March 1, 1974 - Preview of what's happening at the legislature today. Spending bills, campaign finance and ethics bill with dollar checkoff provision on taxes. 1974 school aid formula bill to allow schools to keep up with inflation and increased gas costs. Family planning services. Bill to waive UofM tuition for foreign students. Club membership policy regulations. MN state car purchases to limit by size.
March 1, 1974 - With the U.S. Supreme Court Miller v. California decision leaving communities to determine what is and is not obscene, MPR’s Gary Eichten reports on the Minnesota Supreme Court decision on obscenity standards, guidelines, and how this will affect pornography business.
March 2, 1974 - Minnesota legislator Allan Spear details the three things no-fault divorce bill does…changes terminology (words have less of a fault connotation than traditional terms); removes requirement for corroborating witnesses; and removes current grounds for divorce (substitutes single ground, irretrievable breakdown of marriage relationship).
March 4, 1974 - Richard Banks and Russell Means are the first of six AIM leaders to be tried in St. Paul on felony indictments stemming from last year's 71 day occupation. The so-called Non-Leadership Case is scheduled for trial in South Dakota may number at least 130. On the stand today for his 2nd day of testimony is government witness Father Charles Manheart, pastor of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Wounded Knee.
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 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.