Attica Prison Riots Leave Hostages As Fires Burn
Prisoners at Attica riot take 33 hostages and set fires. State officials led by Corrections Commissioner Oswald rush to the scene and consider National Guard involvement while police mobilize in surrounding counties.
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Attica
N.Y
Attica State Prison
Russell G. Oswald
Oswald
Buffalo
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Albany
Attica State Correctional Facility
Vincent Mancusi
Erie County
Michael Amico
Integration by Busing Gains Headway Despite Protests
Court ordered desegregation by busing shows progress in several cities amid resistance. Pontiac Michigan reports rapid busing with tensions and arrests as 9 students injured in fights. Boston outlines white and nonwhite turnout shifts at Joseph Lee Elementary while many white pupils remain reassigned. Mobile Alabama opens with no incidents as 6 300 students ride for balance. Dallas sees rising white attendance in black schools. Duval County Jacksonville notes low private attendance amid protests. Hammond Secondary School in Alexandria reports sporadic fighting with arrests.
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Associated Press
Pontiac
Mich
Boston
Joseph Lee
Lee
Mobile
Ala
Dallas
Florida
Duval County
Jacksonville
Hammond Secondary School
Alexandria
Support Grows for Hot Dog Tax Repeal in New York
Syracuse AP reports State Assemblyman Edward Kinsella a Republican from Solvay says backing for repealing the sales tax extension on prepared foods under $1 is rising. He cites support from Republicans and Democrats including Assembly Minority Leader Stanley Steingut and four NYC area Democrats who opposed the tax in the last session.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Edward Kinsella
Solvay
Kinsella
Assembly
Stanley Steingut
New York City
Steingut
New York City Area
Nixon rules out extending wage price freeze
President Nixon told Congress the 90 day wage price freeze will not be extended. He said a system of wage and price stabilization would follow after consultation with Congress, business, labor and agriculture leaders. He announced plans for bipartisan support and outlined three tax proposals to be unveiled August 15 as part of a broader economic program.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Business
Labor
Agriculture
Afl-Cio
George Meany
United States
Puffball Sizes Surprise City Children
Each puffball measures 42 inches in circumference and nearly all the small youngsters could carry one home. The mushrooms are tied to Mrs. Marge Weber, secretary to Mayor John O C Conway.
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Marge Weber
John O'C. Conway
Edith Serves Toward Central America With 115 MPH Winds
Hurricane Edith with top winds of 115 mph heads toward Central America driving gales toward Nicaragua and Honduras coasts while Fern remains at 90 mph in the Gulf of Mexico about 210 miles east of Brownsville. Edith moves west at 18 mph and is forecast to bring hurricane winds to Cape Gracias by midday with heavy rains raising flood and high tide risks. Residents in northeastern Nicaragua and eastern Honduras are urged to hurry hurricane precautions and expect gale to hurricane strength winds by midday.
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Miami
Edith
Central America
Nicaragua
Honduras
Fern
Gulf of Mexico
Brownsville
Tex
Cape Gracias
IRA Offensive Threat Looms in Northern Ireland Violence
In Londonderry snipers fired over 100 rounds at a British army post as security forces brace for an IRA offensive. In Belfast a British soldier died while defusing a bomb in a church hall, the 101st death in two years of sectarian violence in the province.
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Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Belfast
Levittown teachers strike despite court order
About 600 teachers defied a court order to return to work as a second day of a strike began at 16 public schools in Levittown New York. They aim to force a contract meeting with the school board amid a dispute. Nixon to meet AFL CIO leaders Friday at the White House about his economic policies.
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Levittown
N.Y
Sec
Washington
Nixon
Afl-Cio
George Meany
White House
Fern Ends Long Stall Near Texas Coast
Hurricane Fern resumes movement toward the Texas coast prompting hurricane warning flags from Port Arthur to north of Freeport. The National Hurricane Center urged evacuations of low coastal areas before escape routes are cut off by rising tides in the warning area.
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Miami
Fla
Texas
Port Arthur
Freeport
National Hurricane Center
U S Viet Toll Drops Slightly In Saigon Region
U S and South Vietnamese casualties eased last week with 16 American combat deaths reported for the seven days ending last Saturday. This marks an eighth straight week with battle deaths under 20.
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Saigon
U.S
Diplomat Charged With Murder Over Embassy Stabbing
Washington AP reports an American diplomat, Alfred Erdos, was charged with first degree murder after the stabbing death of Donald J. Leahy, the embassy security officer, at the American embassy in Santa Isabel, Equatorial Guinea. Leonard G. Shurtleff found the body last week as the investigation unfolded. The complaint and summons were served at Dulles Airport on a Saturday after Erdos arrived in Virginia.
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Washington
U.S
Equatorial Guinea
Alexandria
Alfred Erdos
Dulles
Virginia
Donald J. Leahy
Foreign Service
Santa Isabel
Leonard G. Shurtleff
Possible Victims Sought After Otisco Lake Boat Explodes
Onondaga County deputies and volunteers resumed locating possible victims after a home made boat burned near Otisco Lake. Two pontoons were found. ownership unclear. Witnesses cite two explosions and a group of hippies living aboard last summer. Search halted at 1 a.m. then resumed at dawn.
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Marietta
N.Y
Onondaga County
Otisco Lake
James Muraco
Syracuse
Gunman sought after Central Park rape and double homicide
Police hunted a heavily built man in his early 30s after he raped a teenage girl, killed her boyfriend Ru ben Ortiz, and wounded his accomplice Leonard Parker in Central Park near the Delacorte Theater. The victim and suspect fled toward Castle Hill after the assault. The 17 year old girl identified by investigators as a North Carolinian was found by patrols at dawn with the couple’s killer on the loose.
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New York
Central Park
Beledere Castle
Georgia
Leonard Parker
Atlanta
Ruben Ortiz
Delacorte
Ortiz
Parker
Thieu Fears U S May End Aid If He Runs Alone
Saigon AP report says President Nguyen Van Thieu fears U S Congress could cut or scale back aid if he runs unopposed in the October 3 election. Officials say Bunker and Rogers deny abandonment plans, but Thieu contemplates resignation to avoid a cutoff.
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Thieu
U. S
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
U.S
South Vietnam
Ellsworth Bunker
William P. Rogers
Nixon
Congress
South
US Airlift Delivers 1000 South Vietnamese Troops Near Laos Border
American helicopters ferried 1000 fresh South Vietnamese infantry to landing zones south of Highway 9 near the Laos border as B52 strikes pounded North Vietnamese positions. The operation, part of a major drive beneath the DMZ, aims to disrupt enemy supply routes and infiltration corridors into South Vietnam.
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Saigon
Dmz
Khe Sanh
South Vietnam
Laos
Pham van Phu
Associated Press
Holger Jensen
Indictments Tied to Soviet Pressure, JDL Claims
Jewish Defense League says federal indictments of seven members on conspiracy to bomb Soviet trade offices result from Soviet pressure on the Nixon administration. Six pleaded innocent in Brooklyn court. one already jailed on separate gun and grenade charges. Bertram Zwieben linked case to detente and a prior Kahane plea deal.
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JDL
New York
Jewish Defense League
Amtorg
Long Island
Amtorg Agency
Glen Cove
Mark A. Constantino
Brooklyn
Avraham Hershkovitz
Lewisburgh
Nancy
Bronx
Bertram Zwieben
Nixon
Rabbi Meir Kahane
Mass by Bernstein Opens Kennedy Center with Overture to Fame
The Kennedy Center opened with Leonard Bernstein Mass as the featured work. The late president’s family joined a standing ovation as 2,200 guests heard the premiere at the marble structure near the Lincoln Memorial. The piece stirred praise and questions about its meaning with Alan Titus delivering a noted performance as the celebrant.
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Performing Arts Center
Jfk
Leonard Bernstein
Washington
John F. Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts
National Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati
Kennedy
Nixon
President
Ward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
John Kennedy
Bernstein
Alan Titus
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