Regents bury Berkeley People’s Park under parking lot
UC regents voted 16 to 7 to bury the disputed Berkeley People’s Park under a parking lot and fenced playing field and to accelerate plans for $4.5 million in student housing on the land, despite Chancellor Heyns’s opposition and Gov. Reagan’s support for a temporary park. The decision followed protests and a debate over leasing park space to the city for an orderly, user driven park.
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Berkeley
Calif
University of California Regents
Heyns
Reagan
Charles
J. Hitch
Regents
Wallace Johnson
Dan Siegel
Ralph Schillinger
Rockefeller changes Latin American schedule amid protests
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, traveling with President Nixon on a fact finding tour, shifted plans to meet Uruguay's Jorge Pacheco Areco to Punta del Este due to student unrest. Army blocks access to the resort as hundreds of troops patrol Montevideo after protests that damaged a General Motors plant and other U.S. interests. In Paraguay, Rockefeller met President Stroessner to discuss loans while cordially addressing students amid minor clashes in Asuncion.
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Montevideo
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Punta del Este
New York
Nixon
Jorge Pacheco Areco
U.S
General Motors
Rockefeller
Paraguay
Alfredo Stroessner
Stroessner
United States
Asuncion
Ten Killed When Train Hits Auto Near Vienna Georgia
A car carrying two women and 10 children was struck by an eight car freight train at a level crossing near Vienna Georgia. Ten people died including nine children. The driver Annie Lowe 21 and her year old daughter Faye survived. Among the dead are Eula Pitts a sister of the driver and six children of Mrs Lowe sister Mary Lewis of Vienna. The train driver William Thompson of Valdosta said the car stalled on the tracks and the train could not stop in time. The speed was about 40 miles per hour.
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Vienna
Here
Dooly County
H.C. Johnson
Annie Mae Lowe
Faye
Lowe
Eula Mae Pitts
Miami
Pitts
Mary Lewis
Thompson
Johnson
Crabs Take Over A Small Island
BARRANQUILLA Colombia AP An invasion of thousands of crabs forces Salamanca island authorities to act. Officials call it a frightening spectacle as crabs populate beaches huts and trees. An estimated leads to wildlife disruption in the island’s animal park.
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Barranquilla
Colombia
Salamanca
National Guardsmen Called Abernathy Arrested
Charleston AP report says civil rights leader Ralph David Abernathy was arrested early Saturday after leading about 400 striking hospital workers in a march during which bottles bricks and stones were thrown at police. Six officers and a fireman injured. three other demonstrators and Abernathy arrested as National Guardsmen aided police. Governor McNair ordered guards on duty as a precaution after Charleston officials requested them.
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Charleston
S.C
Ralph David Abernathy
Abernathy
Robert McNair
Gestapo tactics alleged in Canadian deserter cases
Vancouver lawyer John Taylor accuses Canadian immigration officers of using Gestapo tactics to block U.S. military deserters from entering Canada. He cites a 20 year old Berkeley deserter who was turned back then slipped into Canada as a tourist after reporting to U.S. authorities, while Lyall Hawkins defends the Kingsgate officer's discretion in informing the American side.
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Vancouver
B.C
U.S
Canada
John Taylor
Taylor
Allan Maceachen
Berkeley
Calif
Kingsgate
U.S. Army
U.S. Immigration Office
Lyall Hawkins
Kingsgate Immigration
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William A. Thompson
Valdosta
United Artists
Ee Plaza
SUN
John Wayne
Hillgre Drive
Los Angeles
John F Kennedy
National Guardsmen
John Conroy
Conroy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Socotona Medical College
Charleston County
McNair
Gestapo
Bonner’s Ferry
Idaho
Blaine, Wash
Walcome
Davis ST
Lister
Mac
Tosh
Peoples National Bank
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