Jerusalem blast kills 11 in Holy City market bombing
Arab terrorists packed a refrigerator with a powerful bomb and exploded it in downtown Jerusalem during the morning rush hour. At least 11 people were killed and 31 wounded as police said the blast destroyed two shops and shattered nearby windows. Palestinian guerrillas claimed responsibility in a Beirut issued statement.
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Holy City
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Bobali
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Shimon Peres
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Gandhi bans extremists in India as emergency tightens
Indira Gandhi announced bans on 26 fringe groups from RSS to Maoist offshoots as part of emergency rule. The move targets both left and right extremist factions while exempting the main Communist Party of India and the opposition-aligned Communist Party Marxist. The government warns aid to banned groups is prosecutable and notes that the major opposition leadership remains under arrest.
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Anand Marg
Hindu Jana Sangh
Communist Party of India
Marxist- Leninist
Maoist Communist Center
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Marxist
Mrs. Gandhi
Communist Party-Marxist
Congress
Moraji Desai
People’s Party
Jayaprakash Narayan
Communist Party
Narayan
Narayan Who Escaped Mrs. Gandhi
Milk money involved Russell in AMPI case trial
In San Antonio AP reporting, lawyer Stuart Russell is on federal trial for allegedly contributing corporate funds to political candidates via forged billing. Secretary Sarah Bezdek testified that Russell mailed $5,000 checks with $5,000-plus bogus invoices to AMPI lobbyist Bob Lilly, who said the money funded a bribe scheme aimed at Treasury Secretary John Connally.
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Stuart Russell
Associated Milk Producers Inc
AMPI
Russell
Bob Lilly
Jake Jacobsen
Lilly
Jacobsen
Treasury
John Connally
Burn victim dies after Eagle Pass explosion
The Brooke Army Burn Center in San Antonio reported Juan Ontiveros 18 of Eagle Pass died at 11:30 p.m. Thursday from burns suffered in the April 29 butane truck explosion. His father and brother remain hospitalized with extensive burns as the incident toll rises beyond ten fatalities.
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Eagle Pass
Brooke Army Burn Center
Juan A. Ontiveros
Jesus Ontiveros
Pedro Ontiveros
Juan
CIA defies 1972 surveillance equipment rule
The Justice Department studies the CIA refusal to file annual inventories of electronic surveillance gear. CIA argues the memo targets law enforcement, not a domestic investigative agency. White House officials consider reorganizing intelligence leadership and splitting CIA functions between open analysis and covert operations.
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John S. Warner
White House
U.S
William E. Colby
Central Intelligence
National Security Agency
Pentagon
Weekend Texas weather forecast and coastal winds
Patches of fog and low clouds gave way to generally good Independence Day weather across Texas. Skies were partly cloudy in the Hill Country to North Central Texas, with scattered showers possible, temperatures ranging from 64 to 80 degrees early, and most readings in the 60s to 70s elsewhere. heavy rain and a few storms reported in West Texas, including Midland.
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Strike settlement ends Pennsylvania state employee walkout
About 46,000 striking state workers voted to accept a two year wage package calling for 12 percent total increases. The deal provides an immediate 3.5 percent raise, 11 cents next Jan. 1, and 30 cents next July 1. The strike halted business in Philadelphia Harrisburg Erie and Pittsburgh with at least 17 arrests at picket sites. Governor Shapp had offered a 3.5 percent rise for a one year term. Gerald McEntee of AFSCME said workers would return to work while voting on the contract.
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Milton J. Shapp
Pennsylvania
Gerald McEntee
American Federation of State
Philadelphia
Erie
Pittsburgh
NAACP sues to end northern and western school segregation
The NAACP filed a federal suit alleging HEW abandoned desegregation efforts in the North and West. It seeks court orders to investigate eight districts for segregated classrooms and staffing while 65 districts face HEW actions previously started but not enforced. Nathaniel Jones calls it a first major northern assault on segregation under the Civil Rights Act.
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
North
NAACP
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
U.S
Joseph Waddy
HEW
Nathaniel Jones
The
HEW Computer
Equality urged for college and high school press laws
Barbara Gold of the Student Press Law Center told a Texas bar group that student journalists deserve First Amendment protections equal to adults. She cited censorship cases in a Maryland high school over cheerleaders and in Florida where a birth control pamphlet distributed in a school paper was halted.
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Student Press Law Center
State Bar of Texas
Barbara Gold
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Florida
Ms Gold
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