Redistricting Battle Plan Shapes 1972 House Map
The Democrats draft a nationwide campaign to win state legislature seats in 1970 to influence the 1972 redistricting after the census. They target marginal districts, recruit challengers to GOP incumbents, and seek gains in California Florida Arizona New Jersey Texas Colorado and Connecticut with current control varied by state.
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Los Angeles Police Chief Reddin to become TV commentator
Police Chief Tom Reddin resigns after 26 months leading the Los Angeles force to take a role as a news commentator and broadcaster at KTLA. He says the move will help him reach the public with community problems more effectively.
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Sirhan Sirhan Defense Presents Mild Demeanor at RFK Trial
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan sat glowering and spitting obscenities as prosecutors labeled him a liar unworthy of a fair verdict in the first phase of the RFK murder trial. The focus remained on first degree murder rather than the death penalty, with defense attorney Russell E. Parsons taking a calmer, supportive role at the table.
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Labor Department to shutter 65 Job Corps centers
The Labor Department announced plans to cut the Job Corps program by shutting 65 centers, a move likely to meet congressional resistance despite efforts to ease the impact. NATO ministers opened a two day conference focusing on East West cooperation, a goal once deemed impossible at the alliance’s birth.
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DeBakey Seeks Inquiry Over Artificial Heart Case
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey asked the National Heart Institute to investigate federal guideline compliance after Denton Cooley implanted the first artificial heart. The device's funding came from federal money and Texas sources. the patient in Houston died after 65 hours with pneumonia and kidney failure, while his widow praised the efforts.
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Lapp Calls Safeguard ABM Plan an Incredible Mistake
Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, adviser to Senate opponents of Safeguard, argues the Nixon administration's ABM plan fails security aims and could prompt a Soviet arms build up. He challenges Defense Secretary Laird's first strike logic, noting even a large SS9 would not guarantee U.S. retaliation and that needed warhead numbers are unrealistically high.
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Withdrawal By North Required For Peace
Paris AP United States insists a Vietnam peace settlement must include withdrawal of North Vietnamese forces from South Vietnam. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge cites the 95th and 1011th regiments and rejects North Vietnam’s demand for U.S. withdrawal only. He says U.S. and allies will begin withdrawals with North Vietnamese pullout. The stance marks the third consecutive week of pressure on Hanoi. Lodge urges respect for territorial integrity and frontiers.
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Big Sioux River Dike Break Forces Mass Evacuation
Flood fighters abandoned an 18 block area in Sioux Falls after a 100 foot break in a dike in the Riverside district. Evacuation sealed the meat packing plant stockyards and about 50 homes as the river rose 25 to 30 feet before cresting.
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Harvard Protesters Clash With Police at Harvard Hall
Hundreds of police charged into Harvard University Hall at dawn to eject student protesters who had seized the building in a ROTC protest. Dozens were hurt including Life editor Colin Leinster as officers moved in with batons and buses to disperse the crowd amid chants calling for ROTC to go.
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Malaria hits Viet Cong. casualties dip week of spring offensive
U S and South Vietnamese reports show casualties fell to the lowest in six weeks with 222 Americans killed, 246 South Vietnamese, and 3 220 enemy troops. Doctors say falciparum malaria spreads through North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units, reducing combat effectiveness and medical care delays.
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