Kennedy mother rules out campaign for Edward
Los Angeles reports Rose Kennedy says she will not campaign for Sen Edward M Kennedy possibly pursuing the presidency. She notes she would be nearly eighty by election time and prefers not to campaign again after aiding John F Kennedy and Robert F Kennedy. A separate dispatch from Bombay says a Garuda Indonesian jet crashed near Santa Cruz airport with 26 to 29 aboard and no survivors. Washington reports military spending at 6.81 billion in April, the second highest since WWII, totaling 63.2 billion in the first ten months of the fiscal year.
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Los Angeles
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Bombay
India
Indonesia
Garuda Airways
Santa Cruz
Washington
Murder threat terrorizes England as boy is found hurt
An anonymous caller warned of murder in Reading, later directing police to a park where 8 year old Andrew Hill was found critically injured by an iron bar. In Birmingham Charley Bayley faced a painful hospital stay as Ward 8's drinking and rowdy conduct prompted action. In Paris US negotiators Harriman and Vance consider new housing as talks with North Vietnam drift.
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Hill Boy
Birmingham
England
Charley Bayley
W. Averell Harriman
Cyrus R. Vance
Crillon
Xuan Thuy
Paris
Ohio flood losses tops eight million as aid seeks path
Southern Ohio faces a rising toll from flood waters with Gov. Rhodes placing losses at eight million dollars. Counties listed include Athens five hundred thirty five thousand Gallia two hundred thirty five thousand Hocking eight hundred fifty five thousand Meigs three hundred eighty thousand Morgan three hundred thirty thousand Perry one hundred thousand and Vinton three hundred thirty thousand. Laurelville and Buckeye Lake suffer renewed damage as National Guard and volunteers battle leaking dam and high water. A Mennonite disaster group aided cleanup and restoration efforts alongside Red Cross volunteers.
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Athens
Gallia
Hocking
Meigs
Morgan
Perry
Vinton
Laurelville
Ohio
Salt Creek
Buckeye Lake
National Guard
Newark
Athens County
Federal Creek
Amesville
Powell
George King
King
Navy Armada Searches Atlantic For Scorpion Sub
A U S Navy task force across both Atlantic fleets hunted for the missing atomic submarine Scorpion and its 99 crew. Officials cited rough seas near Cape Cod parallels with the Thresher disaster and noted 19 ships aided the search as weather hindered communications.
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Washington
Atlantic
U.S
Cape Cod
Mass
Groton
Conn
U.S. Navy
Norfolk
Guardsmen Patrol Louisville After West End Riots
Between 200 and 400 National Guardsmen patrolled Louisville streets as looting and violence erupted after a rally protesting a dismissed police officer. About 90 adults and 40 juveniles were arrested for disorderly conduct or breach of peace. Two men were shot, one in serious condition. eight others including two firemen and a police captain were treated at General Hospital. Calm returned by 1:30 a.m. with a curfew imposed and 400 Guardsmen on standby. The unrest followed a protest against the reinstatement of an officer overturned after a 15 day suspension, drawing protests from NAACP and the Kentucky Christian Leadership Conference.
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Louisville
West End
General Hospital
Kentucky
Louie B. Nunn
National Guard
Kenneth A. Schmied
French Schools Leader Resigns in Gaullist Crisis
Paris reports Education Minister Alain Peyrefitte resigning amid student unrest and a looming strike wave. Premier Pompidou to assume his duties as crisis deepens, with calls for provisional government and De Gaulle referendum fallout shaping the political crisis.
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Paris
Alain Peyrefitte
France
Georges Pompidou
Peyrefitte
Charles de Gaulle
Christian Fouchet
Georges Gorse
Pierre Messmer
Louis Joxe
Premir
Pompidou
Francois Mitterrand
Federation of the Left
de Gaulle
Mitterrand
Gen. de Gaulle
Mother Convicted Of Death
New York AP report states Red haired Alice Crimmins was found guilty of first degree manslaughter in the 1965 death of her 4-year-old daughter. The trial featured her disclosures about extramarital affairs as jurors: 12 married men. Sentence set for July 12. bond revoked and she is remanded to detention. Her husband Edmund weeps as authorities lead her away.
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New York
Alice Crimmins
Peter T. Farrell
Edmund
Farrell
Harold C. Harrison
Crimmins
Alice Marie
Offensive Pushed By Americans In Central Vietnam
American forces pressed a major offensive in the central highlands near Dak To as fighting persisted for a fourth day. Reports say 250 enemy troops were killed near Saigon and 222 North Vietnamese dead below the DMZ, with Viet Cong rockets joining Saigon. The 4th Infantry Division targeted the 325C Division west of Dak To, amid heavy air and ground combat around Khe Sanh and Laotian movements.
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Saigon
Central Highlands
South Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
U. S
Highlands
Dmz
Air Force
4Th Division
Dak To
Narrow Victory Seen By Kennedy In Oregon
The Associated Press reports a tight Oregon Democratic presidential primary race as Kennedy edges McCarthy. Kennedy leads 34 to 32 percent with 11 percent undecided per NBC poll. McCarthy views Oregon as his best chance to halt a Kennedy sweep while Nixon eyes absentee rivals Rockefeller and Reagan.
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Kennedy
Oregon
Associated Press
Robert F. Kennedy
Eugene J. McCarthy
California
Los Angeles
McCarthy
Hubert H. Humphrey
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Ronald Reagan
Rockefeller
Reagan
National Broadcasting Co
Narcotics Arrests on Two Ohio Campuses
In Yellow Springs near Antioch College authorities arrested ten people overnight as part of an 18 month narcotics probe. Four of the jailed are Antioch students, including two women. In Oberlin six students, two women among them, were arrested on possession or sale charges after a trip to New York City where two pounds of marijuana were bought for $200.
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Court OF Appeals
Eugene Steel
Meigs County
Ohio Bobcat
Southern Illinois
Athens
Ohio
Yellow Springs
Antioch College
Greene County
Russell Bradley
Antioch
Bradley
Oberlin, Ohio
Oberlin College
Oberlin
Robert K. Ferber
New York City
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