Virginia Boys State Opens With Revised Legion Project
Williamsburg AP Virginia Boys State opens today with major changes to the 29th American Legion project. The camp on the William and Mary campus will be more relaxed and less military, with speakers chosen for relevance over doctrine. Delegates will walk in groups, have no mandatory reveille, and wear identification shirts instead of uniforms, while the basic purpose to study local and state government remains intact.
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Williamsburg
Virginia
Boys State
American Legion Project
William and O Mary
Legion
Well Regu
Ginia
Glenn “Tiger
Elli
Ohio State
Phi Beta Kappa Ana Avene A . Hall
William Jennings Bryan Dorn
D-S.c
W.M. Geddy Jr
David R. Minton
Petersburg
War updates from Vietnam and neighboring fronts continue
American and South Vietnamese bases faced rocket and mortar attacks as shelling pressed allied positions near the DMZ. Maj. Gardner reported 11 Americans wounded across three rocket strikes while South Vietnamese casualties remained light. Cambodian forces also attacked near Phnom Penh, uncovering bodies and arms after helicopter-touched bombing.
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da Nang
U.S
Camp Sarge
Khe Sanh
Camp Carroll
Saigon
Phu Loi
Richard Gardner
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Central Highlands
Northa
A Shau
Cambodia
Vihear Sour
Phnom Penh
Mekong River
Nixon Opens Arkansas Navigation System Dedication
President Nixon hailed economic growth and river improvements as the Arkansas system aims to reduce pollution and boost regional assets. He noted the river’s beauty since early exploration and called for action to set a national example, while crowds eyed antiwar posters from My Lai. The event marked the McClellan Kerr Arkansas Navigation System with Oklahoma and Arkansas leaders present as Tricia Nixon’s wedding loomed.
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Arkansas
United States
My Lai
Vietnam
Tulsa
Don Dallmann
Prince of Peare Lutheran Church
Oklahoma
Air Force One
Spiro T. Agnew
Henry A. Kissinger
Nixon
Washington
Congress
Robert S. Kerr
John McClellan
D-Ark
McClellan
House
Carl Albert
Dokla
Robert 8. Kerr Jr
David Hall
Dale Bumpers
Middle East violence and funeral day tensions rise in Jerusalem
Guerrilla units said to have infiltrated Jordan into Israeli held territory killed four Israeli soldiers, a claim Israel dismissed as imagination. In East Jerusalem, Palestine mourns and calls for organized action differ from past protests. Grenades injure and kill in Gaza as three murders and multiple incidents raise wartime tensions.
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Paye Qne
Jordan
Beirut
Lebanon
Friay
Tel Aviv
Jericho
East
Jerusalm
al: Moslem
East Jerusalem
el Quds
Jordanian West Bank
Anwar Nuseibeh
Arab Unity
Gaza Strip
Eit Lahiya
Jabiliya
Ara
Strip
Gaza
Russia
Court orders single member districts in Langs County reapportionment
Civil rights groups argued that a at large district plan deprived black neighborhoods of electing Negro representatives. The Supreme Court sustained the challenge delaying candidate qualification and ordered Langs County to draft a single member plan including Jackson. While other states wrestle with reapportionment the ruling signals a shift toward single member districts across several legislatures and counties.
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Supreme Court
Land
Langs County
Jackson
South Carolina General ‘Assembly
Mississippi
South Carolina
Senate
Florida
Tennessee
North Carolina General Assembly
House
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
General Assembly
Virginia
House of Delegates
Virginia Assembly
Justice Department
Jefferson County
Birmingham
Mobile
Montgomery
Planes cancel last year due to state schedule rules
Planes were scheduled last year but cancelled when promo ters could not meet state requirements on schedule. Most air races in the past have been held in Reno Nevada. Clay Lacy of Van Nuys California president of the Professional Race Pilots Association said such races are safe as long as planes watch one another. He noted the main danger is slip stream. Many race planes are pilots own and refurbished surplus World War II aircraft are easy and cheap to obtain.
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Reno
Nev
Clay Lacy
van Nuys
Cal
Professional Race Pilots Association
Racjers
Two Former Panther Defendants Tied to Police Shooting
New York AP Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy said two former defendants in the Black Panther 13 bomb conspiracy trial are linked to a May 19 patrolmen shooting. Richard Moore, 25, and Edward Josephs, 18, were arrested with two others at a Bronx social club where one man carried a submachine gun. The group also had two shotguns and a rifle.
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New York
Patrick V. Murrphy
Richard Moore
Edward Josephs
Bronx
North Carolina Traffic Toll Rises With Seven Deaths
The Associated Press reports seven traffic fatalities in North Carolina by Saturday night, totaling 688 for the year. Victims include James D. Herring of Wilmington on NC 76, two Morganton men Dennis Lee Queen and George Sisk, Joe Ray Oliver and Sial Ross near Hillsborough, and Joe Arnold Montoya Jr. near Yachville. Additional notes cover bail-jumping cases and a separate police shooting linked to the Panther case, with statements from Murphy and Mayor Wu on the investigation.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
James D. Herring
Wilmington
N.C
Highway Patrol
Morganton
Dennis Lee Queen
George ‘Randy Sisk
Orange County
Hillsborough
Joe Ray Oliver
Rt. 2
Mebane
Sial Ross
San Clemente
Calif
Joe Arnold Montoya Jr
U.S. 421
Yachinville
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Murphy
New York City
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Thomas P. Curry
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District Attorney's Office
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