Migrant Camp Conditions Arouse Medical Protests
Doctors studying migrant worker camps in Texas and Florida describe sub human living quarters and dangerous conditions. They report a higher death rate for mothers and infants, widespread malnutrition, parasitism, and lack of basic medical services. The field team compares camps to slave quarters and prisons, highlighting neglected facilities and a life of fear among residents.
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Washington
Texas
Florida
Senate
Field Foundation
Mississippi
Henry S. Lipscomb
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston
Ray Wheeler
Bomb making instructions flood schools warned by police
New York police officials told Senate investigators that bomb making plans circulate widely in underground papers magazines and leaflets reaching junior high and high school students. Lt Kenneth ONeil described crude to highly advanced manuals for constructing explosive devices and showed pipe bombs and diagrams from recent incidents to illustrate the danger.
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Washington
New York City
Kenneth O’neil
Senate
Greenwich Village
New York
O'Neil
O’neil
Senators
Elks Vote to Keep Segregated Membership Rule
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a 1.5 million member group, voted to retain a rule barring nonwhites from membership. The secret five day convention in San Francisco ended with a show of hands estimated at 1550 to 22 by Grand Exalted Ruler Glenn L Miller. The order also requires members to be over 20, believers in God, U.S. citizens and unaffiliated with subversive organizations.
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San Francisco
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Glenn L. Miller
Logansport
Ind
God
U.S
Nasser ends Moscow talks amid Middle East peace push
President Nas ser returns to Cairo after 19 days in Moscow following talks with Soviet leaders on the Middle East crisis. Officials cite no leak on decisions while a U S Air Force fact finding mission to Israel raises speculation of a Nixon gesture to counter Soviet moves.
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Associated Press
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Moscow
Middle East
Kremlin
U.S
Egypt
Nasser
Israel
U.S. 6Th Fleet
U.S. Air Force
Air Force Strike Command
James Edmundson
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Allan C. Mermann
Nh Mestead
Fla
Mermann
Gordon Harper
Mellen
Tex
McAllen General Hospital
Elks
Coblentz & Smith, Inc
J. Vernon Coblentz
Robert J. Smith
Court Street
United States
Hagerstown
Maryland
the Telephone Company
Charles
Baltimore
Bankamericard
C&p
Arrhi
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