Lebanon riots prompt state of emergency as deaths mount
Rioting Palestinian refugees and students faced police fire in Beirut and Barr Elias as government declares emergency. At least 10 people including policemen are killed or injured while protests challenge restrictions on Arab talks. Meanwhile Israel moves toward Port Fuad across the Suez, signaling wider regional tension. In Prague, authorities plan to replace sit-in student leaders as part of a drive to quell nationwide strikes amid Dubcek’s fall.
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Lebanon
Menya
Port Said
Prague
Alexander Dubcek
Moscow
Gustav Hu
Nixon asks funds to attack crime and Mafia profits
President Nixon urged Congress for new laws and 61 million dollars for 1969 70 to fight organized crime. Proposals include federal crime for illegal gambling and bribery of officials, more FBI agents, wiretap authority, witness immunity, and 20 antiracketeering offices in major cities. Labor Dept joins with 2 million to probe Mafia in unions.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
America
FBI
John N. Mitchell
Labor Department
Rogers Denies Supreme Court Aim as Rumors Spread
Secretary of State William P. Rogers dismissed rumors he will leave to join the Supreme Court. He stated no substance to the talks and affirmed the President’s appointment. Warren plans to leave mid June, while Rogers attended a White House dinner in Warren’s honor.
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State Department
Supreme Court
New York Times
Earl Warren
Rogers
Warren
White House
Unusual McMahan survives after pipe protrusion crash
Robert McMahan, 29, was pulled from a car crash on North Lake Shore Drive with a six foot two inch pipe piercing his body. Six surgeons operated five hours to remove the pipe and patch the wound. He faces hospital recovery including a broken collar bone and shoulder. Politician J. William Fulbright commented on chemical and biological warfare and nuclear weapons. Sotheby’s in London sold a Churchill painting for 14200 dollars to G. Gibson, depicting barges on the Seine from c1930.
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McMahan
St. Joseph Hospital
Chicago
North Lake Shore Drive
Sotheby’s Auction House
London
Winston Churchill
G. Gibson
Barges
Seine
Powers says Haney ousted by same 1963 employer
John Powers accuses Paul Haney of being fired in the same way as he was in 1963 by Julian Scheer, chief of public affairs. Haney says he is relieved of duties as chief spokesman for the Manned Spacecraft Center Apollo program and reassigned in Washington.
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John
Shorty) Powers
Paul Haney
Powers
Haney
Space Agency
Washington
Julian Scheer
Scheer
Manned Spacecraft Center
Brian
Dikes Hold as Mississippi Flood Presses Eastern Iowa
Mississippis crest, lower than forecast, tests dikes in eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois. Volunteers, guardsmen, students, and inmates bolster barriers as engineers warn the crest could linger and cause long term risk even after water moves downstream. Officials in Dubuque and East Dubuque report favorable conditions but monitor winds and weak points.
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Iowa
Illinois
Mississippi
Dubuque
East Dubuque
Ill
Walter Gellini
Army Corps of Engineers
Illinois Civil Defense
Donovan M. Vance
Army
Quincy
Hannibal
Missouri
Marion
B Callout: B 52s Strike Cambodian Border Complex
U S Strato fortresses conducted one of the war’s heaviest strikes along the Cambodian border northwest of Saigon dropping 3.5 million pounds of bombs. Between midnight and dawn about 60 high altitude B 52s targetedWar Zone C roads and jungle infiltration routes recently built up since January by enemy forces. Rocket and mortar activity waned with 11 attacks overnight, none causing significant damage.
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Saigon
U.S
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Bombs cut Belfast water, sparking security clampdown
Saboteurs sealed off all roads into Bel fast after an explosion severed the water main supplying the north, worsening shortages in the city’s south. In the grim Rest neighborhood Catholics endured an all night vigil amid reports of an imminent invasion by Protestant extremists. Prime Minister Terrence ONeill narrowly held onto leadership with a pro civil rights move to shield Catholics from discrimination.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Grim Rest
Dents
Terrence O'Neill
Union Civil Rights Movement
Desperate Hemophiliac Child Dies After Experimental Pass
A 10 year old hemophiliac died in Los Angeles from a massive brain hemorrhage after doctors attempted a rare procedure. They drew blood from the patient Ernst Foster of Oxnard, separated red cells, and transfused with plasma back into the boy. A hospital spokesman offered no clear verdict on the procedure’s failure.
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Los Angeles
Ernst Foster
Oxnard
Bay
Milan Salesgirl Attempts Overdose on Contraceptive Pills
Anna Felli a 22 year old Milan salesgirl unemployed attempted suicide with an overdose of contraceptive pills. She was taken to a hospital where a doctor said she would recover.
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Anna Felli
Milan
Italy
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