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 6, 1974 - A local writer reflects on the importance of mentorship and community, as well as approaching writing as a craft at the Twin Cities Writer's Workshop conference.
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".
March 8, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten interviews Maceo Dixon, national campaign coordinator for the Socialist Workers Party. Dixon discusses the party’s suit to cease and desist against the U.S. government on harassment claims.
March 11, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten presents an interview with Chuck and Donna Thibodeau, operators of Divorce Education Association. The local organization is one of several that focuses on divorce reform.
March 13, 1974 - Arthur Schlesinger, historian and author, speaks at the University of Missouri. Schlesinger’s address is on topic from his book "The Imperial Presidency."