Bradley and Yorty slated for runoff
Los Angeles mayoral candidates Bradley and Yorty advanced to a runoff after a tight primary. Yorty touted his 12-year record as honest city government while Bradley warned of rising serious crime. Other results included City Attorney Amebergh falling short of 50 percent, facing Pines, Controller Navaro’s re election, and six council members winning four year terms with Stevenson and Lorenzen going to a runoff on May 29.
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Yorty
Los Angeles
Bradley
Sam Yorty
Untith
Roger Amebergh
Burt Pines
Amebergh
Pines
Charles Navarro
David Gold
Robert J. Stevenson
Donald Lorenzen
Tunofis
Florida hit by second blackout across Miami area
A second widespread outage began at the Turkey Point nuclear plant south of Miami, with possible involvement of the nuclear generator or a second reactor. The blackout affected Palm Beach County and Fort Pierce, trapping workers in elevators, halting traffic, and delaying hotel checkouts as power began to return by 9 50 a.m. Florida Power and Light said restarting generators would be slow amid ongoing scrutiny over a recent rate increase.
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Turkey Point
Miami
Palm Beach County
Fort Pierce
Dade County
Harvie Duval
George E. Schultz
Henry Balaban
Schultz
Fontainebleau
Florida Power and Light Company
Public Service Commission
Million Dollar Magee Trial Ends With No Verdict
The $1 million Magee trial concluded without a verdict as jurors dismissed after a long month. Defense attorney Rob ert Carrow praised jurors while prosecutor Albert Harris Jr. anticipated a retrial. Juror Moses Shepherd said he held out against a murder conviction, and former U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark argued Magee’s innocence under diminished capacity law. The case cost far surpasses other famous California trials, with security and pretrial proceedings driving expenses across Marin and San Francisco counties.
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Robert Carrow
Carrow
Albert W. Harris Jr
Moses Shepherd
William Irwin
U.S
Magee
California
Clark
Los Angeles
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Charles Manson
Tate-LaBianca
Marin County
Nica
Colvin
San Francisco
Offieigis
Price rollbacks easing plans face cattlemen squeeze
Shultz notes eased price controls may squeeze cattlemen and curb future supplies while ruling out ceilings on poultry and fish. He cites a healthy expanding economy and inflation as a problem, but pinpoints commodity surges in energy, food and raw materials as driven by international markets. He avoids predicting an end date for meat price ceilings.
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Shults
Con
Congress
Shultz
Nixon
Meat boycott shifts demand across markets and firms
Poultry and Egg Institute president Tarold Miller says poultry and eggs up due to the meat boycott while Chicago seafood orders double, as 30 city spot checks show varied meat sales declines from normal to 50 percent. Prices hold for beef pork and lamb. hog and cattle receipts fall at major Midwest markets. packing firms cut workers.
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Tarold Miller
Poultry and Egg Institute
Chicago
Tra Goodman
Chicago Seafood Council
Honoluly
Cleveland
Milwaukee
Oklahoma City
Springfield
Salt Lake City
Columbus
Indianapolis
Dallas
New Orleans
Pittsburgh
Raskin Packing Co
Sioux City
Towa
Philadelphia
Girl’s father beats teacher over D grade at school
Police say Thomas William Carroll, 34, was booked for assault after scuffle at Hinste in Junior High School in San Diego over a D-plus grade given to his daughter in social studies. Teacher Stanley Earl Christman suffered four broken bones behind an eye nerve damage and lacerations. Christian, 4, was taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital.
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San Diego
Hinstein Junior High School
Stanley Earl Christman
Thomas William Carroll
Christian
Sharp Memorial Hospital
Nixon reassures Thieu as Vietnam aid to continue
Nixon assured South Vietnam’s Thieu on continued U.S. support to counter North Vietnamese infiltrations. The two leaders warned that ongoing violations would trigger vigorous reactions while Washington sought to bolster IndoChina noncommunist stability and ease Thieu toward postwar rehabilitation and development.
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North Vietnam
Laon
Cambodia
Thieu
U.S
Indochina
Nixon
Republic of Vietnam
Thien
South Vietnam
Hanoi ties tales to promotions in POW claims
Saigon monitored broadcast quoted Hanoi saying some American POWs claimed they were tortured to earn military promotions. North Vietnamese authorities had anticipated the defamation campaign against the prison system, and with the last POW release in Hanoi the situation is seen as fulfilled.
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Saigon
UPI
Radin Hanoi
U.S
Hanoi
Haldeman Not Linked to Watergate Bugging Probe
The Senate Watergate committee released a two paragraph statement saying no evidence links presidential aide H. R. Haldeman to illegal activities connected with the 1972 campaign. Members noted public reports claiming hearsay knowledge but stressed absence of any substantiated linkage to the Watergate break-in or related acts. Senator Lowell Weicker voiced personal belief Haldeman knew the affair and suggested resignation.
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Washington
Senate
Watergate Committee
H.R. Haldeman
Sam J. Ervin Jr
DNC
Howard Baker Jr
R-Tenn
Haldeman
Nixon
Democratic Party
James W. McCord
Lowell P. Weicker
R-Conn
White House
Weicker
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Hugh Chalmers
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Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson
Thiew
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Old Mr
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Mt. Boston Distillar Cans
Mata
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