Induction Building To Be Sold In Lower Manhattan
The eight story Whitehall Street Induction Center in lower Manhattan is up for sale by the government with a minimum price of 547500. The center, a Vietnam era recruit hub and antiwar protest focal point, faced bomb blasts on March 30 1968 and October 8 1969 and hosted hundreds of arrests during a December 1967 week of demonstrations.
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New York
Whitehall Street
Jower
Manhattan
General Services Administration
African Leaders Seek Solutions to Riots in South Africa
Moderate black tribal leaders from seven homelands met in Johannesburg seeking talks with Prime Minister Vorster to address grievances fueling riots. They rejected apartheid, called for release of detained nationalists, and criticized the US inspired black power view as a cause of unrest. Disturbances spread with 252 deaths reported, mostly blacks.
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Ray Kennedy
Prss
Johannesburg
South Africa
John Vorster
United Sates
Cape Town
Port Elizabeth
Alice
Swazi
Wake Forest Donations Climb Over Twenty Percent
Wake Forest University reports Renalda campus donations for 1975-76 totaling 5,404,345, a 20 percent rise from the prior year. Foundations contributed 2,296,966 while corporations gave 1,123,709 and alumni 803,594. Other major sources included the Baptist State Convention 675,571 individuals non alumni 490,294 and 514,506 from other sources. Renalda campus excludes the Bowman Gray School of Medicine.
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Winston-Salem
Wake Forest University
Renalda
Dergraduate College
Reynolda
The
Baptist State Convention
Bowman Gray School of Medicine
Eight Die As German Bus Plunges Into Danube
In VISININA Austria an eight passenger bus fell off a cliff into the Danube near Melk after a brush with a small car driven by an 84 year old pensioner. Forty three were seriously injured and two attendants in an ambulance were hurt when it overturned. The bus driver blames speed and the car’s sudden turn.
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Visinina
Austria
Danube
Wachau
Melk
Vienna
Democrats Kick Off Today in Los Angeles Drive
The Democratic National Committee launches a nationwide voter registration drive in Los Angeles aiming to add 1.8 million new voters by the November election. Rep. Andrew Young leads the effort joined by a 15 member task force cochaired by Sen. Wendell Ford and Rep. Yvonne Burke. Joseph Aragon directs the campaign focusing on door to door contact, posters, flyers, and public service announcements targeting black and Spanish speaking communities.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
Los Angeles
Andrew Young
D-Ga
Jimmy Carter
Joseph W. Aragon
California
DNC
Wendell Ford
Kentucky
Yvonne Burke
Bodies Returned To U S After Korean War Deaths
Two American Army officers Maj Arthur Bonifas and Lt Mark Barrett were killed near Panmunjom. Their flag draped caskets arrived at Travis AFB California with a 26 man honor guard. Bonifas goes to New York, Barrett to Columbia. A funeral for Bonifas is planned at West Point Tuesday.
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Travis Afb
Calif
Edward Flanagan
6Th Army
Secretary of the Army
Erroll Loving
Travis
Arthur Bonifas
Newburgh
N.Y
Mark T. Barrett
Columbia
8.C
U.S. Army Mortuary
Oakland
Bonifas
New York
Barrett
UNC
North Korea
Hearnes Receives Nomination for U S Senate
Missouri Democratic Committee filled the vacancy after Rep. Jerry Litton died in a plane crash on election night. Former Gov. Warren Hearnes was nominated for the U S Senate by a 38 22 vote to face Republican John C. Danforth in November.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Democratic Committee
Warren £. Hearnes
U.S. Senate
Jerry Litton
Litton
Sharon
Scott
Linda
Paul Rupp Jr
Rupp
Paul Rupp II
Chillicothe
Kansas City
Hearnes
Atty
John C. Danforth
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