Israeli Commandos Strike in Lebanon
Israeli ground forces raided a village inside Lebanon killing Arabs and destroying buildings in Halta. Lebanese claims of civilian deaths and higher Israeli casualties followed the 99 minute operation. Israeli officials warned of continued retaliation against guerrilla attacks from Lebanon.
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Lebanon
Halta
Anit
Beirut
Israelia
Israeli Foreign Ministry
Israel
Foreign Ministry
David Rivlin
U.N
Security Council
Council
British Troops Halt Belfast Protestant Riots Near Catholic Area
British troops with fixed bayonets and tear gas threat stopped a Protestant mob heading toward a Catholic district in Belfast. About 1,500 troops were called, a 500 yard no man’s land was cleared, and legal hearings opened in Londonderry with Sir Leslie Scarman leading a judicial inquiry into the unrest.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Cathole Walls Road
Oval
Paisley
Donegal Road
Tan Paisley
Leslie Scarman
Londonderry
Libya Regime Faces Trouble In Benghazi
In Benghazi the revolutionary council named a special security commander and ordered all Cyrenaican forces to maintain vigilance and discipline. Radio Tripoli aired the decree but gave no sign of armed opposition, while junior army officers face growing difficulties in the Cyrenaican Desert.
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Tunis
Libya
Revolutionary Council
Benghazi
Cyrenaica
Radio-Tripoli
Cyrenaican
Kennedy car tests probe Kopechne survival time
Boston Globe reports Kennedy car was tested to estimate how long Mary Jo Kopechne lived after the Chappaquiddick accident. Physicists from Arthur D. Little and others, plus a scuba photographer, conducted tests at state police headquarters Ridgd town to gauge car speed, water fill, and air bubbles. An inquest into her death was postponed pending a state Supreme Court ruling.
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Mary Jo
Boston
Edward Kennedy
Mary Jo Kopechne
Chappaquiddick Island
Boston Globe
Arthur D. Little Co., Inc
Cambridge
Kenneh
Richard B. McCarron
Globe
Daniel I. Murphy
Richard Stone
John Teitzel
Donald Sullivan
Robert Ryan
Ridgartown
State Supreme Court
Leyden School Defies Court Prayer Ban with Start Day Prayers
Leyden elementary classes began with prayers as four rooms led with the Lord's Prayer or Psalm 23, under a plan by the School Committee to protect constitutional rights. Reporters were barred, but students were seen with heads down, and the plan includes signals marking start and end of prayer periods.
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Liyden
Mass
Franklin
U.S. Supreme Court
Leyden School Committee
Seven Killed In Maine B52 Crash At Loring AFB
LIMESTONE Maine AP seven airmen died when a B52 bomber crashed and burned after takeoff from Loring Air Force Base on a training mission. The eight engine jet went down in a boggy wilderness about three miles north of the runway end. Wreckage access required bulldozing and all bodies were recovered. Six crew were Loring personnel. one was an observer. No bombs were aboard.
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Limestone
Maine
Loring Air Force Base
Air Force
Loring
Strikes Shut New England Schools Amid Court Disputes
In Manchester New Hampshire and New Bedford Massachusetts teachers kept many schools closed amid contract fights and court orders. Manchester saw about 14 000 pupils affected as teachers ignored a Superior Court ruling and sought relief in the State Supreme Court. City officials planned contempt charges. In New Bedford absences rose to 225 as four elementary schools closed while the high and junior high schools reopened after Wednesday closures.
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New England
Manchester
N.H
New Bedford
Mass
State Supreme Court
High Court
Frances Abbott
Manchester Education Association
Francis Roche
Quinn OK's 3 Petitions and 2 Rejected by AG
Boston AP report notes Attorney General Quinn approved three initiative petitions including lowering the voting age to 18 while blocking two others on repealing birth control and abortion laws. Also approved were measures to curb fluoridation in public water and create merit-based state employee appointments. The ruling defined form requirements and signature thresholds for referendums. Recreational facilities news follows with Sargent signing $10 million pool and rink programs statewide and vetoing Dorchester harbor extensions.
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Boston
Atty
Quinn
Ireland
Recreation Facilities
Francis W. Sargent Thas
Department of Natural Resources
Metropolitan District Commission
Tenean Beach
Dorchester
Boston Harbor
John F. X. Davoren
Sargent
Fourth District
Bristol County
Norfolk County
Salem
N.H
Park's Third Term Split Splits Korean Party
In Seoul the New Democratic party voted to dissolve to expel three members who back a third term for President Chung Hee Park. The minority party opposes a constitutional amendment to allow Park to run again in 1971 while the majority supports the measure.
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Seoul
South Korea
New Democratic Party
Chung Hee Park
Park
Democratic Republican
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