Finch backs busing in school desegregation era
Secretary of health education and welfare Robert Finch said his department would continue to use busing to end segregated schools and urged local boards to rearrange patterns. He noted busing is inevitable in rural districts and stressed districts must end racial imbalance while complying with the law. He defended gains in integration and signaled no immediate federal aid cuts pending Supreme Court rulings. Volpe doubts Senate run. favors national party strategy and outreach beyond the South.
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Washington
Robert H. Finch
Health, Education and Welfare
Spiro T. Agnew
White House
ABC
Finch
Nixon
Supreme Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Appeals Court
New Orleans
Great Lakes High Water Threatens Homes and Shores in 1970
Detroit AP reports record or near-record lake levels in 1970 threaten eastern shore cliffs and private docks along Lake Michigan and other Great Lakes. High precipitation drives rising levels, with damages historically reaching tens of millions and winds driving waves that erode beaches and submerge yards.
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Lake Michigan
St. Joseph
Mich
Detroit
Great Lakes
Lakes Survey District
Army’s Corps of Engineers
Michigan
Huron
Erie
Lake Erie
Superior
Lake Superior
Ontario
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf of Mexico
Canada
Lakes Survey
Hruska Out Scott Gets Inside Track
Senate race narrows as Senator Hruska withdraws and endorses Baker while Senator Scott gains momentum. Baker seeks a broad middle coalition of Republicans, with Goldwater Tower and Murphy signaling support alongside others. The plan hinges on shaving 22 votes from 43 to replace late Dirksen as minority leader.
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Washington
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Howard H. Baker Jr
Senate Republicans
Roman AL. Hruska
Nebraska
Baker
Scott
Kuska
George Murphy
California
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
John Tower
Texas
Everett M. Dirksen
Senate
Hruska
Bey Cone
GOP
Carpenters Back at Work in Rhode Island After Pact
CRANSTON Rhode Island union carpenters return to work with a new contract setting wages at 8.47 dollars an hour by 1872 More than 1 000 members voted Saturday to approve the pact ending a 12 week strike that had halted most major construction since June 2
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Cranston, R.I
Rhode Island
U S Seizes Tons of Marijuana In Crackdown at Mexican Border
U S authorities announced Operation Intercept at the Mexican border netting thousands of pounds of marijuana and intercepting a plane with 1,000 pounds. About 90 000 travelers crossed into Mexico for bullfights and racing. 20 000 pedestrians returned. A University of Washington student was arrested in Bakersfield with 1 000 pounds. Five people from New York City were arrested south of the border. Laredo agents reported 1 400 pounds seized from Mexico.
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U.S
Los Angeles
Mexico
U.s.mexico
Agua Caliente
San Ysidro
San Diego
Treasury
David M. Kennedy
John M. Mitchell
Bakersfield
Michael Thomas Mitchell
University of Washington
Seattle
New York City
Laredo
Tex
Lawyer Seeks 500000 Over Nonworking Boston Phone
Nicholas Abraham, a Boston lawyer, sues New England Telephone in Suffolk Superior Court for 500000. He says his office phone rings for others but not for his office, despite 21 months of repair attempts. He claims the problem damages his practice and accuses the company of ignoring weekly reports since January 1968.
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New England Telephone Company
Nicholas Abraham
Suffolk Superior Court
Abraham
Telephone Company
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Mazatlan
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San Ysidgo
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Operation Intercept
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