Anticrime Bill Passes Senate Faces House Scrutiny
In Washington the Senate approved a $400 million anticrime package backing stricter enforcement, wiretapping, handgun sale limits, and narrowed suspects rights. House action now targets a conference with the Senate as debate continues on safeguards and implementation.
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UPI
Supreme Court
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Hiram Fong
Hawaii
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Lee Metcalf
Dmont
Labor Opposes RFK In Oregon Primary
In Portland Oregon Kennedy campaign faces labor opposition as about 30 percent of Oregon Democrats are undecided four days before the primary. Kennedy seeks a third win as McCarthy trails, while Johnson remains on the ballot though not seeking re election.
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Robert F. Kennedy
Oregon
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Eugene J. McCarthy
Johnson
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Afl-Cio
Vietnam
Oregon Journal
Oregonians
Citizens For Peace
Ed Randall
Randall
McCarthy
California
Los Angeles
Richard M. Nixon
Ronald Reagan
John V. Lindsay
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Wayne L. Morse
Robert Duncan
Sit-Ins Rage Across Colleges In 1967 National Image
Sit ins continued at San Francisco State College with four of five student demands granted and a plan for a faculty student vote on the ROTC issue. At the University of Hawaii a fifth day of protest followed the dismissal of Prof Oliver Lee. regents accepted President Thomas Hamilton’s resignation over the Lee matter. Police arrested 153 students at Hawaii. Hawaii protesters vow to force ROTC termination. Summerskill held talks and allowed 400 nonwhite enrollments, nine tutors, and amnesty for 26 arrested students. At Columbia University 178 students were arrested after a campus takeover. Other campuses report student strikes, policy reviews, and hiring/retention actions affecting Negro student enrollment and faculty staffing.
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San Francisco State College
Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps
University of Hawaii
Oliver Lee
Vietnam
Thomas Hamilton
Lee
San Francisco
John Summerskill
Juan Martinez
Summerskill
Bruce Hartford
Hawaii
University
Columbia University
New York
Ohio University
Vernon Alden
Rutgers University
New Brunswick
N.J
New Zealand Earthquake Hits West Coast Rail Lines
A powerful quake with intensity seven on the Richter scale disrupted roads and derailed a train along a 130 mile west coast strip of New Zealand. Bridges shifted and 70 percent of Inangahua homes damaged in the disaster that claimed at least one life and injured 15. Treated as the worst hit area, Greymouth evacuated buildings as officials restricted transport.
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New Zealand
UPI
Auckland
Prince Philip
Queen Elizabeth
Britain
Inangahua
Greymouth
NATO Nations Realize U S Is Serious About Cutbacks
Brussels reports European NATO nations finally face U S cuts in military spending and troop deployments. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Nitze warned last December that U S forces would redeploy, prompting European leaders to study longer term economic help while Americans trim overseas defense costs.
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UPI
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United States
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Nitze
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Belgium
Britain
West Germany
Clark W. Clifford
Expansion of All Government Food Programs Urged
Two nutrition experts told the House Educational Labor Committee hunger hearing that Congress must act now to broaden government food programs, stressing infant nutrition for poor families and urging immediate action in known shortage areas. They supported a bill to form an 11 member presidential commission to study malnutrition and report by next January.
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UPI
House Educational Labor Committee
Congress
Frederick J. State
Harvard University
Henry Sebrell
Columbia University
Roman Pucinski
Ill
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