Pa Judge Allows Autopsy Petition in Kopechne Case
Wilkes Barre Pa AP A Pennsylvania judge rejected a motion by Mary Jo Kopechne’s parents to dismiss a petition for an autopsy on her body. Judge Bernard Brominski ruled he has authority to order an autopsy and gave District Attorney Edmund Dinis 20 days to amend the petition for an autopsy.
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Wilkes-Barre, Pa
Pennsylvania
Mary Jo Kopechne
Edward M. Kennedy
Joseph Kopechne
Berkeley Heights
N.J
Bernard C. Brominski
Comon Pleas Court
Kopechnes
Dist
Edmund Dinis
New Bedford
Mass
Dinis
Brominski
Edgartown
James A. Boyle
Boston
Paul C. Reardon
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Kopechne
Reardon
Supreme Court
Kennedy
Atty
Robert H. Quinn
Full High Court
Boyle
High Court
American Bar Association
Free Press and Fair Trial
Dirksen in Good Condition After Lung Growth Removal
Senator Everett Dirksen 73 underwent removal of a growth from his right lung at Walter Reed Hospital. Doctors reported the operation successful with no immediate word on malignancy and no evidence of tumor spread.
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Sen. Dirksen
Washington
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Walter Reed Hospital
Illinois Republican
Sen
Gasoline Explosions Trigger Emergency in Warsaw Village
A state of emergency was declared in Warsaw New York after a tanker truck overturned on Route 20A spilling 8 100 gallons of gasoline which flooded sewers and sparked explosions. One man Thomas Drake 32 of Elmira died and John Malatta 25 Macedon was injured as four houses burned leaving 17 people homeless. Residents were evacuated and facilities at Warsaw Central High School prepared for evacuees.
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Warsaw
N.Y
Wyoming County
Batavia
Ashland Oil Co
Tonawanda
Merle Thompson
Edwin Robinson
Warsaw Central High School
Thomas Drake
Elmira
John Malatta
Macedon
Prime Beef questions Health Inspector weekend camper issue
Reader asks where the Health Inspector was during a weekend festival that left campers without facilities. The note urges action to prevent repeat problems next year and criticizes local parking and camping within city limits near 104 E. It mentions gas stations and a city dump view and asks for prime beef feedback.
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104 E
Ho Chi Minh Clinging to Life as North Vietnam News Emerges
Hanoi Radio reported Ho Chi Minh’s condition is deteriorating with continual medical care as Saigon monitors note the 79 year old is gravely ill. Officials expect possible power struggles within North Vietnam but aim to preserve the goal of unification.
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Saigon
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
Paris
North Vietnam
Communist
Vietnam
Central Committee
Uncle Ho
Indochina
Comintern
China
Hong Kong
Thailand
Communist China
Wang Yu-Ping
Congress Ends Vacation Tackles Heavy Schedule
Congress returns from a three week recess with fights over taxes and military spending. In the Senate debate continues on a $20 billion defense appropriations bill and hearings on the House tax reform bill will begin. House action targets auto safety, toy safety, air pollution law, voting rights extension, direct popular presidential vote, and the student loan program. An amendment to trim $533 million for CSA transport planes passed earlier. timing for a vote remains uncertain.
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Senate
Senate Finance Committee
House
CSA
Congress
William Proxmire
Dwis
Mike Mansfield
Dr James Pike Missing in Jerusalem Desert
Searchers found the wallet and passport of Dr James Pike a former Episcopal bishop of California missing in the Judean wilderness northwest of the Dead Sea. His car was abandoned and his wife survived after walking for help, with Pike reported missing dead or alive.
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Dr. Pike
Jerusalem
James Pike
Episcopal
California
Judean
Dead Sea
Pike
Tor
Santa Barbara
Calif
Pearl Chambers
Holy Land
Christ
Diana Kennedy
James Jr
The
Foundation For Religious Transition
Francelia Off Honduras Moves Through Gulf Reported
At 6 a.m. EDT the National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Francelia lay about 30 miles off the coasts of Guatemala and British Honduras in the Gulf of Honduras as this late wire update arrived.
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Francelia
Honduras
Francelia Was
Guatema
British Honduras
Gulf of Honduras
National Hurricane Center
Capitol Official's Son Dies After Self Inflicted Shot
A 15 year old son of a Federal Railroad Administration official died after apparently shooting himself on the steps of the Capitol. Greg Rogers was found with a .32 calibre bullet wound in his temple near the peace monument at the Capitol west steps. He died soon after at Rogers Memorial Hospital in Washington.
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Ho Chi Minh
Hue
Saigon
Europe
Carlton Hotel
London
France
Lenin
Stalin
Trotsky
Moscow
Washington (Ap
Federal Railroad Administration
U.S. Capitol
Greg Rogers
Peace Monument
Capitol
Washington Monument
Rogers Memorial Hospital
Washington
Government Sues Over Patterson Fight Promoters
The United States filed suit to collect 385,769 in judgments from Roy Cohn and two others who promoted former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson’s boxing matches.
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New York
U.S
Roy Cohn
Floyd Patterson
Postal Workers Rally Against Public Corporation Plan
About 500 postal employees and families marched through downtown Erie to oppose converting the Post Office Department into a public corporation. A United Federation of Postal Clerks spokesman said workers fear loss of collective bargaining rights and Civil Service ratings if the Post Office becomes privately operated.
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Erie
Post Office Department
United Federation of Postal Clerks
Drizzle Dampens Violence in Coatesville Gangs
A light drizzle dampened violence as bands of 75 to 100 Negro teenagers roamed East End Coatesville, Pa., hurling rocks and bottles at passing cars. Police reported no injuries.
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Coatesville
Pennsylvania
East End
Training halted at Libyan bases requested by new government
Libyas new military government asked commanders of the American and British bases in Libya to stop training on Libyan soil. The U S Air Force Wheelus base near Tripoli and the British Tobruk and El Adem bases reportedly agreed to comply.
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Damascus
Syria
Libya
Egypt
Middle East
Tripoliny
U.S. Air Force
Big Wheelus
Tripoli
Tobruk
el Adem
Israel Jets Hit Frontiers in Jordan Lebanon and Suez Clash
Israeli jets roared across two frontiers today striking Arab gun emplacements in Jordan and Lebanon. In the south Israeli and Egyptian artillery units traded fire across the Suez Canal.
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Associateo Pres
Israel
Jordan
Lebanon
Suez Ca- Mal
Tragedy in Canton as Woman Found Dead in Car
The body of 24 year old Frances A H Emerson of Calton was found early today in her car on a secluded dirt road leading to a Gal ra camp in St. Lawrence County New York. She is described as a mother of two. Sheriff's department investigating.
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Pike
Canton
N.Y
St. Lawrence County
Nancy Hanks Named Arts Council Chairman by Nixon
President Nixon appoints Nancy Hanks of New York City as chairman of the National Council of the Arts in a $40 000 a year post. Hanks replaces Roger L. Stevens whose term expired last March. She leads the Associated Councils of the Arts, a national nonprofit group aiding arts in the United States and Canada. Governor Rockefeller arrives with his Latin America fact finding report.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Nancy Hanks
New York City
National Council of the Arts
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Miss Hanks
New York
Roger L. Stevens
Miami Beach
Fla
Associated Councils of the Arts
United States
Canada
Bryan Hanks
Fort Worth
Tex
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Colorado Springs
Colo
Latin America
Sniper Fire Kills White Cop and Negro Girl in Camden NJ
A white patrolman Rand e Chandler aged 22 and Rose McDonald, a 15 year old Black girl, were killed Tuesday night in Camden New Jersey by sniper fire during a disorderly outbreak. Nearby Hartford Connecticut and Fort Lauderdale Florida also saw sniper incidents with curfews, looting, and arrests as National Guard and police restored calm.
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Associated Press
Camden
Hartford
Conn
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Rande J. Chandler
Rose McDonald
Jersey
Chandler
National
North End
B52s Hit Reds Battling S Viet Units in Jungle
In Saigon AP reports massive American B52 strikes against North Vietnamese forces near Song Be as South Vietnamese troops suffer heavy casualties. At least 30 soldiers killed and 138 wounded with 17 missing while Green Beret advisers incur injuries amid fierce jungle fighting near the Cambodian border 85 miles northeast of Saigon.
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Saigon
Song Be
Green Berets
Safe Removed At Submarine Sandwich Shop
In Albany New York burglars ripped a safe from Mike's Submarine Shop. They entered between 2 30 a m and 1 p m Sunday and dragged the 18 inch metal safe from its floor bolts after breaking a plasterboard wall to the basement. The safe was found empty and the effort noted as not worthwhile.
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Albany
N.Y
Mike
AEC OKs 9 Mile Point Plant Operation Start
The Niagara Mohawk Power Corp receives AEC license to operate the 9 Mile Point nuclear plant near Oswego New York. The boiling water reactor near Lake Ontario will start with about 500000 kilowatts output after pre operational testing and construction checks.
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AEC Oks
Mile Point
Washington
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp
Nine Mile Point
Oswego
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Niagara Mohawk
Ted
Were
Lake Ontario
AEC
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