Belfast Gunfire and clashes end in days of turmoil
British troops faced heavy sniper fire in Belfast amid sectarian clashes in the Falls Road and Bogside. IRA denied losses as more than 20 people were reported killed in three days of fighting. Londonderry saw Protests and clashes during a march anniversary. Local civic budget news also noted. city tax rise avoided but utility rates rise.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Londonderry
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Lower Falls Road
Pioneer Days honors Nellie Sperber at Lompoc breakfast
The Lompoc Retail Merchants Association kicked off Pioneer Days with a breakfast and costume awards at the Lions Inn. Nellie Hogan Sperber, 92, is honored as the oldest living Lompoc High School graduate.
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Nellie Hogan Sperber
Lompoc High School
Earl Calvert
Lompoc
Lions Inn
Jon's Beauty College
Moore's Department Store
Jansson's Liquor
Lindsay Emerges as Possible Democratic Presidential Candidate
Mayor John V. Lindsay, newly switch to the Democratic Party, is mentioned as a potential 1972 presidential candidate. He pledged to actively participate in building new national leadership, though he has no current power base or organization in the party. Democratic leaders welcomed his switch at Gracie Mansion.
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New York
UPI
John V. Lindsay
Lindsay
Republican Party
Gracie Mansion
Funding recommended for Drop-in Centers in Lompoc Valley
The regional California Council on Criminal Justice voted a do fund recommendation for an $18,997 grant to establish two youth drop-in centers in Vandenberg Village and Lompoc. The project, led by the Lompoc Valley Drug Abuse Coordinating Council with district and city support, will hire a professional counselor and student counselors. Opening date is not yet set.
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Lompoc Valley
California Council On Criminal Justice
Lompoc Unified
Harry J. Crompe
Drug Abuse Coordinating Council
Wallace Ault
Mental Health Department
Dawn House
Robert Thompson
Lompoc Unified School District
Richard Harris
Vandenberg Village
Lompoc
Vietnamese bases attacked near DMZ raise tensions in war
North Vietnamese troops shelled and probed South Vietnamese bases below the DMZ in a coordinated assault. At least 34 soldiers from both sides died and two American advisers were wounded at an outpost south of the buffer zone. No ground activity by U.S. forces was reported. Two U.S. airmen were wounded when their helicopter was shot down near Kontum. The fighting may signal the renewal of a summer campaign ahead of South Vietnam’s August 29 national assembly election.
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Saigon
North
South Vietnam
National Assembly
U.S
Kontum
Astronauts honor fallen in memorial on moon
Apollo 15 crew David Scott Alfred Worden and James Irwin placed a plaque and a fallen astronaut statue in a moon crater to honor 14 dead spacemen from the U S and Soviet space efforts. Scott spoke of the long road from rough beginnings to pinnacle achievements and future lunar exploration. Worden described the splashdown and parachute issue as they returned, noting all chutes deployed normally before the final descent problems were observed.
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Space Center
Houston
UPI
David R. Scott
Alfred M. Worden
James B. Irwin
Scott
Moon
Worden
Pacific Ocean
Mission Control Center
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Gene Wahlers
Wahlers
Bogside
Fountain Street
al Pico
Pico’s
Sporting Goods
Nellie Sperber
Bruce Boyer
Lester Sabin
Max van Ausdal
Agnes Hamilton
Arthur Vienola
Ralph Patey
Pioneer Days
Record
S. Viet
Dmz
le Trung Hien
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