Mississippi Klansmen Lose Appeal To Upend Convictions
The U S Fifth Circuit upheld convictions of seven Mississippi Ku Klux Klansmen for a 1964 plot to murder civil rights workers Michael Schwerner James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. The seven Posey Price Barnette Snowden Arledge Roberts and Bowers faced prison terms from three to ten years, with appeals possible.
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UPI
U.S. 5Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Justice Department
Meridian
Miss
Michael Schwerner
James Earl Chaney
Andrew Goodman
Circuit Court
Mike Watkins
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
U.S. Dist
Harold E. Cox
Billy Wayne Posey
Cecil Ray Price
Horace Doyle Barnette
Jimmy Snowden
Jimmy Arledge
Alton Wayne Roberts
Imperial Klan
Sam H. Bowers Jr
Mississippi
Bowers
White Knights
KKK
Roberts
Neshoba County
Price
Posey
Barnette
Arledge
Snowden
Nixon’s Moscow Mission Yields No Breakthrough
United Press International reports top U.S. diplomat Joseph J. Sisco headed home from Moscow after months proposing Middle East peace steps to the Soviets. The trip produced no Arab Israeli crisis breakthrough, with Sisco meeting Stockholm and Jarring and returning to Washington to brief President Nixon while Israel vows to hold territory from the 1967 war and repair work on a disrupted oil pipeline proceeds with a projected cost of about two million dollars.
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Moscow
Nixon
Middle East
Joseph J. Sisco
Stockholm
Gunnar Jarring
Sisco
Jarring
United Nations
Washington
Moishe Dayan
Israel
U.N. Security Council
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
Critical maneuvers for landing end astronauts long wait
The Apollo 11 crew led by Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin face a series of unprecedented rocket firings this weekend to reach lunar descent and ascent. Key maneuvers include lunar orbit insertions, descent engine starts, a 4,650 mph lunar landing trajectory, and an ascent to rejoin Collins aboard Columbia for return to Earth.
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Moon
Earth
Armstrong
Collins
Apollo
Ron Berry
Lunar Mission Analysis Branch
Eagle
Aldrin
Berry
Space
Moon travelers face strict isolation after lunar mission
Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong Collins and Aldrin will enter 18 days of quarantine after splashdown to test lunar exposure risks. Inside filtered air and high temp baths, the crew undergoes constant medical scrutiny with a plan considered an insurance against unknown lunar life.
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Moon
South Pacific
Earth
Charles Berry
Lunar
W.W. Kemmerer
Cleaver Willing to Return If Free Until Trial
Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver said he would return to the United States to face an attempted murder charge if he could remain free on bail until trial. Speaking from Algiers during a Pan African festival, he cited California parole laws and questioned departmental rules governing his status.
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Cleaver
U.S
Paris
UPI
Eldridge Cleaver
United States
Algiers
Black Panthers
Oakland
Calif
California
Havana
FBI
Cuba
Black Panther Party
Pacifist Group Heads to Hanoi to Rescue Three U.S. Pilots
Seven American pacifists fly from Phnom Penh to Hanoi to retrieve three U.S. POWs and carry mail from the United States. Leader Bernard C. Davis, 28, of Chicago, says the trio will be freed within one to two weeks as North Vietnam promises prisoner releases on July 4. The mission follows Paris talks and ICC flights, with details pending, amid 1,350 U.S. service members still missing, including dozens of pilots.
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Vientiane
Laos
UPI
Hanoi
U.S
United States
Bernard C. Davis
Chicago
North Vietnam
Vietnam
International Control Commission
ICC
Phnom Penh
Paris
David Dellinger
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