Guardsmen Calm Chicago Violence on King's Anniversary
On the first anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s death, guardsmen stabilized Chicago as violence spiked in West Madison Street and near the North Side housing project. Police and National Guard troops patrolled, while Cranes High and Lindblom High saw disturbances, fires, and debris.
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Old Town
Shorty
Richard J. Daley
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Daley
Neil
Richard B. Ogilvie
Springfield
Ogilvie
Checago
State Street
Wacker Drive
Sout Side
South Shore High School
Harlan High School
Cabrini
Revelers Pull Out of Desert Camping Clash
Palm Springs police and 250 officers cleared about 1,000 youths from Tahquiiz Canyon as a no camping order prompted a mass exodus. Mayor Howard Wielels blamed poor weather and beach pollution for steering visitors away, following earlier concerts. Police used tear gas and warnings during the disturbance at the Wednesday concert.
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Palm Springs
Tahquiiz Canyon
Cara
Cab Firm Offers Reward for Recruits
Philadelphia news: Yellow Cab Co. of Philadelphia seeks drivers and offers rewards for recommendations of men or writers hired as drivers. The program aims to recruit new cab personnel.
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Philadelphia
Yellow Cab Co
Philadelpha
LBJ Nephew Jailed in Princeton Liquor Looting
Philip Chase Badbill and Gregory Treverton, Princeton undergraduates and nephew of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, were jailed on $1,000 bail each after police say they looted Community Liquors near Princeton University. 42 bottles of bourbon and other liquors were found in their suitcases after breaking a plate glass window with a cement block.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Philip Chase Badbill
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Ktbc-Tv
Austin
Tex
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Watts
Los Angeles
10 Mile Chase Brings Down Wild Railroad Tank Car
A Southern Pacific railroad tank car carrying 50 000 gallons of sugar solution derailed from a switching yard in Los Angeles and rolled 10 miles to Compton before a chase by police helicopter and two parrot cars halted it. The car sped up to 40 mph, prompting ground warnings and emergency responses. no injuries occurred and the tanker remained undamaged.
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Southern Pacific
Los Angeles
Compton
Eighth
San Pedro
Sheriff's Department
Willowbrook
Elm Street
Willowbrook Avenue
Sirhan Plea Hesitation Ahead of Trial Commented By Witness
The Sirhan Sirhan case features a USC psychiatrist opposing diminished capacity and urging mercy. He testified that Sirhan is mentally ill but aware during Kennedy’s killing and could face mitigation rather than the gas chamber. Deliberations expected Friday. defense may call another psychiatrist before arguments.
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Sirhan
Pollack
Cooper
de. Pollack
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
Yank Ship Ventura Burned in Australia
Aboard the U S freighter Ventura in Melbourne Australia an engine room fire injured three crew members Arthur Ernest Rouna 49 first engineer Fairfax Minn Walter Melvin Lieth 48 second engineer Burbank Calif and Tyler George Johnson 42 Portland Ore all were treated at Royal Melbourne Hospital before returning to the ship cadet John Holdstein 21 said a five foot flame flashed from a boiler as they tried to light it the ship was damaged
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Australia
U.S
Ventura
Victoria
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Arthur Ernest Rouna
Fairfax
Minn
Walter Melvin Lieth
Burbank
Calif
Tyer George Johnson
Portland
Ore
John Holdstein
Students Anti Cigarette March Scheduled
Angwin Napa County Pacifi c Union College students and faculty plan a nine mile march Thursday to protest tobacco use. Student association president Leland Vialetis cites lung cancer deaths and growing scientific consensus that smoking is a major cause. Pacific Union is a coeducational liberal arts college with 1,800 students and faculty who neither drink nor smoke.
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Angwin
APS
Pacific Union College
Napa County
L&t
Leland Vialetis
Pacific Union
Viet Copter Crash Toll Linked To War's Harsher Costs
A Viet Nam helicopter crash killed 24 and wounded 53 near Khe Sanh 10 miles southeast of the Marines base as fighting with 130 Communist attackers surged nearby. U S and South Vietnamese troops reported 99 guerrillas killed in five battles south west of Saigon while one American was wounded. In Washington Rep Rogers Morton named Elly Peterson to assist as Republican national chairman nominee.
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Bien Hoa
Saigon
de. Hue
South Vietnam
Laos
Khe Sanh
U.S
Dwn
Ters
Creighton W. Abrams
Washington
UPI
Rogers C. B. Morton
Rmd
Nixon
Ray C. Bliss
Elly Peterson
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