Attica Deaths Raise Questions After Hostage Slayings
Funeral processions move for two guards as officials acknowledge nine hostages died from gunshot wounds after the four day prison revolt. No firearms found on inmates. death toll rises to 42. Governor Rockefeller defends armed intervention amid diplomatic deadlock. corrections officers seek Oswald's ouster while patrols tighten at Great Meadow and Clinton.
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Attica
N.Y
Russell G. Oswald
Oswald
Buffalo
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Observers’ Committee
Great Meadow
Clinton
Dannemora
Correction Department
Albany
Hollis Chase
Guards’ Union
Kunstler
Negotiator Blames Governor Rockefeller for Attica Uprising
William Kunstler says New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller is an out and out murderer for not going to Attica. He spoke at a news conference in Minneapolis en route to a student forum at Stout State University. Kunstler argues negotiations could have yielded a peaceful end and notes hostages died from gunshot wounds per autopsy, not knife slashing.
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Minneapolis, Minn
William Kunstler
Attica
N.Y
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Kunstler
St. Paul
Key
Tass
U.S
State of
Lockheed Secures $50 Million Initial Loan Under Government Credit Package
Lockheed Aircraft Corp. receives an initial $50 million loan as part of a $750 million private bank loan package guaranteed by the government to avert financial collapse. The move follows seven months of restructuring to salvage the TriStar transport program after Rolls-Royce bankruptcy.
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New York
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Lockheed
Rolls-Royce Ltd
Intercepted Letter Critiques IRS View on Teacher Raises
An intercepted letter argues the IRS will still collect most of the funds, questioning why the agency complains about teacher pay raises and implying the impact on revenue is minimal.
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Internal Revenue Service
Attica Riot Sparks European Horror and Blame
European papers react with horror at Attica's bloodshed 41 dead and condemn the U S system. Commentators blame racial tensions and weak crime policy with critics accusing Nixon and Rockefeller of murder and warning of rising anarchy.
First Women Stevedores Hired at Providence Wharf
Anna Tavares and Angelina Watkins, both 37, become the first women in stevedore work at Providence Municipal Wharf. Foreman Peter Silva cautiously supports them, promising to train them from the ground up amid hazard awareness. The report notes the two have longshoreman dads and some prior exposure to the trade.
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Providence
R.I
Anna Tavares
Angelina Watkins
Providence Municipal Wharf
Kansans Consider Statewide Voter Registration Day
Secretary of State Mrs Shanahan said her office may designate a statewide voter registration day in late April or early May in most counties. A poll of county election commissioners at a two day seminar showed broad support for the plan.
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Topeka
Kan
Elwin Shanahan
Shanahan
Governor calls welfare reforms for 1972 legislature
Gov. Robert Docking asks the Kansas Social Welfare Board to draft new procedures and reforms for presentation to the 1972 legislature. He urged rejecting political cuts in welfare funding in favor of constructive reforms in a letter to board chair William C. Graham.
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Topeka
Kan
Robert Docking
Kansas Social Welfare Board
McGovern Denies Meeting With Viet Cong at Saigon Church
Saigon officials say Senator George S. McGovern allegedly met with a Viet Cong terrorist group when his security was threatened by a rock and firebomb barrage at a Saigon church. McGovern protested to President Thieu calling the claim a personal insult and said Thieu promised to look into it after a later meeting.
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Saigon
George S. McGovern
Nguyen van Thieu
City water main pig cleans line boosts flow
A pig equipped with brushes cleaned the 16 inch river intake to the plant main. Flow rose to 2159 gallons per minute from 1750 an 18 percent gain, with more work planned including plastic scrapers and surveys. City officials and Wilson and Company discussed routing a new 15 inch line to serve Safari Industrial Park and future storage, with easement work underway.
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Ken Willey
Wilson and Company
Salina
Willey
Wilson
Kenneth Sanborn
Floyd Heath
IRS Targets Two Kansas School Boards Over Pay Increases
The IRS filed complaints against Salina and Junction City school boards accusing them of violating the Wage-Price Freeze by granting teacher pay raises. Kansas education leaders say the action could fuel a broader effort to exempt teachers from Nixon's price and wage controls. Boards were urged to comply within five days to avoid penalties.
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Topeka, Kan
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Salina
Junction City
IRS
Melvin Neely
Kansas National Education Association
Marion McGhehey
The
Kansas Association of School Boards
Neely
Kansas
Nixon
McGhehey
Unified Kansas district backs coaches amid safety demands
Cuningham Kansas Unified School District 332 votes to support Nashville-Zenda High School coaches Larry Bacon and Charles Fiegel to continue athletics conditionally until order returns. Safety concerns include curfew beer ban and police, with three players to be dismissed and a game forfeited if trouble recurs.
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Cunningham
Kan
Board of Education
Nashville-Zenda
Larry Bacon
Charles Fiegel
R.H. Turner
Turner
Fiegel
Zonda
Bacon
Zenda
Nashville - Zenda
Attica
Siegel
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