Stop Dumping Oil Chafee Tells Navy in New Policy Clash
Senate hearings on Navy oil dumping waste near waters face postponement as Chafee denounces the act and calls for disposal reforms. Senators Randolph Cooper Muskie cite Nixon policy and the Water Quality Improvement Act, demanding accountability for officers and a public explanation.
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Chafee
Navy
Subcommittee
Jennings Randolph
D-W. Va
Senate Public Works Committee
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Nixon
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Senate
Muskie
Interior Department
Randolph
Cooper
Laird
Dietz
Mayport
Mike Wenzel
Jacksonville
Meadle Refuses to Testify in My Lai Trial
Meadle invokes the Fifth Amendment repeatedly as Col. Kennedy grants immunity and warns of consequences. Meadle previously described as an unwilling accomplice to Calley in the My Lai killings, states God punished him for the prior day’s actions. The witness is escorted to military police and later to federal authorities for possible charges of unlawful refusal to testify.
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Meadle
Calley
My Lai
My. Lai
Reid Kennedy
Talbott
Kennedy
Kesler
Meadlow
Boyce
Army
CID
Aubry Daniel
Daniel
Oil Dump Exposes Florida Beach Pollution Threat
Oil dumped by two Navy barges 55 miles offshore threatens 135 miles of Florida shoreline from the Georgia line to Daytona Beach. Navy and state officials vow cleanup efforts while lawmakers consider a tighter ocean dumping law to close loopholes.
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Jacksonville Navy Complex
Dietz
Job Outlook For Women Faces Decline In 1980s
Washington AP reports Labor Department warns the 1970s may worsen the career prospects for women graduates. Growth in women entering college coincides with fewer teaching jobs and limited high opportunity fields like medicine and engineering, suggesting strong competition among new and experienced female workers. The outlook for graduates overall darkens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Department
Occupational Outlook Quarterly
Man Found Fatally Shot In Broadalbin
The body of a middle aged man with a single gunshot wound to the back of the head was found near Broadalbin, New York, by a Fulton County highway worker cutting brush. He was fully clothed, about 5 foot 10, suspected to have died about 24 hours earlier. fingerprints were sent to Washington for identification.
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Broadalbin
N.Y
Fulton County
Washington
Communist Bloc Summit Calls for Mutually Acceptable Berlin Accord
In East Berlin the Soviet bloc summit approved a European security document urging a mutually acceptable West Berlin agreement. Polish leader Gomulka said East and West Germany might reach a deal, while bloc insistence on two Germanys remaining separate was unchanged.
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Wladislaw Gomulka
West Germany
Gomulka
Oil Platform Fire Expands in Gulf Collapse
The Shelji Oil Co platform in the Gulf of Mexico burned intensely as it collapsed. Coast Guard says the fire spread to extra wells, drawing fuel from seven of the 22 working wells clustered on the platform. A section of the structure buckled under a crane and fell toward the center.
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New Orleans
Shelji Oil Co
Gulf of Mexico
Coast Guard
Nixon Aid Bill Clears Committee With Extra Cyclone Aid
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved Nixon's foreign aid authorization raising the year's ceiling by 15 million dollars to 535 million, allocating extra funds to East Pakistan for cyclone relief while directing allocations to Cambodia, South Korea, and South Vietnam. The measure sets spending ceilings and awaits further congressional action in the lame duck session.
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Washington
Nixon
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Congress
East Pakistan
Cambodia
South Korea
South Vietnam
Catholic Leaders Clash Over Abortion Authorship
Dr. Goldmark and Dr. Guttmacher discuss abortion ethics and viability of fetuses at 24 weeks. Guttmacher urges contraception and cautious abortion access, while a Health and Hospitals Corp. spokesman says there is no evidence of related abuse in their 18 hospitals.
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Alan F. Guttmacher
Planned Parenthood
Guttmacher
Health and Hospitals Corp
Canadian Terrorists Free Envoy From Havana Flight
Canadian officials announce the release of British envoy Cross by terrorists in Havana after a six week captivity. Prime Minister Trudeau confirms safe passage for seven abductees in exchange for Cross under a deal with Britain. Cross left for Christmas as details identify the abductors Marc Carbonneau and Jacques Lanctot among a group of seven on the Yukon cargo plane.
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau
House of Commons
Edward Heath
Trudeau
London
Heath
Laporte
Cross
Quebec
Robert Bourassa
Barbara
Switzerland
Berne
Marc Carbonneau
Jacques Lanctot
Carbonneau
Lanctot
Montreal
Choquette
Havana
Jacques Cosette Trudél
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John Kesler
U.S
Columbus
Florida
Heyworth
Shields
Elgin White
Department of Natural Resources
Communist Bloc
Catholic Bishops
Cry On Abortion
Jrs
SM L
Peerless East
Jennifer Dale
Alfred Dunner
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