Dossiers and Subversive Files Stir California Senate Row
Senator Mills refuses to back subversive-activity files after discovering dossiers on lawmakers including arrest records. Senator Richardson, seeking chairmanship and broader statewide hearings, says the investigative arm must remain strong to enforce law and protect the people.
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Mills
Sen
H. L. Richardson
Arcadia
Jack Schrade
San Diego
Richardson
Descriptions of Sepone Front in Vietnam War Report
Reports from Saigon and Hanoi over Sepone describe shifting control and bombardment along Route 9. South Vietnamese forces claim capture but deny occupying the town, with hills held north and south and scout patrols in the area. A defector cites 30 000 NVA around Sepone for a decisive phase. clashes in Cambodia yield enemy casualties and Vietnamese losses. In a separate note, Wayne Allen Smith was convicted of manslaughter tied to a Nov traffic crash.
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Sepone
Hanoi
Vietnam
Saigon
North Vietnam
Cambodia
al Id
Wayne Allen Smith
S. Mountain View St
Thomas PF. McCarry
Westy lauded My Lai colonel in court martial record
Testimony in Lt. William Calley Jr. court martial ended with Col Cran Henderson admitting a congratulatory message from Gen William Westmoreland. Henderson said higher commands worried about civilian deaths as the My Lai operation proceeded and that a body count order was countermanded by Maj. Gen. Koskoter. The six officer jury likely to reach a verdict by the next weekend.
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Fr. Benning
UPL
William L. Calley Jr
My Lai
William C. Westmoreland
Cran K. Henderson
U.S
Henderson
My Tai
Samuel W. Koster
West Point
Koster
Whitney Young remembered as a national leader and ally
Tributes poured in from Coretta Scott King, Nixon, James, Lindsay, Gardner, Roche and others after Whitney M. Young Jr. died. Leaders praised his push for job opportunities and Black advancement while recounting his wartime service and academic rise from Lincoln Institute to Atlanta University.
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Coretta Scott King
Martin Luther King, Jr
Atlanta
Young
James
U.S
John V. Lindsay
New York
Oil men rap GM over lead in gas
California oil executives and conservation lawmakers clash in the first 1970 hearings on banning lead compounds from gasoline. Assemblyman Peter Schabarum backs a 1977 phaseout to aid catalytic muffler tech, while GM and oil groups argue leaded gasoline is unfairly blamed and gasoline prices may rise.
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Sacramento
California
General Motors
Peter Schabarum
R-Covina
TH. ©. Stevenson
Beacon Oil Co
Howard N. Cole
Berkeley antiwar protest blocks draft office arrests
Twelve people including a 39 year old woman teacher Mrs Ying Lee Kelley and a 13 year old boy were arrested Thursday for blocking a Berkeley draft board doorway. They were cited for blocking a public doorway and released on their own recognizance. Kelley was witnessed by her husband John L Kelley and their two children. Three arrestees identified as UC students and three others as students from San Francisco State College California State at Hayward and Laney College.
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Berkeley
Draft Board
Ying Lee Kelley
John L. Kelley
University of California
Kelley
San Francisco State College
California State At
Hayward
Laney College
Stanford students given suspended sentences for draft-board protest
Thirteen Stanford University students who blocked the San Francisco draft board entrance received five day suspended sentences and probation until June 1 for misdemeanor failure to disperse. They had faced potential felony charges under the 1968 Selective Service Act.
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Stanford
UPI
Stanford University
San Francisco
Draft Board
Reagan Urges Urgency On Cal-Vet Disaster Fund Bill
Governor Reagan called for urgency consideration of a bill to appropriate $1 million to the Cal-Vet disaster fund, which has been depleted by the Southern California earthquake.
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Sacramento
UPI
Reagan
Cal-Vet
California
Texan fined for drunken flight near Long Beach helicopter
William Ralph Graham, 26, pleaded guilty to drunken flying after nearly colliding with a police helicopter over Alamitos Avenue and Anaheim Street in Long Beach. He received a 90 day jail term suspended plus a $625 fine. officers said he flew from Dallas to Los Angeles with only wing lights and bourbon on board.
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Long Beach
William Ralph Graham
Frederick A. Kepka
Graham
Dallas
Los Angeles
Alamitos Avenue
Anaheim Street
Long Teach
American Airlines
Bour Bon
California school board proposes tenure reform and easier fire policy
The board advanced a plan to revamp teacher tenure, evaluate teachers annually under state guidelines, and route certain dismissal decisions to a hearing officer rather than courts. A minority view urged penalties short of dismissal such as suspension or loss of future pay raises.
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Ture
Reagan
California
Department of Education
California School Boards Association
State Office of Administrative Procedure
Kennedy Sees No End To War In Vietnam Laos And Cambodia
Sen. Edward Kennedy warned at a San Francisco news conference that he has serious reservations about U.S. prospects for ending the Vietnam Laos and Cambodia war. He said he does not see an end in sight and doubts a path out through Cambodia and Laos while endorsing the Kennedy Griffith national health insurance plan as comprehensive as Social Security and important. He expressed optimism about advancing the bill in the current Congress and spoke during a labor meeting visit.
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San Francisco
UPI
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
U.S
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Kennedy
California college flight chartering guidelines urged nationwide
Federal government recommends statewide campus aviation rules after Wichita State and Marshall crashes prompted a review. State Colleges Chancellor Glenn S. Dumke noted Volpe sent copies to over 2,400 governors and college officials inviting consideration of the California guidelines adopted in 1961 after Cal Poly San Luis Obispo football team deaths.
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California
State College
Glenn S. Dumke
U.S. Secretary of Transportation
John A. Volpe
Dumke
Volpe
Wichita State
Marshall University
Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo
Venice mother and two daughters die in house fire
Police said a mother Gloria Gomez Ibarra, 24, and her daughters Ivette, 4, and Consa, 3, died in a fire that destroyed their frame home in Venice on Thursday.
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Venice
Gloria Gomez Ibarra
Ivette
Consa
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White House
Nixon
America
AIR Force
Daniel “Chappie” James
New York City
Health Education and Welfare
John W. Gardner
Citizen’s Reform Lobby
Common Cause
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General Motors Corp
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Lincoln Institute
Lincoln
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Europe
University of Minnesota
St. Paul Urban League
School of Social Work
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Mohawk Petroleum
Malcolm MebDuffie
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New Rochelle
N.Y
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