Sugar trade fights over US sugar quotas and fees
The piece outlines how US sugar import quotas and a possible import fee are debated amid diplomacy and lobbying. Agriculture Secretary Freeman moves to reinstate a fee while Congress hones a new bill. Latin American producers seek 90 percent of the market.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Congress
Orville L. Freeman
House Agriculture Committee
Freeman
United States
Harold Cooley
D-N.c
Agriculture Committee
U.S. State Department
Philippines
Water pollution debate tied to recreational boating
A UPI report notes a subcommittee weighing federal anti-pollution laws amid broad national concerns over water quality. Boating officials stress uniform standards to avoid cross-state harassment as they promote self policing and local measures.
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Congress
Jack Woliston
United Press International
National Association of State Boating Law
Ron Stone
Outboard Boating Club of America
Innocent Suffer in Viet Nam War Patrol Case
UPI report from Chu Lai describes a Marine patrol in a disputed area where three peasants were detained and released after one man was wounded. Civilians, including an elderly man killed by gunfire, witness the encounter as soldiers probe for Viet Cong hiding spots amid sand and straw holes.
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Martin Stuart-Fox
Chu Lai
Viet Nam
UPI
Popular Forces
Viet Cong
South
Wwe
Beatrice Burns Leads Hawaii From Wheelchair
Beatrice Burns, wife of Hawaii’s governor, commands duties at Washington Place from a wheelchair after polio. She chairs events, hosts visitors, and raises three children while being named Hawaii’s most admired woman in a newspaper poll. Her family aids her, and her eldest son, John Jr., works as a Treasury Department speechwriter.
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James Lagier
Honolulu
Hawaii
Beatrice Burns
Washington Place
Patsy Takemoto Mink
U.S. Congress
Burns
Barns
Fairbanks, Alaska
UPI
Majors van Vliet
Sumpler
Oregon
Ithe
Los Angeles
Nevada
Stanley Steinberg
Midwest
Thomas
J. Majors
Erner
Nebraska
Col
Alexander Majors
Pony Express
O-Be
John
University of Hawaii
Schofield Barracks
John, Jr
Mary Beth
Treasury Department
Washington
James
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