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March 4, 1974 - Speaker: Armofiani. Conflict of Jews, Israel Talks about recent Israel election. Ruling party, Golda Meier's Labor party election, is more ready to come to negotiation and peace. The next party is the Likkud party which is a hawk party, General Moshe Dyan insists Likud party should be represented in the cabinet, which would sabotage negotiation with Sria or Egypt. Discussion of Religious party history and possible alliance with Labor party. Implications for Henry Kissinger's peace efforts. Harder for him than Israel will be Syria, hardest will be Palestinian. Egyptian leaders accept Kissinger even though they know he's a Jew, that doesn't make any difference.
March 4, 1974 - Liquor addendum tacked on to bill. Wine provision added to liquor license bill. Legislator Nick Coleman is author. Coleman bite: Says this was added for resorts and restaurants. Actuality continues with more sound from legislature. Also: Senate voted for supplementary welfare assistance for some state aid recipients now covered by federal payments. Senate committee reinstate tax checkoff provision for campaign financing. Campaign contribution changes, bite: Senator Steve Keith. No fault auto insurance. Reporter mentions Rep. Bruce Vento proposal.
March 4, 1974 - Preview of upcoming events today in the Legislature. Reporter mentions Spear's no-fault divorce and milk price stabilization, final pension protection bill, no-fault auto insurance.
March 4, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten reports on Minnesota State Senator Allan Spear's no-fault divorce bill. Spear sees it as is a compromise measure, which only deals with grounds for divorce. Traditional grounds replaced by "irretrievable breakdown of marriage" and other terms also changed.
March 4, 1974 - Discussion of prospective gas rationing. Speaker agrees with the President that we should not have rationing. Believes we should have standby rationing program. Rationing could not be put into effect before Spring 1975 at the earliest. If there's enough frustration over the allocation program and if consumers request coupon rationing we may have it but it would be chaotic. Oregon plan should be voluntary, if that doesn't work make it mandatory, and if that doesn't work only then should coupon rationing be considered.
March 4, 1974 - Priority for agricultural gasoline over consumers. For limited gas supply agriculture is the most preferred customer in the United States. Agriculture gets gas first, they get 100 percent of their requirements, they are the top priority and motorists generally come out on the bottom, as the individual with the least priority.
March 5, 1974 - Speaker Robert Jay Lifton talks about similarities of between Watergate and the Vietnam Mi Lai Massacre. He talks about the American lens of idealism and cynicism, the mindset that America must remain the strongest country in the world. A counter insurgency reaction, the Democratic party is seen in alliance with protestors. He talks about the Vietnamization of America engaging in atrocities and coverups. The pattern represents desperate last ditch efforts to maintain a faltering cosmology around an American version of nationalism.
March 5, 1974 - Roy Aune, deputy director of State Civil Defense, talks about possible enemy attack and general emergency preparedness. Aune summarizes how Twin Cities would react to an attack and evacuation procedure….not as an ordered evacuation, but more along the lines of voluntary actions if international tensions build up, with an intense public information program for risk areas.
March 7, 1974 - MPR’s Dan Olson reports on rally sponsored by the Coalition for Child Care, held to call attention to need for childcare for students and university workers.
March 8, 1974 - AIM leader Russell Means speaks in Moorhead on the Wounded Knee occupation and recent Pine Ridge election, of which he lost to Richard Wilson. He says Wilson committed election violations, and will ask federal court to order a new election. When asked to comment on his trial now underway in St. Paul for his part in the Wounded Knee occupation, Means says he has confidence in the jury to get a fair trial, but is worried about the judge, who claims to be a liberal from South Dakota. Means says: "To be a liberal in South Dakota is just a bit left of the John Birch Society".