Irish Catholics Spurn British Peace Feelers
In Belfast Catholic opposition leaders rejected a British peace initiative as a Protestant politician warned of possible civil war. Bombs wounded five. a British soldier was shot at Newry barracks. Gen. Sir Michael Carver arrived for talks with Ulster troops amid escalating tensions and renewed calls for a roundtable conference to halt the violence.
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Northern Ireland
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Britain
Army Veterans Club
Newry
London
Edward Heath
Jack Lynch
Ireland
Reginald Maudling
Pro
Testants
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Lynch
Brian Faulkner
Weland
Maudling
Social Democratic and Labor Party
Civil Rights Association
Bernadette Devlin
Miss Devlin
Basil Glass
Progovernment Alliance Party
Glass
Michael Carver
Ulster
Desegregation Busing Expands With Mixed Reactions
Court ordered desegregation busing begins in Mobile Alabama Pontiac Michigan Jackson Mississippi and Portsmouth Virginia with protests and security concerns. About 26 000 pupils will ride buses nationwide while Mobile plans 6 300 riders under a July court order.
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Mobile
Alabama
Pontiac
Mich
Dana Whitmer
Pontiac Central High School
Jackson
Miss
R.B. Dayton
Portsmouth
Reagan Backs State Wide Property Tax For Schools
Gov. Reagan and Assembly Speaker Moretti support a statewide property tax as part of a school financing overhaul after California Supreme Court ruling that local property taxes unequal for students in low wealth districts. They call for study of the tax system and potential new funding sources such as bank and corporate taxes or higher income and sales taxes.
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Calif
Ronald Reagan
California Assembly
Bob Moretti
California Supreme Court
Los Angeles
Sanford Gruskin
California
Reagan
Moretti
Bankani
Supreme Court
John E. Coons
University of California
Coons
California Law Review
U S Viet Forces Press Saigon Drive Toward Laos
U S forces joined land sea and air operations to back a South Vietnamese push toward the Laotian border south of the DMZ. About 10 000 South Vietnamese troops American artillery and 200 U S helicopters faced limited enemy contact with some SA soldiers wounded. B52 raids bombed Khe Sanh area as U S destroyers opened fire from the Tonkin Gulf. U S eight inch howitzers hit targets near Khe Sanh and Van Degrift base marking a rare return to the forward outpost.
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Khe Sanh
Laos
le Trung Hien
Khe Sansh
Tonkin Gulf
Vietnam
U.S
Kennedy Center Opens Season With Bernstein's Mass
The Kennedy Center officially opens tonight with Leonard Bernstein's Mass amid a 2200 strong invited audience including trustees donors ambassadors and lawmakers. Prominent figures including Sen Edward Kennedy Rep Frank Thompson and Rose Kennedy attend as debate over taxpayer funding continues. Pope Joan myth disclosed in Britannica notes a female pope allegedly reigned in 855.
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Leonard Bernstein
John F. Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts
Frank Thompson Jr
D-Nj
Center
Opera House
Congress
Diplomatic Corps
Thompson
Sen
J.W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Potomac River
Lincoln Memorial
Edward M. Kennedy
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