Friends doubt Angela Davis fled Birmingham after slayings
UPI reports Birmingham column suggests Angela Davis likely remained abroad after the San Rafael courthouse killings. Close friends and Black Panther members deny sightings in Birmingham and say she would not risk returning to her hometown. Davis’s links to 1963 church bombing are noted as a possible radicalizing factor.
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Birmingham
UPI
Angela Davis
San Rafael
Birmingham Post Herald
Clettus Atkinson
Angela
Atkinson
Cuba
Algiers
Europe
Miss Davis
Jefferson County
Marin County
California
Panther Party
Panthers
Bombings Hit Mount Shasta and Crescent City Police
In Mount Shasta a Molotov thrown at a police house missed the family infant but spilled gasoline on a one year old. In Crescent City a dynamite blast damaged a deputy’s car but left Sgt. Harold Hight unharmed. Officials call in state investigators. threats had targeted the sheriff prior.
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Mount Shasta
Crescent City
Harold Barnum
del Norte County
Hight
Tom Lawry
San Francisco Presidio
Lawry
Barnum
Sacramento
Chavez signs first Salinas Valley pact ending strike
Cesar Chavez announces a two year contract with Inter Harvest Inc the largest lettuce grower in The Nation's Salad Bowl covering 800 to 1000 workers in the Salinas Valley and beyond. Teamsters rescind their pact as UFWOC seeks to bring workers back to farms while Pic n Pac challenges the agreement in court.
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Salinas
UPI
Cesar Chavez
Chavez
Inter Harvest, Inc
Afl-Cio
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
United Fruit Company
Inter Harvest
California
Santa Maria
San Francisco Superior Court
Pic ‘N Pac
S.S. Pierce Company
Teamsters Union
Arizona
Teamsters
UFWOC
Inter Harvest Action
Propane Car Wins 3600-Mile Clear Air Race Start
A 1970 Plymouth powered by propane beat diesel natural gas and electric rivals in a 3600 mile race from MIT to Pasadena. UC Berkeley student Bak Ying Chan drove the leading car to Caltech, finishing eight hours and 15 minutes short of seven days, as emission tests by the State Air Resources Board would determine the official winner.
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Pasadena
Electric Brothers
California Institute of Technology
University of California At Berkeley
Bak Ying Chan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Mass
State Air Resources Board
McCusker Named New Lompoc Record Sports Editor
Michael G. McCusker 27 becomes the Lompoc Record sports editor succeeding Bob Pellerin. A Seattle University journalism graduate, he previously covered sports for the Seattle Times and served in the U S Navy before editing at the Anchorage Times.
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Michael G. McCusker
Lompoc Record Today
Bob Pellerin
San Jose State
Harry J. Crompe
McCusker
Seattle University
Shoreline High School
Seattle
Seattle Times
U.S. Navy
Puerto Rico
Anchorage Times
Anchorage
Alaska
Record
S. L Street
Lindbergh Claims U S Was Pushed Into War by Roosevelt
Charles A. Lindbergh asserts in his forthcoming The Wartime Journals that the United States was drawn into World War II by F D Roosevelt Britain and Jewish propaganda. He argues America failed to foresee greater threats from the Soviet Union and Communist China and condemns U S torture of Japanese prisoners as shocking misconduct by American troops in the Pacific.
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Washington
UPI
Charles A. Lindbergh
United States
Franklin D Roosevelt
Britain
America
Germany
Japan
Soviet Union
China
Lindbergh
Atlantic
America First
U.S
Pacific
Lockheed to lay off 160 at VAFB under new contract
Lockheed will reduce its workforce at Vandenberg Air Force Base by 160 to about 600, a 21 per cent cut. Spokesman Tom Brockway said most displaced workers will be moved to other Lockheed locations though relocation is difficult. The cuts come with an 18 month contract starting October 1, and Lockheed previously peaked at 1,600 in 1961. Over 90 percent of displaced workers have found positions elsewhere in the company.
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Lockheed
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Tom Brockway
Brockway
Air Force Captain on duty at U Tapao Thailand
U S Air Force Captain Robert E Blaschke Jr serves with the 307th Strategic Wing at U Tapao Airfield Thailand. A Strategic Air Command munitions officer he supports B 52 bombers and KC 135 tankers in the air war over Vietnam after being commissioned in 1967 at Lackland AFB Texas. He previously served at Beale AFB California.
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U. S. Air Forces
Thailand
U. S. Air Force
Robert E. Blaschke Jr
USAF
Robert E. Blaschke
Saint Andrews Way
Lompoc
307Th Strategic Wing
U-Tapao Airfield
Blaschke
Strategic Air Command
Viet
Lackland Afb
Tex
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North F
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J. Donald Adam
Tsgt
Herman S. Reece
Reece
London
UPL
Stephen Marriott
Mt. Shasta
Dolores Huerta
Teamster
Propane
Diesel
Enneys
American Legion Drum & Bugle Corps
Ella
Ney Is
Harley A. Craig
Eeay
E. Oak Santa Maria
DAN River
Dan
Cmatch Aes
Iron Dan
Italy
Milano
Tweeds
BankAmericard
Broadway
Michael McCusker
VAFB
Beale Afb
Kodi
Acolor
Everett
Wash
Portland
Ore
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