Explosion Kills Seven at Fort Bragg Training Range
An on range demolition accident during Green Beret training killed seven soldiers and injured five at Fort Bragg North Carolina. Eleven trainees watched as two pounds of TNT detonated prematurely due to a hot wire. Three identified victims were Sgt J C Ernest J Bryan Fayetteville Sgt Phillip N Schnicke Fayetteville and Spec 4 Ronald E Puckett Smyrna Ga. The Army halted all demolition training pending a complete procedures review and safety reassessment.
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UPI
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Flanagan
North Carolina
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Phillip N. Schnicke
Fayetteville
Ronald E. Puckett
Smyrna
Schnicke
Madison, Wis
Blackmun Becomes Ninth U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Harry A. Blackmun was sworn in as the ninth justice of the Supreme Court in a seven minute ceremony. Chief Justice Burger administered the oath while Attorney General Mitchell witnessed, with Nixon's commission read aloud to a packed courtroom. Blackmun, from Rochester Minnesota, joins the court after Fortas resignation and prior failed nominations Haynsworth and Carswell. The ceremony included family members and retired justices in attendance.
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UPI
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Warren E. Burger
Ee Court
High Court
Abe Fortas
John N. Mitchell
Nixon
Blackmun
Mitchell
John F. Davis
Burger
Rochester
Minn
Fortas
Clement F. Haynsworth
G. Harrold Carswell
Senate
Supreme Court
Burger's
Far Left
Byron R. White
Earl Warren
California faces 140 million debt push for welfare and faculty cuts
Sacramento officials warn the state is 140 million in the red as welfare costs surge and revenues fall. Verne Orr proposes trimming the UC and state college faculty pay raise, reducing building plans by 20 million, and shaving 21.5 million from welfare and other services to balance Reagan's 6.48 billion budget for 1970-71. A Senate panel member voiced strong opposition to the plan.
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UPI
Reagan
University of California and State College
Verne Orr
Senate Finance Committee
Assembly Ways and Means Committee
Orr
San Clemente
White House
Lompoc mobilizes broad drive to attract clean industry
City officials including Sol Lefkowitz launch a multi group effort with the Lompoc City Council and Chamber of Commerce to recruit industry. A 1 inch-thick compilation by Gene Ahlers will guide outreach as committees map incentives and funding while targeting shoppers and local business growth.
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Lompoc City
Sol Lefkowitz
Lefkowitz
Lawmen sweep Isla Vista with dump trucks and curfew
Heavily armed officers conducted dusk to dawn sweeps in Isla Vista using 10 dump trucks and tear gas to break up rock throwing crowds. 73 arrests were reported, raising three night totals to 140, as five cars burned and the Bank of America branch endured rock attacks.
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Santa Barbara
UPI
University of California
Bank of America
Bank of American
Isla Vista
UC Santa Barbara
Supervisors ratify Isla Vista emergency order changes
The Board of Supervisors approved the state of emergency rules resetting the Isla Vista curfew to 6 a.m. and banning unlawful assembly of more than five during curfew. They met in executive session with Sheriff Webster and Gov Reagan aide Ellingwood to plan further actions.
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Isla Vista
James W. Webster
Herbert Ellingwood
Reagan
Webster
Ellingwood
Bank of America
Regents Continue bid to fire Angela Davis
In a secret UC session the Regents weighed non party grounds to dismiss Angela Davis a 26 year old philosophy instructor who disclosed her Communist Party membership. Critics say the 14th Amendment protects such membership and a prior court ruling deemed the previous action unconstitutional.
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San Francisco
UPI
University of California Regents
Communist Party
Angela Davis
William Beach Smith
Smith
Frederick Dutton
Newsmen
Miss Davis
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Sperior Court
Weather outlook with Clouds, Clearing Tonight
Weather diary reports cloudy conditions today with a clearing tonight and a fair Wednesday. Highs in the 60s today and reaching the 60s to low 70s on Wednesday, with 50s tonight. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph afternoons. Tides: high 4.2 feet at 1 52 am and 3.8 feet at 5 08 pm, low 0.5 feet at 9 38 am and 2.9 feet at 10 08 pm.
City Hall Flag Restored as Children Start Summer Break
Dustin Griffith and Barbara Barboza retrieved and folded a flag left at City Hall after others forgot it. Disappointed children begin their first week of summer vacation at the beach, enjoying a cool, cloudy day.
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Dustin Griffith
Barbara Barboza
City Hall
County faces tougher task to hold tax rate
Administrative Officer Raymond D. Johnson warns county voters may face a 65 to 75 cent tax hike due to rising welfare law enforcement and mental health costs. The current rate is 2.32 dollars with 2.20 in the general fund. Supervisors begin budget reviews June 16 ahead of July hearings, seeking targeted cuts and possible service reductions.
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Raymond D. Johnson
Johnson
Soviet cosmonauts test heart and lungs in space
In Moscow Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastianov completed eight days aboard the space mission. Doctors found their heart and lungs conditions adequate as monitors tracked blood pressure pulse and breathing rate during exercises per Tass report.
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Moscow
UPI
Andrian Nikolayev
Vitaly Sevastianov
Tass
Cosmonauts Report Pleasant Post-Exercise Sensation
The agency said all readings rose during the exercise but normalized 20 seconds after stop. Tass stated the physiological data show adequate cardiovascular and respiratory responses to the workload. The cosmonauts reported a pleasant vigor similar to Earthly workouts.
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Tass
Earth
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