Sioux constitution and form a new government. Interior spokesman Jack Murphy said the 1,400 plus signatures are being checked for the required 30 percent of qualified voters. The move follows militants at Wounded Knee demanding a new election to replace Tribal Chairman Richard Wilson after 21 days.
Provo police say a 78 year old woman dressed in red entered the Walker Bank branch and brandished a toy pistol demanding 1500 dollars. Geneva Ball of Provo was arrested nearby and arraigned on robbery charges with a preliminary hearing set for next Monday.
The Department of Justice sent a legislative package to Congress detailing a plan to amend the 1970 drug law. It would impose tougher penalties including a mandatory life term for certain second offenses in heroin and morphine trafficking and deny bail to those charged with selling these drugs unless the judge finds safety concerns. It would also bar release for those awaiting sentence or during appeals.
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