Pompidou Poher Runoff Heads for French Presidency
In Paris Pompidou and Poher edge into a runoff for the presidency as Communists hold power to tip the outcome. Pompidou, 57, ex banker to Charles de Gaulle, led with 43.95 percent while De Gaulle’s ally Poher trailed at 23.44 percent. Duclos led the Communists with 21.53 percent as four other candidates shared the rest.
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Paris
Georges Pompidou
Alain Poher
Pompidou
Rothschild
Charles de Gaulle
Premior
de Gaulle
Poher
Jacques Duclos
Communist Party
Duclos
Senate
Gaston Defferre
Marseille
Michel Rocard
Unified
Socialist Party
Louis Ducatel
Alain Kyivine
Riots Ebb in Curacao Amid Dutch Intervention
Racially charged unrest in Willemstad subsides as Dutch marines enforce a curfew after labor protests at the Shell refinery escalated into looting and fires. Government reports 2 killed and 190 wounded, with losses reaching 20 million dollars. some sources cite up to 4 deaths and massive damage. Tourists urged to stay in hotels or depart the island.
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Willemstad
Curacao
Caribbean
Tojay
Setlars
Civa Kroon
Shell
Escar
Five Day Forecast Reading Confusing Weather Note
Forecast fragment indicates temperatures through Saturday near 60 degrees. Text is garbled but suggests below normal levels and mentions tomorrow and Saturday with names unclear. No coherent location or organization identified in readable portion.
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Caaler
Saturdix
Shayners
Pricay
U.S. Probing Tensions at Cornell University
Federal civil rights investigators visited Ithaca to examine racial tensions and a proposed Afro American studies center at Cornell. The probe follows an April building occupation by Black students and later firearms were taken in. President Dr James A Perkins announced his resignation amid internal dissent over responses to the Black student movement and studies program. The OCR enforces Title VI and is reviewing potential discrimination linked to federal funding and campus housing practices.
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Washington
Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y
Office of Civil Rights
James A. Perkins
Cornell
University
Wr Weney
OCR
The
Partment of Health, Education and Welfare
M March
Antioch College
Yellow Springs
Ohio
Antioch
OCI
Afro-American Institute
Idool
Duke of Antioch
Nixon Seeks Two Year Extension for Poverty Agency
President Nixon proposes a two year extension for the federal antipoverty agency with 2 billion dollars in outlays the first year. Donald Rumsfeld says the plan aims at better management longer range planning and more efficient fund allocation. He notes committees and study teams will review program performance and coordination with Model Cities and state governments.
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Washington
Nixon
Federal Antipoverty Agency
Donald Rumsfeld
Office of Economic Opportunity
Ald
House Education and Labor Committee
Rumsfeld
Sio
Ruvnsfeld
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Conte Proposes Tax Reform Bill to Cut Oil Depletion
Rep Conte of Pittsfield unveils a bill to end the 27 4 percent oil depletion deduction for foreign production and trim the domestic rate to 15 percent. He expects support from Rep Mills as tax reform aims to boost federal revenues by over 500 million yearly. Conte cites decades of subsidy and calls it a tax subsidy. the plan follows Nixon postal reform efforts and prior attempts to curb oil subsidies.
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Conte
Concressman
Pittsfield
Republican
Nixon
Berkshire Life Insurance Co. Board of
the Eagle
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
House
Ways and Means
Mills
United States
U.S
Cigarettes Up Five Cents In State
In Massachusetts the price per pack rose about five cents with two cents of the hike from the new cigarette tax and three cents from no manufacturer price increase. State Tax Commissioner Clea I Jaillet said 125 agents will visually inspect inventories and collect two cents per pack. The tax raised the oral tax from 10 to 12 cents and aims to yield about $14 million. a pink decal and purple ink will mark metering devices to deter counterfeiting.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Clea I. Jaillet
Fillet
Flone Lax
Francis W. Sargent
Jaillet
Traffic Toll Sets Record For Memorial Day Weekend
A record 43 persons were killed in traffic accidents over the Memorial Day weekend as toll tabulations continued. The prior three day record of 542 died in 1966. In addition to traffic fatalities, 33 died in boating mishaps and 181 drowned in nondisaster accidents.
Coast City Unites Over Santa Barbara Oil Spill Crisis
Santa Barbara citizens rally behind a nonpartisan effort to eradicate the offshore oil leak after the January gusher, facing leases, potential wells, earthquakes, and a divided town. Local leaders warn the crisis is just beginning, with federal action uncertain and lawsuits and stop drilling injunctions pending.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Santa Barbara
Thomas Storke
Santa Barbara News-Press
California
Storke
Paloedattad
Department of the Interior
Union
Mobil
Gulf and
Texaco
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Perkins
Black Women’s Residence
Ehottas
Congress
Carl D. Perkins
D-Ky
Come
Associated Press
Coast City
Gladwin
New York Times News Service
Deep Blue Sea
Channel Islands
George Clyde
Santa
Alan Cranston
Charles M. Teague
Secretary of the Interior
Walter J. Hickel
Union Oil Co
Lee A. DuBridge
Conservation-Mindad
GOO
Oil Company
Union Oil
Ilenvik Ibsen
Stanley Towry
Chamber of Commerce
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