NAACP Aide Testifies On Police Brutality
Washington The President's Commission on Violence heard NAACP general counsel Robert L. Carter describe police brutality as a core cause of distrust toward law enforcement among Negroes. He cited widespread complaints from 1,500 NAACP branches about police abuse and argued that calls for law and order obscure demands for equality.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Robert L. Carter
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Carter
NAACP
Nixon Challenges Humphrey On Winning Popular Vote
United Press International reports Nixon charging Humphrey wants the election to go to the House to wheel and deal for the White House. Nixon pledges to support whichever candidate wins the most votes, while Humphrey predicts victory and Wallace and Agnew face hecklers in campaign stops. Muskie criticizes Nixon’s 1960 tactics. Sen Young calls networks to refrain from calling an early winner.
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Richard M. Nixon
Hubert H. Humphrey
White House
Humphrey
Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
Congress
Baltimore
New York City
Garment
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Philadelphia
Detroit
Wallace
Spectrum
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
St. Petersburg
Fla
Johnson- Humphrey
Curtis E. LeMay
Vietnam
Edmund S. Muskie
Muskie
Lexington
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Sen
Stephen M. Young
Ohio
Bombardment of North Viet Panhandle Continues
U S planes and the battleship New Jersey pounded North Vietnams southern panhandle for a third day. Jets reported few targets left and returned with undropped bombs while Navy guns hit storage depots and a DMZ site. Casualties rose with 109 Americans killed last week and 717 wounded. North Vietnam fired artillery near the border, killing three at Dong Ha and wounding ten.
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Saigon
UPID
U.S
New Jersey
North
Panhandle
UPI
Alvin B. Webb Jr
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
South Vietnam
Navy
North Vietnam
United States
Hanoi
Marine
Dong Ha
U.S. Navy
Cua Viet River
Treasures Found In Maine Attics
An attic treasure hunt by the State Museum in Augusta has turned up items including a silver cream pitcher from the battleship Maine and a Margaretta chest plus a 300 year old arithmetic book. The public is urged to search attics and closets. items join the expanded museum in the 1970 State Cultural Building.
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Augusta
Maine
Robert Damm
Cosmos 250 launches as 250th Soviet satellite
Moscow reports Cosmos 250 is the 250th unmanned satellite in the series and will continue outer space exploration. Tass notes the craft functions normally while observers say the Cosmos program doubles as moon mission prep. Cosmos 250 circles Earth every 95.3 minutes after Soyuz 3 return with Lt. Col. Georgy Beregovoi.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Tass
Georgy Beregovol
Moon
Earth
Coed Survives Four Day Ordeal In Death Valley
Karen Zick a 21 year old Nevada Southern University coed survived four waterless days in Death Valley after her plane crashed landing on a desert hill. She hiked through rugged terrain reaching a road seven miles north of Furnace Creek where a motorist found her dehydrated but conscious. Padratzik her 23 year old boyfriend remains missing as search teams continue to scour the area.
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Furnace Creek
Calif
Death Valley
California
Karen Zick
Nevada
Padratzik
Karen
Las Vegas
Nevada Southern University
Sunrise Hospital
U.S. Park Service
Homer Leach
Civil Air Patrol
Nevada Southern
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Arthur Garfield Hayes
Dworkin
Chicago
Hanson
Walbridge
Dean Hanson
United Press International
North Viet’s
Dustthame Furniture Incorporated
Bennington, Vermont
ELM Street
Vermont
Deane
Republican State Committee
Marshall Sobens
THE
Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
Banner Publishing Corporation
Soviets
Prestone
H. Greenberg & Son, Inc
Dial
Toure
Lees
du Pont
ORLON
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Loe
Bennington VT
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