Nixon on Dissent and Campus Crisis
President Nixon signaled a difference in approach after campus protests, with Pusey and Moos describing the meeting at Stone Mountain as indicating no need to worry about dissent. Eight university officials, including Charles Hitch, urged cooling off as Reagan closed the UC system. Democrats planned antiwar demonstrations and fundraising, while Republicans faced reports of a White House calls campaign amid tensions over Southeast Asia.
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Pusey
Petesuade Us
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Agnew
Maas
Charles J. Hitch
University of California
Ronald Reagan
College and University System
Democratic House
Washington
Senate
Fred Harris
D-Okla
Dugene J. McCarthy
D-Minn
Walter ¥. Mondale
George McGovern
White House
California colleges shut as protests hit campuses
Across California, state universities and many private colleges closed or curtailed classes Thursday in response to Gov Ronald Reagan’s call for a shutdown over the Vietnam war and student deaths. UCLA USC UC campuses San Fernando Valley State Cal State Los Angeles saw closings, while a 3,000-strong Santa Barbara tally proceeded peacefully. Nationally, protests sparked violence at Wisconsin and Illinois, with police and National Guardsmen present.
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Indochina
Our
Kea State University
California
Ronald Reagan
Stanford University
University of Southern California
Ucla Asst
Geoffrey Symcox
Ucla Public Information Office
Symcox
Harry Kozac
Los Angeles Police Department
San Fernando Valley State
Cal State Los Angeles
Norton Simon backs tactics in Cambodia and Vietnam pullback
Norton Simon, Republican senatorial candidate in San Francisco, endorsed Nixon's Cambodia move as a tactical measure not a permanent escalation. He also supported troop withdrawals from Vietnam, stressing caution on the war's expansion while seeking the Senate nomination.
Long Beach Coast Guard Captain McCrory Returns
A letter traces Captain Eugene McCrory from Washington Junior High to Poly, Long Beach City College, then the Coast Guard in 1942. The 61 year old mariner recently came back from a five month Antarctic voyage commanding the icebreaker Glacier.
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Eugene McCrory
Washington Junior High
G. T
Long Beach
A. Yes. McCrory
Poly High School
Long Beach City College
Coast Guard
Coast Guard Academy
New London
New York Area Colleges Close Amid Antiwar Protests
Student marshals contained a Baseline bomb near a 6 million dollar Atomic Energy Commission computer at New York University as Kent State became a symbol of youth unrest. Two coeds and two youths died earlier as National Guardsmen clashed, leading to ongoing campus closures.
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State University
Brlfain
N.Y
Tilmois Guard
University of Illinois
Kent State
John V. Lindsay
New York City
New York City Area
Atomic Energy Commission
New York University
Ohio
National Guardsmen
bunker complex in cambodia eyed as major base area
U S and South Vietnamese forces pressed into Cambodia probing a large bunker complex north of the Tish Hook region. Pentagon reports 400 to 500 huts with radio antennas and a large bunker, while eight Americans and 24 North Vietnamese troops died in the week’s heaviest clash inside Cambodia.
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White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Cambodia
Tish Hook
U.S
Phouc Vinh
Saigon
Air Cavalry Division
Foreign Ministry
Mekong
Phnom Penh
Pentagon
Toops
Nixon
COSVN
South Vietnam
Provisional Revolutionary Government of
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Southeast Asia
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