Abortion and NYC School Plan Hit Legislature Highlights
In Albany Republicans push abortion liberalization and decentralization of New York City schools to the floor next week. Assembly Codes backs Blumenthal abortion bill as Education panel backs Regents decentralization plan amid budget stalemate and Nassau County opposition.
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Albany
N.Y
New York City
Assembly Codes
Blumenthal
Assembly
Prescott B. Huntington
Suffolk County
State Board of Regents
Senate
Board of Education
Duryea
John J. Marchi
Staten Island
Capitol
Rockefeller
Nassau County
Codes Committee
Albert H. Blumenthal
Danhattan
Joint Legislative Committee On Public Health
Norman F. Lent
Lent
Brydges
Senate Health Committee
Senate Committee
Buffalo State U. students jeer Gov Rockefeller at campus
More than 500 SUNY Buffalo students gathered at Rosary Hill College in Amherst and shouted for integration of the work force as they protested on the eve of the university campus building project. The rally followed a 16 hour sit in at the administration building with no violence reported.
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Buffalo
N.Y
State University At
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rocky
Rosary Hill College
Amherst
King's Widow Nominated as Trustee at Colgate Rochester
Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. has been asked to join Colgate Rochester Divinity School as one of 11 Negro trustees following an 18 day student sit in that ended Thursday. Officials said the widow of the slain civil rights leader was invited and it was unclear if she accepted.
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Rochester
N.Y
Martin Luther King Jr
Colgate Rochester Divinity School
Nixon to Seek Bunker View on Vietnam Troop Cuts
President Nixon plans weekend talks with Ellsworth Bunker and General Andrew Goodpaster in San Clemente to gauge when South Vietnam might permit withdrawing some U.S. troops. Officials stress no policy decisions will be made at this stage and the war's deescalation remains a long process.
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Bunker
U. S. Viet
Washington
Ellsworth Bunker
South Vietnam
U.S
Andrew J. Goodpaster
San Clemente
Calif
Goodpaster
William P. Rogers
Henry A. Kissinger
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Saigon
Vietnam
Paris
Laird Denies Protests Drove Old Sentinel Missile Change
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird told a Senate subcommittee the switch from the Sentinel defense to the Safeguard ABM system was not caused by public protests. He said the change was planned before protests near Boston Chicago and Seattle and touted the new system as superior. Senator Fulbright pressed that protests influenced reconsideration but Laird insisted opposition was coincidental. Senator Gore criticized the new ABM as a defense in search of a mission.
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Melvin R. Laird
Sentinel
Laird
Nixon
U.S
Boston
Chicago
Seat
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate
Fulbright
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Plan 10 Lunar Flights is July Trip Successful
NASA administrator Dr Thomas Paine predicts a sequence of ten lunar voyages beginning with a July manned landing. The plan foresees four initial landings adding scientific packages and laser retroreflectors and later missions exploring areas of greatest interest. The decade would also include probes to Earth’s sister planets.
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Houston, Tex
Thomas O. Paine
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Air Force Association
Earth
Paine
Grand Jury Indicts 17 in Demo Convention Rioting
A federal grand jury indicts 17 persons including eight demonstrators eight policemen and a NY NBC employee over disorder at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Indictments allege civil rights obstruction and assault on newsmen with one officer charged with perjury. Demonstrators named include Dellinger Davis Hayden Hoffman Rubin Weiner Fraines and Seale.
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Chicago
U.S
Thomas A. Foran
James B. Conlisk
Russell to Work Through Cobalt Therapy
Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia, age 71, plans to continue his Senate duties while undergoing cobalt therapy for a likely malignant inoperable lung tumor. Doctors expect about six weeks of outpatient treatment with daily sessions, following an X ray checkup for his emphysema.
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Sen. Russell
Washington
Georgia
Richard B. Russell
Senate
Russell
Reds Hit Saigon Bases In Renewed Viet Cong Drive
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces renewed attacks around Saigon, hitting 65 allied bases with rockets and mortars and inflicting US casualties. At White Base and nearby camps, American troops repelled assaults as helicopters and artillery fought the dawn battle near the Michelin plantation area.
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Reds
Saigon
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
White Base
Michelin
Ont
Horst Faas
Michlin
Appar
Anguilla Awaits Referendum as Britain Pushes Aid
About 1,000 Anguillans led by Acting President Ronald Webster parade for independence, while British Commissioner Anthony Lee rejects their authority. Webster proposes a referendum on independence or association with Britain, or rejoining a federation. London vows a rescue operation with development aid as long occupation continues.
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Anguilla
Caribbean
Ronald Webster
Island
Anthony Lee
Webster
London
Britain
St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla
Lee
Nixon Couple Fly to Missouri for Independence Visit
Dent and Mrs Nixon flew from Andrews Air Force Base Maryland at 9 30 a m for a weekend trip toward California visiting former President Harry S Truman in Independence Missouri.
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Washington
Nixon
Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Independence
Andrews Air Force Base
California
New York Stock Exchange to move to East River landfill site
The New York Stock Exchange announced a permanent relocation to a landfill site to be built by the city in Manhattan's East River. The new exchange will sit at the east end of Wall Street, about five blocks from its current corner of Wall and Broad Streets in the heart of the financial district.
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New York
The
New York Stock Exchange
Manhattan
East River
Wall Street
Wall and
Broad Streets
Financial District
Guilt total released in Chicago DNC disorders
Police arrested 677 people in disorders around the Democratic National Convention. Court records show 333 convicted, including history instructor Staughton Lynd and nine others for disobeying a police order to stop picketing the convention hall on August 28.
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Chicago
Staughton Lyndh
Senators Push Probe Into Military Prisons
Senators Charles Goodell and Alan Cranston said Congress will investigate conditions in military prisons. The move follows the harsh sentences for demonstrators who staged a sit down at the Presidio Stockade in California and reports of poor conditions there.
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Washington
Congress
Charles EF. Goodell
R. N.Y
Alan Cranston
D —Cali
Presidio Stockade
California
Finch Sends Campus Disorder Recommendations to Nixon
Secretary of Welfare Robert H. Finch forwarded to President Nixon proposed measures to handle college campus disruptions and students blocking educational processes. Finch's office said the White House is reviewing the recommendations and a presidential statement will follow soon.
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Washington
Ap) — Secretary of Welfare
Robert H. Finch
Nixon
Black Students End Strike at San Francisco State College
The Black Students Union ends a 44 month campus strike at San Francisco State College amid violence and 700 arrests. Union leaders Benny Stewart and Jerry Varnado announced the decision in a school cafeteria on Thursday.
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Black Students Union
Quits
San Francisco State College
Benny Stewart
Jerry Varnado
First recording star Harriet Atwood set to turn 104 Sunday
Richmond report notes Harriet Atwood, the woman who played piano for Thomas Edison’s 1887 phonograph recording, will celebrate her 104th birthday. The event recalls Edison’s early prototype tests in West Orange New Jersey with his assistant George Atwood fetching Harriet Hadden to perform for the machine.
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Richmond
Thomas A. Edison
Harriet Atwood
West Orange
N.J. Edison
George Atwood
Atwood
Harriet Hadden
Rumor Keating May Be Chosen Envoy to India
An Indian embassy official said a report circulating Thursday night claimed former Senator Kenneth Keating could become ambassador to India replacing Chester Bowles. State Department inquiries could not confirm the rumor. Keating, a former U S Senator from New York, sits as a judge on the State Court of Appeals.
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Washington
Kenneth Keating
Chester Bowles
India
State Department
Keating
U. S
New York
State Court of Appeals
piano peace gift ends Nixon Truman feud
Nixon travels to Independence Missouri to visit 84 year old Truman and bring the White House piano once used by Truman as a gesture of reconciliation. The feud between Nixon and Truman, marked by accusations of treason and cronyism, had long kept their paths apart since 1952.
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Washington
Nixon
Harry S. Truman
Truman
California
Piano gift traces White House to Roosevelt era.
In 1937 Eleanor Roosevelt requested a mahogany Steinway grand piano given to the White House by the Steinway Piano Co. It was shipped to Missouri for President Nixon to present to the Truman Library in Independence. Nixon and man play the piano.
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Nixon
Truman
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Steinway Piano Co
New York
Executive Mansion
Eleanor Roosevelt
Missouri
Independence
Harry S. Truman
Kennedy urges overhaul of US China policy and UN role
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy calls for major policy changes toward Communist China. He proposes seating the Communists on the UN Security Council and General Assembly while maintaining relations with Nationalist China and demilitarizing Formosa. He urges opening consular missions and removing travel and trade barriers.
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Edward M. Kennedy
U.S
China
Formosa
U.N. Security Council
Kennedy
Massachusetts Democrat
National Committee On
U.s.-China
General Assembly
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