Boston University students seize admin building protests
About 50 youths remained barricaded in BU’s administration building on Bay State Road demanding GE-related campus action. President Christ-Janer rejected their ultimatum, saying he met demands last week, will not call police, and will protect an open campus. The protest, tied to SDS, follows prior demonstrations against GE recruiters and campus seminars.
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Students For A Democratic Society
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General Electric Co
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Christ-Janer
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Kennedy protests Newsweek portrait of his father
Senator Edward M. Kennedy denounces a Newsweek obituary as unnecessarily cruel and biased in a published letter. He objects to three examples labeling Joseph P. Kennedy reckless, unshamed about Rosemary, and a father who sired children and abandoned them. He asks for balanced coverage reflecting his father’s generosity and humor.
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UPI
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Newsweek
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Rosemary
Dartmouth Disciplines Disruptive Black Students
Seventeen black Dartmouth students received probation for interrupting Nobel laureate William Shockley during a paper on alleged genetic differences between blacks and whites. The college cited freedom of expression concerns and the JAC report in explaining the one-term discipline, reported during Dartmouth's bicentennial events.
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Shockley
National Academy of Sciences
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Academy
Dart
Leaders of Black Groups Agree US Must Do More for Negroes
Boston panel featured Dr. Ralph Abernathy Roy Innis Roy Wilkins and Mesia Hewitt. They urged aggressive nonviolent action to confront the perceived genocide and suppression of Black people in the United States. They warned of a potential broader campaign targeting CORE SCLC and NAACP and cited violence against Black Panthers.
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Congress For Racial Equality
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NAACP
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Black Panther Party
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Los Angeles
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Hewitt
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World Court
Flying Santa Starts Jaunts To Lighthouses
NORWOOD Mass UPI New England's Flying Santa began his annual trip to remote lighthouses and Coast Guard stations aimed at delivering gifts. Weather may alter plans with stops from Nantucket Island to Block Island Montauk Point Maine and other coastal points scheduled as conditions allow.
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Sirhan Sirhan Starts Protest Hunger Strike
Sirhan B. Sirhan, Kennedy killer, begins a liquid diet hunger strike at San Quentin to protest tight Death Row security amid threats to his life. Prison officials note he offered to waive liability if harmed and maintain safety as the priority.
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UPI
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Robert F. Kennedy
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Park
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Hitler
Judge to decide Wednesday on Kopechne autopsy
Wilkes Barre Pa United Press. Judge Bernard C Brominski said he will announce Wednesday at 9:30 a m whether to allow exhumation and autopsy on Mary Jo Kopechne killed in an auto driven by Sen Edward M Kennedy last July 18 The hearing followed a legal battle between District Attorney Edmund Dinis and Kopechne parents who oppose an autopsy as it would be like another funeral. Kopechne 28 a blonde secretary is buried in Larksville nearby where her family lived before moving to Berkeley Heights New Jersey. Dinis filed the petition August 15 and amended it after Brominski instructed him to do so Counter petitions by the Kopechnes followed. Dinis declined to say whether he would attend Wednesday session. I have nothing to say.
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Edward M. Kennedy
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Berkeley Heights
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Kopechnes
New Bedford
Mass
Vermont spends more on roads than mental care
Vermont ranks third in per capita highway expenditures at 169 dollars while spending 15.70 dollars per person for the state mental hospital in Waterbury, far below the national average. The state performs well in education, welfare, health, corrections and natural resources but trails in debt interest, while remaining sixth in total debt.
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Abolish Poll Tax Bill Emerges In Vermont
Republicans push abolition of poll tax and $5 head tax noting they raise about $2 million with 90 percent from state sources. This follows 1966 action voiding poll tax as voting prerequisite and threats to suspend licenses for nonpayment. Rep Giuliani of Montpelier sponsors.
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UPI
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Peter Giuliani
U.S. Supreme Court
Vermont
Black Albany Picket Demands Police Scrutiny and School Reforms
A Black Alliance march in Albany along North Pearl Street urged charges be dropped against arrested students, demanded black teachers and revised courses, student government reforms, and an impartial police evaluation. In a separate note, Assemblyman Ben Altman proposed a constitutional civil right to abortion with medical supervision, arguing a New York majority supports reform.
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Colleges Targeted by Peace Vans in New York Visit
Troy RPI and Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs join 24 colleges listed for Peace Vans stops on December 12 and 13. Kevin Kelly of Vietnam Veterans Against the War says the vans will distribute literature for the Vietnam War Moratorium. Adam Walinsky of the New York Moratorium Committee notes anti-war observances on December 14, 15 and Christmas Eve.
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Troy — Rensselaer Polytechnic
Preservation plan for Veterans Memorial Tower on Mount Greylock
Gary Griswold of Griswold and Son proposes peeling the outer granite core of the Veterans Memorial Tower, treating the inner cavity, then resealing joints with silicone caulk. No formal proposal yet to the state Department of Natural Resources.
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Griswold and Son, Inc
Veterans Memorial
Mt. Greylock
State Department of Natural Resources
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