Thousands to protest war in Berkshire tomorrow
Thousands of Berkshire residents and students will join a nationwide Moratorium Day against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The schedule includes petitions to withdraw troops, open mike speeches, guerrilla theatre, and candlelight procession, with multiple churches, colleges, and high schools participating.
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Berkshire Area
U.S
Nixon
Vietnam
Myles Schwartz
Pittsfield
Bay State
Richard Clement
Mountain Drive
Berkshire Community College
Donald Lathrop
St. Stephen’s Church
BCC
William L. Shirer
Stockbridge
William Gibson
RPI
Merritt Abrash
John Lawton
Williamstown
Gerald T. Spafford
Sacred Heart Church
Michael Brookes
Berkshire Peace Action Committee
Bennington College
the Common
Miss Halls School
Williams College
James M. Burns
Stewart
Lenox
Darrow
Cranwell
Foxhollow
First Methodist Church
Central
Pittsfield High
Taconic High
St. Joseph’s High
Guerrilla Theatre
Berkshire Playhouse
St. James’ Church
Great Barrington
Shadowbrook
Pope Hears Critics Ask Shared Rule at Synod Session
At Rome's extraordinary Synod of Bishops, Pope Paul VI faced questions on church authority. Cardinals Meouchi and Dopfner urged greater collegiality and a permanent synod, while others urged stronger papal supremacy to guide Africa and other regions. Debate centered on the balance between papal prerogative and bishops' collective role within Vatican II legacies.
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Rome
Paul VI
Synod of Bishops
Holy See
Paul Cardinal Meoucht
Antioch
Julius Cardinal Dopfner
Munich
College of Bishops
Owen Cardinal McCann
Capteown
Africa
Europe
Australia
Paul Cardinal Zoungrana
Ouagadougou
Upper Volta
World Hierarchy
Franjo Cardinal Seper
Vatican
Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith
Cardinal Soper
Cardinal Dopfner
Cardinal Dopmer
John Cardinal Heenan
Westminster
England
Episcopal Conference
Cardinal Depfner
Theological Commission
Episcopal Synod
Cardinal Meouchi
U S Reports 15 Million Fish Killed by Pollution
Washington AP reports more than 15.2 million fish died from water pollution last year, a 31 percent rise from 1967. Two thirds were commercial fish and 6.9 million perished from municipal sewage, 6.3 million from industrial waste, with the Allegheny River Bruin Pennsylvania incident causing over 4 million deaths.
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U.S
Washington
Interior Department
Davidt
D. Dominick
Federal Water Pollution Control Commission
Allegheny River
Bruin
Nixon to address nation on Vietnam war course
President Nixon announced he will speak to the nation early next month about the Vietnam war. The White House said the address will discuss Vietnam as it exists and come a year after Johnson ordered the end of bombing North Vietnam. The moratorium movement expands beyond students with labor and civil rights figures voicing support and opposition.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
Georgetown University
Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S
North Vietnam
Alliance For Labor Action
Afl-Cio
UAW
Teamsters
W. Averell Harriman
U.S. Paris
Johnson
New York
Whitney
Waterbury Desegregation Suit Targets School Bias
The Justice Department filed its first major desegregation action in the Northeast against Waterbury Connecticut alleging discrimination against Negro and Puerto Rican elementary students. The suit seeks a permanent injunction and cites district boundaries and transport practices that favor white students and exclude minority children. Waterbury public elementary schools total 27 with about 9,447 white, 2,714 Black, and 627 Puerto Rican pupils.
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Washington
APY
Justice Department
Waterbury
Conn
US. District Court
New Haven
Waterbury Board of Education
Scnoa
Witl
IRS Chief Flags Crime Infiltration Of Legitimate Businesses
A 1969 IRS survey of 113 major underworld figures found 98 infiltrators involved in 159 businesses, including 32 casinos and nightclubs, 17 real estate groups, 11 hotels, 10 vending firms, 8 restaurants, 8 trucking concerns, and other operations from funeral parlors to florists. IRS Commissioner Thrower warned that racketeers use legitimate enterprises to launder income, evade taxes, and push up prices, noting a metropolitan study with 80 businesses and assets exceeding $800 million.
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New York
Legitimaire
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Revenue Service
Internal Revenue
Randolph W. Thrower
Atlantic City
N.J
Thrower
Thieu Invites U S Students To See Vietnam War Facts
President Thieu invited 100 American students opposed to the Vietnam War to visit South Vietnam to dissipate misunderstandings. He offered visits to Independence Palace Hue Cemetery and soldiers in the field, saying many may change their minds. The trip followed a mass funeral in Hue for civilians killed during the Tet offensive. Thieu supported free expression of antiwar views but said most Americans back the allied effort. North Vietnam claimed U S protests reveal a split in American support and cited support from some of Nixon’s party lawmakers.
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Vinh Loc Island
Vietnam
Neuyen van Thieuw
South Vietnam
Independence Palace
Hue
Thieu
United States
North Vietnam
America
Communist Party
Nhan Dan
Radio Hanoi
Soviet Underground N-Blast Reported by Vienna Institute
Vienna's Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics reports a probable underground nuclear explosion by the Soviet Union, detected at 3 06 a m EDT. The blast, recorded six minutes earlier, appears to have occurred on Novaya Zemlya, the Soviet testing area for underground detonations.
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Vienna
Central Institute For Meteorology and Geodynamics Today
Soviet Union
Arctic
Novaya
Zemlya
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