Colorado River Mecca Draws 6000 Youths for Easter Week
The Colorado River hosts about 6000 vacationing youths along a 110 mile river stretch from the Nevada border to Lake Havasu. Over the weekend and Monday, 67 arrests near Parker Arizona and 25 in Needles area mostly for drugs. Palm Springs reports slower than expected influx of 20000 youths as strict Arizona enforcement pushes some groups west. Temperature ranged 87 to 90 degrees.
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Needles
Calif
Colorado River
Parker
Ariz
Nevada
Lake Havasu
Arizona-California
Palm Springs
William Lux
Arizona
Denison Board Sets Meeting on Black Student Demands
Denison University trustees will meet on April 9 with students and faculty to air black student demands. Leaders held nine talks over the weekend as hunger strikes and an alternate college boycott continued. The administration building reopened after a Thursday sit-in threat.
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Granville
Ohio
Denison University
John E. F. Wood
Joel Smith
Richard Rodorff
Denison
Grand Jury Seeks Kopechne Inquest Records
Dukes County grand jury asks for access to the secret Kopechne inquest transcript and Judge Boyle’s report. Foreman Leslie Leland says the aim is to assess what exists and what is not for public accountability. Transcripts remain impounded as the case awaits possible further prosecutions.
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Edgartown
Mass
Dukes County
Tauro
Leland
James A. Boyle
Edgartown District Court
Boyle
Superior Court
Boston
Wilfred J. Paquet
State Supreme Judicial Court
Miss Kopechne
Robert F. Kennedy
Edward Kennedy
Chappaquiddick Island
Martha’s Vineyard
Senators back Nixon stance on selling jets to Israel
Aiken and Fulbright endorsed Nixon’s refusal to send new jet fighters to Israel amid Mid East tensions. Goodell urged hearings on arms policy. Israel urged reconsideration. Egypt’s SA3 missiles and regional arms balance cited. Rogers said no sale now but $100 million in economic aid to Israel approved.
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Walter R. Mears
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nixon
Israel
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Charles E. Goodell
Aiken
Goodell
New York
Russia
Jerusalem
United States
Middle East
Abba Eban
Egypt
Cairo
al Ahram
Congress
Fulbright
Senate
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Scott
William P. Rogers
Air Controllers Threaten Nationwide Strike
PATCO threatens to withdraw services at major terminals on Wednesday in a dispute over transferring three men from Baton Rouge Louisiana. Dallas regional coordinator Carl Evans says New Mexico Arizona Texas Oklahoma Louisiana and Arkansas could see shutdowns. Board member Paul Jenkel says the transfer is a bid to break PATCO Stronghold in Baton Rouge. Union says talks with FAA via a federal mediator were unproductive.
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Washington
Baton Rouge
PATCO
United States
New Mexico
Arizona
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Arkansas
Paul Jenkel
Salt Lake City
Patco Board of Directors
Union
Federal Aviation Administration
False Bomb Threat Evacuates 300 at Columbus Federal Building
A telephoned bomb threat to the Selective Service headquarters in Columbus led to the evacuation of more than 300 federal building employees. No device was found after a sweep.
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Columbus, Ohio
Selective Service
Federal Building
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