Chicago Riot Report Finds No Conspiracy
Chicago Mayor Daley's committee says there was no conspiracy behind the April riots that left nine dead and many blocks burned. The 165 page study notes growing Negro anger toward the system and calls out racist attitudes among youths while praising police overall except for a few incidents. A minority member questioned the report, arguing whites cannot be held responsible for the lawless acts.
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Chicago
UPI
Richard Daley
Chicago Riot Study Committee
Daley
Richard Austin
Martin Luther King
West
Madison Street
State’s Attorney’s Office
Commission
Charles Siragusa
Illinois Crime Investigating Commission
Siragusa
Church Housing Projects Require Firm Control
Rev. Richard L. Fullerton, housing project consultant, argues churches must retain control of nonprofit retiree housing ventures. He cites competitive bidding and strong sponsor oversight to keep costs down, noting nine Florida projects and a Nashville unit built under his method. He opposes a federal housing law he views as favoring developers.
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New York
Richard L. Fullerton
Fullerton
Atlanta
Orlando
Fla
Church of the Nazarene
Florida
Episcopal Churches
Miami Beach
Trevecca Towers
Trevecca Nazarene College
Nashville
Lansing
Mich
General Motors Technical Institute
Nazarene Theological Seminary
Kansas City
British Proposal Would Outlaw Germ Warfare
In Geneva Britain proposes a world treaty to ban bacteriological weapons. Minister Fred Mulley tells a 17 nation disarmament conference the pact would treat germ warfare as a crime against humanity and require nations to renounce such methods in all circumstances.
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Geneva
UPI
Britain
Fred Mulley
Mulley
Czechoslovakia Sees Freedom of Press Stabilize
Prague reports that Czechoslovakia's press freedom has settled toward Western norms with restraint and a focus on national interest. The Bratislava meeting with Warsaw signers affirmed no renewed censorship while party leaders claim a free press can coexist with communism.
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Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
Poland
East Germany
Bulgaria
Hungary
Pro
Paganda
Bratislava
Warsaw
Mlada Fronta
Prague
Antonin Novotny
Editors push reforms as censorship ends in Czechoslovakia
OUT OUR WAY notes leaders push back against Novotny and conservative allies while censorship ends. A 35 page secret list will be folded into a new press law with libel provisions debated by parliament. Editors, many from the communist front, face party guidance on topics and coverage.
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Communist Party
National Front
Forgotten Kodak of War The Annang Refugees Starve in Biafra
An AP report describes the Annang people, a Nigerian minority, wandering and dying of hunger along roads near Ikot Ekpene and Uyo as relief efforts lag. Villages charge burial fees, corpses litter routes, and tensions rise with Ibo neighbors amid a wider refugee crisis in secessionist Biafra.
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Ikot Ekpene
Uyo
Abak
Wartorn Biafra
Calabar
Timothy Udondek
Nigerian Red Cross
World Council of Churches
H. J. Middlekoop
Biafra
Sex Banned in Employment Ads Don’t Discriminate by Sex
Washington report notes new Civil Rights Act provisions limiting help wanted ads to one sex. After December 1 ads must target either sex only when the job can be performed by that sex. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sets the effective date.
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Washington
UPI
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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Association of Military Writers
Jiri Kanturek
By Neg Cochran
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Lagos
Nigeria
Republic of
Clyde Pearson
America
Thomasville
Conover
North Hickory
France
Italy
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