Van Houten Testifies On Drugs Shaping Tate Murders Case
Leslie Van Houten, 21, wearing a bright yellow mini dress, tells the Los Angeles jury she was a "proper little girl" until drugs Altered her life. She recalls a middle class upbringing, divorce in the family, drug use from age 15, joining Self-Realization Fellowship, and later LSD in San Francisco. She says she still loves Beausoleil on Death Row as prosecutors debate her role in the 1969 Tate murders.
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Los Angeles
Leslie van Houten
Sharon Tate
Miss van Houten
Los Angeles Area
Self-Realization Fellowship
Haight-Ashbury
San Francisco
Robert Beausoleil
Malibu
Beausoleil
Charles Manson
Tate
Weather Summary of Friday Temperatures and Records
Friday high temperature forecast near 45 and a low around 30 with year ago figures of 46 highs and 11 lows. Record highs and lows for this date stand at 67 in 1925 and 2 in 1933. Hourly readings end at midnight with values from 4am to 6pm and a barometer at 30.00 inches.
Allied Push In Laos Has Bogged Down
Saigon reports the 12 day Laos push against the Ho Chi Minh trail halted, with heavy North Vietnamese counteroffensives. U.S. blocking force, helicopter losses, ranger bases besieged, and Hue shelled as fighting intensifies along the trail and in South Vietnam.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
U.S
North Vietnam
Associated Press
Rick Merron
Dmz
Ranger
U. S
PLA Moves to Unseat Arafat in Power Struggle
The Palestine Liberation Army openly seeks to dissolve Arafats Central Committee and bring all guerrilla groups under PLA control. Brig. Abdulrazzak Yahya demands reform of the National Council and a commission to assign responsibility for past failures. He cites the 11 day Jordan civil war as a disaster and claims seven thousand troops are loyal to him in southern Syria.
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Associated Press
Palestine Liberation Army
Yasir Arafat
Abdulrazzak Yahya
PLA
Arafat
Yahya
Damascus
Beirut
Middle East
Palestine National Council
Cairo
Jordan
Central Committee
Israel
Syria
United States
Hussein
U.S
State Department
Washington
President Construction Accord Reported Near Agreement
Top Nixon administration officials and AFL CIO construction leaders reportedly agreed on a plan to curb soaring costs. Labor Secretary Hodgson said no comment until after reporting to President Nixon. The plan centers on a government industry labor board with review power over wage demands and price hikes.
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Miami Beach
Nixon Administration
Afl-Cio
White House
Secretary of Labor
J. D. Hodgson
Nixon
Labor Department
Hodgson
National Stabilization Board of Government
Industry
Labor
False national emergency alert causes brief radio shutdown
AP and UPI reports say a wrong emergency message prompted stations nationwide to halt broadcasts for eight minutes. The Air Force tape at Cheyenne Mountain released an alert without the required advisory and the White House called it an inadvertent error.
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Washington
Associated Press
United Press International
American Telegraph & Telephone Co
Air Force
Cheyenne Mountain
Colorado
White House
Nixon
WSBT
South Bend
Ind
Kansas lawmakers near decision on amendments for Topeka ballot
In the seventh week of the 1971 legislative session the Kansas Senate planned debates and votes on resolutions to place on the April 6 ballot an amendment ending the constitutional prohibition on lotteries. If approved by the Senate and voters the amendment would let the legislature regulate or prohibit lottery type gambling, with bingo likely legalized. The article also details bills on state employee numbers and salaries, church tax exemptions, liquor sales, voter registration, redistricting, school finance, and a new five member Civil Service Commission.
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Senate
Glee
Smith
Finance Council
House
State and
Wyandotte County
Sedgwick County
Civil Service Commission
Anderson County Attorney Beaten In Lawrence Cafe
Lawrence police report Anderson County Attorney Melvin L. Schmidt was assaulted Friday night at Rock Chalk Cafe near KU. He said he was beaten about the head and face with no serious injuries, feared attack after being accused of being a law enforcement officer, and delayed reporting by about 24 hours. Schmidt, a January appointee and KU Law School graduate, asked the Douglas County Sheriff to file a complaint.
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Lawrence, Kan
Anderson County
Melvin L. Schmidt
University of Kansas
Schmidt
Douglas
University of Kansas Law School
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James Farmer
Tate Slayer
Khe Sanh
William Barton
Nguyen van Hiep
Tito
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Leonid Brezhnev
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Construction In Accord
Ottawa Rotary Club
Masonic Hall
George Hughes
Harold Staadt
Staadt
Orson Welles
Kansas
Doris Swallow
David
Steve
Armory
Pomona First United Methodist Church
Franklin
Anderson
Lawrence Cafe
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