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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1969
Page
2
The piece recalls Levi Eshkol born 1895 in Ukraine, his Zionist rise, kibbutz focus, and hard driving leadership. It notes his wartime challenges, marriages, and family, ending with the impact of his death on his aides and supporters.
The Republican Assembly leaders sponsor a limited wiretap bill and a stop and frisk measure as part of a tough on crime campaign. Speaker Howard McKissick and majority leader Zelvin Lowman say the bills empower DA or AG court orders to intercept communications and define police search limits.
In San Francisco the Richmond Police Department faces a rift between the white Richmond Police Officers Association and a black officers group. Attorney Vasilin Choulos denounces racism charges as appeasement and attacks lawyer Henry Ramsey Jr for aligning with black organizations. Ramsey warned of violent black reaction and city changes followed. Charges include patrols in ghettos talks with youths black pre recruit training tests and a citizens group to explain police functions.
At the National Governors Conference Washington governors backed a plan to allocate federal tax revenues to the states with few restrictions. A revenue sharing formula was to be developed to persuade the Nixon administration and Congress. Rockefeller urged federal relief while Kennedy cautioned against overestimating immediate funds.
National Guard troops armed with bayonets and tear gas entered the University of California campus to clear about 500 demonstrators and onlookers amid a day of violence linked to a student strike. Four arrests were reported, including three students, and a campus patrolman was hospitalized with severe head injuries after clashes with militants.
The U.S. Weather Bureau reports the coldest nationwide reading excluding Alaska and Hawaii as 1 below zero at Havre Montana. The warmest high reached 79 degrees at North Miami Beach Florida.
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