Coast Guard opens academy to women cadets
Supt Rear Adm William A Jenkins welcomed 277 cadets to the Coast Guard Academy in New London Connecticut. The class includes 38 women the first admitted since the academy’s 100 year history. Also noted are three Blacks four Spanish Americans and seven Orientals. Dorms gyms bathrooms and bunks adjusted to house women with two per room and 18 women cadets accommodated aboard The Eagle which normally houses 160 cadets.
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King
Warwick man ruled to manslaughter in wife's strangling
In an eight day non jury trial Superior Court Judge Donald Shea found Peter K. Little Sr. 49 guilty of manslaughter for strangling and disposing of his wife in a revolting killing. Alcohol abuse did not excuse the crime and a new trial request was set for July 9 with sentencing possible up to 20 years.
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Goodrich
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Mohawk Tire & Rubber
Akron
UHW
Pipeline Watch Tightens as Alaska Line Near Completion
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co reports constant testing and rapid repairs on the 800 mile Alaska pipeline. E.L. Patton says the line will be completed this year with inspections before operation. Repairs include weld discrepancies and river section replacements as construction proceeds. The other item notes a rubber workers strike affecting Firestone and other tire firms, with union talks and mediators involved.
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Alaska
Ayeska Pipeline Service Co
Alyeska
E.L. Patton
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Kay E. Eliason
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Sagavanirktok
Balloonist Karl Thomas Near Halfway in Atlantic Solo Bid
New York based flight control says balloonist Karl Thomas is about 1 200 miles east of New York and 50 miles south of Nova Scotia, halfway to his aim of solo crossing the Atlantic in Spirit of ’76. He relies on a backup radio after a transmitter failure.
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UPI
Karl Thomas
Atlantic Ocean
New York City
Abott
Nova Scotia
Walter Clayton
Clayton
Thomas
Alitalia
Rome
Lakehurst
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Germareborn
Woman quits Army over discrimination claims
Nuemberg West Germany UPI reports Warrant Officer Jennie A Vallance Jr the first woman graduate of the Army helicopter flight school resigns citing sex discrimination for being barred from combat units She says she joined in 1974 to fly but the Army denies her a combat posting despite her husband serving in a cavalry outfit and approves her transfer by orders to join his unit
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Nuemberg
West Germany
UPI
U.S. Army
Army
Jennie A. Vallance Jr
Sumpter
Gre
Aenean
Mying
Point A
Point
Con. George
Blanchard
Us. Army
Europe
Red parties open two-day summit in Berlin
Europe’s 28 Communist parties launch a two day summit to back a landmark document freeing satellite parties from Moscow and scrapping Soviet led “international proletarianism” in favor of “international cooperation” while Erich Honecker presides.
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Europe
Soviet Union
Moscow
Stadt Berlin
Erich Honecker
Communist Party
Vienna
Radin
Italy
Enrico Berlinguer
Communist World Movement
Embassy Beating Allegations Hit Uruguayan Police
Venezuelan Ambassador Julio Ramos said Uruguayan police violated the Venezuelan embassy in Montevideo by dragging and beating a woman seeking asylum and also beating embassy adviser Frank Becerra. Ramos protested to the Uruguayan Foreign Ministry with no response reported.
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Uruguay
UPI
Julio Ramos
Rames
Frank Becerra
Ramos
Heaviest atoms discovered by American assistants
LINDAU West Germany UPI two American assistants have discovered the heaviest atoms known so far. British Nobel Prize winner Paul Dirac announced at a meeting of Nobel Prize winners that R V Gentry and T A Cahill made their discoveries two months ago at Dirac's Institute in Tallahassee Fla. They have not yet named the new elements.
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West Germany
Dirar
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