Campus Disorder Bills Spread Across States in 1969 Wave
States from California to Wisconsin enacted campus disruption laws in 1969, extending penalties for disturbances on college grounds. Measures include dismissal, loss of state aid, and expanded police powers to arrest on campuses amid protests and property damage.
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California
New York
Wisconsin
Ohio
University of California
Cme
College
Institutions of Higher Learning
Commission
Kent State University
Connecticut
Letter from Marine Son Warns Revolt Threat to Nation
A Marine officer writes to his father warning revolts are real and promising violence if peaceful dissent fails. The father Senator Saxbe urges staying within the system and resisting violence while criticizing Nixon administration delays and escalating war.
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Senate
Saxbe
United States
Nixon
Vietnam
Air Terminal Expansion Studies Considered by West Texas Board
West Texas Air Terminal board reviewed preliminary cost studies for two expansion designs by Helmuth Obata Kassabaum Whitaker Hall and others. One plan features an elevated central terminal by 1990 with 16 boarding stations. the other proposes an underground layout with four main boarding areas. The panel weighed impacts on roads, baggage, and taxiway bridges and discussed cost implications.
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Lane Arthur
Avalanche-Journal
Airport Board of
West Texas Air Terminal
Helmuth, Obata
Kassabuam
St. Louis
Whitaker
Hall
Herb Koopman
HOK
Lubbock
Municipal Wan
Ann Thompson, Inc
Texas Air
Tams
New York City
Landrum and Brown
Cincinnatti
Woman and children bring improvised key to loose handcuffed boy
A woman and her three young children entered the Lubbock Police Department lobby Tuesday night with her eldest boy wearing handcuffs on one ankle. She said the man who owned the cuffs had the keys and was out of town. The mother attempted to pick the lock with a hairpin and then sought police assistance. A boy nearby helped by bending wire into a crude key and the cuffs were freed.
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Lubbock
Sue
Bitty
Goldberg Edges Samuels in New York Democratic Primary
Arthur Goldberg took a slender lead over Howard Samuels in the Democratic gubernatorial primary as city voters boosted the former Labor Secretary. Upstate results showed Samuels ahead briefly. Goldberg led statewide with strong New York City support.
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New York
Upstate
Bailiwick
Arthur Goldberg
Howard Samuels
Canandaigua
Samuels
New York City
Goldberg
Texas Cities Lead in One Percent Sales Tax Revenues
Houston topped Texas municipal sales tax receipts for the first quarter with 6.505 million dollars followed by Dallas at 5.213 million. Other cities including Amarillo Abilene Arlington Austin Beaumont Corpus Christi El Paso Fort Worth Laredo San Antonio Waco and Wichita Falls collected varying amounts as the state kept 627 thousand dollars off the top for tax collection and distribution. Farm population declined last year with 10.37 million Americans living on farms, down 33 percent from 1960, and larger declines among white residents and Black and other races.
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Texas
Houston
Dallas
Amarillo
Abilene
Arlington
Austin
Beaumont
Corpus Christi
el Paso
Fort Worth
Laredo
San Antonio
Waco
Wichita Falls
Washington
UPI
Scotsman Train Served With Costs Suit in Kansas City
Missouri Pacific and Texas & Pacific sue Flying Scotsman USA Ltd and Alan Pegler for 8523 dollars charged for services coal water and operating costs on the Flying Scotsman between Shreveport and Houston from November to May last year. No immediate seizure planned. case to be dismissed when settled.
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Kansas City
Missouri Pacific Railroad
The
Texas & Pacific Railway
Jackson County
Flying Scotsman, USA, Ltd
Alan Pegler
Flying Scotsman
Shreveport
Houston
B. Kent Snapp
Stock Market Mixed Performance With Broad Declines
The active list fell about 2 percent to 13 on 341,100 shares led by General Motors down 2 percent to 61 on 1,300,300 shares including a 226,600 block at 61.34. Major names such as Memorex, American, Walt Disney, Eastman Kodak, Du Pont and Xerox posted declines. Pennzoil UAL American Airlines Boeing and others retreated. Overall turnover reached 8,140,760 shares with 683 declines, 132 gains.
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General Motors
Memorex
American
Walt Disney
Eastman Kodak
du Pont
Burroughs
National Cash Register
Xerox
Atlantic Richfield
Motorola
Texas Instruments
Pennzoil
UAL Inc
American Airlines
General Dynamics
Boeing
General Electric
West
Litton
Zenith
Col Ins Radio
Teledyne
City Investing
American Telephone
Steels Generaly
Massed Red Troops Loom Near Cambodia Capitol
Inside South Vietnam three Americans were wounded when a U.S. Army helicopter was shot down 252 miles northeast of Saigon. Allied and U.S. reports tallied thousands of casualties in Cambodia, with ongoing raids and air strikes near Phnom Penh and Kompong Thom as North Vietnamese and Cambodian forces clash along the Mekong River.
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South Vietnam
U.S. Army
Saigon
Central Highlands
U.S
U.S. Command
Cambodia
U.S. Lth Armored Cavalry
U.S. First Air Cavary
Ling
Demilitarized Zone
Jhampong Thom
Phnom Penh
Mekong River
Kompong Thom
U.S. Air Force
Leutenant
Pentagon
Ros Preung
Mekong
Laird outlines Cambodia pullout by June 30 deadline
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said no American ground combat troops will remain in Cambodia after the June 30 deadline but South Vietnamese forces may operate in combat roles in Cambodian sanctuaries. He spoke in London after NATO talks and meetings with British officials.
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London
UPI
Sec. of Defense
Melvin AR. Laird
Cambodia
Nixon
Laird
Venice
Brussels
Europe
U.S
Britain
Lord Carrington
Edward Heath
Heath
United States
Russia
Test Suit Filed On Youth Vote
Alfred Aving, a New York lawyer, filed a federal suit in U S District Court challenging the 18 year voting age and related provisions. The plaintiffs claim lowering the voting age to 18 would dilute New York votes and conflict with state law setting 21 as the minimum. President Nixon backed the measure but asked Mitchell to seek swift court review.
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Washington
U.S
Alfred Aving
New York
Nixon
John N. Mitchell
Dibrom tests to fight caterpillars in New Mexico tracts
Governor Cargo announced four northeast New Mexico land tracts will host a weeklong test of the pesticide dibrom to curb a caterpillar outbreak. The effort aims to show effectiveness against the pest while the state releases $200,000 in disaster relief funds and expands the disaster area to Mora Harding San Miguel Colfax and Union counties.
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Santa FE
N.M
New Mexico
David Cargo
Enw
Union
Cargo
Colfax
Mora
Harding
San Miguel
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