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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1970
Page
1
Las Vegas area police search for a man believed shot in the leg after a confrontation with a house detective at the Sahara Hotel early yesterday. Authorities describe the incident as a confrontation on hotel premises and pursue the suspect.
Fidel Castro conceded failure to reach the target of a 16 million ton sugar harvest and offered to resign as premier. In a Havana Plaza de la Revolución speech, he blamed himself and the leadership for Cuba's economic strains, warning of hard years ahead before 1975–80.
The widow Hazel Inez Ball, 71, mother of Warren Ball the engineer and inventor, lives in a four by four foot motel room in destitution. A Pekinese trembles near a bed while papers about her son's estate fill a tin cabinet. A photo of Warren and a jar of peanut butter mark a harsh final image.
Saboteurs felled three Pacific Intertie high voltage towers near Empire Nevada causing temporary repairs and no outage due to automatic switching. Sheriff deputy reports severed guywires by hacksaw or torch, with crews from LA DWP quickly setting temporary replacements after the Friday night incident. The act marks the third such sabotage in northwest Nevada in recent months.
Arab states divided over a U.S. cease fire and negotiations plan. Jordan and Sudan joined Egypt in accepting. guerrillas in Jordan rejected. Iraq and Syria denounced. Amman and Cairo pursued preliminary talks with U.S. envoy Burgus and Gunnar Jarring on withdrawal timetables and a staged peace.
The Harris survey finds the Democrats leading Republicans 45 to 37 percent in this fall's congressional races with 20 percent undecided. Across eligible voters the D lead is 46 to 33, narrowing to 45-37 among 1966 voters. Regional patterns show Dem strength in East and West, GOP strength in the Midwest. The Democrats dominate cities 51-30 while Republicans gain in hinterlands and border-state South poses potential GOP gains.
A seven year old Las Vegas boy, Donald Edward Cassel, died from head injuries after riding from a private driveway and crossing Charleston Boulevard near Montclair, into the path of Bonita Eleanor Chaiet. Investigators noted 20 feet of skid marks and 84 foot throw distance.
In Cambridge Common a free rock concert drew about 3 000 attendees amid 0 degree heat and humidity. Police from Boston and Cambridge used tear gas to disperse rock throwing crowds after an occupied bus was stoned. Seven arrests were made with no injuries reported.
Variable cloudiness with scattered showers and thunder showers through the area. High today 105, low 75. Yesterday reached 100 and 75. Sunrise at 5 04 a.m. and sunset at 7 50 p.m. Noontime humidity 36 percent.
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