Sleeper accuses deputies of payoffs in Las Vegas heroin case
Former Las Vegas narcotics chief John Sleeper alleges sheriff’s deputies took bribes linked to Ava Pittman case. He testifies before a grand jury at 2 p.m. and accuses Dist. Atty. Franklin and Sheriff Lamb of political moves to suppress his evidence.
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Give Em Hell Harry Truman Turns 86
Independence Missouri reports Harry S Truman, the 33rd U.S. president, on the eve of his 86th birthday. He declares, I’m feeling as good as ever, and I’m feeling very fine, despite arthritis, leaning on a cane.
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Independence
Harry S Truman
U.S
Where I Stand on Agnew and the silent majority
Hank Greenspun defends press independence and attacks Spiro Agnew as a demagogue. He argues Life Magazine and the public misread Middle America, warns against censorship, and recalls past demagogues while asserting a newspaper mission to challenge power.
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Agnew
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Land Life Magazine
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Theodore Bilbo
Sen
Ted Kennedy
Robert
UNLV Students Strike Yet Protest Peacefully
UNLV faced a near shutdown as students honored a local strike tied to a nationwide protest against Nixon Cambodian policy. Fewer than 400 attended classes, with many sessions canceled by instructors. In Reno, three firebombs at the Military Science building caused minor damage. one exploded, another ignited, and a third remained unlit.
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University of Nevada
Las Vegas
Nixon
UNLV
Lucius Floyd
Bobbe Dabling
Nevada Coalition For Peace
Reno
University of Nevada At Reno
Robert Malone
Donald C. Moyer
Campus Strikes Across U.S. Protests Indochina Policy
Police and National Guardsmen fired tear gas at student crowds on at least three large universities yesterday as protests against Indochina policy continued. The clashes marked a sustained wave of campus demonstrations nationwide.
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United Press International
Yank Troops Seize Major Red Center in Cambodia
American troops captured a major Communist communications center in the Fishhook area 75 miles northwest of Saigon without resistance. The center housed permanent structures and was believed to hold COSVN communications. Also found were weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies. Protests and campus strikes surged nationwide with tear gas used at several universities amid clashes with police and National Guardsmen.
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Fishhook
Cambodia
Central Office For
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COSVN
Nixon calls governors to White House amid campus turmoil
Santa Fe New Mexico reports Governor Shafer says President Nixon invited 50 governors to the White House Monday to discuss the nation’s violence and campus unrest. The Republican governors conference is canceled as governors stay home to cope with disorders linked to Cambodia and Kent State killings.
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Whitehouse
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Cambodia
Kent State University
Las Vegas Girl Joya Trapani Dies After Heart Surgery
Five year old Joya Trapani of Las Vegas died yesterday morning after open heart surgery in Houston Texas. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs Frank Trapani she traveled from 4167 Tara Ave with two siblings Tommy six and Cathy eight. It was her second operation for a congenital heart defect first operated at two and a half months old at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.
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Texas
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Tara Ave
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Cathy
Spiro Agnew Told to Soften Tone on Dissent
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew flew west to begin a trip that will take him away during an antiwar demonstration. Nixon reportedly told Agnew to soften his criticisms of dissenters, while White House Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler declined to comment.
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UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
Scripps-Howard
Nixon
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Agnew Plans Speaking Tour Amid Tape Interview Plans
Agnew has three speaking engagements in two days. He intends a taped interview with TV host David Frost in Los Angeles to air next week. He will speak today in Cody Wyoming and Boise Idaho.
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Herbert Thompson
Los Angeles
David Frost
Cody
Wyo
Boise
Idaho
Weather Preview Mostly Fair with Warm Breeze
Mostly fair today with moderate breezes and a slightly warmer feel. Today’s high is 76 and low 50, with yesterday’s 78 and 55. A year ago today 84 to 57. Sunrise 5 41 am and sunset 7 34 pm.
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