Fall Is The Deadline For Total Integration
The Nixon administration set a fall deadline for desegregating the last all black South schools. HEW Secretary Elliot L. Richardson cited April 20 Supreme Court rulings on cross town busing and racial ratios, aiming to mix races with local initiative and advisory councils in seven states. The plan addresses 25 pending suits across Florida Georgia Alabama Mississippi Louisiana and Texas and reflects a shift from neighborhood schools to faster desegregation guided by the court.
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South
Supreme Court
Mars Mission Race to Mars With Mariner 9 Launch Tonight
NASA launches Mariner 9 toward Mars with a 6 21 to 7 25 p m EDT window aboard an Atlas Centaur rocket. Russian Mars 2 and Mars 3 follow, each over 10 000 pounds, aiming to study Mars and nearby space as teams coordinate for maximum science.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
United States
Mars
Red Planet
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Russia
Earth
U.S
NASA
Ex-NYPD man foiled in Nassau hijack attempt
An ex police officer James Bennett 39 of Comack New York who claimed explosives tried to hijack an Eastern Airlines jet from Miami to LaGuardia in Nassau. He ordered landing and held three hostages and $500000. He was overpowered by pilot John O Neill and subdued along with Customs and Nassau police. He was taken to a Nassau jail as officials sort jurisdiction.
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Nassau, Bahamas
New York City
James Bennett
Commack
N.Y
EAL
John O'Neill
O’neill
U.S
Nassau
Bennett
U.S. State Department
Eugene Sullivan
New York
la Guardia
Miami
Joseph Collins
Sullivan
Lorraine
Qantas
Australia
Hong Kong
Anchorage
Alaska
Western
Seattle
Peace Corps Expelled Boliva: First Volunteers Arrive in Peru
Nine Peace Corps volunteers expelled from Bolivia arrived in Lima Peru and said leftist extremists campaigned against the program. Bolivian government ended the 1962 aid agreement amid accusations of spying and immoral programs, which officials deny. The volunteers expressed little bitterness about their expulsion.
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Lima
Peru
U.S
Peace Corps
Bolivia
la Paz
Central Intelligence Agency
Susan Shank
Goshen
Ind
George Curfmann
Denver
Colo
Eric Cunningham
Carrollton, Ill
Inside Amusements and Editorials and Obituaries
The page highlights amusements and editorials with obituary notices and sports briefs. Teases television listings and weather outlook accompany general community columns.
Writer Regrets Doomsday Flight Plot Links to Airline Extortion
Hollywood writer Rod Serling says the Doomsday Flight script likely spurred at least three extortion plots against airlines. Threats targeted Western, Qantas and National Airlines demanding cash with bombs promised on board. Disputed whether the threats were connected to the TV drama and whether anyone was harmed.
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Hollywood (Ap
Rod Serling
Western
Qantas
National Airlines
John Wayne
Serling
Four Ways and Means members say welfare bill too low
Four members of the House Ways and Means Committee criticize the benefit level and the work requirements for mothers of preschool children as too stringent in the new welfare bill. A fifth member opposes the welfare section outright.
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Edmund Lebreton
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
House
Ways and Means Committee
Yuba City Murder Case Uncovers 21 Bodies at Suspect's Home
Investigators unearthed 21 victims tied to Juan V. Corona, a farm labor contractor, at his Yuba City residence near the Feather River. A wooden club, machete, and other weapons with possible bloodstains were seized, while Corona, 37, had been previously treated for schizophrenia. Authorities plan arraignment on Wednesday as evidence is reviewed.
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Yuba City
Calif
Roy D. Whiteaker
Juan V. Corona
Whiteaker
Feather River
Corona
del Pero Bros. Meat Co
del Pero
Trustees Rally Against UNC Shakeup Plan Amid Regents Fight
UNC trustees voted unanimously to oppose Gov. Scott’s plan for a single 47 member state regents board. They urged support for strengthening the existing Board of Higher Education and preserving the six campus UNC system. The resolution directs a committee to promote the board’s views and oppose dissolution of the Consolidated University. The General Assembly received the Warren Commission report and a regents bill was introduced.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Bob Scott
UNC
Scott
State Board of Regents
Nee
Victor Bryant
Durham
General Assembly
Bryant
William Dees
Goldsboro
Jacob K. Froelich Jr
Froelich
Warren Commission
Board of Regents
Consolidated University of North Carolina
Perry Martin
D-Northampton
House Committee On Higher Education
POW Families Demand End To War Over Viet Nam Detentions
Families of missing or captured U S servicemen urge halt to the Vietnam War. They criticize political use of POWs by all sides, oppose a residual force, and demand a withdrawal within 150 days with prisoner release tied to that date. They warn two more years could kill many prisoners.
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Washington
U.S
Indochina
Harold Kishner
Danville
Vietnam
Louis F. Jones
Fairfax County
Nixon
South Vietnam
Grou
United States
The
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Howard Benedict
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Charles A. Vanik
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