Leftists riot as Gromyko visit looms in Paris
In Paris anti Soviet leftists exploded a bomb on Maurice Thorez’s tomb and daubed red graffiti condemning the Soviet Union amid preparations for Andrei Gromyko’s arrival. Police clash with students on the Left Bank as demonstrations subside after days of turmoil.
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Paris
UPI
Communist Party
Maurice Thorez
Soviet Union
Andrei Gromyko
Latin Quarter
Thorez
Pere Lachaise
Gromyko
French Communist Party
Torez
University of Paris
Proletarian Left
Jean Pierre le ‘l
National Bank of Paris
Reverend Timberlake to Speak at Memorial Day Service
Dr W B Timberlake pastor of First Southern Baptist Church Lompoc will give the Memorial Day address at Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery Saturday at 10 30 am. The service is directed by Lompoc American Legion Post 211 with a firing squad from Vandenberg Air Force Base and taps by the Post 211 Drum and Bugle Corps. Public invited.
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W. B. Timberlake
First Southern Baptist Church
Lompoc
Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery
American Legion Post 211
Kenneth O’conner
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Post 211
Oil platform blast kills 3 and leaves six missing
A fuel tank explosion on a dormant Gulf of Mexico platform killed three men and left six missing. Flames shot up to 2,000 feet as fuel drenched a nearby boat and the rig. Coast Guard units and aircraft searched 11 miles from Galveston for the missing, while Gov. Smith sent emergency responders.
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Galveston
Tex
Ed Holdgraf
Houston
Coast Guard
Bob Harringon
Ing
Reliance
Galveston Island
Preston Smith
Holdgraf
Highway 1 bridge cut as guerrillas strike Cambodia
Communist units knocked out a key Highway 1 bridge between Saigon and Phnom Penh at 3 a.m. and seized Prey Veng, prompting airlifted South Vietnamese and Cambodian reinforcements. U.S. helicopter gunships wounded 40 allied troops. total Allied deaths 266 with 2,236 wounded. Cross border operation slated to end June 30.
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Saigon
UPI
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Prety Veng
Svay Rieng
Prey Veng
U.S
Explosive lab found after high speed holdup chase
Police seized a tiny factory for nitroglycerine in the apartment of bomber suspect Robert Stover and arrested him with Michael Lamm after a chemical firm robbery. Stover wore a false nose and Lamm a fake mustache. A station wagon rammed a patrol car. officers recovered guns and a full explosive laboratory plus radical literature from Hong Kong and North Vietnam.
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Oakland
Calif
UPI
Robert Stover
Michael F. Lamm
Stover
Hong Kong
North Vietnam
Budget director doubts effect of wage control
Sacramento from the Associated Press Budget director Robert B Mayo head of the Bureau of the Budget says mandatory federal wage and price controls are not inevitable in the fight against inflation He argues such action should be avoided even if many subscribe to the idea Mayo notes practical and enforceable implementation would be slim despite rising stock market activity during the day
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Sacramento
UPS
Nixon
Robert B. Mayo
Bureau of the Budget
Mayo
Seattle police tense as coroner's jury rules fatal shooting
Seattle's 1100 officers faced a bitter reaction after a coroner's jury found officer John Hannah used criminal means when he shot Larry Ward, 22, during Ward's attempted bomb attack. Protest actions followed, with police negotiations and calls to reform inquest procedures.
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Seattle
UPI
Larry Ward
John Hannah
Hannah
Ward
Ron Zilystra
Patrick Murphy
Seattle Police Guild
Hospital board approves 1970-71 budget and pay raise
Lompoc Hospital District directors approved a 1.5 million dollar 1970-71 budget up about 50 thousand from current operations and granted a blanket seven percent pay raise effective July 1. The five directors maintained the current five cent tax rate and kept fees for a two occupancy room at 43 dollars.
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Lompoc
Rogers and Franco meet on bases amid protest over access
U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers met Spain’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco to discuss renewal of American base rights but declined to meet opposition leaders due to the Franco regime’s stance. Officials said the guest status made the meeting difficult.
Senate honors war dead as Cambodia debate pauses
The Senate paused three weeks of Indochina War debate to honor fallen soldiers at Memorial Day weekend. Senators split on limits to Nixon's authority in Cambodia with a key Dole amendment set for Wednesday and Byrd proposing protections for presidential action in Vietnam.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Cambodia
Nixon
John Sherman Cooper
R-Ky
Frank Church
Idaho
Robert J. Dole
Rehan
Dole
Robert C. Byrd
Vietnam
Retirement fete honors seven Lompoc teachers and 9 more
About 350 people attended the Lompoc Educational Association annual banquet at Veterans Memorial Hall. Outstanding Teacher Awards went to Jan Aust Robert Forenash James Gerard and Ruby Johnston. Professional Service Awards were presented to Hector Samaniego Rod Schmidt and Stephen Straight.
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Lompoc
Elizabeth Knight
Dorothy Wagner
Helen Lu Ross
Eva Boyd
Nancy Hogan
Ruth Hadley
Paul Donowick
Dorothy Skogen
Lois Barnes
Howard Pipes
Mary Costello
Larry Deblinger
Leona Cohig
Marybeth Lucas
Sara Malone
Gene Lynch
Viola Snyder
Maude Sorenson
Gertrude Helgeson
Vivian McKittrick
Louise Morris
Elsie Sperber
Hilda Steensen
Lillian Tyler
Passenger hurt as car flips on Lompoo-Casmalia Road
Cecelea Brown, 67, suffered minor injuries when the car she rode in went out of control on Lompoo Casmalia Road and overturned. Driver Rose Fuller, 34, of Vandenberg AFB, was uninjured. The crash occurred at 6:43 p.m. on the road.
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Cecelea Brown
Lompoo
Casmalia Road
Rose Fuller
Popune St
Vandenberg Air Force Base
California Highway Patrol
Lompoc Casmalia
Ralph Carl Rodriguez
N. E St
James P. Bjorkman
Chula Vista
East Ocean Avenue
Rodriguez
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