Meat Boycott Drives Prices and Protests Across Nation
Housewives groups press April Fools Week meat boycott despite Nixon price ceilings. labor and farmer unions rally and plan demonstrations as meat packers announce layoffs and plants reduce output. Nationwide action includes a White House rally and a Santa Monica pier caravan amid calls for rollback and market stabilization.
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Paris peace talks blamed for sabotaged provisions by rivals
The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong accused the United States and Saigon of sabotaging major Paris peace provisions as the Joint Military Commission ended its two month tenure. In Saigon, President Nguyen Van Thieu flew to the U.S. amid a 50,000-strong send-off. A Virginia Beach veteran recalled seven years in Hanoi prisons, including 42 months in solitary and a leg iron camp nicknamed Alcatraz. Northern Cheyenne leaders moved to cancel mining leases on vast coal lands, signaling Indian resistance with possible years of litigation. In Nogales, California, researchers announced two drug classes that may block cancer cell transformation after viral infection.
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Newsmen's shield okayed in House
West Virginia House approves a shield law bill granting reporters limited immunity from revealing sources. The 55-20 vote moves the measure to the Senate. Speaker McManus urged passage while Seibert cautioned on information flow to the public.
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Hanoi says threats can harm U.S.
North Vietnam urged that Nixon's implied threats to renew bombing if Hanoi does not honor the peace terms would only damage the United States and hinder peace in Indochina. Hanoi presses that U.S. policy of force undermines negotiations and violates the accord, accusing Washington and Saigon of breaching self determination for South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
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McCord Says Mitchell Briefed On Bugging
UPI reports James W. McCord Jr. testified he and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell spoke nearly daily last spring about Republican campaign security. Mitchell contends they met only once. McCord's remarks relate to spring 1972 when he headed security for the Committee for the Re election of the President and Mitchell was Nixon campaign manager.
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Communists deny mistreatment of U S POWs in Vietnam
In Saigon UPI reports top North Vietnamese officials rejected claims of cruelty toward former American POWs. Col Vo Dong Giang and Lt Gen Tran Van Tra said the charges aim to hide alleged mistreatment of Communist prisoners by South Vietnam. They cited supposed humane treatment and noted healthy returns as evidence.
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End of the tunnel light sign marked last Tan Son Nhut exit
At Tan Son Nhut airport the last U.S. plane left as Col. Ralph Detherow handed a sign reading This is the light at the end of the tunnel Do not turn off to Maj Robbin Bryan of Canada, an ICCS member. The moment marked by the painted light switch replica sign symbolized the closing of operations. Detherow, 46, from Reston Virginia, transferred the sign to the peacekeeping commission partner during the final withdrawal.
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Tense atmosphere lingers at West Virginia Penitentiary after riot
At Moundsville 540 inmates remain tense ten days after a March 20 disturbance in which five guards were held 25 hours. Norman Yost, who helped secure the guards' release, reported on progress toward meeting 20 rebel demands and assured inmates of security. Troopers and National Guardsmen remain on duty for about a month to isolate maximum security housing as cells are prepared. Leaders and many inmates clash over treatment and privileges, while only about 10 percent actively participated in the riot and property damage across the south wing.
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