Allende Chile Socialists win strong municipal vote edge
Chile's socialist led government parties in municipal elections nearly hit 50 percent, final returns showed. The Interior ministry data placed Socialists and allies at 49.6 to 50.9 percent depending on figures, boosting Allende's domestic standing and backing nationalization and agrarian reform. Carmen Frei led a standout PDC showing among individual candidates. Adonis Sepulveda also looked likely to win a southern Senate seat for the regime's coalition.
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Santiago, Chile
Allende
Interior Ministry
Socialist
Communist
Radical
Social Democratic
Popular Union Socialist Party
Christian Democratic Party
PDC
Social Democrats
Radicals
Popular Union Socialist
National Party
Christian Democrats
Radical Democrats
National Democrats
Eduardo Frei
Caniidate
Radomiro ‘Tomic
Frei
Carmen Frei
Santiago
Alerman
Adonis Sepulveda
Chile
Sepulveda
Andres Zaldivar
Democratic Radical
Jorge Ovalle
Richmond raid on radical headquarters nets weapons and posters
Police raided a Richmond California residence described as a radical headquarters and seized two carbines a shotgun a pistol an Oriental rifle ammunition and other weapons plus posters and underground literature. Four students aged 20 to 21 were arrested on conspiracy and explosives charges while officials noted a typewriter allegedly stolen from Melvin Laird’s Washington office.
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Richmond
Calif
Secretary of Defense
Mao Tse-tung
Berkeley
U.S
Laird
Washington
Gale King
Margaret Walter
Elizabeth Tomkins
Susan Garrett
Witness cites Davis escape plan in Poindexter trial
Government witness Robert Loma testified that Poindexter planned to help Angela Davis escape to Canada and later drive her to Detroit. Loma described paying for a Cadillac with Poindexter repaying the down payment and monthly notes, and that Davis was found at Poindexter’s 20th floor Lake Michigan view apartment.
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New York
UPI
David R. Poindexter
Chicago
Angela Davis
Poindexter
Miss Davis
Canada
Robert Loma
Poindeter
Detroit
Loman
Chicago Carting &Co
Lake Michigan
Black sheriff in Alabama pleads innocent in civil rights case
Lucius Amerson the first black sheriff in Alabama since Reconstruction pleaded innocent to a federal charge of violating a prisoner's civil rights. Deputy Richard Coleman Jr. also pleaded innocent. Trial was set for May 10 with motions to move venue denied. Harris, jailed for multiple counts, alleges beatings at Macon County jail after a gunfight incident.
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Opelika
Ala
UPI
Alabama
Reconstruction
Lucius Amerson
Macon County
U.S
Frank M. Johnson Jr
Richard Coleman Jr
Johnson
Montgomery
Amerson
Fred Gray
Tuskeegee
William J. Barr
Baxley
Wilert
Dean Harris
Macon
Harris
Tuskegee
California prison system condemned as monstrous reform call
UPI reports from Washington that massie prisoner Robert Massie and San Quentin inmate Alphonzo Bell urge prison reform. Massie describes California’s penal system as monstrously dehumanizing and urges action as Bell cites in Congressional Record.
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Washington
UPI
San Quentin
California
Alphonzo Bell
Ball
Bell
Robert Massie
Massie
San Gabriel
U.S. Supreme Court
Artificial meat standards draw fire from nutritionist
Top FDA nutrition director Dr. Ogden C. Johnson criticized industry guidelines for textured vegetable protein products as inadequate while noting potential for tasty inexpensive foods tailored to nutritional formulas. Industry executives, including Miles Laboratories and General Mills, expect mass market timing in about two years with chicken and ground beef imitations.
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Washington
UPI
Ogden C. Johnson
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Johnson
Food Industry
Walter A. Compton
Mites Laboratories
Compton
Senate
Miles
General Mills, Inc
Frank Hildebrand
General Mills
Nine Story Fall Injures Musician On Roof In Tokyo
Michiji Ise a 21 year old mandolin player from Meiji University escaped with minor injuries after falling from a nine story roof onto a bed where two women slept. The women were unharmed but shocked. Police say he climbed the roof after leaving a bar following a wedding performance.
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Tokyo
UPI
Michiji Ise
Iso
Meiji University
Yaracucho Street
Riverside police may quiz children over weekend ambush
Riverside residents in black neighborhoods were told officers might stop and talk with youths about the ambush that killed two police officers, Leonard Christiansen and Paul Teel. Police say four suspects are desperate, and investigators are pursuing leads from Riverside noting false tips.
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Riverside
UPI
Eugene T. Flagan
Leonard A. Christiansen
Paul C. Teel
Desert hippie gathering dwindles near Barllarat
About 500 hippies gathered around Barallarat desert town for a rock festival and religious experience, but attendance thinned to roughly 120 people as sun and lack of facilities deterred seekers. only 25 vehicles remained.
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Ballarat
UPI
Sheriff's
Gea
Undersheriff
James Randolph
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Don Bailey
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