Belfast violence erupts with gunfire and firebombs in Catholic district
Gunfire cracked through Belfast streets after midnight as firebombs ignited two homes in a Catholic area. British troops, barbed wire barriers, and tear gas tried to separate Catholic and Protestant crowds while police faced stone throws and petrol bombs. Four injured, including children carried to safety.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Bartier
Sackville Street
Devis Street
Nixon rejects King national park plan in Atlanta
Coretta Scott King said President Nixon declined to propose legislation to create a national Freedom Memorial Park on a 15 acre site in Atlanta containing King's birthplace and church. The White House offered private funding options instead.
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New York
Nixon
Martin Luther King Jr
Coretta Scott King
Atlanta
King
Harry W. Wachtel
Leonard Garment
Wachtel
Memorial
Petersburg Gins First Hale Bale
Petersburg reports its first bale of cotton ginned by Hale at the Petersburg mill. Origins of the bale trace to local farmers and early processing milestones.
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Petersburg
Texas Sees Mild Weekend Weather Across Most Regions
Most of Texas enjoyed clear to partly cloudy skies with mild temperatures on Saturday as Alpine reached 83 and Lubbock 84 while Waco topped 92. Showers threatened along the Gulf Coast from Corpus Christi to Brownsville where funnel clouds and rain were reported.
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Texas
Lubbock
Panhandle-South Plains
Gulf Coast
Corpus Christi
Brownsville
Alpine
Waco
Weather Bureau
Last Man's Club Plans Cognac Bottle Reunion
In Effingham Illinois the Last Man's Club will hold its annual gathering next Wednesday. The group began 35 years ago with 146 World War I veterans and hid a bottle of French cognac for the eventual last survivor. Only 13 members remain active in the club.
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Effingham
UPI
Operation Bad Neighbor tests U S Mexico ties on border narcotics
Mexico decries Operation Intercept tagged as Operation Bad Neighbor as U S crackdown diverts border commerce. In five days 277 367 vehicles searched and 40 drug seizures. Mexican officials warn of harmed relations and protest methods while seeking better control of marijuana and narcotics traffic.
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United Press International
Mexico City
United States
Intercept
Mexico
U.S
Lyndon Johnson
John Kennedy
Chihuahua
Spark Blame Fails to Deter Gas Station Blast Injures Teen
Russell Hearne, 16, was cleaning a gas station office when a spark ignited an explosion causing $5,000 damage and sending him to Baptist Hospital. Another youth was examined and released. Border tensions rise as officials plan actions to curb Mexican purchases while Operation Intercept faces possible rollback.
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San Antonio
UPI
Russell Hearne
Hearne
Baptist Hospital
Mislabeling of Bass Museum Works Draws Major Fakes Claim
The Art Dealers Association of America ranks most of the Bass Museum Miami Beach collection as fake or misattributed. Among questioned works are pieces linked to Rubens Rembrandt Hals Botticelli Goya El Greco and Van Gogh.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Bass Museum
Art Dealers Association of America Inc
New York City
John Bass
Fie
Ralph Colin
Art Dealers Association
Colin
Miami
Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Rubens
Rembrandt
Renoir
Hals
Botticelli
Goya
el Greco
Gainsborough
van Gogh
Bass
Miami Herald
Draft Change Hearings Set By House Armed Services Chair
House Armed Services Chairman J Mendel Rivers announced hearings on Nixon draft reform proposals. A special subcommittee will study repealing the ban on lottery type drafts and consider a switch to a Johnson style plan with random selection for 19 year olds.
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House
Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Nixon
J. Mendel Rivers
Ds.c
Rivers
Lyndon B. Johnson
Armed Services Committee
Congress
Johnson
Jet Nixon
F. Edward Hebert
D'La
Bill Nichols
D-Ala
W. C. Daniel
D-Va
Alexander Pithie
R-N.y
Carleton J . King
RNY
Haynsworth tied to Baker in 1958 real estate link
New York Daily News reports a 1958 land deal outside Greenville connected U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. and former Senate secretary Robert G. Bobby Baker. The 190 acre tract was bought Dec 13 1958 for 118030 dollars, later transferred to Greenville Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Baker claimed limited knowledge and said he sold his stake in 1964 or 1965 while Haynsworth listed 72 shares in the cemetery in a Senate filing.
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NEW York
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr
U.S. Supreme Court
Senate
Robert G
Bobby” Baker
New York Daily News
Washington Dispatch
James Wieghart
Greenville
Haynsworth
Baker
Washington, D.C
Dwight Holder
Grace — Pepper ‘Rhodes
Greenville Memorial Gardens ‘Cemetery
Greenville Memorial Gardens
Senate Judiciary Committee
High Court
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