Kerner Report Fails to Halt Racial Split In U S
One year after the Kerner Commission warned of a race divided nation, an independent study titled One Year Later finds blacks and whites still drifting apart. Urban America inc and The Urban Coalition publish the assessment noting continued segregation and inequality with limited policy response.
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Kerner Commission
Urban America, Inc
Urban Coalition
National
Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders
Melinois
Otto Kerner
Lyndon B. Johnson
Progress
Kerner
White House
Progress Report
Levi Eshkol Dies and Power Shifts in Israel
In Jerusalem Levi Eshkol lay in state outside the Knesset after dying of a heart attack at 73. Deputy premier Yigal Allon acts as premier while Labor lawmakers prepare for a secret ballot to choose a successor amid a contest between Moshe Dayan and Golda Meir faction leaders. In New Orleans Perry Russo admits he misidentified Clay Shaw as the JFK plot suspect but recants under pressure, saying he feared perjury charges.
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Levi Eshkol
Israel
Yigal Allen
Defense
Moshe Dayan
Labor Party
Dayan
Pinhas Sapir
Golda Meir
New Orleans
Clay Shaw
John F. Kennedy
Edward O’donnell
Perry Raymond Russo
Shaw
Jim Garrison
Russo
Garrison
Morton Named GOP Chairman
Nixon names Maryland Congressman Rogers C Morton as national chairman and moves Murray Chotiner to a nonpublic role, resolving a key intraparty issue.
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Nixon
Maryland
Rogers C. B. Morton
GOP
Murray Chotiner
West Berlin Welcomes Nixon With Steady Pledge
President Nixon toured West Berlin amid a 7000 strong police guard and a cheering 6000 crowd at an electrical appliance plant. He reaffirmed the U S commitment to a free Berlin, saying the pledge to defend freedom remains firm and irreducible despite a brief protest by 200 to 300 students near the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.
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Nixon
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America
West
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial
Air Force One
Tempelhof
GM recalls 4.9 million vehicles over exhaust and carburetor faults
The recall spans 2.4 million GM cars including 1965 68 Chevrolets Biscayne Bel Air Impala and Caprice for exhaust leakage. An additional 2.5 million GM cars and trucks face carburetor checks and a plastic cam replacement. The total affects 4.9 million customers with mailing costs around 2 million.
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General Motors
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Biscayne
Bel Air
Impala
GMC
No Decision On Delay Yet Apollo 9 Aboard Illness
Apollo 9 astronauts McDivitt Scott and Schweickart, plagued by colds, face a possible one to three day launch delay from Cape Kennedy. NASA officials say a decision isn’t expected before noon EST, as doctors monitor exhaustion and symptoms from training for the lunar module test mission.
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Fla
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James A. McDivitt
David R. Scott
Russell L. Schweickart
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Charles A. Berry
McDivitt
Scott
Schweickart
Berry
MacDivitt
Mander
Frank Borman
Saigon Protests Viet Cong Shellings During Paris Talks
Saigon angrily denounced Viet Cong shellings of South Vietnam during the sixth weekly peace talks in Paris. Ambassador Pham Dang Lam told Hanoi and the National Liberation Front that attacks hinder peace progress while the NLF defended the offensive as punishment for U.S. involvement. Detailing heavy casualties, Lam warned the conflict shows the Communists refuse a peaceful settlement.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Pham Dang Lam
Hanoi
National Liberation Front
International Conference Center
Lam
Viet Cong
United States
Vietnam
NLF
North Vietnam
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Black at 83 Reflects on Court and Protest
Justice Hugo Black, 83, angrily denounces the school protest decision and argues the court should educate children, not train teachers. He expresses optimism about the nation and court, but says he has no plan to retire and expects future appointments to be filled by capable, intellectually honest jurists.
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Hugo Black
Supreme Court
Black
Earl Warren
Nixon
Innocent Plea Entered by Siddle in Murder Charge
William Q. Siddle 25 formerly of Nelsonville pleaded innocent to a first degree murder charge in the slaying of 49 year old secretary Mary Laca. Preliminary hearing set for March 18 in Licking County Court. Laca found with multiple stab and slash wounds near Siddle’s home. blood stained table knife and cleaned knife recovered. Both victims and suspect worked at George D. Roper Co. Newark division. Siddle married with two or three children. He moved from Newark to Nelsonville about two years ago.
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Ohio
William Q. Siddle
Nelsonville
Siddle
Licking County
Laca
George D. Roper Co
Harold E Wise Dies Ex Athens OU Coach
Harold E Wise, 65, former Ohio University head football coach who resigned in 1948, died in his Columbus home. A Wheeling West Virginia native, he coached at Ashtabula Harbor High School and Athens High, led Southeastern Ohio Athletic League football in 1925, and later managed training for Columbia Gas of Ohio and then supervision training for Ohio Valley Gas.
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Wise
Ohio University
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Athens
Columbia Gas
Ohio
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Ohio Valley Gas Companies
Athens High
Southeastern Ohio Athletic League
Columbus West High School
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