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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1969
Page
5
Police and demonstrators clashed in Berkeley as 600 activists attacked the Peoples Park fence with bread hidden snippers to mark Bastille Day. 130 officers used billy clubs and tear gas to quell hours of violence. 18 arrests, one officer seriously injured, several others hurt, and two newsmen knocked down.
The nuclear carrier Enterprise sails from Alameda to Norfolk for overhaul at Newport News. At Sproul Hall demonstrations involve 1,000s with tear gas, missiles, and protests against the move. Police repair a breached fence as students occupy Peoples Park planned for housing.
In Havre de Grace Maryland two teen boys aged 15 and 16 admitted to police that they took pills described as birth control pills and others unnamed. They said the pills caused a bad trip and they were found in a cemetery bushes after being called by a caretaker. One said he paid a dollar per pill. They were treated at a hospital and released to parents.
Winnie Ruth Judd, the "Tiger Woman" once linked to the 1931 Phoenix murders, admitted Monday that she is Ruth Judd. She asked to return to Arizona alone but was held without bail as extradition actions proceed.
The USS Seminole, a 458-foot Navy attack ship of 10,664 tons, ran aground in Puget Sound during a lakefront celebration. The vessel was freed after being stuck since 10:25 a.m. PDT, while Navy officials did not disclose its destination.
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