Eisenhower Taken Off Critical List After Seventh Heart Attack
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was removed from the critical list at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as he recovers from his seventh heart attack. Doctors called his condition serious but not necessarily critical, with long-range outlook guarded and potential for sudden reversal still present.
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Washington
UPI
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Eisenhower
Walter Reed
Walter Reed Army Hospital
John
Phoenixville
Mamie
Prague leaders crack down on free press amid call for truth
Czechoslovak officials announced extraordinary measures to control press, radio and television as youths demand the brutal truth about the Soviet backed regime. Premier Oldrich Cernik said steps follow the Kremlin accord and borders were closed to foreign reporters as Dubcek Svoboda and Smrkovsky urged calm and a gradual withdrawal of Russian troops.
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UPI
Soviet Union
Oldrich Cernik
Alexander Dubcek
Ludvik Svoboda
Kremlin
Cernik
Ceteka
CTK
Dubcek
Svoboda
National Assembly
Josef Smrkovsky
Escort Firm Owner Booked on Pimps and Prostitution
Arthur E. Bradley, owner of Escorts Inc. at 212 Las Vegas Blvd South, was jailed after arranging a short time sexual service with a stranger who later escorted Bradley and Miss Georgene Felix to police. The stranger belonged to Lt. Sleeper’s vice narcotics squad. Bradley faces pimping charges and Felix prostitution.
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Bradle
Escorts Inc
Las Vegas Blvd
Bradley
Brad‘Wey
Miss Georgene Felix
Las Vegas
Miss Felix
John Sleeper
Newton Jury Takes Long Weekend Off
The 12 jurors in Huey P. Newton's first degree murder trial were sent home for a long weekend after a 10 minute session. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Monroe Friedman ordered the panel to return Tuesday.
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Oakland
Calif
UPI
Huey P. Newton
Alameda County Superior Court
Monroe Friedman
Probation Given First Offender Joe N Watkins
Joe N Watkins 25 of 95 Weaver Dr began a two year probation term for grand larceny. He and three men stole $658 in coins from Central Telephone Co counting room. Arrested Feb 8, leniency plea by Chief Deputy Public Defender Robert Peccole. Dist Judge John Mendoza suspended sentence due to first offense.
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Joe N. Watkins
Weaver Dr
Central Telephone Co
Watkins
Robert Peccole
Dist
John Mendoza
Three Las Vegas Men Arrested After Recreation Center Incident
Andrew Elliott 23 Lee E Dean 24 and Arthur Smith Jr 10 Weaver St Las Vegas were booked on assault with a deadly weapon and carrying a concealed weapon in an automobile. Police say Elliott arrived at the Doolittle Recreation Center armed with a gun and brass knuckles and confronted Larry Lisby after a prior dispute. The three fled and encountered officers in the parking lot where arrests followed.
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Andrew Elliott
Weaver St
Lee E. Dean
Princeton
Arthur Smith Jr
Las Vegas
Elliott
Doolittle Recreation Center
County to seek bonds for courthouse expansion and school purchase
Clark County plans a $3 million building expansion bond on the November ballot to add two floors to the courthouse administrative section and one to the jail, plus buy the old Fifth Street Grammar School for $1.5 million. The county currently pays $105,000 yearly rent for 17 departments outside the main building. The measure complements the Las Vegas Convention Authority $22 million bond and an $8 million Las Vegas city bond proposal on the same ballot.
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Clark County General Obligation Bond Commission
Clark County
Fifth Street Grammar School
Las Vegas
Yanks Avoid Major Ambush Near Saigon and Duc Lap
American paratroopers engaged a Viet Cong regiment near Trang Bang and Duc Lap, repelling an ambush and killing 57 with 18 captured. Five Americans were killed and 22 wounded as 39 more communists died nearby. Thieu paused a district visit to visit the Duc Lap camp.
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APS
Duc Lap
Books
da Hang
101St Air Cavalry Division
William Burrier
Uvalde
Tex
Trang Bang
U.S
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
Thieu
Duck Lap
Marine Force Logistics Command
da Nang
I Corps
FBI Probes Beating of Newsmen at Chicago DNC
The FBI opened an inquiry into alleged police beatings of newsmen during demonstrations at Chicago’s Democratic National Convention. The civil rights division requested the probe under a law against police summary punishment. Seventeen reporters were assaulted, four hospitalized, while wearing press badges and white armbands.
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FBI
Washington
UPI
Chicago
Justice Department
Department
Civil Rights Division
Lincoln Park
Where Is Stanel Where Is Stanel
The article reviews the newly designed Vegas Village shopping center at Oakey and De Catur. It highlights the grocery meat produce and gourmet departments with large themed displays, bright colors, and a modern interior by Ralph Merton of Victor Gruen Associates. It notes a bakery space with sunset orange red back wall and a child friendly shoe mural. The piece praises color oriented design as a trend for the future.
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Desert
Ralph Merton
Victor Gruen Associates
New Vegas
Oakey and
de Catur
Alaskan Senator Gruening Defeated in Close Alaska Primary
UPI reports 373 of 410 precincts in Alaska show 81 year old Sen. Ernest Gruening losing the Democratic primary to Mike Gravel by 2,466 votes with 16,820 to 14,354. Absentee ballots and remote precincts remain to be counted, while Republicans split with Elmer Rasmuson leading over Ted Stevens for the nomination. Begich beats Rader for the Democratic Senate bid to face Pollock in November.
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Anchorage
Alaska
UPI
Ernest Gruening
Johnson
Mike Gravel
Gruening
Senate
Gravel
Bush
Elmer E. Rasmuson
Ted Stevens
U.S
Howard W. Pollock
Nick Begich
Pollock
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