Debate Over Cooper-Church Amendment Continues
Congress and the White House clash over the Cooper-Church amendment as supporters seek a safe wording that preserves presidential powers as commander in chief while pledging withdrawal from Cambodia by July 1. Negotiations stall on whether the measure would be seen as repudiating the President’s pledge or limiting war-declaring authority of Congress. The sponsors favor including a reference to commander in chief to acknowledge military actions to protect troops without giving future unilateral powers.
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White House
Senate
Congress
Cambodia
Vietnam
Nixon Urges Legislation to Curb Oil Pollution at Sea
President Nixon asked Congress to approve measures to prevent oil pollution on high seas and near coasts, include ratification of two international treaties, create a 35 million dollar revolving fund for cleanup, and strengthen Coast Guard powers. He urged multilateral standards for tankers, expanded offshore patrols, and faster reporting of spills.
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Washington
United States
Nixon
Senate
Congress
Coast Guard
Congras
U.S
William P. Rogers
Transportation Department
Skepticism over Viet Nam Cambodia pullout plans
U S officials signal possible Saigon Phnom Penh negotiations on joint defense. South Vietnamese may begin troop withdrawal around June 30, but no firm commitment. Senate divisions emerge over Cooper Church amendment while Melvin Laird weighs continuing air strikes or shifts. Cambodian Lon Nol faces Communist threats as 4 000 ethnic Cambodian special forces redeploy.
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Cambodia
Department
U.S
Saigon
Phnom Penh
White House
Key Biscayne
Fla
Nixon
Melvin R. Laird
Senate
Lon Nol
South Vietnam
McCormack to quit after 1968 term prompts successors
Speaker stresses personal reasons for retire ment and urges rapid action on extending the 1965 voting rights law for Negroes while lowering the voting age to 18. Albert gathers pledges to fill his seat with possible replacements including O'Hara Boland Bolling Udall Rostenkowski and Boggs as the 91st Congress looms.
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Senate
Albert
McCormack
House
James G. O’hara
Mich
Edward P. Boland
Mass
Richard Bolling
Morris K. Udall
Ariz
Dan Rostenkowski
Hale Boggs
Donation interest for six-pound bowling ball to Baden-Powell Unit
Action line invites donations to the Baden-Powell Orthopedics Unit in Anaheim and provides contact Lionel Pennington and a phone number. A reader asks if former Long Beach City Manager Samuel I. Vickers retired, writes a book, or plans to return to Long Beach. answer states Vickers was city manager 1949–1961 and later Phoenix airport manager, now a political science professor at Arizona State University.
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Baden-Powell
A. Samuel Vickers
Long Beach
Phoenix
Arizona State University
Urban planner with foreign posting and unfinished books
In Tempe Arizona, the individual living with wife Melen directs the Center for Urban Studies at the university and consults for the Ford Foundation and the U S Bureau of Reclamation. He spent 1965 66 in Saudi Arabia helping set up city government planning and has an unpublished manuscript on his experiences. A second book is planned but not yet discussable. The person may return to Long Beach someday, with no immediate plans.
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Tempe
Ariz
Melen
Center For Urban Studies
Ford Foundation
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Saudi Arabia
Vickers
Long Beach
Fresno State Ethnic Studies Faculty Not Rehired Triggers Campus Demonstrations
Demonstrators roamed the hall as a speaker in the free speech area condemned retaliation after Fresno State announced that 8 of 12 ethnic studies faculty, including Richard D. Keyes and Iliezer Risco Lozada, would not be rehired. Acting Dean Philip N. Walker confirmed the decision. Rumors of the move had spurred campus protests and two gasoline fire bombs were thrown at the computer room. Virgil B. Lewis, a freshman, was booked on arson and conspiracy charges.
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Richard D. Keyes
Iliezer Risco-Lozada
la Raza
Fhames
Virgil B. Lewis
Iesc
Senior Officials Schedule Fragment Dumped in OCR Note
A fragmentary OCR read lists senior officials and a Sunday schedule with scattered timing marks. The readable elements include a date line referencing Sunday and a 21.0 value, but most details are garbled and only partial names and times remain legible.
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Hugh Scott
Mike Mansfield
Robert P. Griffin
Cooper Church
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Fresno State
Philip N. Walker
School of Arts and Sciences
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Surry Sar Ponday
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Victoria
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