Students Protests Over Nixon War Speech Across Campuses
Several hundred students at four universities protested Nixon’s televised announcement that the bombing of North Vietnam would continue. Protests spanned issues from the war to ROTC, with 400 to 500 occupying Penn’s admin building, about 500 at Indiana University, and 400 at Columbia University. Additional actions occurred at New York University, Kent State, Marshall University, West Virginia University, Harvard, Tufts, Brandeis, and Boston University against war, repression, or a Raytheon war production site in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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Monroe County
Columbia University
New York City
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Columbia
New York University
Washington Square
Times Square
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Army
Air Force
Marshall University
Huntington
W. Va
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Morgantown
University Senate
Harvard University
Cambridge
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Harvard
Tufts
Brandeis
Boston
Raytheon Co
Lexington
Kissinger Secret Moscow Visit Aimed at Pre Summit Talks
An administration source says Kissinger’s secret April trip to Moscow was initiated by the Soviets. Nixon favored pre summit talks with Brezhnev as preparations for the Moscow summit proceed, with hopes for a missiles curb agreement next month.
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Henry A. Kissinger
Moscow
Communist Party
Leonid J. Brezhnev
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Kissinger
Nixon orders more Vietnam troop pullout by July 1
President Nixon announced plans to withdraw 20,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by July 1 while maintaining bombing against North Vietnam until Hanoi halts its invasion of the South. He urged nationwide support for this final phase of the plan to withdraw without surrendering allies to communism.
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In Tonkin Gulf Battles Raging Around Saigon Front
Military brief reports heavy fighting across South Vietnam with tank and infantry clashes near the capital, siege pressure on Bong Son and An Loc, high casualties for both sides, and continued air and artillery strikes. U.S. and South Vietnamese commands tally dozens of deaths and many wounded as refugees flood Kontum and surrounding highlands.
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Gurke
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Tonkin Gulf
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Binh Dinh
An Loc
Dau Tieng
Haiphong
Foreign Ministry
Cua Viet-Dong Ha
Quang Tri
Vu van Giai
Lynn C. Newland
Highway 1
da Nang
7Th Fleet
U.S. Air Force
Kontum
Tan Canh
Dak
Ford trims 1972 model prices by $13
Ford Motor Co cuts 1972 car and truck prices by an average of $13 to meet Price Commission guidelines after reporting record first quarter profits of 252 million dollars. Henry Ford II and Lee Iacocca cite strong market acceptance and aim to keep prices low through year. They note rebates are not planned for already sold vehicles and prices may stay down if volume remains high and inflation stays moderated.
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Ford Motor Co
Price Commission
Ford
Henry Ford II
Lee A. Iacocca
General Motors Corp
Chrysler Corp
Iacocca
Move Missouri Capital to St Louis Proposed
Alderman Richard Gephardt says he will introduce a resolution to move the Missouri capital from Jefferson City to St. Louis. He notes nearly half of state legislators represent districts in the metro area and that the region contains the bulk of Missouri's population and financial interests. The plan would allow a referendum on moving all state capital operations or rotating sessions among St Louis, Kansas City and Jefferson City.
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Richard A. Gephardt
Board of Aldermen
Missouri
Jefferson City
Gephardt
14Th Ward
Kansas City
Green Refractories sponsor son for Operation Enterprise camp
For the seventh year A P Green Refractories will fund a son of a Mexico plant employee to attend the camp for young leaders in New York. The all expense paid session runs July 30 to August 11 at Lake Moraine near Hamilton, offering lectures from IBM General Motors TWA Campbell Soup Monsanto. Eligible students are high school juniors or seniors whose parent works for Green, with May 3 deadline.
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Hamilton
N.Y
Syracuse
Operation Eterprise
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General Motors
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Campbell Soup
Monsanto
Green Company
Terry Henage
Ed Hanstein
Phil van Horn
Rodney Allen
Phil Geary
Jim Kiburz
Waggell
Parole Board Considers Baker Parole Request
The U S Parole Board expected to decide today on Robert G Baker once a Lyndon Johnson protegee and former secretary to Senate Democrats He was refused parole last December after serving about a year of a one to three year sentence for perjury income tax evasion fraud and conspiracy The panel had recently granted parole to Martin Swelg and Anthony De Angelis while denying Ralph Ginzburg Swels will begin parole July 17 and De Angelis June 5
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U.S. Parole Board
Martin Swelg
Robert G. Bobby" Baker
Lyndon B. Johnson
Baker
Senate
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Sweig
John W. McCormack
Anthony de Angelis
New Jersey
Ralph Ginzburg
EROS
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American Express Co
Cadets Camp At Mismilaca Lodge Missour Discovery
Missouri Military Academy cadets from 4th to 7th grades will spend nights at Camp Mismilaca the lakeside lodge near Lake Lakota. 8th graders were rained out last week with Friday group 4th and 5th graders to stay this week and next. May 19 will see 7th graders making the trip to the lodge used for cadet social events.
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Academy
Lake Lakota
Burlington Lake
Destroyer Higbee Heads to Subic Bay for Repairs
The destroyer Higbee, struck by a North Vietnamese bomb in the Gulf of Tonkin, arrived at Subic Bay for repairs. The frigate Worden also arrived at Subic for repairs after being hit by two antiradar missiles accidentally fired by a U.S. plane.
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Higbee
Gulf of Tonkin
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Subic Bay
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Worden
Subic
U.S
Red Young Puppeteer Brings Inc Pied Piper to Life
Red Young an American puppeteer born in Tehran and a founder of the Puppetry Guild of Greater New York performs Sunday at Presser Hall at 2 p.m. for Happy House day care. Tickets are at Happy House or from Mrs Hudson Long.
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Teheran
Iran
Mexico
Young
Puppetry Guild of
Greater New York
Metropolitan
Lawmen Attend FBI Conference in Missouri
More than 100 law enforcement officers gathered in Mexico Missouri for an FBI conference on urban crime and attacks on officers. William A Sullivan of the FBI St Louis office said the event, hosted by the Mexico police, mirrors a Washington DC 1971 meeting and covers urban guerillas snipers and related assaults. Attendees came from Jacksonville Ill and northeast Missouri law enforcement plus FBI agents and highway patrol. The morning sessions were followed by a fish fry.
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William A. Sullivan
FBI
St. Louis
Mexico
Jacksonville
Ill
Missouri
Monroe Man Hurt In Car Accident
Joseph Stamp, 22, of Monroe was injured with a broken leg and multiple cuts when his car left Route 1 ten miles northwest of Paris. He was hospitalized at Woodland Hospital in an Agnew ambulance. State patrol charged Stamp with driving while intoxicated and driving on the wrong side of the road. The patrol said he crested a hill, turned a curve, lost control, and the car rolled over several times.
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Paris
Joseph Stamp
Woodland Hospital
Agnew
Highway Patrol
Iowa Arrest Made On Drug Charge Here
Albert Glenn Gilkey, 25, allegedly sold marijuana to a man on the Van-Far High School parking lot last September, was arrested by the FBI in Des Moines and awaits extradition. Prosecuting officials say the charges include unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and a forged check case from Vandalia, with the alleged marijuana amount described as more than 25 grams in Missouri.
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Albert Glenn Gilkey
FBI
Des Moines
Gilkey
Fletcher D. Thompson
Omaha
Thomas J. Osborne
P. P. Loutzenhizer
Vandalia
Don St. Clair
Osborne
Highway Patrol
Loutzenheizer
Missouri
Albert's 66 Station
Gilky
Mexican Ledger Publication Details and Rates
The Mexican Ledger published daily except Sundays and holidays at 300 N Washington St Mexico MO 65265. It lists postage rates for subscriptions by mail in Audrain and adjoining counties and other Missouri counties, with out of state and armed forces rates, plus office hours and contact information.
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Washington St
Mexico
Audrain
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