Reagan weighs choices for lieutenant governor as session opens
Gov. Reagan considers a new lieutenant governor after Lt. Gov. Finch announces plans to join the Nixon administration. Republicans in the Assembly reaffirm Monagan for speaker and Conrad as speaker pro tem. Burns seeks retained Senate presidency pro tem amid opposition and interest in Cranston’s 1968 stance.
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Sacramento
Reagan
Senate
California
Robert H. Finch
State Senate
Assembly
Capitol
Robert T. Monagan
Tracy
Jesse M. Unruh
Inglewood
Charles J. Conrad
Sherman Oaks
House
Carlos Bee
Hayward
Don Mulford
Piedmont
Robert Badham
Newport Beach
Hugh M. Burns
Fresno
Burns
Anthony C. Beilenson
Beverly Hills
Alan Cranston
U.S. Senate
Howard Way
Exter
Lewis Sherman
Berkeley
S F State imposes campus restrictions amid protests
San Francisco State University leader S I Hayakawa enforces tough rules to curb violence during a student strike led by BSU and TWF. Visitors require legitimate business, rallies are banned, and police will patrol while outsiders stay away.
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Hayakawa
Black Students Union
Third World Liberation Front
San Francisco
George Murray
AFT
Glenn S. Dumke
S. I. Hayakawa
James Q. Wedworth
Inglewood
Wedworth
Senate Education Committee
Black Student Union
BSU
Third World Front
TWF
Baby dies after antihistamine pills incident in Monterey Park
Patrick Eisenhardt, 23 months, died at Garfield Hospital after taking antihistamine tablets six days earlier. His mother Heda Perez said the toddler climbed on a chair to reach a table where a pill vial was kept, leading to a medical emergency.
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Monterey Park
API
Patrick Eisenhardt
Garfield Hospital
Heda Perez
Five Children Die in Chicago Fire on West Side
Five children of Mr and Mrs Benjamin Gray died early Sunday when a fire broke out in their 11th floor bedroom in the West side apartment Their parents escaped unharmed from the adjacent room Father and mother were not injured by the blaze
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Chicago
Benjamin Gray
West Side
California Young Democrats Back Strike at San Francisco State
A steering committee of the California Young Democrats voted to support the strike by students at San Francisco State College. The move signals party alignment with campus protesters and campus governance actions.
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Wedworth
San Francisco
State College
Weworth
Hayakawa
San Jose
UPI
California Young Democrats
San Francisco State College
Industry Sees Gains in 1969 Outlook
Washington reports that American industry plans higher output in 1969, with more than half of major firms expecting at least 5 percent growth. Strong gains expected in telephone and telegraph, computer, rail freight, and consumer products, though higher Social Security and income tax withholdings may dampen demand.
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Washington
UPI
Commerce Department
U.S
Bouyant
Telephone and Telegraph
Frm
Ritzy Rats Take Over Park Avenue Homes
A rat colony, possibly over 100 strong, settles on a fashionable Manhattan block between 58th and 59th streets. Health workers set poison, Penn Central asked to inspect its tunnel, and residents blame grain from local feeders for attracting the rodents.
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New York
Park Avenue
Manhattan
58Th
59Th Street
Delmanico
58Th Street
Penn Central Railroad
Soviets Launch Venus 5 Probe Toward May Landing
The Soviet Union announced Venus 5, an unmanned spacecraft targeting a mid May landing on Venus. The probe follows Venus 4’s October 1967 touchdown and weighs 2,494 pounds with advanced instruments for extensive research.
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Venus
Moscow
UPS
Soviet Union
Soviet Space Center
Central Asia
Chicago Plane Crash Toll Climbs to 28
CHICAGO The death toll in the North Central Airlines prop-jet crash at O Hare Airport Dec. 27 rose to 28 with a 14 year old boy dying in Resurrection Hospital from burns. He lived in Niles and was among eight drum and bugle corps members injured when the airliner crashed into the hangar during practice. Twenty six died when the Convair twin engine struck the hangar in fog and drizzle.
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Chicago
North Central Airlines
O’hare International
Resurrection Hospital
Niles
Pappas
Nixon names new Vietnam negotiating team and keeps continuity
President elect Nixon announces a new Vietnam negotiating team led by Henry Cabot Lodge with Philip Habib and others to preserve continuity in Paris. The commitment follows Lodge's prior Vietnam posts and includes Green in Indonesia, with Bunker to remain in Saigon. Negotiators prepare for another Paris conference to break the deadlock.
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Donesia
Asia
State Department
Philip Habib
U.S
Saigon
Paris
Lodge
Nguyen Cao Ky
South Vietnam
Henry Cabot Lodge
America
Nixon
Ronald Ziegler
Vance
Walsh
New York
Justice Department
David Davis, Polk and Wardwell
Green
Indonesia
United States
Vietnam
Ziegler
Ellsworth Bunker
Bunker
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Kaiser Hospital
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Henry Cabot Lodge Nixon
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