Six Pennsylvania College Students Blinded by Homemade LSD
State Sen. Benjamin Donolow announced at a news conference that six Western Pennsylvania college students were blinded 18 months ago after creating LSD from a campus formula. He declined to name the school or the victims, citing protection for institutions amid a broader drug abuse probe.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Benjamin B. Donolow
Donolow
State Administration
Norman Yoder
Western Pennsylvania
Death Toll Rises as Sicily Quake Worsens
UPI reports emergency air drops of aid to western Sicily after a violent new tremor strikes Santa Margherita Belice and nearby towns. More than 250 dead, hundreds injured, and tens of thousands homeless as the island endures its worst quake in 11 years.
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Palermo
Sicily
UPI
U.S
Rome
Santa Margherita Belice
Santa Margherita
NSU Chancellor Pushes Expanded Building Funds for Growth
NSU aims to reach 17,500 students by 1978 with 811,662 square feet of new space. Plans call for a Center for Performing Arts and a chemistry building funded by loans and bond sales, plus high rise dorms and parking decks as enrollment rises.
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Davis, McConnel, Ralston, Inc
Stanford Professional Center
NSU
Reno
Neil Humphrey
Center For Performing Arts
Moyer
Divorce Hearing Ends in Killing
A divorce hearing in the county courthouse ended in gunfire wounding Hildegard Dilbeck and injuring four others. Witnesses described a shooter spraying bullets as victims lay in the hall and nearby rooms.
Gas Tactics End Uprising At Prison
Warden Hocker uses gas to quell a convict uprising while negotiations continue. Inmates at the maximum security facility vote 60 to 40 to persist in the strike despite plans to move prisoners, and a three member council is proposed for greater inmate representation.
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Hocker
Terrorist Attack Wounds U S Attachés In Guatemala
In Guatemala City terrorists killed a former deputy and wounded two U S attaches on temporary duty from the Canal Zone. Authorities imposed a 30 day suspension of political parties and allowed warrantsless searches after a night cabinet meeting. Police tracked a late model Chevrolet and set roadblocks as clashes between left and right wing groups intensified.
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Forrester
Guatemala
U.S. Southern Command
Canal Zone
Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro
Alejandro Silva Falla
Manuel Villacorta Vielman
U. S
Recover Bodies of Navy Fliers
Two Navy pilots died in a weekend jet crash near Lake Berryessa. Lt. Cmdr. Clarence Covill, 42, of Alameda, and Lt. Cmdr. Allan L. Meader, 35, were recovered by helicopter and taken to Alameda Naval Air Station.
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Woodland
Calif
UPI
Lake Berryessa
Alameda Naval Air Station
Cmdr
Clarence Covill
Alameda
Allan L. Meader
Battling Cabbies Suffer LV Setback
The PSC pauses its cab allocation order and Nevada court review looms. D.A. Franklin enforces a 150 cab limit per shift by county ordinance while seeking an exclusive airport franchise. Mirin and Chennoweth plan to run six cabs each amid enforcement threats.
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PSC
Nevada
Franklin
D.A
the Sun
Board of County Commissioners
McCarran
Mirin
Chennoweth
King Calls 3000 Volunteers for Go for Broke Campaign
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr deploys recruiters nationwide to assemble 3000 volunteers for a go for broke civil disobedience campaign in Washington, starting in early April. He says they are ready to fill jails if needed.
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Atlanta
UPI
Martin Luther King Jr
Washington
King vows Washington campaign to pressure government
King declares a push to the seat of government to demand change amid a recruiting drive for better jobs and income for the poor and especially Black Americans. He distances himself from violence and says unofficial Johnson aides may have urged cancellation but he will continue talks with Black nationalists.
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King
Johnson
Washington
Ship Channel Blazes Endanger Houston and Palo Alto Patients
In California a heart transplant patient’s wife says he’s improving after the operation at Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital, while in Houston a shell chemical plant guard dies from a heart attack amid nine hours of explosions and two major fires in the ship channel. Three other workers suffer burns but survive. The freighter Christiane and two gasoline barges explode, burn, and sink. by nightfall the vessel is towed to Galveston with most crew safe ashore.
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Palo Alto
Calif
UPI
Mike Kasperak
Ferne Kasperak
Cleveland
Kasperak
Virginia Mae White
Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital
University
Houston
UPT
Charles H. Campbell
Shell Chemical Co
Frank Howard
Leroy Ford
F. M. Butler
Christiane
York
Galveston
Hell Fire Preacher Bob Jones Sr Dies at 84
Bob Jones Sr. 84 a hell and brimstone evangelist and founder of Bob Jones University died after a long illness at the fundamentalist campus in Greenville South Carolina His death details were not disclosed He rose to fame in the Billy Sunday era and built a fortress of faith to shield students from liberal theology.
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Greenville
S. C
UPI
Bob Jones Sr
Bob Jones University
BJU
Jones
Alabama
Romney Urges Saigon-Cong Peace Talks
Governor Romney calls for talks between the Saigon government and the National Liberation Front. He argues the war relies too much on search and destroy and urges the United States and others to pursue discussions, possibly in private, as NH primary nears.
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Concord
N. H
UPI
George Romney
Michigan
United States
Saigon
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
Romney
New Hampshire
Daughter Reunites With Heart Transplant Father in Hospital
Capetown, South Africa. The only living child of Philip Blaiberg, heart transplant patient, Jill Blaiberg, 20, reunites with her father behind a glass barrier as he recovers from a second transplant. Blaiberg, 58, received Clive Haupt’s heart 15 days earlier and walked for the first time since illness worsened.
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Capetown
South Africa
UPI
Philip Blaiberg
Jill Blaiberg
Blaiberg
Clive Haupt
Israel
Official Seeks To Justify U S in Asia
In Washington a State Department adviser argues U S interests in Asia extend beyond Vietnam. William Bundy says Asians are finding themselves and seek Western values, urging the United States as a Pacific power to promote them, a position refashioning a Johnson era theme.
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Washington
UPI
State Department
Asia
Vietnam
William P. Bundy
United States
Bundy
Primary Election Figures Planned by News Service
New York reports that News Election Service will broaden its work in 1968 to tabulate presidential primary results. The NES operates with support from five major news organizations including ABC AP CBS NBC and United Press International.
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New York
UPS
News Election Service
NES
American Broadcasting Co
the Associated Press
Columbia Broadcasting System
National Broadcasting Co
United Press International
New Hampshire
McCarthy Blames Johnson Policy for U S Inflation
Senator Eugene McCarthy charged political decisions by the Johnson administration fueled inflation driven by Vietnam war costs. He urged fiscal caution and criticized the balance of payments plan as ill advised while campaigning in California for the June 4 primary. The NES board announced primary tabulations will use a central computer system.
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UPI
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota Democrat
McCarthy
Junior Chamber of Commerce
California
Johnson
Washington
J. Richard Eimers
NES
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