State of Siege Declared as Colombia Faces Turmoil
In Bogota authorities declared a state of siege amid street battles between troops and Rioters backing former dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Police arrested about 500 while reports of a death and injuries surfaced. President Lleras Restra suspended assembly rights, imposed censorship and a curfew as he urged calm and adherence to the chosen successor Misael Pastrana Borrero.
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Bogota
UPI
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
Rojas Pinilla
Misael Pastrana Borrero
Carlos Lleras Restrepo
Lieras
Jorge Eliecer Gaitan
Colombia
Lleras
Panel Surveys Education For Retarded Children
The Presidents Committee on Mental Retardation in Chicago urged revamping of education for retarded and disadvantaged children. It called for public day care, teacher restructuring, retraining staff, reexamining IQ testing and classification, more funding and research, plus study of inner city families and greater parent and community involvement.
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Chicago
UPI
Bureau of Education For the Handicapped
U.S. Office of Education
Astronauts Describe Apollo 13 Rescue On TV
Space Center Houston reports Apollo 13 crew James Lovell John Swigert and Fred Haise recount to a national audience how an in-flight explosion pushed them off course as they limped home from a mission toward the moon. They detail the survival struggle and steps taken to return safely.
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Swigert
Lovell
Senate Space Committee
Washington
Alan B. Shepard
Edgar D. Mitchell
Alfred M. Worden
Astronaut Corps
Haise
Board of Inquiry
Manned Spacecraft Center
Cape Kennedy
Space Agency
Thomas K. Mattingly
U S Reports Loss of Eight Aircraft in Vietnam and Laos
The U S Command reports four warplanes and four helicopters lost in South Vietnam and Laos, the largest single tally this year. Separate actions in Cambodia yield Viet Cong casualties and weapons seizures as government forces push operations near Dak Seang and Dak Pek with air support and continued fighting along the border.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Panhandle
Air Force
Vietnam
Dak Seang
Dak Pek
Boston To Use Natural Gas In Five Cars
Boston will convert five city vehicles to natural gas as part of an antipollution experiment. Mayor Kevin H. White announced Earth Day that after testing, more non emergency municipal vehicles may switch if the test proves practical, economical, and pollution reducing.
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Boston
UPI
Kevin H. White
Massachusetts
Red China Predicts Revolt in Russia
Hong Kong based dispatch reports Communist China marking Lenin's birthday by the Soviet government and predicting a Russian revolution. An official article blasts the Soviet regime, accuses Moscow of exploiting Eastern Europe and following Hitlerian policies while warning the union is a bourgeois dictatorship on the brink of upheaval.
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Hong Kong
UPI
China
Vladimir I. Lenin
Hitler
Russia
Lenin
Soviet Union
Peking Radio
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Germany
Lenin centenary fete draws 12 Communist nations to Moscow
Cuban President Dorticos and Viet Cong representative Ho Xuan Son praised Soviet aid as they opened Lenin centenary celebrations in Moscow. Romanian leader Ceaușescu urged unity among communists, stressing all-party cooperation while Sino-Soviet tensions lingered. The Kremlin hall hosted the largest gathering of Communist parties, amid grand Lenin imagery. Ambassadors from non allied nations were invited then asked not to attend without explanation.
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Moscow
UPI
Osvaldo Corticos
Kremlin Hall of Congresses
Soviet Union
Cuba
United States
Dorticos
Nicolae Ceausescu
Ceausescu
China
Kremlin
Lenin
Albania
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