Brown to extend campaign across Maryland and beyond
California Governor Edmund Brown Jr. expands his presidential bid, claiming front-runner status for the Maryland primary as he plans delegates in New Jersey Rhode Island and Colorado. He credits early momentum from a Wyoming convention and vows continued national campaigning despite California duties.
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Los.angeles
UPI
California
Edmund Brown Jr
Brown
Wyoming
Maryland
Washington D.C
New York
Nevada
Las Vegas
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
CBS
Face the Nation
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Colorado
James Dugan
Hubert Humphrey
Dugan
General strike in Navarre sparks clashes over Montejurra pilgrimage
In Spain, Communists, Socialists and other left wing groups called a general strike in Navarre to protest the slaying of Ricardo Tillegro, 19, amid clashes between monarchist Carlist factions during the Montejurra pilgrimage. A separate gun battle near San Sebastian left a Civil Guard member wounded. authorship of the separatists未 determined.
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Madrid
Spain
UPI
Navarre
Ricardo Tillegro
Montejurra
Martinene
San Sebastian
Carlos Hugo de Borbon Y Parma
Juan Carlos de Borbon Y Borbon
Carlos Hugo
Ray loses plea to withdraw King assassination guilty plea
James Earl Ray, who confessed to killing Martin Luther King Jr., lost a Sixth Circuit appeal in a unanimous decision upholding his 1969 guilty plea. The court found the plea voluntary and knowingly entered, despite claims of ineffective counsel and coercion by his attorney Percy Foreman. Ray is serving a 99 year Tennessee sentence in Nashville.
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Cincinnati
UPI
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Ray
King
Memphis
Tenn
Tennessee State
Nashville
Percy Foreman
Foreman
Preston Battle
William Bradford Huie
James H. Lasar
Lasar
Presidential candidates map California primary push
California becomes focus as Democrats Udall Church and Wallace weigh state visits amid Nebraska Maryland Michigan results. Ford and Reagan schedule May tours with California delegates at stake. Carter plans May fundraisers in Los Angeles and San Francisco aiming for 250000. Brown may join later. campaign managers weigh California itineraries against other state outcomes.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Morris Udall
Frank Church
George Wallace
Nebraska
Maryland
Michigan
Ford
David Leggitt
President
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Kansas City
Jimmy Carter
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Carter
Western States
Ben Goddard
Brown
Weather and campaign stops mix in a mixed national view
Storms hit the southern and central Plains with hail reported in Oklahoma and severe warnings across six western Oklahoma counties. The rest of the nation stayed mostly cloudy with limited rain, light fog in Texas and coastal California. In political news, Brown, Church, Udall plan May campaigns in California and Nevada with Nebraska and Ohio primaries looming.
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Plains
Oklahoma
Kansas
Texas
Freedom
Oklah
Florida
California
Pacific Northwest
Ohio Valley
Lower
Great Lakes
Mid Atlantic Coast
Arizona
Memo Warned Johnson on Vietnam Escalation in 1965
Humphrey wrote a memo to Lyndon Johnson arguing against enlarging the Vietnam war and warning of World War III risks. Johnson ordered bombing of North Vietnam the next day, while Humphrey later supported the policy.
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Washington
UPI
Hubert Humphrey
Lyndon B. Johnson
Indochina
Johnson
North Vietnam
ABC
Issues and Answers
Humphrey
Vietnam
Moirs
Korea
Washington Post
Iranian Boeing 747 crash kills passengers crew
An Iranian air force Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed near Madrid in a rainstorm on approach to the airport. All 17 or 18 aboard were killed. Rescue teams recovered charred bodies and the black box. The flight originated from Tehran and was destined for McGuire AFB New Jersey.
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Madrid
Spain
UPI
Teheran
Maguire Air Force Base
New Jersey
U.S
Huete
Tehran
McGuire Air Force Base
Robert Wilson
Paul Hardman
John Forsyth
William Townsend
Boeing
United States
Dorothy Wilson
Ford highlights character and courage of U S soldiers
President Ford, during Armed Forces Week, said military strength rests on the people in uniform, not weapons, as he addressed a Washington Monument display. He outlined campaigns in Michigan and Nebraska and stressed defense through trained personnel over arms.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Washington Monument
America
Reagan
United States
Soviet Union
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
National Security Council
Soviet defense minister says Russia stronger than ever
Moscow reports Dmitry Ustinov declares the Soviet Union stronger in defense of socialism. He praises detente cautiously while warning of Western arms buildup. Brezhnev is promoted to marshal and a Brezhnev bust is unveiled in Dneprodzerzhinsk, signaling a growing personality cult.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Dmitry F. Ustinov
Ustinov
NATO
Kremlin
United States
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Josef Stalin
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Bergen
Jack Lemmon
Idaho
World Affairs Organization
Bill Hall
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Tom Tiver
Morris K. Udall
Udall
Ohio
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Santa Barbara County
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Barry Coughlin
P.O. Box
Lompoc, Calif
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H Street
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