Columbia Erupts in New Fights
Columbia college canceled 2700 classes for the rest of the week as a strike coalition shut the campus. Police clashed with students near gates while 720 were arrested in predawn raids. Demonstrations spread to Stony Brook, Cincinnati, and South Bend with dozens held on trespass and drug charges.
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Columbia College
Columbia
Lawng
Riverside Church
Harlem
Defense Department
Stony Brook
N.Y
Cincinnati
Paul Miller
South Bend
Ind
Columbus
Ohio State University
Pair Accused of Killing Mates Ties to Insurance and Marital Plots
A tangled case links Robert Perveler and Cheryl Cromwell to multiple murders and insurance schemes. Perveler seeks a $50,000 double indemnity payout after a girlfriend’s death while Cromwell’s death leaves Cheryl with a $75,000 policy. Detectives push for murder charges as they press a district attorney with fresh evidence.
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Cromwell
Perveler
Pacific Telephone Co
LeRoi Jones at State College defends black resistance
LeRoi Jones, at California State College Long Beach, calls for black self organization and armed stance as he condemns King’s message to a hostile crowd. He condemns white society as oppressive, asserts black control of battle grounds, and urges discipline and talent toward black power. The event, sponsored by the Black Student Union, drew about 600. Jones, previously convicted of firearm possession, read poems and staged a play amid chants from the audience.
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David Shaw
Marlin Luther King
LeRoi Jones
Long Beach
King
Jones
California State College
Newark
Poor People’s Campaign ends with pledge to shift policies
In Washington the Poor People’s Campaign wrapped its first phase as Rev. Ralph Abernathy vowed to change government priorities. A 50-member, mixed race march toured the State Department after a 1 hour 20 minute meeting with Secretary Rusk, calling poor power a key. Arrests occurred in Marks, Mississippi as organizers faced state trooper action while recruiting students for the Washington march. Abernathy planned nine march columns toward Washington ahead of a nationwide event. Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr kicked off the Memphis rally for the campaign with a tribute to her husband.
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Ralph Abernathy
Coretta King
Martin Luther King
Mason Temple Church
Memphis
Washington
Ralph David Abernathy
Marlin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
State Department
Dean Rusk
Marks, Miss
Quitman County
Elu
Tie Lapin
Military bomb renewal tied to panhandle region shifts
The defense and civilian leaders debate Hanoi’s use of a bombing pause to infiltrate the south. Clark Clifford explains tolerance of formal levels of infil trai tion while officials note no clear change since the March 31 restriction. The White House accepts Indonesia’s proposal to hold preliminary talks with North Vietnam aboard a neutral ship, with Warsaw as a later site choice amid mounting criticism.
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Clark M. Clifford
Washington
South
Ncluding
Clifford
White House
North Vietnam
Adam Malik
U.S
Jakarta
Rockefeller Seeks Balance on Vietnam Policy and Talks Venue
Rockefeller urged a calm appraisal of Vietnam policy and cautioned against new starts in the war. He contrasted hawkish Nixon with doves Kennedy and McCarthy, and proposed Warsaw or a demilitarized zone as possible talks sites while stressing neutrality concerns.
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Rockefeller
Vietnam
Richard M. Nixon
Robert F. Kennedy
Eugene J. McCarthy
Nixon
Tulbright
North
South
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Jesse Gray
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Sunland
Cheryl Perveler
Marlin Cromwell
State College
America
Jong
Black Student Union
College Symposium
Spirit House
Interior
Stewart L. Udall
Abernathy
Panhandle
Hanoi
Johnson
Warsaw
China
Europe
Western Europe
J. W. Fulbright
Dark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nicholas Katzenbach
Royal York
Petey
Bankamericard
Mester Cesrag
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