New Director Plans Peace Corps Shake-Up
Joseph H. Blatchford becomes Peace Corps director at 34, plans a task force to revitalize the agency. He will tour Libya Kenya and Iran to gather ideas, seeks broadened recruitment beyond graduates, may revise rules to allow couples with children and consider modest monetary incentives.
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Fortas admits receiving fee from Wolfson foundation
Justice Abe Fortas disclosed that while on the Supreme Court he received a $20,000 fee from the Wolfson family foundation in 1966, deposited it in his personal account, and returned it after determining he could not undertake related research, while asserting he has not accepted any such fees since his court appointment.
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Apollo 10 Prepares for May Moon Mission
Apollo 10 engineers run the final rehearsal countdown at Cape Kennedy ahead of a May 18 launch. astronauts Thomas P. Stafford John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan are to orbit the moon for two days and a half to clear the way for Apollo 11.
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Spider Bite Fatal To FiveYearOld Boy In Ohio
Todd Quester five of Amherst Ohio died after a weeks long coma following a brown recluse bite three weeks earlier. Doctor says cardiac arrest listed as cause but bite may have contributed. Anti-venom serum flown from Brazil to Brazil to New York and Cleveland.
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UPI
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Amherst
Ohio
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
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B52 Bombers Raid Enemy Camps on Saigon's Northern Approaches
In a sequence of air strikes Sunday night and today, B52 bombers released heavy loads on guerrilla camps near Saigon and along the DMZ. Five fireballs followed Marine artillery on the northern border as U S and allied patrols reported 122 enemy killed, nine Americans dead, and 13 wounded across ten fronts. A separate DMZ incident tally reached 92 significant events since November. A battle near Katum yielded four American and three Communist deaths.
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Abernathy challenges South Carolina governor over hospital union drive
In Charleston, Ralph Abernathy of the SCLC threatened a national call for reinforcements if Gov. Robert McNair did not begin negotiating today with Negro workers from Local 1199B at the Charleston hospitals. Abernathy, freed from jail after a picketing injunction issue, said he would meet with McNair anywhere anytime to settle the six week labor dispute.
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Medical College Hospital
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South Carolina
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Charleston
Marshall Denounces Black Militants at Dillard event
In New Orleans Thurgood Marshall denounced black militants urging that violence cannot settle issues. He said nothing will be settled with guns and firebombs and urged calm, noting separatism breeds danger while praising beauty of Negro identity without excluding other colors.
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Thurgood Marshall
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Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Bulls Run Wild in Italian Festival
Four bulls rampaged through San Martino in Pensilis as spectators gathered for a race. One man died and 18 were injured amid chaos in the piazza. In Charleston, Ralph Abernathy urged school boycotts and denounced racial tensions while curfew hours persisted with 800 National Guardsmen and 400 state troopers enforcing a 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. limit.
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