Judge frees Panthers Seale and Huggins in mistrial case
A Superior Court judge dismissed charges against Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins due to massive publicity making an impartial jury impossible to assemble. The ruling followed a mistrial declaration after a New Haven jury reported deadlock. Huggins cried among supporters as Seale faced related federal custody and upcoming bond hearings.
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Bobby Seale
Ericka Huggins
Harold Mulvey
Panthers
Sla
Ven, Conn
Mulvey
Brooklyn Couple Fights Adoptions Laws in New Jersey
A Brooklyn couple seeking fair adoption laws fled to New Jersey after an appeals court ruled in a similar case in favor of adoptive parents. They aim to contest a court order demanding the return of their year-old adopted daughter Baby Lenore to her natural mother Olga Scarpetta, asserting the fight will continue on what they call fairer ground.
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Brooklyn
New Jersey
Nicholas Demartino
Lenore
Olga Scarpetta
Copter crashes near Saigon and other world incidents
A U S general and a South Vietnamese commander survived a downed helicopter near the U Minh Forest as troops report 48 enemy killed three miles south of the DMZ. In Belfast a blast killed a British soldier shielding civilians. many injured. Earthquakes strike Turkey, lava flows threaten Sicily towns, and a Moscow trial links to Israel in Baltic cases.
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Saigon
U.S
Saigons
Dmz
John Cushman
Miltary Assistance Command
Mekong Delta
Ngo Quang Truong
U Minh
Nguyen Vinh Hghi
21St Infantry Division
Belfast
Northern Ireland
S Police
Army
Conference panel approves two billion jobless aid plan
Conferees from the House and Senate approve a Democratic backed $2 billion public works measure to fight unemployment. The plan allows up to 80 percent federal grants for sewer waste treatment plants and hospitals, awaiting final approval in both chambers.
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Washington
House
Senate
Clint Walker Survives Ski Pole Heart Injury in Mammoth
Actor Clint Walker 43, star of Cheyenne, escaped death after a ski pole punctured his chest during a fall at Mammoth Mountain California. He was rushed to Northern Inyo Hospital in Bishop in shock. surgeons repaired a ventricular tear and restored blood flow.
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Clint Walker
Cheyenne
Mammoth Mountain
Bishop
Walker
Valerie Demirdjain
Northern
Inyo
McCarthy Proposes Third Party as Real Possibility
Former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy told Haverford College graduates a third party in 1972 is a real possibility not an idle threat. He named John Lindsay Paul McCloskey and John Gardner as potential leaders of the movement alongside himself.
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Minnesota
Eugene McCarthy
Haverford College
McCarthy
John Lindsay
New York City
Paul McCloskey
R Calif
John Gardner
U.S
Nixon to name Robert Froehlke Army secretary
Pentagon sources said President Nixon will nominate Robert Froehlke an assistant secretary of defense and Lairds boyhood friend to succeed Stanley Resor as Army secretary. Triciaixon chooses pastel gowns for bridesmaids at the June 12 White House wedding to Edward Cox.
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Nixon
Robert Froehlke
Defense
Secretary of Defense
Melvin Laird
Army
Pentagon
Froehlke
Laird
Stanley Resor
Triciaixon
Edward Cox
White House
Grandson of Elijah Muhammad Indicted for Draft Refusal
Herbert Muhammad Jr., 21, grandson of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Black Muslim Nation, was indicted in Chicago by a federal grand jury on a charge of refusing induction into the armed forces. He was arrested March 5 at a Chicago Selective Service station by FBI agents who said he refused to discuss his action.
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Elijah’ Muhammad
Black Muslin Nation
Chicago
Herbert Muhammad Jr
Selective Service
FBI
Christians Unite in Prayer for Jews in Soviet Latvia Trial
On Tuesday Christians nationwide gathered in prayer for Jews in the Soviet Union and for a 23 year old nurse on trial for treason in Riga Latvia. The plea urged international solidarity and peaceful resolution amid tensions.
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Soviet Union
Riga
Latvia
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