Fires hit Indiana and Purdue universities in campus turmoil
Fire damaged Indiana University graduate library for about 650000 dollars and took five and a half hours to control. A Purdue agricultural building suffered a 500000 dollar library fire from a bomb. Police opened arson probes amid wider national campus unrest and government reaction to protests and violence.
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Indiana
Purdue
Indiana University
Bloomington
Ind
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James R. Pera
Lafayette
Nixon
Congress
Judicial
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
Detroit
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Senate
McClellan
Fire chief answers questions on Lompoc bond for new station
Fire Chief John Baker explains the $500,000 facility bond to fund a new Lompoc fire station. He cites aging, unsafe structure, space limits, and future growth east of town, with 383 calls last year and a need to cover present and expanded areas within safe response distances.
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Lompoc
John Baker
Baker
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Maple Avenue
I Street
Chief Baker
Maple and I Street
Maple
H Streets
French liner Tahitien on fire with 400 aboard in Pacific
The French liner Tahitien reported on fire in the Pacific about 550 miles west of the Canal Zone with more than 400 people aboard. Captain Thermain said fire in the engine room spread to passenger areas but was under control. Liferafts dispatched from Howard AFB were to reach the ship as passengers and crew waited for possible abandonment.
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R.P
UPI
Pacific
Canal Zone
U.S. Army Southern Command
R Thermain
Army
Thermain
Sydney
Australia
Marseilles
France
Panama Canal Co
Air Force
Howard Afb
Tahiti
Cie. Des Messageries Maritimes
Taiohae
French Polynesia
Breakthrough signs in Viet Nam peace talks cited
Three actions hint at progress in Viet Nam negotiations. Viet Cong leaders reportedly met in South Vietnam to hear a briefing from Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh. Le Duc Tho was in Moscow and Saigon's Pham Dang Lam returned to brief Thieu as talks move forward.
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UPI
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Vietnam
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National Liberation Front
NLF
Mrs. Binh
le Duc Tho
Pham Dang Lam
Hanoi
Lam
Nguyen van Thieu
Thieu
Viet Cong
Allied action halts guerrilla offensive around Saigon
U S military spokesmen credited Allied counteroffensives with killing about 38 000 Communists and forcing guerrillas to abandon their nationwide offensive temporarily. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese units withdrew to camps along the Cambodian border as B 52 bombers pressed bivouacs. The strike also yielded vast quantities of hidden rice and other materiel, while fighting intensified to the north near the DMZ.
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Saigon
API
U.S
Creighton W. Abrams
U.S. Command
Abrams
France Sets June 1 Vote to Elect De Gaulle Successor
Paris officials announced June 1 as the election day to choose a successor to former President Charles de Gaulle. Acting President Allan Poher announced the date as France complies with the 35 day limit. Four candidates remain, with Georges Pompidou, 57, the only officially endorsed Gaullist candidate.
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UPI
France
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Allan Poher
de Gaulle
Georges Pompidou
The
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