Texas Appeal May Shape Supreme Court Ruling on School Financing
The Texas appeal Rodriguez v. San Antonio ISD could reach the Supreme Court, potentially altering how 49 states fund public schools. The case follows a 14th Amendment equal protection ruling that local property taxes heavily fund education, affecting poorer districts and desegregation pressures.
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Apollo 16 Guidance System Glitch Resolved Before Moon Flight
Apollo 16 faced a temporary gimbal lock in the command module when the inertial guidance system froze. Mission Control guided Mattingly to realign the platform while Young and Duke inspected the lunar lander Orion, declaring it ready for a Thursday moon landing despite flaking paint.
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Charles M. Duke Jr
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Duke
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Two IRA snipers killed in Belfast street battle
British troops fought an all day engagement in Belfast killing two guerrilla snipers and wounding several others. The clash left a 9 year old boy dead and raised the Northern Ireland death toll amid 32 months of communal warfare.
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Northern Ireland
Joseph McCann
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Nixon suspends air raids above 20th parallel in Vietnam
President Nixon halts U S air attacks on Hanoi Haiphong area to pressure North Vietnam after a rapid surge in South Vietnam fighting. Military sources say strikes drop north of the demilitarized zone while heavy action continues in the south with U S bombers and fighter-bombers.
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Hanoi-Haiphong
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Haiphong
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Weather forecast notes mild warmth overnight
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight with low temperatures in the low to mid-50s. Tomorrow brings variable cloudiness and a chance of showers and thundershowers with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. Yesterday’s high reached 71 and the low was 41.
Three signs of old age say the old-timer
An elderly speaker claims there are three signs of aging, then jokes he cannot remember the other two. The quip pivots on memory loss as a punchline.
Two U S Destroyers Damaged Killings Reported
In the Gulf of Tonkin two guided missile destroyers the Worden and Buchanan were damaged. Four crewmen died and 16 were wounded in incidents Sunday and Monday. The Worden suffered an explosion with one reported dead nine wounded aboard the ship. The Buchanan lost one crewman and seven wounded when shelled from shore. Pentagon and Saigon commands dispute the cause with uncertainty over whether enemy vessels were involved.
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da Nang
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Gulf of Tonkin
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Washington
Hill Burdon funds target free care for poor patients
The federal government proposed regulations requiring more than 3,000 nonprofit hospitals and facilities receiving Hill-Burton funds to provide free services for poor patients. Hospitals denying care could lose licenses, lose state aid, or face lawsuits. The rule sets free care at 5 percent of operating costs or 25 percent of net income, whichever is higher.
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Department of Health, Education and
Hill Burton
HEW
New Orleans
National Health and Environmental Law Program
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Legal Services Division
Office of Economic Opportunity
Hill- Burton
Hill-Burton
Plane Crashes in Nairobi Kill 60 on VC10 Flight
An East African Airways VC10 crashed on takeoff from Nairobi killing more than 60 of the 106 aboard. Eyewitnesses say 34 survived as the plane exploded and burned beside the runway near a small hill. Passengers were believed largely British and the flight was bound for Rome and London via Addis Ababa and Salian capitals.
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Kenya
East African Airways
Rome
London
Nairobi
Britain
Weatherwax Gift Assures Golf Course Landscaping
The widow of Russell Weatherwax Sr. donated 75000 to accelerate landscaping for the W W Sebald Park municipal golf course in Middle town. The gift will speed completion of the 36 hole layout as officials plan 500 trees in year one with a project cost of 30000. The Sebald Park project, part of a 16 million total, is set to open over Memorial Day weekend.
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Weatherwax
Dick Slagle
Slagle
Sebald Park
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