Senate setback for civil rights drive sparks regional rift
The 1970 vote in Washington shows the modern civil rights movement losing momentum as Stennis wins 56 to 36 with Northern Democratic support. Mondale warns of a conservative shift while the White House endorses a rival, later defeated 48 to 46, and Javits' bid to dilute the measure also fails 50 to 41.
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D-Mont
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D-Minn
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White House
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Sen
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D-N.c
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Helicopter Crashes Add To Vietnam Toll As B52 Missions Resume
U.S. air assaults resume in Vietnam with 19 American service members killed and nine wounded in four helicopter crashes. A theater bombing in Da Lat kills 10 Vietnamese and injures 43. B52s strike guerrilla targets in Laos and central highlands as enemy fire downs helicopters and another Huey crash kills eight Americans.
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Desegregation Tensions Flare in Plaquemine and South Carolina
State troopers and sheriffs used tear gas and shotguns to scatter about 100 black students at a recently desegregated Plaquemine high school amid protests over principal demotions. In Darlington S C about 70 of the county 15 000 students attended integrated classes amid parental anxiety. Georgia moves to modify federal orders toward neighbor concept while Gulf states respond with court actions. Prisoner Roger Justice escaped from Mingo County jail after a habeas corpus denial and remains missing.
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Slayings at Fort Bragg Prompt Fingerprint Search
Army investigators examined bloodstained knives and an ice pick for fingerprints in the slaying of a Ft. Bragg woman and her two daughters. Capt. Jeffrey MacDonald survived the attack as the assailants, described as two white men a Negro in Army jacket and a blonde woman, fled. The killers allegedly taunted with LSD references and scrawled Pig on the victim’s bed.
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Daley hails verdict as vindication of riot handling
Chicago Mayor Daley called the Chicago Seven verdict a substantiation of his stance on the 1968 Democratic Convention unrest. Attys Kunstler Hoffman and Anita Hoffman criticized the outcome as an outrage and a grave act, while the defendants deny conspiring to incite riots.
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Daley
Ways to End Recession With Housing Subsidy Plan
The Nixon administration weighs a $100 million housing subsidy via the Federal Home Loan Bank system to aid home loans and ease recession. A plan, to be announced to the House Banking Committee, could be a grant or loan counted in the budget with a limited duration.
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UPI
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Red Skeltonmay face end of CBS show negotiations end
Hollywood dispatch reports Red Skelton's 19 year CBS TV show may end with negotiations terminated. A spokesman denied a salary raise request and said renewal should have occurred this month.
Busing ban backed by Assembly speakers in California
Sacramento political figures rally behind a proposed constitutional amendment by Floyd Wakefield to prohibit compulsory busing for racial integration without parental consent. The bill, supported by Assembly Speaker Robert Monagan and state school board head Howard Day, faces high hurdles and follows Reagan’s anti forced busing push.
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Robert T. Monagan
Howard Day
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