Racial and Military Issues Roil Ivy League Campuses
The Associated Press reports protests spread to about a dozen campuses as SDS students push for ROTC bans and changes to university policy. Yale Harvard Princeton Columbia Cornell and others face sit-ins and clashes as faculty vote to end disruptions while some campuses move toward resuming classes.
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Robert D. Miller
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Columbia University
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Collumbia
Columbia
Princeton
Ivy League
Southern University
New Orleans
Mount St. Mary’s College
Emmitsburg
Irish Police Barracks Are Stoned
Belfast clashes see rioters stone two police barracks and hurl flaming gasoline bombs as British troops guard key installations. About 100 in the crowd. no casualties reported. London reports Home Secretary Callaghan saying troops won’t be used to quell street unrest. Catholic demonstrators clash with police in Londonderry amid civil rights concerns.
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London
James Callaghan
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New Hope Dam Project Delayed by Budget Cut
Washington AP reports President Nixon's budget cut delays the New Hope Dam and reservoir project in Harnett County North Carolina by at least a year. The next fiscal year funding drops from 6.9 million to 2.5 million, delaying completion from mid 1972 to mid 1973 or later. Senator Jordan and Representative Galifianakis vow to push to restore funds, citing local land losses and rising costs.
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Lyndon Johnson
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Galifianakis
House
Army
Mississippi Flood Crest Pushes South
The Mississippi flood crest pushed southward heightening danger to Iowa Citys towns while waters receded in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Evacuees awaited the water to drain as towns fortified dikes and residents moved to safety. St Louis anticipated a crest around 32 feet near midweek with downstream damage seen along the river.
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la Crosse
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Warren Loveland
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Marquette
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Len
U.S. Army Corps
Freed Man Arrested In Fatal Accident
Roger Dedmond, previously convicted and released in a wife slaying, was arrested in Spartanburg on a charge of allowing an unlicensed son to drive. The fatal collision killed nine year old Janice Karen Bell. her sister Cynthia 14 drove the car. Dedmond, from Charlotte, was convicted in 1967 of a murder with another man later confessing.
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8.C
Roger Dedmond
Janice Karen Bell
Cynthia
Dedimond
Charlotte
Site For Tent City Is Denied
In RaleighMilton Fitch of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference reports that Moore Square was denied as a campsite for a two week march across North Carolina. The protest seeks abolition of capital punishment tied to the case of Marie Hill a 17 year old black girl sentenced to the gas chamber. The group will stay in a church basement while seeking a permit to pitch tents and continue demonstrations until the legislature meets their demands.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Reet Bes
Asheville
Frank Turner
Moore Square
State Capitol
Turner
Raleigh
Fitch
Marie Hill
Rocky Mount
Marines Kill 50 Viet Cong Ambush Across River
U S Marines reported ambushing a Viet Cong crossing the Vu Gla River in sampans 18 miles west of Da Nang. The clash left about 50 enemy dead after heavy small arms, mortars, and artillery rained on the boats while a Huey gunship fired 6000 rounds a minute. One leatherneck was wounded.
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