Las Vegas Strike Begins at Desert Inn and Resorts
The Culinary and Bartenders Union led a citywide strike starting at the Desert Inn, with pickets expanding toward Caesars Palace and the International Hotel. Officials expect lockouts at all 16 Strip hotels, as nonunion dealers continue work and customers carry on gambling.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UPI
Howard Hughes
Desert Inn Hotel
Caesars Palace
International Hotel
Culinary and Bartenders Union
Desert Inn
Lee Shaw
Nevada Resort Association
Reagan begins campaign for second term in California
Gov. Ronald Reagan officially launches his campaign for a second term in a hotel near the State Capitol. He dodges a debate with Assemblyman Jess Unruh and signals no fixed four year pledge while outlining plans and fundraisers in Southern California and Riverside.
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Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Jess Unruh
State Capitol
Unruh
Richard Nixon
California
Ontario
Etiwanda
Reagan
University of California At Riverside
Nancy
Ed Reinecke
Nixon
Weather Outlook and Gubernatorial Campaign Hint
Mostly cloudy today with clearing tonight then fair and warmer Thursday. High near 60 today, high 60s Thursday, lows in the 40s. Light winds NW 10 to 29 mph Thursday. Tides high at 5.3 ft 12:26 am and 2.9 ft 2:02 pm. low tides 0.3 ft 7:44 am and 2.1 ft 6:14 pm. Reagan, delaying public comment on the gubernatorial race, hints at two distinct pictures versus Brown and Unruh, saying he is not taking anything for granted despite leading polls and a 1966 landslide win over Edmund G. Brown.
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Reagan
Upswing in fighting across Viet war zone
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops inflicted heavy losses on two regional force units along the central coast. The battles northeast of Saigon left 27 militiamen dead, 28 wounded and three missing, as U.S. troops reported a broader wave of clashes near the Cambodian border and Hue, with 112 guerrillas killed and 14 American deaths plus 40 wounded. A CH47 helicopter crash near Quan Loi added more fatalities. High-ranking officials say militia forces are evolving into a backbone for Vietnamization, now rated 60 percent effective.
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VPI
South Vietnam
U.S
Hue
Quan Loi
Vietnam
San Francisco Faces Possible Citywide Strike By Municipal Workers
San Francisco confronted a likely Thursday strike by most city workers excluding police and fire departments after tense talks in Mayor Alioto’s office. Union leaders led by George Johns planned to seek strike sanctions and pressed for sizable pay raises beyond the tentative 4.8 million budget. Schools would stay open without cafeteria service and possibly without heat, as talks continued.
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San Francisco
UPI
Labor Council
George Johns
Joseph Alioto
Johns
Board of Supervisors
Robert Jenkins
Cambodian Students Attack Viet Cong Embassies in Phnom Penh
About 20 000 Cambodian students and workers besieged and burned the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese embassies in Phnom Penh. Diplomats fled as the crowds demanded withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Cambodian soil. Police reported threats with hand grenades but no injuries, and both embassies suffered heavy damage.
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Phnom Penh
UPI
Cambodia
Vietnam
Medina Charged With Murder and Mutilation in My Lai Case
Army charges Captain Ernest L. Medina commander of the My Lai unit with murder and mutilation of Vietnamese. Captain Eugene M. Kotouc faces similar counts. Four other soldiers are charged, bringing total to ten. twenty two others remain under suspicion.
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Washington
UPI
Ernest L. Medina
My Lai
Medina
Pico Rivera
Calif
Eugene M. Kotouc
Fort Omaha
Neb
Kotouc
Grossman Receives First Public Service Award in Lompoc
Lawrence C. Grossman dean of the Lompoc Bar is honored with the citys first Public Service Award for nearly 20 years on the Lompoc Library Board of Trustees. Mayor MacClure presented the resolution and a city plaque at a joint city county library board dinner.
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Robert Macclure
Robert Lewis
Lompoc Valley
Lawrence C. Grossman
Lompoc
Robert D. MacClure
Grossman
Stor
MacClure
Ronald Rick
Rick
Gail Steiger
Ronald Saladino
Karl Braun
Charlotte Benton
Richard Jacoby
Arthur Scott
Arthur Batty
William Keyes
Selassie Praises Nixon Africa Policy and Urges Change
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia praised President Nixon's Africa policy and urged white regimes in South Africa and Rhodesia to seek peace with black Africa. He said Africans will gain strength from within and without and called for adherence to the Lusaka Manifesto to avoid disastrous consequences.
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Addis Ababa
API
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Nixon
South Africa
Rhodesia
Africa
United States
Selassie
William P. Rogers
Rogers
Africa.”’ Selassie
Sheba
Middle East
United Nations
U.N
Zambia
Organization of Africa Unity
Portugal
County seeks access to UCSB student funds for riot costs
County counsel faces a roadblock over attaching UC Santa Barbara Associated Students funds to cover about 237000 dollars in riot control expenses. The attorney general's office reportedly said the AS fund is not subject to county audit procedures, complicating Supervisors' push after Isla Vista unrest.
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UC Santa Barbara
George P. Rading
Board of Supervisors
Sacramento
Attorney General
Kading
Associated Students
UCSB
Isla Vista
Associated
Chicago 7
William Kunstler
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Lloyd Evans
Edmund G. Brown
Brown
Gov. Brown
County
Kunstler
Bank of America
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