Columbia Blockade Tightened as Sit-In Persists
An impatient faction at Columbia University tightens a blockade to halt a weeklong student protest closing classes. About 100 protesters are cut off in five buildings including Low Memorial Library, while 200 blockade supporters and 400 sit-in backers fill the campus amid red flags and bivouac sites.
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New York
Columbia University
Columbia
Majority Coalition
Low Memorial Library
Grayson Kirk
Kirk
University
First Phase of King Crusade Is Launched
Reverend Ralph Abernathy initiates the first phase of Martin Luther King’s poor peoples crusade in Washington. He leads over 100 representatives of black brown and white poor Americans in talks with cabinet members and antipoverty officials. The delegation accuses the government of failing to ensure dignified independent citizenship and claims national leaders have sold people into bondage.
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Washington
UPI
Ralph Abernathy
Martin Luther King
Abernathy
Dr. King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
America
King
Agricultre
U.S
Hold Youth On Murders Of Five Kin
Thomas Charles Fuller 18 is jailed without bond in Coles county awaiting a Tuesday preliminary hearing on charges of murdering five Cox children near Mattoon after being linked to their dating relative. Five siblings aged 16 to 5 were shot. two girls also beaten. Louise Cox survived.
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Charleston
Ill
Thomas Charles Fuller
Coles County
Eastern Illinois University
William Cox
Mattoon
Poet Winfield Townley Scott Dies in Santa Fe Home
Santa Fe poet Winfield Townley Scott, aged 58, died Sunday at his residence. He was known for his literary contributions and lived in New Mexico. The obituary notes his residence in Santa Fe and his status as a poet.
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Santa Fe, N.M
Winfield Townley Scott
Santa Fe
World Reds To Meet In Moscow Nov 25
Belgrade reports the world Communist conference will open in Moscow on November 25. Tanjug quotes informed sources from Budapest as the source of the information.
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World Reds
Moscow
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tanjug
Budapest
U S Troops Strike VC Stronghold in A Shan Valley
U S forces airlifted into the A Shan valley to hit a North Vietnamese stronghold in a 10 day offensive named Delaware. Helicopters returned fire on enemy positions, with Maj. Gen. John Tolson noting heavy losses among his helicopters. The operation aims to reconnoiter and disrupt enemy staging areas and supply lines before pulling back.
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Saigon
U.S
A Shan
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
John Tolson
Flying Horsemen
Delaware
Hue
Tolson
New Sign U S Shifts to Offense In A Shau Valley
U S forces shift from static defense to mobile offense in Vietnam’s A Shau valley as the 1st Air Cavalry, relocated to Quang Tri and Thua Thien with up to 400 helicopters, carries out two major drives since April 1 and lifts the siege of Khe Sanh.
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John Tolsor
1Stair
A Shau
Khe Sanh
Tolson
South Vietnam
A Shan
U.S
1St Air Cavalry
Con Thein
Rock Pile
Dong Ha
Gio Linh
Ist Air Cavalry
Ist
Supreme Court narrows libel standards for public figures
The Supreme Court in an 8-1 decision held that public officials seeking defamation damages must show the speaker had serious doubts about the truth. The ruling, upholding 1964 Times standards, refines actual malice to require evidence of doubt, reversing a Thompson v St Amant verdict from Louisiana.
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Supreme Court
Washington
UPI
Louisiana
New York Times
Herman Thompson
East Baton Rouge Parish
Phil St. Amant
Thompson
Senate
St. Amant
State Supreme Court
Byron White
White
University of Colorado
France Performs First Heart Transplant in Paris
In Paris a French heart transplant was completed this weekend but doctors say the patient Clovis Roblain 66 remains at risk after a circulation failure during surgery and subsequent nerve complications. Roblain, a truck driver from central France, faced years of heart illness. The procedure marks the seventh global attempt with only one prior survivor Dr Philip Blaiberg 58 of South Africa who had his operation in January and left hospital in March.
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Paris
Clovis Roblain
France
Philip Blaiberg
Cape Town
Archbishop James Chiona Installed in Blantyre
In Blantyre Malawi Archbishop James Chiona aged 42 was installed Sunday as the city’s Roman Catholic archbishop, marking a high point in his clerical career.
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Blantyre
Malawi
James Chiona
Chuckle Special consultant headline
An odd note from the column hints at a humorous theme about a man living more than fifty miles from home. The item reads as a playful aside likely from a humor section or light feature.
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Conyriaht
Iowa Cities Need State Aid Says Gov Hughes
Gov Harold Hughes warned urban areas in Iowa are in trouble and require substantial state aid to handle growing duties. He called for a reassessment of officials' attitudes toward cities and suggested block grants may be favored, as he weighs the Iowa Municipalities League call for a broad aid program.
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Des Moines
UPI
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Hughes
Iowa League of Municipalities
Republican Party Platform Committee
Plane Crash Killed Five Athletes After Pilot Heart Attack
Beaumont Texas report says laboratory tests show the pilot suffered a heart attack and was probably dead before the aircraft struck the ground, five athletes and their coach among the victims.
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Beaumont
Texas
UPI
Justice of the Peace
British Boys Predict Soviet Manned Space Shot
Britain's schoolboy experts at Kettering Grammar School predict a Soviet manned space shot will launch on May Day to align with communist celebrations. They link Cosmos 216 as a Soyuz test and forecast a return to earth Sunday, noting its orbital path matched the Soyuz mission in which Vladimir Komarov died.
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London
Britain
Kettering Grammar School
Kettering
Earth
Vladimir Komarov
Rockefeller to announce political plans in 11 am statement
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller will reveal his political plans at 11 a.m. Tuesday, with speculation mounting that he will declare candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. He travels to Cedar Rapids Thursday and meets aides to discuss the budget and city aid, while also weighing a GOP platform.
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Nelson Rockefeller
Center
William Miller
Thruston Morton
Midwest
Miller
Morton
Rockefeller
Cedar Rapids
Albany
N.Y
Leslie Slote
Slote
Capitol
New York City
John Lindsay
G.O.P
Johnson
New York
Robert F. Kennedy
Eugene McCarthy
Indiana
Richard Nixon
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National Council of Churches
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George Esper
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