Oregon Prison Riot Ends With Convicts Winning Most Issues
Inmates at the Oregon State Penitentiary ended a 16 hour riot after the aging warden resigned and officials met most convict demands. Damage was estimated at 5 million dollars with fires destroying key facilities. no deaths, but multiple beatings and hostages were reported. The uprising, the sixth at the 100 year old prison, ended with prisoner grievances largely resolved and inmates seen enjoying a yard concert.
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Oregon
Salem, Ore
Grey
Ron Schmidt
Tom McCall
McCall
New York City
New York
Salem
Glenn Shedeck
At & A.m
Vietnamese Kerosene Base Hit as NVA Attacks Four Fronts
North Vietnamese artillery rocket and mortar barrages hit four U S Marine bases south of the DMZ with Cua Viet Dong Ha and Khe Sanh among the hardest hit. A U S spokesman reported light casualties though Dong Ha saw a soldier killed and several wounded. At Danang no casualties were reported.
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Saigon
UPS
U U. S
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
U. S
W U. S
Dong Ha
Khe Sanh
Vietnams
Cua Viet
UPI
Ray Wilkinson
UU. S
Don Ha
Wilkerson
Wilkinson
Dan Nang U. S
Ed Sullivan Opens Las Vegas Run From Caesars Palace
Ed Sullivan staged the first live Sullivan Show from Caesars Palace Las Vegas featuring Theodore Bikel in Tevye and a guest list that included Liza Minnelli, The McGuire Sisters, The 6th Dimensions, and many stars. The broadcast linked New York and eastern viewers with a Vegas crowd as stage crews reconfigured for Fiddler On The Roof between performances.
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Las Vegas
Ed Sullivan
Caesars Palace
Theodore Bikel
Sullivan
Liza Minnelli
Jack Carter
Allen & Rossi
McGuire Sisters
Canestrellis
6Th Dimensions
Joe Louis
Duke Ellington
Guy Lombardo
Myron Cohen
Paula Stewart
Jack E. Leonard
Hotel Riviera
Phil Ford
Mimi Hines
Nathan Jacobson
Jay Sarno
Oran Grayson
SUN
Hank Greenspun
Eartha Kitt
Kirby Stone Four
Anthony George
Hotel Sahara
US Wins Support in Gold Crisis at Basel Meeting
At Basel, Swiss officials and Western European central banks joined the United States to defend the $35 per ounce gold price. The accord aims to curb wild speculation and protect the dollar and pound, with William McChesney Martin crediting the unity as a victory for US monetary policy. Banks of Belgium, West Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Britain backed the move. France had withdrawn earlier.
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Basel
Switzerland
United States
William McChesney Martin
U. S. Federal Reserve Bank
Belgium
West Germany
Italy
The
Netherlands
Great Britain
France
Rockefeller Gains GOP Support for 1964 Nomination Fight
Nelson Rockefeller mobilized Republican moderates and a Goldwater conservative ally to push for his bid against Richard Nixon. At a two hour Fifth Avenue meeting with 32 GOP leaders, Rockefeller weighed a formal candidacy while promising to consult national party figures. Supporters hailed his cross party appeal and vote getting record.
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New York
UPI
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Rockefeller
Fifth Avenue
Johnson
Miller
Spiro T. Agnew
Maryland
Agnew
Sen
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Scott
Three Boys Arrested While Rifling School
Las Vegas police arrested three juveniles after they allegedly broke into Roy Martin Junior High School. An 18 year old, Anthony Regan, was wounded by a slug that hit him in the hip through a glass window. The four suspects damaged a typewriter and a beverage machine but did not crack the office safe. Regan was treated at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital.
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Las Vegas
Dorn McHale
Bob Dunlop
Roy Martin
McHale
Anthony Regan
Regan
Adams St
Bruce Miller
Miller
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Weather Summary for Today
Mostly clear conditions with 19 to 20 mph winds. Today's high 65 and low 40. Yesterday's high 3 and low 48. Noontime humidity at 22 percent. Sunrise at 5 58 and sunset at 5 44.
Nationwide Primaries Favored Over Party Delegates
The Harris survey shows 51 percent favor a nationwide party primary where enrolled members decide nominees directly, with 39 percent backing national conventions. Romney's exit and Rockefeller's nonparticipation leave spring primaries indecisive, while Nixon would have beaten either Romney or Rockefeller if they had entered.
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George Romney
New Hampshire
Nelson Rockefeller
Richard Nixon
Romney
Rockefeller
Nixon
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