Nixon Proposes $61 Million War Against Crime
President Nixon urged Congress to fund a broad war on organized crime and racketeering with a $61 million budget for the coming year. He called for tougher penalties on legal gambling, expanded strike forces in 20 cities, witness immunity, and antitrust tactics to seize real estate and seize assets of crime syndicates.
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Washington
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Cosa Nostra
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Lion
Johnson
Six Helicopters Lost In Viet Nam Collision Toll Hits 16 Dead
A midair collision north of Saigon killed 16, including eight American crews and eight South Vietnamese soldiers, with others dying or wounded in separate crashes during U S operations near the demilitarized zone. Additional helicopters were lost to enemy fire. total American helicopter losses reached 2,549.
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Demilitarized Zone
Rrst
11St Airborne Division
Raigsion
Campus Turmoil Shuts CCNY as Whites Barred from Half
The City College of New York remains closed after about 150 black and Puerto Rican students opened four gates on its South Campus and blocked whites. At Cornell University in Ithaca a 16 member faculty council urged the full faculty to drop disciplinary action against five black students, while 245 sheriffs deputies monitored the campus.
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Associated Press
City College of New York
Cornell University
City College
Buell G. Gallagher
Cornell
Ithaca
Nly
Sherif
Niet
Tompkins County
Robert L. Howard
Students For Democratic Society
Cornell Presgant
James A. Perkins
Corpus
First Total Human Eye Transplant Performed
In Houston at Methodist hospital John Madden 54 received a donor eye from O B Hickman 55 hours after his brain tumor death. Surgeon Dr Donald D Moore said nerves must unite to restore vision and the operation could succeed only if optic nerves connect. Madden’s left eye also has corneal damage.
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Methodist Hospital
John Madden
O. B. Hickman
Houston
Donald D. Moore
Tuesday Madden
Conroe
Tex
Moore
Madden
Baylor College of Medicine
Institute of Ophthalmology
Texas Medical Center
Alden N. Hafler
Optometric Center of
New York
Construction begins on largest bottling plant in Ohio region
Readers are informed that a new bottling facility will start construction, claimed to be the largest in this part of Ohio. The notice hints at enforcement actions in Athens and a juvenile case schedule, while other items mention instructors tied to a local company and funding for an airport cut by Hocking County Commissioners.
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Athens
Hocking County Commissioners
Abby
Universities Fear Facelessness If Workload Bill Passes
Ohio universities testify against a substitute bill requiring the Ohio Board of Regents to set faculty workload standards and enrollment limits. President Robert White warned Regents action could ease campus protests. Shriver argued it would make universities faceless.
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Ohio
Ohio Board of Ents
Ohio House Education Committee
Mark C. Schimnerer
Lakewood
Philip R. Shuiver
Miami University
Shriver
Eas Rent State University
Robert White
Regents
White
Univers
Unions Claim Credit for Ohio State Worker Pay Bill
Two unions seek credit for a proposed Ohio bill for 41.5 million dollars in pay raises and hospitalization benefits for state employees. AFSCME official Al Bilix and Ohio Federation of Service Employees secretary James M. Marstin credit their groups with pushing the plan, which would raise pay for all state workers earning under a set threshold and extend hospitalization coverage. The measure, introduced in the Senate by Robert Shaw, emphasizes gains from a week of negotiations, though leaders say it could be stronger.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
al Bilix
Council 21
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes
Afscme
James F. Marstint
Ohio Fd Service
Bilik
Marshall
Senate
Robert R. Shaw
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