Violence erupts after church bombing in Louisville west end
In Louisville Kentucky groups of Negro youths looted threw rocks and bottles and fired on three police cruisers from passing cars as violence flared in a one square mile district. Two injured include a white motorist beaten and a Negro boy cut by glass. Police monitored with riot sticks and National Guard readiness after Reverend A D Williams King sermon as BULK planned another rally.
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Louisville
UPI
West End
National Guard
C. J. Hyde
James Refferty
John Woods
Hyde
Boy Chooses Between Ames Grandparents Or Brookdale Father
A ten year old, Mark Painter, faces a custody choice between Ames Iowa with his grandparents and Brookdale California with his father and stepmother. A minister, acting as envoy for the Ames grandparents, will judge the boy’s preference after a ten minute talk. His grandmother says she will abide by Mark’s wishes. The two households present contrasting atmospheres as the decision nears.
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Brookdale
Calif
UPI
Ames
Iowa
Middle West
Mark Painter
Mark
Dwight Bannister
Iowa Supreme Court
High Court
Bannisters
Jeanne Bannister Painter
Harold W. Painter
California
Painter
Stroessner’s Paraguay: Firm Rule Extends Five-Year Term
Asuncion reports Alfredo Stroessner, 55, begins a new five year presidential tenure after a 71 percent reelection in a constitutional referendum. His Colorado party dominates the Congress and a feared police state backs his quiet, unflashy dictatorship. Opponents say prisons overflow with dissidents.
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Alfredo Stroessner
Paraguay
Stroessner
Colorado Party
Congress
Latin America
US Casualties Fall to Year’s Low in Vietnam Week
UPI reports American forces suffered 991 casualties last week including 173 killed and 818 wounded, the lowest weekly toll of the year and 230 fewer than the prior week. South Vietnamese losses rose slightly with 243 killed and 781 wounded. Communist deaths were 1,642, bringing Reds’ total war losses to 377,711. American deaths to date total 26,634 with 543,000 troops in Vietnam and 35,000 aboard ships offshore.
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Saigon
Vietnam
U.S
Cat Burglars Charged In London Cat Theft Case
In London, Ralph William Moore a cat dealer and an accomplice were charged Wednesday with stealing 22 cats. Police report the incident ties to a larger burglary ring and investigators are tracing animal welfare records.
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London
UPI
Ralph William Moore
Accord Seen on Food Airlift to Biafra Hope Fades on Full Delivery
Washington reports say talks in Geneva and Addis Ababa hint at a possible modest airlift to Biafra with a land corridor for truck shipments over 12 to 18 months may be required. Officials caution no firm agreement exists as Nigerian and Biafran sides press for safer passage and avoid full-scale relief. About 200 tons daily are needed as up to 3 million people may suffer shortage amid the civil war.
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Washington
Nigeria
Biafra
Addis Ababa
State Department
Lindt
Humprey urges sober action to curb rising U.S. crime rate
Vice President Hubert Humphrey called for sober, massive action to curb rising crime, saying fear of crime is widespread from ghettoes to suburbs. He blamed limited funding and manpower at state and local levels and urged coordinated efforts by law enforcement, citizens, and federal authorities. He noted no mention of Nixon by name and referenced ongoing Democratic and GOP campaign dynamics with McGovern, McCarthy, and Wallace shaping delegate counts ahead of the convention.
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United Press International
Hubert Humphrey
Newark
N.J
Humphrey
Richard M. Nixon
Johnson
Nixon
America
George S. McGovern
South Dakota
Philadelphia
McGovern
Eugene J. McCarthy
McCarthy
Minnesota
George C. Wallace
Southerners Hope To Put Conservative On Democratic Ticket
Southern Democratic leaders from six states meet in Atlanta to back at least one Southern conservative for the Democratic ticket with Hubert Humphrey. They name possible runners for number two and push a strong state local control education plank with block grants and school choice, plus a price supports plan.
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Atlanta
UPI
Georgia
James Gray
Hubert H. Humphrey
Alabama
Mississippi
Carolinas
Florida
Texas
John Connally
Tennessee
Buford Ellington
Louisiana
John McKeithen
South Carolina
Robert McNair
Carl Sanders
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
George Smathers
Crosby Lewis
Herman Talmadge
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Black Unity League of Kentucky
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Dominican Republic
Marcos Perez Jimenez
Venezuela
Geneva
Switzerland
Robert Moore
Auguste R. Lindt
Red Cross
International Relief
Haile Selassie
HHH
Robert Kennedy
San Diego
Thruston Morton
Kentucky
John Love
Colorado
Harold Levander
John Chaffe
Rhode Island
Spiro T. Agnew
Maryland
Annapolis
Dixie Democrats
Mi. N
Hoosick Falls
Radio City Music Hall
Doris Day
Robert Morse
Terry-Thomas Patrick O'Neal
New York
Ene
MGM
Anthony Anjanette
Charles
Crapan Sebastian
Bennington Drive-In
Mike Nichols
Joseph E. Levine
Lawrence Turman Procvcres
the Graduate Ree
Nichals
BY Gossard
EduPont’s
Lingerie
John Wayne
Walt Disney
Manchester
Weston Playhouse
SUN
Edward Albee
Harte Theatre
Steve McQueen
Norman Jewison
Williamstown
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Dylan Thomas
Call
Watkin
Fields
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Bennington
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