Wisconsin Editorial: McGovern Wallace Lead in Primary
The Wisconsin primary produced a strong showing for McGovern and Wallace, with McGovern's coherent program cited as a reason for wide support. Muskie remains the leading Democrat in primaries but lacks a decisive program. Nixon appears strong for Republicans as others drop out and Ashbrook lags as a remaining conservative challenger.
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McGovern
Wallace
Wisconsin
California
Edmund Muskie
Hubert Humphrey
Edward Kennedy
Humphrey
Muskie
Fight Over Gas Cuts Tied to So2 Air in Long Beach
In Washington hearing rooms, the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District argues that curtailing El Paso Natural Gas deliveries would raise sulfur dioxide levels in the Long Beach area, threatening lives and illnesses on winter days. The district cites 1958-59 data and warns higher emissions could follow from a shift back to high sulfur fuels.
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Washington, D.C
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Sion
South Bay-Long Beach
el Paso
Federal Power Commission
California
Southern
Viet push puts heat on Nixon
Washington dispatch argues North Vietnamese offensive into Quangtri tests Vietnamization and Nixon’s domestic political position. It notes Giap’s armored thrust threatens Quangtri, contrasts with earlier Laos invasion, and questions the durability of Nixon’s hardened anti-infiltration stance and peace strategy amid renewed bombing debates.
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Washington
Demilitarized
Quangtri
Giap
South Vietnam
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Laos
Thailand
Tonkin Gulfs
Paris
North Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Moscow
Vietnam
Johnson
North
Mercedes University Installs Bank Robbery Course On Campus
The university announces Armed Robbery 101 led by Prof Louis Dupin to study breaking social barriers by simulating holdups. Trustees chair Murphy Clisk denounces the idea as criminal but later says he was misquoted. President Pardee supports the experiment amid campus debate.
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Washington
Mercedes University
Murphy P. Clisk
Mercedes
Clisk
Elston Pardee
Armed Robbery 101 Sparks Campus Controversy
Professor Dupin promotes a course where students practice with guns to study crime and victimization. Kenneth Grim, a new enrollee, jokes about robbing banks as a reason to leave campus. A student fires a photographer with an af-caliber revolver, drawing lectures on oppression before surgery. Proceeds fund a new penitentiary behind the football stadium.
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Kenneth Grim
Grim
Dupin
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