Arkansas Gubernatorial Campaign Rallies Spotlight Rockefeller Faubus
Campaign events in West Memphis and Forrest City feature Democratic and Republican hopefuls sparring over Faubus Rockefeller ties and the money machine concern. Candidates hammer rollbacks on welfare and state jobs, accuse mismanagement, and pledge reforms to the Revenue Department and license tag slogan.
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Associated Press
West Memphis
Forrest City
Winthrop Rockefeller
Orval B. Faubus
Check
Rockefeller
Cheek
Jim Johnson
Bill Wells
Hermitage
Wells
Arkansas
James MacKrell
North Little Rock
Lester Gibbs
Dale Bumpers
Charleston
Bob Compton
el Dorado
Atty
Joe Purcell
State Revenue Department
Purcell
Land of Opportunity
70 Arrested at Connecticut Rock Festival
State police arrested at least 17 people as crowds dispersed from the Powder Rage rock festival in Middlefield Connecticut. A few hundred youths remained at the site as the legal showdown and police actions continued through the event.
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Charney Associated Press
Middlefield, Conn
Weather Station Brief for Arkansas Thundershowers Forecast
Weather report for 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Sunday and Monday notes highs of 97 and 97 with lows of 72 and 73. Forecasts isolate after noon and evening thunderstorms, increasing Tuesday with partly cloudy hot humid conditions. Highs Tuesday range 94 to 104. nights mostly in the 70s.
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Arkansas
Campus unrest fears fuel White House clash
Former White House adviser James Cheek says the administration misreads student fears of repression while Attorney General John N. Mitchell calls the issue largely talk. He proposes campus visits this fall to foster dialogue. Senator Byrd blasts government campus unrest studies as biased toward troublemakers amid tense nationwide debate.
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White House
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Atty
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Mitchell
Justice Department
Cheek
Howard University
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ABC
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
Senate
Byrd
Nixon
Vanderbilt
Alexander Heard
Kennedy Kicked Upstairs as Kennedy Chooses Johnson in 1960
Former aide Kenneth O'Donnell discusses Kennedy selecting Lyndon B. Johnson overMike Mansfield for the 1960 vice presidency to avoid leading a small Senate majority. He also covers Kennedy's Vietnam doubts, with MacArthur and de Gaulle warning of a nonnuclear approach and plans for withdrawal after 1964. Johnson's views on Humphrey and RFK's 1964 bid are noted.
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Kenneth O'Donnell
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Senate
O'Donnell
Kennedy
Sen
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Life Magazine
America
Vietnam
Douglas MacArthur
Mansfield
Washington Post
United States
Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon
Charles de Gaulle
MacArthur
Southeast Asia
South Vietnam
U.S
Diem
Saigon
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Robert Kennedy
Nixon aims to rally support for anti crime bills in Denver
President Nixon meets Colorado officials in Denver to press Congress on pending anti crime measures. About 200 LEAA grant managers attend as Nixon seeks backing for 13 proposed laws while Mitchell and Mrs. Nixon visit local welfare sites.
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Calif
Nixon
Denver
Congress
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White House
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Territorial
District of Columbia
Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Mitchell
LEAA
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Gordon Allott
William McNichols
California
C.G
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Key Biscayne
Fla
Robert Abpianalo
Bronxville
N.Y
Yorba Linda
Whittier
Reds Show Interest No Arms Action
Washington reports the Soviet Union shows serious interest in the U.S. SALT proposal to limit strategic missiles but has not committed to key features. Talks in Vienna last week aim to curb the arms race with plans to limit long range missiles and ABM deployment, while fall negotiations in Helsinki loom.
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Lewis Gulick
Associated Press
Washington
United States
Vienna
U.S
Helsinki
Gerard C. Smith
Senate
Administration
Four Arkansas prisoners escape jail then recaptured the same day
Four Washington County Jail inmates escaped early Sunday using a homemade key. Within hours David Honen and Robert Grubbs were found near Fayetteville, while Thomas Bullock and Robert Phillips were located at Beaver Fork Lake near Conway. All four were back in custody Sunday night. Bullock and Phillips rode in a stolen car. Honen, Grubbs face multiple charges.
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Ark
Washington County
David M. Honen
van Buren
Robert Lee Grubbs
Lincoln
Prairie Grove
Thomas Jerome Bullock
Springdale
Robert L. Phillips
Odessa
Tex
Beaver Fork Lake
Conway
John Purcell
Bill Long
Purcell
Herschel Henderson
Jee Hogan
Faulkner County
Bullock
Phillips
Long
Honea
Grubbs
Guernsey Baptist revival announced with schedule
The Guernsey Baptist Church will hold revival services from August 9 to August 16, led by evangelist Rev Donald Jones and singing by Rev Wesley Jones. Services are Sundays at 11 a.m. and weekdays at 7 30 p.m. Funeral notices recount the deaths of Jessie Parker Freeman Fletcher 80 of Rt 1 Washington Lucius B Huckabee 93 of Hope and John Poe Hatley 72 of Hope with services and burials detailed.
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Jessie Parker Freeman Fletcher
Benjamin Franklin Parker
Mary Jane Harrison Parker
Oran
St. Paul
Lucius B. Huckabee
Herndon Chapel
Charles Jones
Huckabee
Jack
Clyde
Virgil Huckabee
Hope
Irvin Huckabee
Houston
Texas
Kelsie Putman
Spring Hill
Marsh Huckabee
John Poe Hatley
First Presbyterian Church
James E. Sewell
Memory Gardens
Herndon
Opal
E.P. Young, Jr
Lenora H. Reaves
Malvern
William T. Halley
Little Rock
Little Rock; One Sister Mrs. Worth Harton
North Little Rock
New Courses Quiet Campuses Expand Student Voice
Nationwide colleges adopt courses shaped by student input with programs spanning philosophy on morality and violence, a UNC community service option offering up to 1000 dollars, and environmental and ethnic studies. Schools like Hawaii, Cornell, MIT, UNC, and URI broaden majors through student-led course selection and new living-learning environments.
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William J. Waugh
Washington
National Association of State Universities and
University of Hawaii
Cornell University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
University of Rhode Island
University of Arizona
University of Iowa
Clemson University
Washington State University
University of California At Davis
Malone to Open Campaign HQ with 300-Car Caravan
Arkansas candidate Jim Malone Jr. will formally open his campaign headquarters in North Little Rock tonight with a 300-car caravan forming at Lonoke for a 20 mile parade. In Pocahontas, 16 year old Steve Williford drowned Sunday afternoon in the Black River. his body was recovered about an hour later.
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North Little Rock
Jim Malone Jr
Lonoke
Malone
Pocahontas, Ark
Steve Williford
Ted Williford
Pocahontas
Black River
U S Air Strikes Support Cambodian Troops Southwest of Phnom Penh
U S war planes flew combat missions aiding Cambodian forces southwest of Phnom Penh as clashes erupted in Kompong Thoi north of the capital. The U S Command logged 33 enemy rocket and mortar attacks in 24 hours, the highest since June 28, with Vietnamese casualties including 10 killed and 24 wounded in Giong Trom. In Laos a new peace initiative began amid slow prospects for rapid progress.
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George Esper
Preas Wrnter Saigon
U.S
Phnom Penh
Kompong Thoi
South Vietnam
Giong Trom
Mekong
Laos
Indochina
Cambodia
Fulbright Seeks Treaty Review of Spain Base Pact
Sen. J William Fulbright challenged the executive military agreement with Spain saying it acts as a treaty in effect and should face Senate approval. He warned of potential costs up to 400 million dollars over five years and urged Nixon submit the measure for Senate consent. Fulbright cited overseas base agreements as precedent and stressed the need for formal treaty status.
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Lee Byrd
Associated Press
Washington
J. William Fulbright
Spain
Senate
Arkansas Democrat
White House
U.S
Fulbright
Nixon
Cambodia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Executive Branch
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