Ray Extradition Hearing Set for June 27
A British magistrate scheduled Ray for extradition hearings in Bow Street after his arrest in London. He faces charges including escape from Missouri State Prison and armed robbery. The U S Embassy forwarded the extradition request, and the treaty limits trial to the charges specified.
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Briton Given New Heart Dies From Infection
London report states a British patient who received a transplanted heart died after contracting an infection. Medical officials said the infection complicates recovery and underscores risks of new heart procedures.
Eisenhower Making Very Encouraging Progress
Washington AP reports former President Dwight D. Eisenhower shows no chest pain recurrence and has made encouraging progress in the last 24 hours. His activities are limited to brief visits with immediate family as doctors plan another bulletin at about the same time. The five star general was stricken with a major heart attack at Walter Reed Army Hospital, the latest in a series since September 1955, and occurred while he was walking in his ward during recovery from a mild attack two months earlier in California.
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Broadway Strike Shuts 19 Shows and Road Runs
Actors Equity walkout halts 19 Broadway productions including Hello Dolly and Fiddler on the Roof and nine road shows from Wilmington to San Francisco. The strike aims to lift minimum pay, shorten contracts, retain chorus runs, and gate control on alien actors. Producers warn costs could rise and threaten future musicals.
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Robert Sweet
Vincent D. McDonnell
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Merrick
League of New York Theaters
Largest mass surrender near Saigon pierces Vietnam war action
In Gia Dinh near Saigon, 131 enemy soldiers surrendered to South Vietnamese marines after loudspeakers urged them to yield. The event followed reports of North Vietnamese helicopters near the DMZ and a series of other air and naval incidents including a sinking Swift boat and damage to the Australian destroyer Hobart.
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McCarthy in New York Seeks Public View of Private Viet War Doubts
The Associated Press reports Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy wraps up his New York primary by urging public disclosure of private doubts on the Vietnam War. Nixon calls Johnson to sign the anticrime bill. Rockefeller expands delegate hunt on Capitol Hill. Three Democrats vie for Javits seat: Resnick, Nickerson, and O'Dwyer. Romney says Nixon will meet June 26 with Michigan delegates. Volpe notes likely split among Massachusetts GOP delegates after first ballot.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
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U.S. Senate
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Joseph Y. Resnick
Eugene H. Nickerson
Kennedy
Paul O'Dwyer
Michigan
George Romney
Nixon
John A. Volpe
Massachusetts
Rockefeller
Mail order gun sales bill approved with tighten amendments
Washington AP reports a bill approving mail order sales of shotguns and rifles passed with one change. An amendment tightens proposed restrictions on destructive devices including anti tank guns bazookas and mortars to limit sales.
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Cut Lindsay Budget Faces Possible Final Action
New York AP reports the two bodies approve their budget with a tic con on automobile owners and subject to possible Mayoral vetoes before the midnight deadline. The measure passes hours before the legal deadline.
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Auto
Nine youths rounded up in Manhattan narcotics raid
Nine young people including two women and a male SUNY Stony Brook student were seized in a narcotics raid on Manhattan's lower East Side. Police and Federal Narcotics agents raided a fourth floor East Third Street flat and confiscated mescaline amphetamine marijuana hashish and other illegal drugs.
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New Federal Bureau of Nar
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Quash Pacifist Protest on Capitol Hill
Police and FBI agents surrounded an antidraft demonstration on Capitol Hill as eleven pacifists, led by two arrestees, attempted to burn 13 draft cards with a propane torch outside the Supreme Court building. A brief scuffle followed the arrest.
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Nations pledge aid to nonnuclear states at UN
At United Nations headquarters in New York the Soviet Union and United States pledged to rally Security Council support against any nuclear threat to nations that renounce nuclear weapons. Canada Denmark Paraguay Hungary and Senegal were expected to back pledges of aid to nonnuclear countries signing the treaty to curb nuclear proliferation.
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Car Plunge Injures Eight In Philadelphia Hole
A Utica man and seven others were slightly hurt when the car they rode in fell into a 40 foot deep street hole in Philadelphia. Driver Anthony Travis 33 and Irene Austin 30 with five children were treated then released from Philadelphia General Hospital.
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Anthony Travis
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Philadelphia General Hospital
Poor's Chiefs In Seclusion As Command Post Unknown
Washington AP top leaders of the Poor People's Campaign remained secluded with aides saying they do not know where the command post moved after leaving a Negro owned motel. Demonstrators fanned three government agencies seeking access to Abernathy and other leaders. A mule train arrived for Wednesday Solidarity Day while activists faced rebuffs at the Agriculture, State, and HEW departments and a welfare protest.
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Ralph David Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Lincoln Memorial
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Miss
Alexandria
Atlanta
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Astros Fire Hire Manager in Midseason Shakeup
Houston Astros fired Grady Hatton in his third season and named batting coach Harry Walker as his replacement. Hatton had led the club from a surprising 1966 start to a decline, as the team sits last this season, 14 games behind first and six back of ninth. Walker formerly managed the Pittsburgh Pirates until last season.
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Houston Astros
Grady Hatton
Harry Walker
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Philadelphia Phillies
Géne Mauch
Bob Skinner
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Astros
Walker
Pittsburgh Pirates
New Yorkers Cast Votes In Complicated Primary
New Yorkers vote in a dense primary clouded by Kennedy’s assassination and wide use of paper ballots. Democrats face 123 delegates with Kennedy pledged slates and others uncommitted. McCarthy and Humphrey backers contest districts while Republicans see Rockefeller challenged by Nixon supporters for 11 of 83 delegate seats.
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N.Y
Robert F. Kennedy
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Eugene McCarthy
Thousands Back to Work in France After Strikes
Paris reporters say Renault workers led the return with 65,000 voting to accept a union-brokered settlement. About 10,000 at Sav iem Lyon and 30,000 shipyard workers in Saint Nazaire Bordeaux and La Seyne also resumed work. Government radio and TV crews remained out, opposing proposed legislation and calling for parliamentary action to shield news from government control. Premier Pompidou prepared a national broadcast amid rising campus tensions and police actions at the Sorbonne.
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