Blazes In Three States Leave 17 Children Dead
Seventeen children from six weeks to 14 years and a young mother died in fires in New York, Colorado and Massachusetts. A Toronto blaze killed six more youngsters and a mother. In Lawrence, Massachusetts a grease spill near a stove sparked a fatal apartment fire. Firefighters and bystanders aided others, but several children could not be saved. In Beverly, Massachusetts an 8-year-old died as a four-family building burned. In White Sulphur Springs, New York, five children died from a kerosene spaceheater blaze. In Denver, five children were trapped as flames engulfed a 24-story house while the father escaped to raise the alarm.
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Colorado
Massachusetts
Toronto
Lawrence
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Sandra Yaun
Laura Bagley
Mrs. Bagley
Mrs. Yaun
Beverly
Sharon Caron
White Sulphur Springs
N. Y
Patricia Beardsley
Betty
Deborah Beardsley
Penny
Charley
Harvey
Denver
Merle Adams
Congress Faces Leftover Work and Leadership Battles
Washington braces for the 92nd Congress to tackle unfinished items from the 91st, including welfare reform, Social Security, the draft, and the supersonic transport. Leadership fights loom as House and Senate factions push for speaker and party leadership changes.
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Survey finds professors favor suspensions for disruptive students
A nationwide Carnegie survey of 160000 responses from 1969 shows 79 percent of professors and many students want suspensions or expulsions for those disrupting college operations. It notes a silent majority against violence while a minority questions reform and endorses some advocacy of violent resistance.
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Attitudes on violence and student activism at college
The survey shows 26 percent of faculty and 25 percent of undergraduates disagree that violence justifies political goals. About 33 percent of professors and graduate students and 50 percent of undergraduates support change via nontraditional means with reservations. Only 3 percent of professors and grads fully back radical activism, while 39 percent faculty and 33 percent grads approve with reservations.
Missiles Sites Bombed as U S Expands Role in Cambodia
American fighter bombers attacked SAM sites in North Vietnam for the third straight day and U S forces expanded involvement in Cambodia. U S 7th Fleet ships and helicopter gun ships supported highway reopen efforts with more than 13 000 South Vietnamese and Cambodian troops.
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Kaiser Joins Price Hikes Amid Steel Rate Rise Across Industry
Kaiser Steel Corp agrees with U S Steel to raise prices by 6 8 percent on several structural steel categories citing rising costs and weak earnings. Bethlehem Steel had announced 11 13 percent hikes, triggering White House talks on steel quotas as Inland Steel offered no new rates. White House reacted, noting the increase is substantially smaller than Bethlehem’s and praising acknowledgement of inflationary pressures.
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