Relatives Seek New Of POWs In Paris Talks
Five women and a man linked to American POWs arrived in Paris seeking confirmation on their relatives status in North Vietnam. Led by Mrs. Sybil Stockdale they represent the National League of Families of American Prisoners in Southeast Asia. They plan to meet Hanoi delegates and request a complete POW list while awaiting word on others missing since the Vietnam conflict. The group includes wives from Dallas Fort Worth Los Angeles Baltimore Quincy and Alexandria and a father in law from St. Paul.
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Paris
UPI
Vietnam
Sybil Stockdale
Navy
James Bond Stockdale
San Diego
Calif
National League of Families of American
Southeast Asia
Thomas Swain
St. Paul
Patrick Murray
Xuan Thuy
Dallas
Fort Worth
Tex
Hanoi
Stockdale
Pat Means
Air Force
Arthur §. Mearns
Los Angeles
Mearns
Andrea Rander
Donald J. Rander
Baltimore
Rander
South Vietnam
Ruth Ann Perisho
Naval
Gordon S. Perisho
Quincy
French Labor Unions Push Fight For Higher Wages
Paris reports indicate major unions plan strikes and work slowdowns across sectors including mail, docks, auto plants, and nationalized electricity. Leaders demand across the board pay raises to offset rising cost of living and to hire more staff amid urban growth.
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Paris
UPI
Cherbourg
Nationalized Electricity Company
Candie Light
Missing 5 Days Adventurers Found Safe Near Kingman
The mother of James Sears and five NAU forestry students said the hikers were not worried after being found in good condition near a country road around Kingman Arizona. They had run out of food and waited six days after entering the Grand Canyon region before meeting searchers.
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Atlanta
UPI
Grand Canyon
Robert C. Sears
James
Susan Varin
Tempe
Aziz
John Wehrman
Plorissan
Kingman
Ariz
Lawyers Oppose Nixon On Civil Rights Policy
Dis sident lawyers in the Justice Department plan to publicize two confidential memos challenging the Nixon Administration's civil rights policies, with emphasis on school desegregation. The statements dated Aug. 29 and last week will be released before a news conference led by Asst Atty Gen Jerris Leonard.
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Washington
UPI
Justice Department
Jerris Leonard
Trimmer Leonard Maps Civil Rights Division Reorganization
Trim Trimmer Leonard announced a civil rights division reorganization set to take effect Oct 6 removing geographic aliases. A lawyers group representing about 65 of the 74 staff attorneys says the move does not respond to their protest and plans further meetings to decide next steps.
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Leonard
Civil Rights Division
Leopard Captured After Escaping in Kagel Canyon Hills
Deputies tranquilized and captured a leopard eight months old that escaped from John Barnhill's Kagel Canyon home. The animal was chained to a tree, brought to an animal shelter, and the owner was identified as Barnhill. A separate Venezuela report notes two soldiers wounded in an eastern clash and a protest letter acknowledged by Leonard to Nixon officials.
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San Fernand
UPI
Kagel Canyon
Here
John Barnhill
Barnhill
Caracas
Venezuela
Bus Crashes Into Tom's Cafe In Los Angeles
A car ran a red light and struck a Southern California Rapid Transit District bus, pushing it into Tom's Cafe. The crash injured six passengers and the driver. two Long Beach women, Margaret Johnson and Bernice Savage, were among the most seriously hurt. The driver, James Faison, 53, was trapped, later treated and booked on suspicion of drunken driving. Firefighters freed him as the bus tore through a fence and the cafe wall.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Southern Fornia Rapid Transit District
Long Beach
Margaret Johnson
Bernice Savage
USC Medical Center
Central Receiving Hospital
James Faison
Daniel Santamaria
Faison
Morley
Department of Public Safety
Mathews
Marley
Lawmen Shoot Sheriff's Slayer in Hallettsville Bar Brawl
Samuel Mathews, 26, was arrested after a bar fight in Shiner near Hallettsville. He allegedly killed Lavaca County Sheriff and critically wounded Deputy Sheriff and then fled, was cornered by about 100 lawmen in a five acre woods, and shot. He was later captured after a chase along highway 90A and taken to hospitals in Galveston and Galveston.
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Hallettsville
Tex
UPN
Houston
Lavaca County
Sherif W. A. Morley
Samuel Mathews
Shiner
Ronnie Dodd
Albert Jackonby
Book Mathews
Morley
Mathews
Dodd
Jackouby
San Antonio
Halietsville
Armen
Galveston
Methews
Te County
Colorado County Sheriff's Deputies
Union Calls to Reject Haynsworth for Supreme Court
AFL CIO Maritime Trades Department urged Judge Clement Haynsworth to withdraw from Supreme Court consideration. If he does not, the board says President Nixon should withdraw the nomination or the Senate should refuse confirmation. The group cited hostility to unions and civil rights and ethical concerns over stock in firms linked to cases before him.
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Atlantic City
UPI
AFL Cio
Maritime Trades Department
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr
Supreme Court
Nixon
Haynsworth
Senate
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Judiciary Committee
Libya Blocks U S Rescue Bid
Libyan authorities blocked a U S airlift from Wheelus Base Tunisia as weather cleared and floods abated. U S Air Force said Tunisia requested mercy airlift of medical supplies and blankets for flood victims while two cargo aircraft prepared in West Germany for relief, with 28 dead and 5 000 homeless reported in Tunisia.
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BOM
UPL
U.S. Air Force
Wheelus
Tunisia
U.S. Air Force European
Wiesbaden
Tunis
U.S
Air Force
West Germany
CORE Pushes Bid for 6 Billion in Reparations
CORE leader Roy Innis says the Congress of Racial Equality will press the American Bankers Association for 6 billion dollars in reparations to blacks for past earnings and compounded interest. ABA President Willis Alexander notes over 160 million already provided to minorities and says banks cannot be forced to act. The ABA convention runs through Wednesday in Honolulu.
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Innis
CORE
ABA
Willis W. Alexander
Federal Small Business Administration
First National City Bank of New York
Alexander
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