Five Die In California Beach Outing Truck Crash
A flatbed truck carrying 62 children home from a Berkeley YMCA beach outing overturned on a high speed freeway. Five people were killed and many others injured, including 15 seriously. The driver Paul Cotton, 20, of Berkeley, apparently lost control on a soft shoulder and swerved into a dirt divider. The group, ages 6 to 12, were reassured by counselors before the crash. Helen King, 22, of Berkeley, a counselor, was among the dead alongside Janet Cotten, 19, Berkeley. Eric Lawes, unknown age, Berkeley. and Mark Linde, 9, Seattle.
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Calif
California Highway Patrol
Paul Cotton
Berkeley
Cotton
Nimitz
Oakland
San Jose
YMCA
Santa Cruz Beach
San Francisco
Helen King
Janet Cotten
Eric Lawes
Berkley
Mark Linde
Seattle
Wash
Delta sweep nets heavy Viet Cong losses and allied casualties
In the Mekong Delta around My Tho, a two week operation involving more than 15,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops killed about 754 Viet Cong guerrillas and captured 1,520 supporters. U.S. casualties were eight killed and 33 wounded, while South Vietnamese losses were light to very light.
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Saigon
UPN
Mekong Delta
U.S
Delta
My Tho
Charges imperil antipoverty program in Senate debate
A Senate debate centers on charges linking antipoverty funds to racial hatred and riots. Senator Eastland defends the allegations as supported by witnesses while Hart condemns the conduct as harmful. Rev. Davis defends Nashville poverty programs and says no money will go to any school teaching hate before investigations.
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Washington
Apy
Senate
War On Poverty
James O Eastland
D-Miss
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Senate Judiciary Committee
Eastland
Johnson
Congress
Hart
Judiciary Committee
Nashville
Davis
Wall Street
Nashville Metropolitan Action Commission
Liberation
Fred H. Brooks
SNCC
John A. Sprace
Office of Economic Opportunity
Sprace
Sorace
Brooks
St. Anselms Episcopal Chapel
UW Professor Among Newest Group of American Spacemen
The Space Agency added 11 scientist astronauts to NASA to study lunar surface and space, expanding the civilian corps to 58. Ages range from 25 to 40, including the first Australian and Welsh-born members. They hold doctorates and come from MIT, UW, Northwestern, Florida State, and other institutions. They will train to fly jets next spring and begin orientation September 18, with spaceflight readiness not expected for at least two years.
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Space Center
Houston
Tex
Space Agency
Moon
Earth
Mars
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Astronaut Corps
NASA
Lunar
Manned Spacecast Center
Joseph P Allen
University of Washington
Philip K. Chapman
U.S
Melbourne
Australia
Experimental Astronomy Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston
Mass
Anthony W. England
MIT
Karl G. Heinze
Northwestern University
Donald L. Holmquest
Methodist Hospital
Versity of Wisconsin
Califoria Institute of Technology
William E. Thornton
University of North Carolina
Air Force Space Program
Helmquest
Manned Spacecraft Center
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Plaas
Air Force
Second in Month Missing Girl Sparks Citywide Search
Oklahoma City authorities continued the search for Brenda Lois White a year-old girl missing for three days. She is the second child to vanish in the area in a month following Judith Ann Elwell who disappeared July 6 from her northwest Oklahoma City home. Ground teams on horseback helicopters and foot searched amid rain with as many as 400 people involved.
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Oklahoma City
Brenda Lois White
Brenda
Judith Ann Elwell
Bob White
Midwest City
Whisky Drenched Traveler Slips Through London Airport
An unidentified traveler, through customs at London Airport, broke a tax free whisky bottle and watched it drip from a paper bag. He tried to hold it together, sought a cup, and finally drank the whisky from the bag while wandering the lounge, slurring his speech as staff chased a name.
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London
UPI
London Airport
Milwaukee Tense Night Returns Quiet After Curfew Eased
The Milwaukee inner core saw a tense yet quiet Friday night as Mayor Henry Maier suspended the nightly curfew until midnight and allowed taverns to resume business. Police reported seizing a youth with a firebomb and checked sniper reports while 2,800 National Guardsmen stood by. Civil rights leaders pressed for talks after the shooting death of Clifford McKissick, a Negro college student, with Maier meeting about 60 Negro business operators and a push for an inter racial committee to study slum problems.
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Milwaukee
North Side
Henry Maier
Iuner
C.y’s
Butler
Clifford McKissick
MccKissick
Maier
John Jackson
Wisconsin teachers lose pay for union meeting ruling
The Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission ruled that about 700 teachers in seven cities did not receive wages for two days while attending a union convention last fall. The three member commission said boards had not illegally denied convention pay to WEA affiliates, as federation locals are certified exclusive bargaining agents. A special Wisconsin Federation of Teachers board meeting was set in Milwaukee.
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Madison
Upts
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission
Commis
The
Wisconsin Federation of Teachers
Milwaukee
William F. Herziger
Menasha
Federation
Ers
Morris Slavney
Arvid Anderson
WEA
Teachers sue over convention day pay dispute across districts
Unanimous court decisions on Appleton Fond du Lac cases and splits on Milwaukee Madison Kenosha West Bend Two Rivers. Jeraldine Marchant of the Wisconsin Federation of Teachers said comments would follow after reading the rulings. About 700 union members attended a Milwaukee convention October 6 7 with 500 600 from Milwaukee and 200 from other locals. boards had not paid for days attended, citing pre set calendars for 1966-67 and no payment for union convention days.
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Sion
Appleton
Fond du Lac
Milwaukee
Madison
Kenosha
West Bend
Two Rivers
Jeraldine Marchant
Wisconsin Federation of Teachers
Milwaukee Teachers’ Union
Wisconsin Education Association
Future of Mao Rule in Doubt
UPI dispatch reports anti-Mao rebels launching mad new attacks across China as Maoist rule wobbles. Editorial in People’s Daily names anti-Mao leaders, cites regional disturbances from Canton to Manchuria, and claims the anti-Mao headquarters is destroyed while residual elements persist. News also notes tightened border security around Hong Kong to curb defections.
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Hong Kong
UPI
China
Today
Peking
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Peking People’s Daily
Peking Radio
Wuhan
People’s Daily
Peng Teb-huai
Lo Jurehing
Lu Ting-yi
Yank Shank-ku
Party
Canton
Szechuan
Manchuria
Shanghai
Wiynan
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