U.S. Bombs Cambodia Targeting North Vietnamese Guns
U S warplanes bombed guns in Cambodia after they shot down a U S observation helicopter. The clash occurred as ground troops clash near Transier and Plain of Reeds. The raid marks a rare air strike across the Cambodian border in two months.
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Saigon
Cambodia
U.S
South Vietnam
Lyion
Reeds
Mekong
Melvin R. Laird
Laos
North Vietnam
Laiid
Aast
Laird
Waley
Shé Plain of Reeds
Transier
Central Highlands
An Khe
War legality bill draws broad backing at Statehouse
Boston AP report on a Massachusetts Judiciary Committee hearing where a bill would compel a Supreme Court test of the Vietnam War legality if troops serve 60 days in combat areas without a declared war. Speakers include Ernest Gruening and Maurice Donahue. Atty. Gen. Quinn calls the bill unconstitutional.
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Boston
U.S
Ernest Gruening
Alaska
Warren Schwartz
University of Vingis Law School
Massachusetts
Senate
Maurice A. Donahue
D-Holyoke
Legislative Judiciary Committee
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Robert H. Quinn
Statehouse
Grid Star Tackles Poverty in Mississippi
Jin Brown, once a standout fullback with the Cleveland Browns and now head of the Black Economic Union, urges athletes and celebrities to join his poverty fight after leading a save operation for black professionals through a Mississippi slum area. He argues stars can leverage salaries, fame, and education to effect change.
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Jim Brown
Anne Faulkner
Holly Springs
Miss
Jin Brown
Alan Cleveland Browns
Black Economic Union
L A Fears Chaos in Wake of School Integration Order
The Los Angeles school system must present a plan by June 1 to integrate 535 schools with start of next school year, under a ruling by Superior Court Judge Alfred E. Gitelson. The plan should be in effect by September 1971, or sooner, raising fears of massive disruption and busing for about 240,000 students. The district faces a large budget deficit, and an appeal was signaled by School Supt. Robert F. Kelly.
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New York Times
Los Angeles
Superior Court
Alfred E. Giblson
the American Civil Liberties Union
Gitelson
Kelly
Pasadena
Ribicoff
Skiers Sail To Cut Fidel's Sugar
A Cuban freighter arrived at Saint John New Brunswick to return about 216 Americans who had been cutting sugar cane for Fidel Castro and to transport a new group of over 600 to Cuba. The volunteers, calling themselves the We Shall Overcome Brigade, gathered in Boston and slept on buses as they awaited the freighter amid a storm. A State Department spokesman said the U.S. cannot restrict travel to Cuba, citing a Supreme Court ruling.
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Saint John
N.B
New Brunswick
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Bruce Jacobs
New York
Boston
Seattle
San Francisco
Castro
Venceremos
State Department
Washington
U.S
Supreme Court
Global plan to monitor earth changes risks from pollution
Washington reports plans for a worldwide network of stations to track environmental changes harming life forms. Soviet and U S scientists lead a project using computers satellites and sentinel species to detect shifts from pollution radiation and chemicals. The plan, discussed at the National Academy of Sciences, aims to feed data into the International Biological Program in Rome next September with initial costs around four million dollars and expansion to 20 major stations by 1972.
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Washington
Soviet Union
United States
National Academy of Sciences
International Biological Program
Rome
Bethesda
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Bill
Berkshire
Berkshire County Peace Action Committee
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BPAC
Berkshire County
Albert Bates
Harbor Lights
Golden Rule Bible
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Gulf of Tonkin
Prof. Schwartz
Sen. Donahue
Congress of the
John D. Lider Lexington
Congress
James Shea Jr
Newton
Michael Tigar
Ucla Law School
Grid Star
L.A
Robert F. Kelly
Abraham Ribicoff
Connecticut
New Alliance
Marshall County
Brown
Lorraine
Memphis
Martin Luther King Jr
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Mississippi
Mattie Horns
Brig Owens
Washington Redskins
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