De Gaulle and Industry Clash Over Union Strike End
Paris officials and management balk at union demands to end the general strike. Marathon talks among Premier Pompidou, the management association, and six major unions stalled over cost of living linked pay scales, social security reforms, and tax changes. Workers Force Union head Andre Bergeron urged 10 million striking workers to harden their defiance to topple government positions.
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de Gaulle
Paris
UPI
France
Georges Pompidou
Andre Bergeron
Workers Force Union
Peace Talks Stalemate In Third Week
Paris reports stalemate in Vietnam peace talks entering their third week. United States and North Vietnam hardened positions since May 13 with no agreements and little immediate progress. Both sides prefer extended discussions hoping to end the fighting.
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Paris
UPS
United States
North Vietnam
Washington
Hanoi
Vietnam
No Cheese Botched Hold-Up Ends With IOU and Loan
A gunman demanded money and cottage cheese at a market. Clerk Denis Kidwell, out of cheese, gave the robber $50 after he signed an IOU and provided a reference. The man claimed his wife and child were ill and left with the gun.
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Reyo
Ups
Denis Kidwell
Kidwell
NAACP Pickets Strip Resorts In Las Vegas Demonstrations
Negro groups picketed Strip hotels and Fremont Street casinos in Las Vegas as part of an NAACP area convention. Charles Kellar led the Las Vegas NAACP. roughly 20 marchers downtown handed out leaflets alleging job discrim ination. Police were present, but no violence occurred. The NAACP workshop met on Saturday and demonstrations followed Sunday's closing meeting.
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Southern California
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Fremont Street
Las Vegas
NAACP
Charles Kellar
Daredevil Czech Pilot Slovak Injured In California Crash
Daredevil Mira Slovak, the Czech aviator famed for defecting in 1955, was seriously injured when his VW engine mono plane crashed at Santa Paula near Los Angeles after an 8,000 mile flight from Germany. He was pulled from wreckage repeating that he had crashed his airplane.
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Santa Paula
Calif
UPI
Mira Slovak
Germany
Slovak
Bonn
Scotland
Iceland
Greenland
Atlantic
United States
Los Angeles
Commust
Czechoslovakia
Freedom
$50,000 Jewel Theft Puzzles Las Vegas Police
A New York importer and his wife staying at a Strip hotel were robbed of more than $50,000 in jewelry and cash. The couple, Abraham and Mrs Rosenberg of Long Island, reported a locked-room theft likely aided by a room key. Items stolen include a $15,000 ring, a valued ring, a bracelet, earrings, cash, and casino chips.
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New York
Ralph Lamb
Abraham Rosenberg
Rosenberg
Long Island
N.Y
Kennedy Cuts Humphrey Lead In Harris Poll After Primaries
The Harris Survey finds Kennedy narrowing Humphrey's nationwide lead from 11 to 4 points after Kennedy's Indiana and Nebraska primary wins. In three-way talks, Humphrey edges Kennedy 46 to 42 while Kennedy leads McCarthy 44 to 39 and Humphrey tops McCarthy 49 to 37.
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Sen
Robert Kennedy
Indiana
Nebraska
Hubert Humphrey
Kennedy
Humphrey
Eugene McCarthy
McCarthy
Harris
Kennedyites Chafe Over Oregon Primary Prospects
Central California manhunt news aside, RFK faces a tight Oregon Democratic primary as McCarthy and Kennedy backers anticipate a close vote. Labor groups may push Oregon Democrats toward Johnson, while Republicans vote in a split ballot scenario and Nixon remains the sole active GOP candidate.
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Oregon
Robert F. Kennedy
Organized Labor
Johnson
Vietnam
Hubert H. Humphrey
Atlantic City
N. J
Eugene J. McCarthy
Oregonian
Portland
Richard M. Nixon
California
Ronald Rea
Three mental patients escape Atascadero hospital
Three dangerous inmates seized a 45 caliber revolver from two psychiatric aides at Atascadero State Hospital and fled with four hostages. Two hospital guards were stabbed and later in serious condition but out of danger after being dumped from a stolen car near Avila Beach. Escapers moved through the county triggering roadblocks as a search stretched from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
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Atascadero Stats Hospital
Avila Beach
San Luis Obispo County
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Atascadero
One Thousand Seniors to Graduate in Las Vegas Week
Nearly 1,000 seniors will graduate this week at two high schools and the Las Vegas Convention Center. Valley High and Virgin Valley hold ceremonies tonight and tomorrow, with Clark High and Southern Nevada Vocational-Technical Center also graduating. Gorman High School wraps the week with 132 seniors.
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Vegas
Las Vegas Convention Center
Valley High School
At & O'Cock
Convention Center
Virgin Valley
Clark High School
Las Vegas
Southern Nevada Vocational-Technical Center
Ed Fike
Gorman High School
Weather brief with hot readings and mild humidity
Clear weather with gentle winds. Today’s high reaches 98 degrees and a low of 65. Noontime humidity at 9 percent. Sunrise at 5 27, sunset at 7 49.
Yanks Battle Communists Across Vietnam Fronts
Allied forces killed at least 483 North Vietnamese troops in weekend fighting from Saigon to near the DMZ. B42 bombers struck positions in both South and North Vietnam. Near Dong Ha base 10 miles south of DMZ US and ARVN repelled pushes killing 255 in two battles. 75 to 100 others believed killed on battlefield peripheries. Saigon outskirts saw 24 killed in house to house fighting two and a half miles from the city center. Allied losses were three killed and 12 wounded.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
South
North Vietnam
Dong Ha
Dmz
Vet Cong
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RFK Shootin
United Press International
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Tomor
Gan
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Atascadero, Calif
Bien Hoa
Allied
Nune Sun
Ickuse Acesstsesien
Crosswort
Ween
Joe Delaney
Society
Walter Winchell
Feeaas Seas
Showboa
East
Fremont
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