Belfast and Londonderry violence as troops try to halt sectarian fighting
In Northern Ireland Catholic and Protestant mobs clashed in Belfast and Armagh while British troops kept a wary peace in Londonderry. Five people were killed including a 9 year old boy as snipers and gunfire sparked fires, with hospitals treating 120 hurt. Police blamed Iraqi Republican Army snipers for the killings and anticipated further troop deployments as the crisis extended across the six counties.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Armagh
Londonderry
Irish Republican Army
James Callaghan
London
England
Patrick Rooney
Moenes
Herbert Roy
Buildinng
Falls Road
Writing Time for Rockwell Kent Opens in Bowdoin Exhibit
Rockwell Kent, 87, speaks at Bowdoin College Art Museum on his first public exhibit in 30 years. About 60 works from 1903 to 1935 are shown, with many now in Soviet museums after a 1953 Farnsworth dispute. Kent discusses art, politics, and his autobiography as he concentrates on its second volume.
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Brunswick, Maine
Rockwell Kent
Writercoe -Gadfly
Kent
Bowdoin College
Soviet Union
Farnsworth Museum
Rockland
United States
Russia
America
Lord
Beach Town Council Files Charges Against Town Manager Leon Jones
The Town Council filed 17 charges against Town Manager Leon F. Jones after a Monday night motion to remove him. Allegations include failure to provide monthly financial reports, missed department head meetings, uncompleted capital projects, improper handling of notes and loans, and neglect of council directives.
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Beach Council
Leon Jones
Old Orchard Beach
Leon F. Jones
Jones
Rupert Davis
Hurricane Camille Aims Blow At Cuba
Tropical Storm Camille strengthened into a hurricane and aimed at western Cuba with 90 mph winds. The National Hurricane Center warned of hurricane winds and 5 to 10 foot high tides along the north and south coasts from Havana westward, with heavy rains likely on the Isle of Pines and across western Cuba as Camille approached Cape San Antonio.
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Miami
Camille
Cuba
National Hurricane Center
Pinar del Rio
Hurricane Center
Havana
Cape San Antonio
Isle of Pines
Gulf of Mexico
Rioters in Londonderry clash with police in hate ritual
Northern Ireland report describes Londonderry rioters hurling rocks and gasoline bombs as part of a centuries old conflict. It traces origins from 17th century Protestant Catholic clashes, 1690 Battle of the Boyne, Easter Monday 1916 fighting, and Northern Ireland’s partition and status within the British crown amid Catholic resentments.
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Londonderry
Northern Ireland
England
Ireland
William of Orange
James
the Boyne
Ulster
Southern Ireland
Two Men Stabbed and Clubbed in Boston Incident
Two men were stabbed and clubbed on Boylston Street near the Public Gardens. Lester Mallory and Peter Clark were hospitalized in serious condition with stab wounds and head lacerations. Police pursued three assailants, arrested Jeffrey Sapp, and reported two suspects fled. No robbery occurred.
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Boston
Boylston Street
Lester Mallory
Jamaica Plain
Peter Clark
New Hampshire
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jeffrey Sapp
Dorchester
Exhumation Bid In Kennedy Accident Case
Dinis seeks court order for autopsy to aid inquest into Mary Jo Kopechne death on Chappaquiddick Island. He plans to use three state police detectives in Edgartown Mass for the inquest opening Sept. 3. Mrs Kopechne opposes autopsy and Kennedy testimony remains undecided.
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Wilkes-Barre
Joseph Flanagan
Edward M. Kennedy
Mary Jocar
Chappa- Kopechne
Quiddick Island
Massachu
Edmund Setts
Dinis
Luzerne County
Kopechne
Bernard C. Brominski
Brominski
Edgartown
Mass
Trains Carry Phosgene Gas Heads To New York and Louisiana
Two trains carrying several hundred tons of phosgene, a World War I killer gas, were sent toward New York State and Louisiana under special permits from the Transportation Department. One route ran through Chicago to Lockport, New York, for a chemical plant. a second headed to Louisiana via St. Joseph Missouri. A federal official noted two experts with a neutralizing agent rode the New York-bound train.
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Associated Press
Louisiana
New York State
Chicago
Des Moines
Iowa
Army
Rocky Mountain Arsenal
Colorado
Lie Department of Transportation
Lockport
N.Y
St. Joseph
New York
Richard D. McCarthy
D-N.y
U.S
Denver
Atlantic Ocean
McCarthy
Nixon
New York Democrat
Des
Jones Chemical Co
Batavia
Vande
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Francis Cote
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Francis Murphy
Winter
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Citadel
Arctic
See
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the Value House
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West Grand Ave
By Bill Houston
East Grand Avenue
Walnut Street
Maine Water Improvement Commission
Smithwheel Road
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Supreme Judicial Court
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York
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Harold J. Carroll
Carroll
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Gendron
University of Pennsylvania
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Maine
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Joan M. LaMontagne
Saco City
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Barn Sale Glass & China
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