Harris to Lead Democrats as National Chair in 1969
Washington AP Fred Harris, 38, elected Democratic national chairman to steer party finances and strategy. He must reconcile party factions, rebuild solvency amid a $9 million deficit, and balance duties with his Senate seat while facing 1970 elections and ongoing reform calls. Funeral notices for Mrs. Lillian Vanderhoof included in same dispatch.
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Fred Harris
U. S
White House
Oklahoma
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National Committee
Lawrence F. O’brien
Hubert H. Humphrey
Harris
O'Brien
Humphrey
Chicago
Richard Daley
Eugene J. McCarthy
Republican Party
Congress
Russians Orbit Soyuz 5 Launch Marks Space Mission Progress
The Soyuz 5 mission lifted at 2 39 a m amid foggy conditions with Boris Yegorov among ground observers. The craft entered a 143 by 195 mile orbit at 51.4 degrees, echoing Shatalov’s Soyuz 4 trajectory, as television coverage noted the launch and capsule activities. Bad weather forced reporters to turn back from the Kulu inaugural flight.
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Ong Jaz 4
Moscow Television
Boris Yegorov
Shatalov
New Delhi
Kulu
Ads Invite Hippies to Come Back to Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania officials run provocative ads in Time and top college papers asking hippies to move to the state. The campaign by the Department of Commerce and the Governor's Committee of 100,000 Pennsylvanians features a hippie girl on paint and promotes a “Jobin” theme promising a groovy state with opportunity and a turned on scene.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Department of Commerce
Governor’s Committee
Defense urges diminished responsibility in Sirhan trial
Defense counsel frames the case as murder with possible death penalty looming and argues diminished responsibility could downgrade charges to manslaughter if proven. Prosecutors seek a diary they say links Sirhan to the assassination plot as the trial continues into spring.
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Grant Cooper
Sirhan
California
New York
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