Day of Turmoil In the Streets
A Washington peace demonstration on April 15 drew about 800 youths in rain along 16th Street to Lafayette Park and the White House. Police cleared the park, arrested several after vans with barred windows were brought in, and about 400 core demonstrators were moved toward K Street. A veteran observer contrasted police actions with German 1936 tactics, noting the Metropolitan Police enforce laws and ordinances.
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Statler
Afl-Cio
Layfayette Park
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Dave Dellinger
Chicago Seven
SDS
Lafayette Park
K Street
Germany
Hitler
Metropolitan Police Force of
Washington
Izzard
Peace Talks To Resume Compiled From AP and UPT
The United States and North Vietnam will restart the Paris peace talks on Thursday, with President Nixon set to address the nation at 10 p.m. EST on the new Vietnam offensive and its impact on troop withdrawals. Officials say talks will focus on ending the North Vietnamese invasion and will not be a propaganda forum.
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United States
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Paris
White House
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Vietnam
U. S
Ronald L. Ziegler
South Vietnam
Ziegler
Hanoi
Henry Kissinger
Moscow
Lyndon B. Johnson
Flower Power Rules in Oxford House Barricade
Kathleen Flower and Iris Mason, both spinsters, barricaded themselves in Flower's 88 year old Oxford home for four hours to resist demolition for a planned superhighway. After bailiffs and student protesters clashed, the pair exited to a rented bungalow, prepared with tea and supplies, vowing to stay.
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England
Kathleen Flower
Miss Flower
Iris Mason
Miss Mason
Suspect Held in Area Deaths Connected to Gun
Ballistics tests will check a .32 caliber pistol possibly linked to a string of murders from Oregon to Texas including Elizabeth Perryman’s death near Amarillo. The gun and two other pistols came from a car driven by a 23 year old man stopped Sunday on a speeding charge in Titus County. He is jailed in Mount Pleasant as detectives pursue further interrogation.
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Lubbock
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Lakewood
FBI
Cynthia Ann Glass
Portland
Ore
Salt Lake City
Mount Pleasant
Miss Glass
Washington State
Communists Open New Attacks As Kontum Falls
North Vietnamese armored units push down Highway 14 toward Kontum in the Central Highlands as South Vietnamese troops retreat. Ten Americans killed and eight missing. new offensives along Highway 1 east of Kontum. Dak To evacuated by helicopter with all 10 Americans aboard killed. eight advisers missing. Artillery Base Bravo near Kontum center of regrouping as North Vietnamese force estimated at 4,000. Dak To reports conflict and possible battalion still fighting.
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Highway 14
South Vietnam
Kontum
Dak
Tan Canh
Bravo
Vo Dinh
UPI
Matt Franjola
Bravo Base
Dak To
Actor Sanders dies in Spain from overdose note of boredom
British actor George Sanders died in a Spanish resort hotel of sleeping-pill overdose and left a suicide note saying he was bored. The 65 year old, known for cynical roles, was found in a room at Rey Don Jaime near Barcelona with five empty nebulized tubes. Police reported he checked in alone two days earlier.
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UPI
George Sanders
Sanders
Rey Don Jaime
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Barcelona
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Ford recalls 436000 Torinos and Montegos for rear axle fix
Ford Motor Company announces a recall of 436,000 1972 Torinos and Montegos sold in the United States and abroad to replace defective rear axles and bearings at no charge. The action follows earlier recalls and aims to prevent wheels from falling off and to reassure customers about Ford’s product durability.
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Detroit
API
Ford Motor Co
Ford
United States
Philip E. Benton Jr
Benton
Apollo 16 Astronaut Conducts Spacewalk to Retrieve Film
Thomas K. Mattingly II steps into deep space from the command module Casper to recover film canisters and expose 60 million microbes to vacuum and radiation. With John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. observing, the crew hopes the microbe study informs long duration space travel and Mars missions.
Twisters Hit Panhandle Towns With Hail and Dusty Snow
Severe weather swept the Panhandle with gusts up to eight miles per hour and hail covering ground in places. A National Weather Service tornado watch spanned 63 counties from the Oklahoma Panhandle to the Big Spring area, in effect 4 to 10 p.m. Stratford reported up to marble sized hail and 1.44 inches of moisture, with drifts piled high on the south side. A tornado struck Stratford around 9:15 p.m., causing extensive damage in the southern part of town.
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Panhandle
National Weather Service
Oklahoma Panhandle
Big Spring
Dave McReynolds
Stratford
McReynolds
Greenhorns Targeted by Rustlers in Seminar Talk
In Des Moines Iowa a seminar heard rustling yields 1000 to 3000 dollars per foray. Florida losses reached five million in one year with 1500 cattle taken from a single rancher. The session feature a film Livestock Rustling It’s Big Business and urged prevention strategies.
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