Cong Resumes Shelling Saigon
Communist mortar bombardment of Saigon wounds nine and damages a precinct police building near the Kinh Doi Canal. Reports say North Korean troops and a 14-man psychological warfare team are aiding Viet Cong forces in Saigon as residents stockpile sandbags and governments urge evacuation.
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Saigon
UPS
Kinh Doi Canal
Hanoi
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
Go Vap
South Vietnam
Hovings law explained to Bennington graduates
Bennington College commencement speaker Thomas P. F. Hoving urged a responsible revolution that questions the Establishment without lashing out. He defended civil disobedience while condemning scorched earth tactics and argued for joining and reforming the establishment. He urged graduates to follow Hoving's law: fight and challenge, yet become and beat the Establishment.
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Hoving
Bennington
Bennington College
Thomas P.F. Hoving
Hoving’s
McConnell Pleads Guilty in Berkshire County Manslaughter Case
Bruce McConnell, 22, of North Adams, pleaded guilty to a reduced manslaughter charge in the August 19 fatal beating of Bonnie Briggs Pearson, 19, of Newport New Hampshire. On trial for first degree murder, his plea followed day-long talks with Judge Thomas J. O Malley. Sentencing set for 10 a.m. Monday. maximum penalty up to 20 years. Earlier trial resulted in a mistrial.
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Pittsfield
Mass
UPI
Bruce McConnell
North Adams
Bonnie Briggs Pearson
Newport
N.H
McConnell
Berkshire County Superior Court
Thomas J. O'Malley
Williamstown
Georgia troopers arrest 67 marchers on I 20 then drop charges
In Douglasville Georgia 67 marchers from the Poor People Campaign were arrested for attempting to move mule drawn wagons onto Interstate 20. Charges were dropped after a 90 minute meeting with Sheriff Abercrombie and wagonmaster Willie Bolden.
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Douglasville
UPI
Georgia
Poor People’s Campaign
Claude Abercrombie
Willie Bolden
Bolden
Zion Hill Baptist Church
National Guard
Atlanta
Washington
Marks
Miss
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Mississippi
Alabama
West Berlin squeeze prompts Western protest and recall
The United States Britain and France will protest to the Soviet Union over the renewed East German pressure on West Berlin and West Germany will recall its ambassador from Moscow. Bonn will consider June 20 whether to refuse to sign the nonproliferation treaty unless the Communists halt the move. East Germany warned of more surprises unless West Germany recognizes East Germany. Dean Rusk met Kuznetsov in New York. Soviet Smirnov sky was summoned in London, and allied ministers plan to summon Soviet ambassadors.
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West Germany
East Germany
U.S
Dean Rusk
Vassily V. Kuznetsov
New York
West Berlin
London
Mikhail Smirnovsky
Foreign Office
Bonn
Conrad Ahlers
Helmut Allardt
Soviet Union
Inside Page Reflections Mark Black Fly and Rockefeller Image
Inside the newspaper note highlights George Gordon defending the black fly as a necessary evil. An editorial discusses Rockefeller’s new image. A picture feature reflects on the hospital’s fifty year history.
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George Gordon
Rockefeller
Spock Convicted in Antidraft Conspiracy Trial in Boston
Famed pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock and three co defendants were found guilty on antidraft conspiracy charges by a U S District Court jury after 7 hours 23 minutes of deliberation One defendant was acquitted The verdicts were announced by foreman Richard G Hussey The judge presiding is Francis J W Ford Jr Sentencing is expected in two weeks The convicted are Spock Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr Temple Maine author Mitchell Goodman and Harvard student Michael Ferber Raskin was found not guilty The all male jury delivered the verdict with audible reactions from the courtroom Spock commented he would continue to press his case
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Boston
UPI
U.S. District Court
Benjamin Spock
Francis J. W. Ford Jr
Spock
William Sloane Coffin Jr
Yale University
Mitchell Goodman
Temple
Maine
Michael Ferber
Buffalo
N.Y
Harvard
Marcus Raskin
Institute For Policy Studies
Washington
Richard G. Hussey
Raskin
Dr. Spock
Rev Wolf elected Bishop of Maine after unanimous ballot
The Rev Frederick B Wolf rector of St. Peter's Bennington Vt was elected seventh Bishop of the Diocese of Maine to succeed Oliver L Loring who resigned for health reasons. He was chosen on the 13th ballot from 26 nominees and will be consecrated after consent from the House of Bishops and diocesan committees. He and his wife Barbara Buckler of Maplewood N J have three children.
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Portland
Maine
Frederick B. Wolf
St. Peter’s Church
Bennington
Diocese of
Oliver L. Loring
St. Luke’s Cathedral
Father Wolf
Grinnell College
Grinnell
Iowa
Seabury Western Theological Seminary
Evanston
Til
Illinois
Cathedral of St. John
Quincy
National Council of the Episcopal Church
St. Peter’s
Vermont
Board of Examing Chaplains
Province of
New England
House of Bishops
Barbara Buckler
Maplewood
N.J
France Weighs Cuts To Nuclear Forces And Aid Amid Crisis
Paris faces a social revolution and possible IMF withdrawals as Debre signals belt tightening. Government expels 154 foreigners amid unrest while police reclaim the Sorbonne and Odeon theaters from insurgents. De Gaulle travels to Colombey as Gaullist candidates tour the country.
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Paris
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Michel Debre
France
International Monetary Fund
Odeon National Theater
de Gaulle
Colombey - Les - Deux - Eglises
Sorbonne University
Sorbonne
Odeon
Hanoi Plans To Reject U.S. Warning
North Vietnam plans to reject a U.S. warning that Paris talks could be imperiled by rocket attacks on Saigon. Xuan Thuy will signal Hanoi’s stance in a meeting with W Averell Harriman as the Paris talks enter the ninth session amid bleak prospects for progress.
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Paris
UPI
Hanoi
U.S
Saigon
Xuan Thuy
North Vietnam
Hanoii
W. Averell Harriman
Allied
Johnson
Harriman
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Buckler
Ray
James Earl Ray
United States
Tennessee
Martin Luther King Jr
Frank Milton
Ramon George Sneyd
Heathrow
Maddox
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Natonal Guard
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