Campus Unrest Sparks nationwide campus tensions and protests
Readable dispatch notes campus turmoil as Grinnell students confiscate a flag flown upside down in protest. It cites Stanford President Pitzer warning against militant coercion, 70 universities seeking new presidents, Berkeley poets likening students to Nazi era mobs, and Ford accusing Arab agitators of visa violations. It also covers Cornell professors pressuring disarmament, SDS threats, Virginia incidents, and San Francisco State amnesty demands with Varando’s suspension.
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Norquette
Grinnell College
Iowa
Stanford University
Kenneth S. Pitzer
Chronicle of Education
Washington, D.C
University of California At Berkeley
Archibald MacLeish
Nazi Germany
Virginia
Suu
San Francisco State College
S. L Hayakawa
Haight Haight Area Slaying Leaves Three Dead
San Francisco police investigated a morning shooting in Hayes Street Haight area. Three victims a man 24 and two girls aged 18 and unidentified were found kneeling in a two room flat with needle marks. A tip led to the grisly discovery as narcotics paraphernalia was found nearby.
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San Francisco
Hayes Street
Haight-Ashbury
Maragaret Jo Fochtman
Edmund Fochtman
Cleveland
Charles Ellis
Homicide
Mutiny Witness Says Psychiatric Aid Denied at Presidio Sit-Down
FT ORD Army mutiny trial witness Ernest Trefethen testified that he twice asked for psychiatric help after the Oct 14 Presidio sit-down and only saw a psychiatrist in December. He described a crowded unsanitary stockade, fatal injuries to fellow prisoners, and the lack of care he felt for inmates.
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FT. Ord
Presidio
San Francisco
Ernest C. Trefethen
Buffalo
N.Y
Richard Bunch
Dayton
Ohio
Trefethen
Bunch
Ft. Dix
N.J
Defense to shut 36 military sites in 95 million cut
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird announced 36 bases will be closed or reduced saving 95 million annually and affecting 6,222 military and 3,028 civilian jobs. Some sites will gain 2,668 jobs through transfers as others close or consolidate by year end.
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Washington
UPS
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Defense Secretary
Naval Weapon Center
China Lake
Calif
Naval Underseas Warfare Center
San Diego
Naval Electronic Laboratory Center
Naval Engineering Command
Hunter’s Point Shipyard
Defense Supply Regional
Alameda
Naval Underwater Sound Laboratory
New London
Naval Ship Research
Carderock
Army Materials Center
Watertown
Mass
Picatinny Arse
Fires Driven by Gusty Winds in Los Angeles Area
Gusty winds at 46 mph pushed firefighters through Los Angeles and surrounding areas on Thursday battling small brush and building fires. A garage fire spread to a two story apartment in Central L A with no injuries in a $10 000 blaze. A downtown storage yard fire was contained by seven units and three other garages burned to the ground.
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Los Angeles
Cease-fire strains grow as Egypt shells into Israel
The Jordanian airfields remain unready for a first squadron while the State Department warns of violations of the Arab-Israeli cease-fire along the Suez Canal. A Cairo spokesman questions the cease-fire, and Robert J. McCloskey cautions that Egypt may not feel bound by it. U.S. diplomacy seeks restoration as artillery shelling continues for two weeks.
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State Department
Suez Canal
Cairo
United Arab Republic
Robert J. McCloskey
U.S
Mississippi Dikes Hold as Rain Forecast Raises Flood Crest
Flood fighters kept the Mississippi River contained across Iowa Illinois and Wisconsin as forecast rains threaten higher crests. Red Cross official praised preparedness while residents endured flooding in Davenport Moline East Moline Rock Island and Dubuque fears of longer crest and more sandbagging and farmland losses in Neche Oslo and surrounding areas.
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Mississippi
Midwest
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
Robert Pierpont
American Red Cross
Moline
Ill
Upper Midwest
Weather Bureau
Prairies
Pembina River
Red River
Neche
N.D
Oslo
Minn
Quad Cities
Davenport
East Moline
Rock Island
River Drive
Campbell’s Island
Dubuque
Jealous Man Shoots Wife and Daughters in Calm Sacramento Neighborhood
In Sacramento a jealous husband shot his Okinawa born wife Kay Sadako 38 and two daughters Lillian 11 and Anna 10 with a high powered rifle. He called police and cried I made sure they were dead before surrendering as tear gas grenades were used on his home. McQuiston 36 was jailed on murder charges.
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Sacramento
UPI
Albert McQuiston
McQuiston
Kay Sadako
Lillian
Anna
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Middle East
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Perkins
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Walter F. Berns
Pusey
Harvard
SDS
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Norr
Jerry Varnado
Varnado
Black Students Union
San Jose City College
Haight
William J. Oswald
Martinez
Danny L. Wilkins
Central
Utah
Patrick A. Wright
Santa Rosa
Wikks
Ieaaah
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Dover
Naval Weapons Laboratory
Dahlgren
California
Naval Weapons Center
Corona
Air Force Station
Hamilton Air Force Base
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Ing
San Bruno
Naval Radiological Laboratory
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