[News Script: Nixon, FDA, the draft, and police shooting] Page: 1 of 2
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, (CHATTAN00GA, TENNESSEE)--A 22-YEAR-OLD NEGRO MAN HAS BEEN
S'OT TO DEATH BY LAW ENFORCEMENT, OFFICERS IN CHA'TTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.
BUT AUTHORITIES $AY. THAT CIVIL DISORDERS WHICh HAVE HIT THE
CITY FOR FOUR STRAIGHT- NIGHTS SUBSIDIED LAST NIGHT WITH THE
PRESENCE OF 2,000 NATI,NAL GUARDSMEN ON THE STREETS.
FIRE AND POLICE COMISSIONER GENE ROBERTS SAID LEON ANDERSON
WAS KILLED AS HE THREW A BRICK AT 12 CITY, COUNTY AND STATE
OFFICERS. HE WAS THE FIRST PERSON KILLED.IN THE DISORDERS.
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FIFTH FIVE TAKE TWO
(MOBILE ALAPAMA)--PRESIDENT NIXtON IS HEADING TODAY ON A ''NON-
POLITICAL' TRIP' INTO THE HEART OF TERRITORY DOMINATED POLITICALLY
BY HIS POTENTIAL 1972 RIVAL, ALABAMA GOVERNOR GEORGE WALLACE.
THE PRESIDENT WILL VISIT ALABAMA'S TWO LARGEST CITIES, MOBILE
AND BIRMINGHAM, THERE WILL BE NOTOPCAD-ES IN BOTH CITIES.
(WASHINGTONJ)--T1'E VOLATILE ISSUES OF~THE DRAFT AND THE VIET\'.
WAR COME TOGETHER TODAY IN SENATE CONSIDERATION OF LEGISLATION
TO BAR THE USE OF INDUCTED SOLDIERS IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN COMBAT.
SENATOR GAYLORD NELSON, WHO ,WANTS TO FIRBID THE USE OF DRAFTEES
FOR COMBAT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, SAYS DRAFTEES HAVE BORNE AN INORDINATE
SHARE OF THE WAR CASUALTIES.
THE WISCONSIN DEMOCRAT SAID IN A PREPARED SENATE SPEECH THAT
14,331 DRAFTEES, HAD BEEN KILLED IN 'JIETNlAM COMBAT THROUGH THE
END OF LAST YEAR. THE FIGURE REPRESENTS 4- PER CENT OF TOTAL
ARMY COMBAT DEATHS. TI-tE FIGURE FOR 1970 HAS RISEN TO 57 PET
CENT.
(WASHINGTON)--SENATOR WILLIAV PROXMIRE CHARGED TODAY THAT THE
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION IS VIOLATING FEDERAL LAW PY AL LOWING
RESIDUES OF A CANCER-INDUCING HORMONE TO REACH CONSUMERS. THE
WISCONSIN DEMOCRAT URGED AN IMMEDIATE BAN ON THE ARTIFICIAL
HORMONE D-E-S USED IN FATTENING CATTLE. THE HORMONE IS KNOWN
TO CAUSE CANCER IN LABORATbRY ANIMALS AND TO INCITE BEGINNING
CANCERS IN NAN.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Nixon, FDA, the draft, and police shooting], script, May 25, 1971, 6:30 a.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1413522/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.