Davis Defense Tests Abbreviated Case in Soledad Trial
Angela Davis defense pressed an abbreviated case after three trial days and 11 witnesses including one Soledad Brother. The prosecution led 95 witnesses as Davis faced charges of aiding the 1970 Marin County shootings and hostage plot. Final arguments were set for next week as judges weighed whether to call rebuttal witnesses.
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San Jose
UPI
Angela Davis
Davis
Soledad
George Jackson
Richard E. Arnason
Chambers
Fleeta Drumgo
Jackson
John Clutchette
Clutchette
San Quentin
Early Indians on Vandenberg Coast Were Food Gatherers
Archaeologists led by Larry Spanne find 315 coastal sites near Vandenberg AFB showing early inhabitants relied on shellfish and coastal resources. Evidence includes refuse mounds, caves with petroglyphs, and artifacts from stone tool production. The study, a joint Interior Department National Parks Service Air Force and UCSB effort, notes limited excavation but suggests migration from south of the Santa Ynez Mountains and adaptation to south-facing coves.
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Steve LA Rue
Vandenberg
UCSB
Larry Spanne
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Interior Department
National Parks Service
Air Force
Spanne
Lompoc
Clarence
Pop’ Ruth
Santa Ynez Mountains
Channel
Point Conception
Reagan and lawmen clash over handgun ban proposals
Gov. Ronald Reagan and Los Angeles officials including Sheriff Peter Pitchess and Police Chief Edward M. Davis diverged on pistols bans. Davis denied endorsing Pitchess plan while Reagan urged harsher penalties for armed criminals. Pitchess supported a handgun ban citing rising felonious assaults.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Peter Princess
Edward M. Davis
Davis
Pitchess
Humphrey and McGovern Each Spent About 1.5 Million in California Primary Drive
Secretary of State Edmund G Brown Jr reports McGovern spent 1,638,129 and raised 1,421,444 while Humphrey spent 1,453,924 and raised 1,188,589 in the period from early April to mid May. Some funds were used in other states. Nixon supporters spent 202,190 raised 46,228. No report filed from John Ashbrook.
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UPI
Secretary of State
Hubert Humphrey
George McGovern
California
Edmund G. Brown Jr
McGovern
South Dakota
Sen
Humphrey
Minnesota
Brown
Nixon
John Ashbrook
Ohio
Weather worries damp Memorial Day travel as fires surge
National Weather Service warns of dangerous fire control conditions across northern Michigan as drought persists. A brush fire near Saginaw burned about 100 acres while a grass fire scorched over 20 acres in Lake County. Most Arizona forests closed and New Mexico forests placed under fire restrictions. Showers spread from Wyoming to Utah and damp parts of the plains and southeast.
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Arizona
New Mexico
Michigan
National Weather Service
Houghton Lake
Mich
Lower Peninsula
Saginaw
Lake County
U.S. Forest Service
Wyoming
Utah
Rockies
Pacific Northwest
South and Central Plains
South Atlantic States
Notable protesters arrested at Capitol sit-in
Yale professor Robert Lifton and 93 others, including Judy Collins and Barbara Harris, were arrested after refusing to leave the Capitol floor as they urged immediate end to U.S. military operations in Indochina. The group, led by House Administration Chairman Wayne Hays, delivered a petition to Speaker Carl Albert.
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Washington
UPI
Yale
Robert Lifton
Capitol
Lifton
Vietnam
House of Representatives
Judy Collins
George Wald
Harvard
Dick Gregory
John Steinbeck IV
New York
Joseph Papp
Gary Wills
Karl Hess
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Patricia Simon
Boston
Barbara Harris
Benjamin Spock
Larry Rivers
Marcus Taskin
James Powell
Wayne Hays
Ohio
Carl Albert
Congress
U.S
Indochina
Albert
Miss Collins
Women confront Whitelaw in Londonderry peace push
A group of Roman Catholic district women in Londonderry confronted Secretary of State William Whitelaw, demanding peace. The women, aligned with a Stormont faction challenging IRA gunmen, left Stormont with smiles as Ulster saw a lull in violence and fewer than a dozen sniping incidents reported by the British army.
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Belfast
UPI
Londonderry
William Whitelaw
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Northern Ireland
Stormont
Ulster
McGovern predicts California victory in key June primary
Senator George S. McGovern declares he will campaign across California and win the June 6 Democratic presidential primary, after a sweep in Oregon and Rhode Island. He disputes Humphrey attacks on his record while promising a statewide push through June.
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Los Angeles
UPI
George S. McGovern
Hubert H. Humphrey
California
Oregon
Rhode Island
McGovern
Humphrey
South Dakota
Lockheed Corp
Palmdale
Aircraft Corporation
Lockheed
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