Virginia Democrats Urged to End Internal Divisions
Fairfax AP report cites Del Guy Farley Jr warning Virginia Democrats to end bitter splits or risk defeat at polls. At Jefferson Jackson Day dinner, Farley urged unity as two Democrats lost to Republicans in a special election for sheriff and state senate seat. Andrew Miller proposed a state attorney general unit to handle federal program inquiries and closer local federation. Hicks pressed salary supplements for officers, tuition free training, a state crime lab, and a statewide criminal information computer system to speed suspect data and crime prevention.
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Fairfax
del. Guy
Farley Jr
Democratic Party of Virginia
Farley
Hicks
Senate
Charles Fenwick
Abingdon
Andrew P. Miller
Miller
C. F
Flip’ Hicks
Gloucester
Woman Wills Government Some $30,000
Hulda Kalkbrenner of New Hampton Iowa died last week at 81. Her executors report she willed about 30000 dollars to the federal government to use as it pleases. The bequest accounts for the bulk of her estate and honors the government that cared for her.
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New Hampton
Iowa
Hulda Kalkbrenner
France Referendum Highlights Potential End of De Gaulle Era
Global vote turnout exceeds 29 million as polls open at 8 a.m. and close by 8 p.m. In Paris clashes erupt over posters and a man with a shotgun is detained. The referendum proposals seek regionalization, Senate advisory power, and presidential succession changes. Separate scenes report a Hillsborough NC protest parade and historic home pilgrimage registrations.
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Paris
Clichy
Red Belt
Narbonne
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Senate
Corsica
Clarence Singletary
Hillsborough
N. C
Prisoner Mail and Trade Talks in Paris
The United States reports over 100 letters from prisoners to families arriving in 1968 as Paris peace talks proceed. Hanoi tightens prisoner information while Washington shifts tactics. more than 1,300 U.S. service members are missing or captured, with about 400 known in North Vietnamese prisons. The allies hold 25,000 prisoners, including 5,000 North Vietnamese, and direct prisoner trades are avoided due to Hanoi sensitivities.
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Paris
State Department
United States
Hanoi
W. Averell Harriman
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Pentagon
South Vietnam
Marchers voice support for strike amid racial discrimination claims
Civil rights leaders backing the strike say most protesters are Negro women facing race prejudice. When marchers halted before Guardsmen and highway patrol, Conroy urged them to stop. The demonstrators sat on the sidewalk and began chanting civil rights slogans.
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Conroy
Vietnam siege update reports heavy rush and wire breach
About 500 Vietnamese troops moved in rushing attacks. Maj. Herbert L. Ray and artillery observers monitored for an hour from the tower. Helicopter gunships and a C47 Dragon aircraft supported. Ray reported 12 enemies at the wire breach, a Bangalore torpedo ripped through barbed wire, and nine attackers were neutralized inside or at the edge.
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Herbert, L. Ray
Dillon Mont
Ray
Pulliam
Nixon crowns Tricia during Norfolk coronation day
President Nixon attended a Norfolk coronation event placing the crown on Tricia Nixon three times to please photographers. He sat with Linwood Holton and voiced pride in Norfolk as the Navy capital, noting rivalries with San Diego.
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Tricia
Nixon
Linwood Holton
Roan Lake
Virginia
Mills BE
Godwin Jr
Norfolk
Roy B. Martin Jr
San Diego
Navy
Storm traps 400 pupils at district music festival
Nearly 400 high school pupils attending a district music festival in Lusk were forced to stay overnight as a storm swept through Campbell County Wyoming. Schools statewide closed, rural students sent home in midmorning. Black Hills highways blocked by heavy snow in South Dakota. winds around 70 mph caused roof damage at Sturgis Airport hangar. motorists urged to avoid Deadwood Lead roads as snow depths rose.
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Lusk
Campbell County
Wyo
Black Hills
South Dakota
Sturgis
Nigerian commander asserts Owerri crossroads held by federation
The piece reports Katsina denying access to newsmen at Owerri front and stating that the Owerri crossroads remained firmly in federal hands. It notes Kalu and Adekunie confirming sizable Nigerian casualties and the town's capture amid ongoing fighting.
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Katsina
Owerri
Feder- Kalu
Morc Jals
Lagos
Hassan Usmman Katsina
Benjami A. Adekunie
Mansfield Backs Suspension of Job Corps Cuts
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield expressed support for a Cranston resolution urging Nixon to suspend Job Corps cutbacks pending congressional review. The measure, cosponsored by 22 Democrats, seeks public pressure and a full Senate debate as 53 centers face July 1 closure amid administration plans to eliminate 1,500 troops.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Edward W. Brooke
Massachusetts
Cranston
Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wise
Labor Committee
Mansfield
Congress
Nixon
George P. Shultz
Shultz
Nelsson
Hampton Institute students push for curriculum review and higher pay
The instructional committee, with department heads and senior students, will review courses and seek changes. Faculty pay should extend beyond lower levels with a 3 percent yearly rise to the top. A spokesman cited a sliding scale from 8000 to 17000 dollars, excluding chairmen. Uncertainty remains on reopening timing, but tentative plans point to Tuesday or Wednesday. Holland reported partial agreement and optimism for an early restart as 2600 students press for education upgrading after rejecting the board's earlier offer.
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Hampton Institute
Holland
Democrats Once Could Rally White House to Keep Factions In Line
A Democratic spokesman recalled the Kennedy and Johnson era Coalition of domestic programs with solid majorities. He said the party could curb wavering members from the White House, contrasting that power with current times under President Nixon.
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John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
White House
Nixon
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