Regents Cannot Deny Communists Teaching Rights at UC System
Superior Court Judge Jerry Pacht ruled that the University of California Regents cannot bar Communists from teaching at the nine state universities. The decision bars using public funds to dismiss UCLA professor Angela Davis and questions policies barring members of the Communist Party. The Regents will appeal, while Davis continues teaching at UCLA and seeks further review through university channels.
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Los Angeles
UPI
University of California Regents
Superior Court
Jerry Pacht
Regents
Angela Davis
UCLA
Communist Party
Pacht
Miss Davis
State University System
California
Max Rafferty
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Murder Incorporated
Board of Regents
U.S. Supreme Court
Road work to start on Route 1 shoulders project
State plans shoulder construction on Highway 1 from the Wye to Burton Mesa Boulevard to address hazards due to dirt shoulders. Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce efforts spurred the project with completion details pending. Public hearings on Route 1 adoption to be held in Lompoc within about 90 days for the six mile stretch north to Harris Station.
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Highway 1
Burton Mesa Boulevard
Francis H. Beattie
Ohio
Beattie
Lompoc Valley
State Division of Highways
Lompoc
Wye
Harris Station
Nixon mobilizes grass roots support for Haynsworth bid
President Nixon gathered 46 of 50 state Republican chairmen at the White House to press support for Clement Haynsworth's Supreme Court nomination. He reaffirmed faith in Haynsworth and accused critics of character assassination while sending Clark Mollenhoff to rally chairmen ahead of the 1970 elections.
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Haynsworth
Washington
Mollenhoff
Wisconsin
Ody J. Fish
Kopechne autopsy request sparks testimony in case
In Wilkes Barre Pa UPI the Kopechne family faces an autopsy decision after Mary Jo Kopechne died in the Kennedy Chappaquiddick Island incident. Massachusetts prosecutors seek autopsy while her father opposes, claiming another funeral.
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Wilkes-Barre. Pa
UPI
Mary Jo Kopechne
U.S
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Washington
Kennedy
Chappaquiddick Island
Mass
Joseph Kopechne
Bernard C. Brominski
Donald R. Mills
Dukes County
Dinis
Mary Jo
Water district candidates to discuss race in Lompoc meeting
Six candidates vie for three Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District seats in divisions 1 4 and 5 with incumbents Richard Henning William Laranjo Alfred Jory Andrew Petersen and challengers Gary Dunlap Jack Moore and others. The Meet the Press program moderated by Judge Terrill Cox is set for 7 p.m. at the Lompoc Elks Lodge 116 N I Street. Voting takes place November 4 by division.
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Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District Board of Directors
Lompoc
Richard Henning
Gary J. Dunlap
William Laranjo
Alfred B. (Burt) Jory
Andrew T. Petersen
Jack Moore
Vandenberg Village
Lompoc - Casmalia
Division 4
Drum Canyon Road
Buellton
Division 5
Highway 154
Santa Ynez River
Dillon
Virgil Phelps
Phelps
R .B. McClellan
Santa Ynez
Petersen
Santa Barbara County
Tokyo protests grip Japan as students clash with police
Hundreds of thousands of leftist students rampaged through Tokyo and other cities in antiwar demonstrations with violent anti-American overtones. Police jailed 1 120 people nationwide, 718 in Tokyo, and 45 civilians and 21 officers were injured. Demonstrators halted rail service, attacked bases, and demanded Okinawa return to Japan. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato met former Vice President Hubert Humphrey as crowds gathered.
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Tokyo
UPI
U.S
Tachikawa
U.S. Air Force Base
Vietnam
Yokota Air Force Base
Eisaku Sato
Hubert H. Humphrey
Shinjuku Railway Station
Yoyogi Park
Okinawa
United States
Satomi Hakamada
Japanese Communist Party
Japan
Riot police clash with students at dark rail yard attack
Jaycees push tickets for the upcoming Junior Miss pageant as children collect pumpkins for Halloween. Students smash walls with sledge hammers and hurl debris at police. Riot officers in plastic masks and shields charge in squads, with leaders carrying lighted poles guiding a line through the yard.
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Jaycees
Senate probes alleged kickbacks in Vietnam NCO clubs
Senate investigations detail a triangle of alleged thefts and embezzlements tied to an Army general Brig. Gen. Earl F. Cole and MSgt. William E. Higdon. Cole was reassigned to Washington amid hearings on irregularities in noncommissioned officers clubs. witnesses accuse Higdon of leading crooked operations across Germany, the United States, and Vietnam.
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Washington
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
Pentagon
Subcommittee
Cole
Stuttgart
Germany
Long Binh
Vietnam
Msgt
William E. Higdon
Higdon
United States
Education group cites Nixon on military area school funding
Lompoc Education Association charges President Nixon did not keep 1968 pledges to preserve federal support for districts linked to military bases. The letter, signed by 18 educators, alleges cuts to Public Law 874 funding would harm Lompoc Unified School District tied to Vandenberg AFB and defense-related facilities.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc Education Association
Richard Nixon
Lompoc
Robert L. Hedlund
Association
National Committee of Teachers For Nixon-Agnew
Nixon
Hedlund
Washington
Lompoc Unified
Air Force
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Federal Correctional Institution
P. L
George Murphy
Alan Cranston
Sec
Robert Finch
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Laurie Hurricane Stirs Mississippi Coast Residents Flee
Thousands fled as Hurricane Laurie veered east along the Gulf Coast. The Weather Bureau warned of slow erratic motion with 100 mph winds and a shifting eye 230 miles south of New Orleans. Coastal residents along 750 mile watch area evacuated. Plaquemines Parish remained sparsely populated after prior storms Camille Betsy Audrey.
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New Orleans
UPI
Hurriance Laurie
Mississippi River
Gulf Coast
Laurie
Mitchell Jurisich
Camille
Weather Bureau
Wade Guice
Harrison County
Plaquemines Parish
Betsy
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Kopechne
Edmund S. Dinis
Cyril H. Wecht
Allegheny County Pa
Wecht
Dan Gifford
Washington, D.C
Sen. Kennedy
Joseph F. Flanagan
Pennsylvania
Larksville
American Broadcasting Co
ABC
Mills
John J. Dillon, Jr
Senate
Education Association
Louisiana
Mississippi
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