Democrats Urge Party Reform After Chicago Turmoil
Senators McCarthy Muskie and Kennedy urged Democratic reform with proposals for at least biennial national conventions. Humphrey defended the party regulars while McGovern heads a commission on how to make nominating procedures more democratic. Delegates and workers faced intimidation in Chicago as the 1968 turmoil echoed.
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Chicago
Sen
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
Edmund §. Muskie
Maine
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Hubert H. Humphrey
National Committee
George S. McGovern
South Dakota
Humphrey
White House
Allied Camp Hit By Enemy Troops Near Laos Border
North Vietnamese forces attacked an allied camp near the Laos border in the northwest. The three-hour battle left 30 enemy dead and heavy Allied casualties including three U.S. soldiers killed and many wounded. Allied units reported reclaiming horizon and capturing enemy rifles and weapons.
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Saigon
Laos
U.S
U.S. 5Th Mechanized Infantry
U.S. Marine
Khe Sanh
Hue
Cambodia
De Gaulle vows resignation if referendum rejects reform
Paris reports President Charles de Gaulle warned Friday night he would quit the presidency immediately if the national referendum rejects his decentralization bill. He said his task to reform France would be impossible without public approval and urged voters to support his plan to end the senate’s legislative powers.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
France
de Gaulle
Senate
Georges Pompidou
Nixon Aide Pushes Tougher Civil Rights Bill for EEOC
Washington AP report notes the Nixon administration weighing sweeping legislation to empower the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with cease orders and penalties. The plan faces Senate resistance from Everett Dirksen as Democrats accuse the White House of soft enforcement.
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Washington
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Justice Department
Commission
Lyndon B. Johnson
Congress
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Johnson
Capitol Hill
Jerris Leonard
Clifford L. Alexander Jr
Alexander
White House
Dirksen
Hubert H. Humphrey
Fate of Boy Bitten by Spider Uncertain
In Cleveland Ohio AP doctors treat Todd Quester a five year old from Amherst after a brown recluse bite. A team administered anti venom serum flown from Brazil and say they are encouraged though he remains in a coma and critical.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Todd Quester
Michael Wald
Cleveland
Brazil
Amherst
Ohio
Babies and Children’s Hospital
Demonstrations Rise Across Colleges Over Campus Seat Occupations
Negro students seized a Colgate faculty club as sit ins and protests spread nationwide. City College of New York remains largely closed with 20 000 students after occupation and campus blockade last Tuesday. Hampton Institute in Virginia endures a student occupation demanding higher pay and faculty tenure policy changes.
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Associated Press
Colgate University
City College of New York
Hampton Institute
Hampton
Health hazard drives U S mining stance in Morgantown speech
U S Bureau of Mines Director John O Leary warned at a Morgantown mine safety conference that Americans may abandon mining jobs if life and health costs are too high. He said the industry lacks adequate scientific imagination to meet the threat. Friday's opening session included two speakers predicting a West Virginia Supreme Court decision on the meaning of abnormal physiological change.
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Morgantown
U. S
John O'Leary
U. S. Bureau of Mines
West Virginia Supreme Court
30 Vehicles Demolished In Fog Shrouded Crash
A morning chain collision on Interstate 64 in Charleston killed Ronald E. Morrison and injured more than a dozen as dense fog blanketed the highway. Dozens of cars piled up in minutes with 30 vehicles demolished and one seriously injured passenger, Sue Ann Parsons, among the survivors.
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Sue Ann Parsons
Nitro
W. Va
Charleston
Ronald E. Morrison
Thomas Memorial Hospital
South Charleston
Institute
Kanawha River Valley
Miss Parsons
Carl F. Nutt
Nutt
Eighteen Killed in Air Force EC1121 Crash in Thailand
An Air Force EC1121 electronics craft crashed on takeoff at Korat Base Thailand killing all 18 crew aboard. Pentagon sources say the plane served in Vietnam for command and control, guiding fighters and bombers, with the loss blamed on accidental causes and no details yet released. The aircraft resembled the Navy EC121, though used differently, and featured extensive radar and antenna gear.
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Washington
Air Force
Thailand
Pentagon
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Korat
United States
Laos
South Vietnam
Sea of Japan
Compromise Plan on ABM is Rejected
Washington AP report says Senate spokesman Dirksen rejected a one year delay in Safeguard ABM deployment. Mansfield and others proposed postponement for testing and diplomacy with Moscow. Coalition leaders urged a June start or continued development to assess effectiveness and nuclear implications.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Moscow
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Foreign Relations Committee
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Joseph D. Tydings
Dmd
United States
Russia
Northern Ireland braces for tense weekend amid upheaval
As civil rights protests escalate Prime Minister Terence ONeil faces pressure to resign. Britain sends 550 more troops to NI bringing total on duty to 2000 to protect facilities after water Supply sabotage. Riot squads ready as rival protests loom amid unionist and Paisleyite tensions.
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Britain
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
Irish Republic
Frank Aiken
New York
Thant
Civil Rights Association
Virginia Assembly Ends Session On New Constitution
In Richmond the Virginia General Assembly adjourned a special session after approving sending a new state constitution to voters in 1970. Five questions cover general bonding, revenue bonds, tuition grants, anti gambling provisions, and Richmond’s city boundaries. Debate focused on whether tuition grants stay broad or restricted to nonsectarian schools.
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Richmond
Mills E. Godwin Jr
Virginia General Assembly
Assembly
House
Senate
Constitutional Revision Commission
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