Parking clash triggers campus protest and riot near Berkeley
A vacant University of California parcel in Berkeley, once used for student activity, became a riot scene after campus authorities fenced it to create parking. Joseph Bishop, a laundry operator, drove through pickets, prompting police presence as a crowd swelled. The incident followed days of boycotts and tense standoffs with the Parking Company of America.
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New York Is Threatened by Strikes
New York city bus and subway workers, 35000 strong, faced a midnight expiration of contracts that could halt weekday service for 7.3 million riders. Talks continued as the Transit Authority offered a two year deal with 7 percent rise first year and 5 percent second, while union leaders pressed for 30 percent over two years and higher pensions and a shorter week.
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Toes He Wants Ten Then Goes Home in Fatigue
Fragmentary OCR text shows a speaker expressing extreme tiredness after a request for ten. Mentions parents and a character named Tah or Tah, with unclear dialogue and garbled phrases. No clear event, place, or context emerges from the readable portion.
War Deaths Pass the 40 000 Mark in Vietnam
Baigon AP reports that American battlefield deaths in Vietnam surpassed 40,000 for nine years of fighting. An official weekly casualty summary to last Saturday tallied 86 Americans killed in action, lifting the total since January 1, 1961 to 39,979. Early this week flash reports indicated at least 21 more American deaths, pushing the toll over 40,000.
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Cost overruns linked to disputed Poseidon missile program
Associate Press reports Wisconsin Senator James Proxmire says Navy overruns total about 10.7 billion, excluding a disputed 3.6 billion for Poseidon conversions. Navy Rear Adm. Levering Smith disputes figures, citing 1.27 billion overruns and noting costs vary with scope and inclusion of operating expenses.
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Texan Gives Up on Gift Parcels
H Ross Perot the Texan computer billionaire abandoned his effort to fly nine thousand gift parcels labeled Peace on Earth to Moscow for Hanoi. Perot failed to reach Premier Kosygin or Brezhnev after calling from Copenhagen hotel switchboards and after ambassador Alan Bean reported Soviet leaders refused the flight. He had spent over 20,000 miles and more than 600000 dollars attempting to aid U.N. war prisoners in North Vietnam.
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Inflation War Sparks Mortgage Ceiling Rise Debate
Proximize and Patman criticize administration policy as harming homebuyers and expanding poverty. AFL-CIO President Meaney warns higher rates may slow construction and raise unemployment. Secretary Romney raises FHA VA loan guarantees by one percent to prevent drying up mortgage money. effect starts next Monday. Carl Albert denounces policy as ruinous. separate note: the Star of the South diamond was found by a Brazilian slave woman and named by merchants.
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