Santa Barbara Riots Expose Policy Gaps and Slow Response
The Isla Vista violence exposed local law enforcement gaps after funds for riot training and overtime pay were unused. Deputies lacked riot control specialists as four nights of disorder yielded 141 arrests, bank fires, and destroyed police cars, prompting calls for quicker, stronger future action.
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Santa Barbara
UPI
California
Los Angeles
Oakland
Sacramento
San Jose
County Board of Supervisors
Daniel G. Grant
Isla Vista
Sheriff’s Department
Grant
James Webster
Isla Vista quiet as guardsmen clear streets during takeover
National Guard troops swept Isla Vista near the UC Santa Barbara campus clearing streets after four nights of unrest. About 1,000 soldiers conducted rounds, 141 arrests total since Tuesday, with 83 last night and no injuries reported. Curfew extended. campus suspensions possible for violators. petition drive shows campus division.
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Santa Barbara
UPI
National Guard
University of California
Ronald Reagan
Isla Vista
UC Santa Barbara
Vernon I. Cheadle
Harvey Levin
Chicago Seven bail allowed by appeals court
A federal appeals court ruled all seven members of the Chicago Conspiracy group may be freed on bail. Five convicted of conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention could post 25 000-dollar bail each, while Fraines and Weiner and the lawyers faced 15 000-dollar bail. The court found no flight risk and rejected the government claim of frivolity.
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Chicago
UPS
David T. Dellinger
Bennard Davis
Thomas E. Hayden
Abbott Hoffman
Jerry C. Rubin
John R. Fraines
Lee Weiner
William M. Kunstler
Leonard Weinglass
U.S
Dellinger
David
Hayden
Hoffman
Rubin
See-saw hilltop battle in Laos sparks new thrust
North Vietnamese troops captured then abandoned a Laotian outpost nine miles from the San Thong U.S. base as fighting eased briefly. Gen. Vang Pao’s forces lined a 55 mile front from the Plain of Jars to Long Cheng while 1,000 trucks fed the offensive with supplies from North Vietnam.
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Vang Pao
Plain of Jars
Long Cheng
North Vietnam
Long Chen
San Thong
Luang Prabang
Vientiane
Goldley
Saigon
Minister Kidnapped in Guatemala City
Foreign Minister Alberto Fuentes Mohr was abducted by the Armed Revolutionary Force FAR in Guatemala City. The group demanded the release of a jailed member named Calvillo within 24 hours or threaten to kill him. The incident arose days before general elections and parallels past high profile abductions by FAR.
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Guatemala City
UPI
Alberto Fuentes Mohr
Armed Revolutionary Force
FAR
Fuentes Mohr
Calvillo
Two Lompoc men arrested on narcotics charges
Deputies and Lompoc police arrested Nano Chavoya and John Gill on multiple narcotics charges after a month long investigation. Chavoya, 25, faced two counts of marijuana for sale and related offenses with bail set at 16 250. Gill, 20, faced marijuana and dangerous drugs charges and false identification with bail set at 13 440. Confiscated were 14 lids of marijuana 60 capsules of dangerous drugs and 14 one hundred dollar bills.
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Nano Chavoya
Lompoc
John Gill
Amherst Pt
Chavoya
South E Street
Heavy rain causes local flooding in Lompoc Valley
Storms dumped 1.11 inches at the city water plant boosting the season total to 7.45 inches as flooded intersections appeared across Lompoc and Santa Barbara county. Minor mudslides reported near SC-20 and Highway 1 with roads open but monitored. no major damage noted. An accident on North H Street left Francis Blinkenstaff Haldiman with minor injuries and she was treated at Vandenberg AFB hospital.
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Charles A.ott
Lompoc Valley
Santa Barbara County
City
East North Avenue
Cachuma
Lompoc
Chestnut
College Avenues
Ocean Avenue
E Street
Cypress Avenue
Walnut Avenue
Vandenberg Road
Highway 1
California Highway Patrol
Orcutt
North H Street
Francis Blinkenstaff Haldiman
N.T St
Gerald I. Hightower
Juniper Ave
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Haldiman
Senate meets on HEW bill amid school desegregation fight
In a rare Saturday session the Senate tackles the labor HEW appropriation bill with northern opposition to southern amendments aimed at weakening desegregation tools via freedom of choice plans and anti busing provisions. House Whitten amendments seek loosened busing limits and parental assignment rights as Nixon weighs compromise.
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Senate
Washington
Senate House Conference Committee
Nixon
White House
Gordon L. Allott
Rcole
Whitten
House
Allott
Robert P. Griffin
R-Mich
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Cabrillo High School
Temple City
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