Trustees Locked in By Protesters
Protesters locked 25 trustees inside a conference room at Atlanta University Center demanding renaming of the six college complex for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and for white trustees to resign. Dr. Hugh M. Gloster of Morehouse said he would resign under duress. Harvard voted to suspend a strike after ROTC was downgraded to extracurricular status, while Stanford’s sit-in ended with the building closed for a week. Columbia’s SDS faction fizzled after failing to gain wider support.
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Atlanta University Center
Harvard
Reserve Officers Training Corp
Stanford University
Students For A Democratic Society
Columbia University
Atlanta Uni
Versity Center
Martin Luther King Jr
Hugh M. Gloster
Morehouse College
King
Morehouse
Cambridge
Mass
SDS
Harvard Corporation
Bleven-Maan
Stanford
Kenneth 8. Pitzer
Applied Electronics Laboratory
Columbia
Hamilton Hall
City
Navy redeploys to shield intelligence flights off Korea
A strong U.S. naval force including the New Jersey is steaming to new positions in the Western Pacific to protect American intelligence missions off North Korea. The redeployment, ordered by the Pentagon after Nixon ordered resumption of reconnaissance flights, aims to guard EC121 missions and keep fighters aloft for rapid rescue while avoiding wing-to-wing formations with reconnaissance planes.
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Washington
U.S
New Jersey
North Korea
Pentagor
Nixon
Long Beach
Calif
Vietnam
Western Pacific
Ers
South Korea
United States
Man Dies Possibly From First Atomic Explosion
Patrick Stout, 53, of Houston, died of leukemia possibly linked to the 1945 Trinity test exposure. A former Army master sergeant, he watched the explosion from nine miles away and later walked into the crater in New Mexico. Veterans Administration reviewed his disability claim. experts say leukemia may stem from radiation exposure. Stout had worked at the Federal Land Bank in Houston before and after his military service and rose to vice president and secretary before resigning in 1967.
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Houston
Tex
Patrick Stout
M. D.anderson Hospital
Army
Stout
New Mexico
Veterans Administration
Opportunity for All Stressed Opportunity for All Stressed
Bur Guess: The NC Department of Conservation and Development director Roy G. Sowers Jr. told Four-County Electric Membership Corp on Friday that North Carolina must forget skin color and seek ability to boost per capita income. He urged equitable opportunities so all workers have the same avenues for personal fulfillment.
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Burgaw
N.C
North Carolina
Nixon frames Pueblo shootdown as surprise attack
President Nixon contrasted the shooting down of a U S reconnaissance plane with the USS Pueblo seizure, calling the Pueblo incident a different crisis. He drew distinctions while campaigning, noting North Korea’s perceived power and promising firm action.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
Lyndon Johnson
Uss Pueblo
North Korea
Nixon cites Pueblo incident differences in diplomacy approach
President Nixon defended his handling of the Pueblo seizure and the downing of a reconnaissance plane, contrasting it with Johnson’s era. He argued the Pueblo occurred after weeks of warning and in uncertain waters, while the reconnaissance flight was clearly outside Korean air space with no advance threat. He stressed a policy of diplomacy over retaliation.
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Pueblo
Nixon
Johnson
White House
Sea of Japan
North Vietnamese Killed Americans Lose Four Tanks in Battle
American armored units killed 100 North Vietnamese in two battles near Saigon but lost at least four tanks and seven other armored vehicles. The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment fought a day-long clash 50 miles northwest of Saigon, losing four tanks and suffering 28 wounded while discovering 82 enemy corpses. A separate nighttime ambush near the demilitarized zone involved three armored personnel carriers destroyed and a heavy sapper assault on tanks and APCs.
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Saigon
11Th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Demilitarized Zone
Armored
Charlie
Col
Jimmie Leach
Hampton
N.C
1Th Regiment
Tay Ninh
Sheridan
Husak Makes Concessions Amid Prague Power Shift
In Prague Czechoslovakia new Communist party chief Gustav Husak reportedly sought liberal backing by modest concessions to Dubcek supporters and reformers. Informants say he won most votes on the Central Committee, while pledging to curb anti Soviet and anti Communist elements and not to justify the Soviet invasion.
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Alexander Dubrek
Husak
Dubcek
Czechoslovakia
CTK
Central Committee
Soldier freed after year in Vietnam captivity in Tay Ninh
Spec. 5 Thomas H. Van Patten, 21, of Caledonia Michigan, listed missing Feb 10 1968, was found in Tay Ninh province 18 days after escaping VC captivity. He weighed 121 pounds, suffered malnutrition, and regaled reporters with a chopper reunion tale before the U S Command planned his flight home to reunite with his parents.
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Saigon
Tay Ninh
U.S
Thomas H. van Patten
Caledonia
Mich
van Putten
79Th Engineer Group
South Vietnam
17Th Cavalry
Loh
van Pulten
United States
Harry M. van Putten
Caledonia, Mich
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DR. Gloster
Nelson Taylor
Gov't Assn
THE
Associated Press
U.S. Navy
Pacific
Tually
Defense Department
Kitty Hawk
Hong Kong
Federal Land Bank
Land Bank
Equiretion
John Bronson
Rochelle, Ga
5Th Division
Robert Ohman
Cam Lo
9Th Regiment Marines
5Th Mechanized Infantry Division
Putten
U.S. Army Hospital
Long Binh
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