The Riddle of Angela Davis Pulled into the spotlight as a controversial revolutionary
United Press International traces Angela Davis life from Alabama baton twirler to a public figure on the FBI most wanted list. The profile covers her education at Brandeis and Paris, her influence by Herbert Marcuse, UCLA dismissal battles, and ties to the Soledad brothers case.
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Angela Davis
United Press International
United States
Europe
Jack V. Fox
Alabama
FBI
Brandeis University
Boston
Birmingham
Herbert Marcuse
Sorbonne
Paris
Brandeis
Marcuse
Frankfurt
Germany
Angela Davis case and Parker High memories in Birmingham
The narrative recalls the Aug. 7 1970 San Rafael courthouse shootout and Angela Davis’s alleged involvement, including her fugitive arrest in New York and trial return. It also shares Parker High School reminiscences praising her nonviolent character, leadership, and majorette talent, alongside reflections on the 1963 Birmingham church bombing deaths.
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San Rafael
San Quentin
Superior Court
Harold J. Haley
Miss Davis
New York
California
Angela Davis
Mabel B. Murphy
Parker High School
Birmingham
Angela
First Congregational Church
Parker
16Th Street Baptist Church
Black Enterprise and Business World Map Black-White Business Link
Two young magazines push dialogue between blacks and the young. Black Enterprise, run by Earl Graves from Bedford-Stuyvesant, now circulates 100000 with over 900000 in ad sales and 30 of 51 ads from the nation’s top 100 corporations. Business World, by Andrew Goodman and Gregory Gaiman, four years old, distributed gratis to 100000 graduates and veterans, features leaders from Coca Cola to Consolidated Edison, and aims to bridge campuses and corporate offices.
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Black Enterprise
Earl Graves
Bedford - Stuyvesant
New York
Business World
Andrew Goodman
Gregory Gaiman
Adelphi University
Long Island
Goodman
Yale
Walter Hickel
John V. Lindsay
J. Paul Austin
Coca-Cola
Charles Luce
Consolidated Edison
Graves
Boeing engineers build flexible computer simulator
Engineers at Boeing aerospace group design a versatile simulator that can mimic nearly any digital hardware at speeds far faster than general purpose computers. The facility aims to aid spacecraft designers by testing a spacecraft’s onboard computer under simulated deep space hazards for a Grand Tour mission planned for the 1980s.
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Seattle, Wash
UPI
Boeing Co
Boeing
Aerospace Group
A. W. van Ansdal
Neptune
Plato
Computer Flunks Exam Cards At Tonawanda Schools
In Tonawanda New York seventh and eighth graders at Benjamin Franklin and Kenmore Junior High Schools received incorrect report cards when a two digit grading system misread 100s as F. The district will mail corrected cards this week.
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Buffalo, N. Y
UPI
Benjamin Franklin and
Kenmore
Tonawanda
Bigger oil bill due to import quotas and price supports
Washington Sen. William Proxmire predicts a 20 percent rise in home heating oil costs this winter driven by the oil import quota program. Humble Oil Co. projects a 1.5 cent per gallon rise. homeowners may spend about 4.5 cents more per gallon. He urges ending artificial price supports to curb inflation, faulting White House for blocking a free market.
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Washington
UPI
William Proxmire
Humble Oil Co
Proxmire
Joint
Senate House Economic Committee
United States
White House
Rescuers Save 10 Year Old From Pennsylvanian Park Lake
Charles Farrier slipped into swollen spillway waters at North Park Lake after heavy 24 hour rainfall. Police officer Ronald Natoli and Louis Guerra fought the current to reach and pull him to shore. Farrier, from North Hills, was at the park for a family picnic when the near-drowning occurred.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Allegheny County
Charles Farrier
Farrier
North Park Lake
County
Ronald Natoli
Louis Guerra
Natoli
North Hills
Robb named HUD regional administrator in Philadelphia
Theodore R. Robb a former Pennsylvania labor secretary was appointed administrator of HUDs Philadelphia regional office overseeing programs in Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia West Virginia and the District of Columbia He will be sworn in Friday July 16 in Yosemite National Park Calif In other news a youth outing at Yosemite ends tragically as two teens Victor Vega and Kathy Alvarez die after ignoring danger signs and falling into the Merced River A separate Brownsville Pa man Donald D Davis 25 is arraigned on a murder charge in a fatal shooting of Carey Freeman 49 Jed arrest occurred at the scene and no motive is given
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Philadelphia
UPI
Theodore R. Robb
Labor and Industry
Pennsylvania
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Robb
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
District of Columbia
Raymond P. Shafer
Shafer
H. J. Heinz Company
Pittsburgh
New York City
Yale University
American Institute For Foreign Trade
Yosemite National Park
Calif
Victor Vega
Kathy Alvarez
Vega
Kathy
Torrance
Miss Alvarez
Compton
Upward Bound
Loyola University
Los Angeles
Larry Quist
Brownsville
Donald D. Davis
Davis
Fayette County
Donna Saunders
Carey Freeman
McCloskey Challenes Nixon Power on Vietnam War
UPI reports Paul McCloskey, Republican challenger in 1972, asserts the President lacks authority to deploy troops to Vietnam without congressional approval. Addressing Penn State, he argues war powers belong to accountable leaders. Droge from NSC declined to debate, citing schedule issues related to New Hampshire primary.
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State College
UPI
Paul McCloskey
R-Cal
Vietnam
McCloskey
Nixon
Pennsylvania State University
Dolf Droge
National Security Council
New Hampshire
Droge
Bronx blackout hits thousands of homes in early morning
A Con Ed transmission fault at the Sherman Creek substation left thousands in the Bronx and upper Manhattan without power from 3:25 a.m. until 6:55 a.m. The outage disrupted subway service during the morning rush as engineers tested a line and four lines tripped when returned to service.
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New York
Consolidated Edison
Bronx
Upper Manhattan
Con Ed
Robert Lehrman
Sherman Creek
Security talks mark first US South Korea consultative conference
In Seoul the US Defense Secretary Melvin R Laird and Korean Defense Minister Jung Nae Hiuk opened a two day security conference. Attending were U S Ambassador William J Porter Admiral John McCain Commander in Chief U S Pacific Forces and General J H Michaelisn commander of U S forces in Korea.
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Seoul
UPI
Melvin R Laird
Jung Nae Hiuk
Laird
Jung
Korean Peninsula
Defense Ministry
U.S
William J. Porter
John
McCain
U.S. Pacific
J. H. Michaelisn
Korea
Ellsberg papers blasted as traitorous act by Lemnitzer
Gen Lyman Lemnitzer, former Joint Chiefs chair, calls Ellsberg release a traitorous act. He decries the Pentagon papers as one sided and incomplete, lacking major U. S. documents from CLA, State Department, and White House. He urges press responsibility to verify national security implications.
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Ellsberg
United States
Lemnitzer
Pentagon
U. S
CLA
State Department
White House
American planes hit batteries in North Vietnam raid
UPI reports American planes hit anti aircraft batteries in North Vietnam with four guns destroyed and three damaged. B52s attacked south of the DMZ while BF2s targeted sites near Dong Ha and Khe Sanh. Separately Hmong militias engaged Saigon outskirts. 3,100 U.S. troops were withdrawn to 236,400. One OH-6 helicopter shot down in Quang Ngai. 1,976 allied helicopters shot down since 1961. Fire Base Fuller resumed rebuilding as heavy bombing continued.
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Saigon
UPI
North Vietnam
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Dong Ha
Fuller
Khe Sanh
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Nixon
OHG
Quang Ngai Province
Laos
Ho Chi Minh Trail
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UCLA
Norton Simon
Board of Regents
Simon
Deep South
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University of California At
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William McGill
Columbia University
Communist Party
Regents
Soledad Brothers
Soledad Prison
Castro
Cuba
Sy Tone
Riis
Watinsahip
Robert R. Greene
Russell C. Moore
Savannah Methodist Church
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Green
New Castle News Photo
Rodman Rockefeller
International Basic Economy Corp
Lawrence O’brien
Donald Johnson
Houston
Man
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