Campuses Erupt To Protest Cambodia
Students across Vermont and northwestern Massachusetts join a nationwide strike in protest of the Cambodia invasion and Kent State killings. Williams suspends classes. Goddard and Dartmouth also take action as rallies form. Democratic Hoff and Lt. Gov. Hayes address Vermont protest. billings Center coffins planned.
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Thomas L. Hayes
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New England Colleges Join Nationwide Student Strike
Students at major New England colleges join a nationwide protest against U S expansion of the Vietnam War. Officials at many campuses support the boycott. The National Strike Information Center at Brandeis coordinates actions as 65 colleges nationwide join, with 35 more preparing. Colleges plan marches and meetings as presidents suspend classes and cancel exams to protest Kent State killings and demand policy changes including ending defense research ROTC and Vietnam War expansion.
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Dartmouth College
Kent University
Dartmouth
Jerome B. Weisner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston University
Harvard
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Allied Forces Launch New Border Crossing in Cambodia
Thousands of U.S. and South Vietnamese troops moved into northeastern Cambodia in Nixon's plan to attack Communist sanctuaries. The 4th Infantry Division and the South Vietnamese 22nd Division crossed 50 miles west of Pleiku, aiming at areas long contested by North Vietnamese forces. Casualties so far: American 16 dead, 170 Vietnamese killed, 651 wounded. earlier operations in Memot and neighboring sectors reported heavy Communist losses in troops, weapons, and supplies.
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Cambodia Welcomes Nixon War Expansion Statement
Phnom Penh government of Lon Nol welcomed President Nixon’s decision to send U S troops into Cambodia to seek and destroy Communist units and bases. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces were active near Phnom Penh with minor clashes as Cambodian troops, aided by Khmer mercenaries, held the western Mekong frontier. A curfew was imposed on Vietnamese residents amid the fighting and whether neutral aid would arrive remained a goal.
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Saigon
N Y Official Upholds Goldberg Residency
Secretary of State John P. Lomenzo rejected a challenge to Arthur J. Goldberg’s New York residency for governor while recommending the case go to State Supreme Court. Dorothy Dwire challenged the five year rule, citing Goldberg’s UN ambassadorship. hearing set for May 8. Goldberg moved to New York in 1965 and registered to vote after leaving the post in 1968.
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Kent State shooting leaves four dead on campus protest
National Guardsmen opened fire during a Kent State University antiwar demonstration killing four students and wounding ten as rioters threw rocks. Gov Rhodes ordered a full investigation while the White House urged restraint and for educators to address violence.
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East Canton
Joseph Lewis
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Nixon
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Robert Canterbury
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Pulitzer Prize Awarded Reporter Who Disclosed My Lai ‘Massacre’
Seymour Hersh won the Pulitzer for international reporting for months of investigation that exposed the My Lai killings. Marquis Childs won for distinguished commentary. Newsday received the public service award for long investigations into secret land deals and zoning in New York City suburbs. Other winners included cartoonist Thomas F. Darcy, history author Dean Acheson, and multiple categories across fiction drama nonfiction music and reporting.
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Woodford
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Truman
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University
Jean Stafford
New Yorker
Charles Gordone
Eric H. Erikson
Charles W. Wuorinen
Time
William J. Eaton
Chicago Daily News
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr
Summer Power Blackouts Foreseen
Washington based power industry officials warned Congress that heavy summer heat could trigger local power shortages again. They cited insufficient reserves in a Northeast system and potential brownouts similar to last year, while urging federal influence on plant siting and reliability measures. Representatives noted 37 major blackouts since reliability efforts began after 1965 and urged faster action.
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Robert O. Tiernan
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Inside A Work By Louis Calabro World Premiere
The column notes Louis Calabro’s work to be given a world premiere as reported on Page 3. It highlights the Mankiewicz Braden column pointing out that Nixon rapidly violated his own promise of a non policeman role according to the world view on Page 4. Village officials in Hoosick Falls uncover what may answer recent water problems discussed on Page 6.
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