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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1971
Page
3
Demonstrators from the Progressive Labor Party and related groups tried to force entry to the Board of Supervisors chamber in San Francisco. Seven people were injured and seven arrested, four on assaulting an officer, as police with clubs and Mace cleared the crowd from the building.
San Francisco Chronicle reports Roger Heyns, former Berkeley chancellor, will become president of the American Council on Education. Cosand says Heyns will head Washington offices for a $30,000 annual post, after resigning IC. The council includes over a thousand college members and 76 affiliates.
John Wairfay and Sylvia Cook push about 30 miles daily in a rowing boat toward Sydney Australia eight months after departure from San Francisco on April 26. They travel with radio contact via van Sharpe reporting they are nearly 900 miles southwest of San Francisco with light winds and no major problems. Fairfax, 33, previously crossed the Atlantic solo and joined this voyage with his female crewmate to help row and cook.
The Chinese embassy in Ottawa is taking applications for travel visas to mainland China. Canadian Pacific Airlines announced Monday that American citizens and permanent residents may apply for visas for business and pleasure trips.
Five peace and religious groups announce a ten day protest at the Oakland Coliseum during Billy Graham’s crusade. Activists from the American Friends Service Committee and others say leaflets will be handed out in stadium parking lots to urge the evangelist to oppose the war in Indochina. Graham was unavailable for comment.
A federal court suit in Seattle seeks a temporary injunction to postpone a $2.3 million civil case against San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto former Washington Attorney General John J. O Connell and Seattle attorney George Faler. The action claims civil rights violations and aims to push the civil trial to January when the defendants face related criminal charges. The current civil trial date is Aug. 16 for the antitrust fee case, where Alioto is accused of sharing $2.3 million with OConnell and Faler.
The body of Barbara T. Shipp, manager of computer training for Hansywell Corp., was found outside her suburban Marin County home. Police say she was killed by two head shots last Tuesday. a maid found the body next morning. Investigators seek her estranged husband Edwin Evan Shipe for questioning.
Redwood City UPI reports Superior Court jurors found Stockton attorney John Barkett guilty on three of five bribery counts. Two counts were dismissed. He bribed AVCO Thrift Co officials to win loans for clients and paid Judge Maxwell Willens $200 and cash gifts to obtain leniency for clients. Barkett faced 43 days of trial, part of a $1.4 million Stockton securities scandal.
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