News stories from Sunday March 24, 1974
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee, the ranking Republican on the Senate Watergate Committee, urged President Nixon to turn over all "relevant" tape recordings and documents to the House Judiciary Committee, which is deliberating the President's possible impeachment. He said in an interview on the "Face the Nation" television program that the committee ought to honor "whatever reasonable request the President makes, such as the presence of counsel in the principal deliberations and investigation of the committee." [New York Times]
- The cost of college education will rise again next fall, making it 9.4 percent more expensive than this year and 35.8 per cent more than it was four years ago. The College Entrance Examination Board reported that in the coming academic year a student living on campus at an average four-year private college would have to pay $4,039, which is $346 more than this year. [New York Times]
- In treating certain forms of schizophrenia it has been found that affectionate dogs have been used successfully where human therapists have failed. It has also been discovered that a dog can establish an effective parent-child relationship with a young monkey who had previously formed such an attachment to its own mother. This is contrary to the wide belief that such relationships can develop only once and at the earliest stage of life. [New York Times]
- When Carl Huntington, a 27-year-old dogsled musher, reached Main Street in Nome with his five dogs at 12:02 A.M. Saturday, fire alarms greeted him. About 4,000 people, about twice the city's population, were up to welcome him. He had completed the 1,049-mile Iditarod Trail from Anchorage -- regarded as the most grueling and longest of the world's dogsled trails. He was the first of 28 dog mushers expected in Nome in the next two weeks in the second annual Iditarod dogsled race. His trip took 20 days and 15 hours. He won a $12,000 prize. [New York Times]
- One American couple in every six in the main child-bearing period of 20 to 39 years of age has had a sterilization operation according to federally funded surveys, and some family planning experts believe the trend is growing. The sterilization method, according to these specialists, has apparently become the principal birth control method among couples over the age of 30, and contraceptive pills are second. [New York Times]
- In a break with Mayor Beame of New York City, Representative Herman Badillo said that he would not head a cabinet-level committee on ethnic tensions until the Mayor appointed more Puerto Ricans to high positions in city government. He charged that the Mayor had staffed his administration with "either clubhouse people or civil servants" who would be backward-looking and unresponsive to the poor. [New York Times]
- Several hours of fighting among units of the Uganda army ended this morning, leaving the East African country's controversial President, Gen. Idi Amin, still in power. It was not clear whether rebellious soldiers had attempted a coup d'etat to overthrow the Amin regime or whether Amin loyalists had begun a massacre of a suspected tribal group in the army and had met resistance. There will probably be severe reprisals, a diplomat said. [New York Times]
- Secretary of State Kissinger arrived in Moscow for delicate and difficult talks with the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. The purpose of the current talks is to break the crucial deadlock in negotiations on limitation of strategic arms. During his three-day visit, Mr. Kissinger told newsmen, "We will make concrete progress on a number of outstanding issues." He said that another topic would be the exact dates of President Nixon's visit to Moscow, which is expected to take place late in June. [New York Times]