Mob figure Gallo slain in New York gangland ambush
In a 3:30 am attack at Umberto’s Clam House on Mulberry Street, mob boss Joey Gallo was shot and killed while at his table with family and friends. His bodyguard Peter Sciapionlas was mortally wounded. several others, including Gallo’s wife Lina and sister Carmella, were present. The incident ties to a long-running Brooklyn mob war led by the Profaci faction and later Gambino-era struggles.
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Gallo
Umberto
Mulberry Street
Brooklyn
Norlorious Gall Brothers
Albert
Larry
Jerry Orbach
Joseph Prafac
Profaci
Joseph Calambo
Joey Gallo
Colombo
Gallos
Columbus Circle
Crazy Joe
Joey
Colomboe
Town battles loom as Red drive hits Loc Ninh An Loc
Reports from the Loc Ninh and An Loc area describe a fierce engagement with South Vietnamese artillery on their own positions. An American adviser was wounded during helicopter evacuation from An Lec as Loc Ninh and An Loc face heavy rocket and mortar attacks along Highway 13, dubbed Bloody Route 13.
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Lac Ninh
Isman
An Lec
Loc Ninh
Saiwon
An Loc
North Vietnam
Lyndon Johnson Hospitalization and Health News
Former President Lyndon Johnson spent 12 days in Brooke Army Medical Center in March 1970 with Bina pectoris. He returned to the San Antonio hospital in January 1971 for viral pneumonia. His daughter Luci and son in law Pat Nugent remain at home in Austin with no immediate plans to visit Virginia.
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Tennessee
Buford Fellington
Johnson
Charlottesville
Lynda
Brooke Army General Hospital
San Antonio
Tex
San Antonio Hospital
Luci
Pat Nugent
Austin
Virginia
Nugents
Washington
New York
Largest gain in job rate in 5 years
Washington reports show March employment rising by 620,000 to 42 million, the steepest gain in five years. Unemployment rate falls to 5.0 percent from 5.7 as jobless numbers drop about 200,000 to 5.2 million. wholesale prices for food and industrial raw materials rise, a signal favorable to President Nixon's economic policy.
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Washington
Nixon
Labor Department
Breau of Labor Statistics
Clinic aid urged for costs of child’s needed surgery
A letter requests help for a boy facing tonsil removal to prevent deafness. A Long Beach clinic offers examination, possible gift funds, and Medi-Cal access. appointment line provided.
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Action Line
T. B
Long Beach
Long Beach Children’s Clinic
Earl and Corraine Miller
California Senate faces delay on 7.9 billion budget
The 7.9 billion state budget, approved 55-16 by the Assembly, moves to the Senate where hearings linger at the sub committee stage. Republicans attack shifts of attorneys and auditors between agencies, while Democrats defend efficiency. If enacted as passed, California would top New York as the nation’s biggest spender with a 14 percent rise and a 385 dollars per person tax burden, prompting GOP warnings that final passage requires changes to satisfy court rulings on school funding and equal protection.
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Sacramento
California
Senate
Assembly
New York
Bob Monagan
GOP
John Stull
Reagan
Roth
Supreme Court
Brown
Managan
Reagan frames environment plan and prop 9 in June vote
California governor outlines environmental goals and opposition to extreme regulation. He warns against political pollution from Prop 9 and calls for pollution control that fits a free society, with state and local governments handling issues where appropriate, citing progress against air and water pollution.
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Reagan
California
Bomb threat halts L A bound airliner
A Tran World Airlines flight carrying about 96 people diverted to Buffalo after a bomb threat. FBI and airport authorities found no bomb. The Boston to Los Angeles flight landed at Greater Buffalo International Airport at 6:36 p.m. and resumed at 12:05 a.m.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Tran World Airlines
Los Angeles
FBI
Boston
Greater Buffalo International Airport
Russians reject peace bid in Vietnam talks at Geneva
London sources say the Soviet Union rejected a tentative British peace approach and urged the United States to return to Paris. In a 45 minute Foreign Office meeting Ambassador Mikhail Smirnovsky was summoned as Britain proposed reconvening the Geneva conference co chaired by Britain and Russia. South Vietnam’s foreign minister Tram Van Lem met with the British ambassador in Saigon on the Vietnam situation.
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London
UPI
Soviet Union
Vietnam
United States
Paris
Mikhail Smirnovsky
Foreign Office
Denis Greenhill
Smirnovsky
Britain
Russia
Kremlin
Tram van Lem
Saigon
Francis Brooks Richards
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Lina
Akron
Ohin
Lisa Essary
Carmella Viorella
Edith Russo
Queens Dist
Atty
Thonas J. Mackell
Bruno Carmievale
Mackell
Carlo Gambino
Thomas I. Ernst
Staten Island
Ernest
John Dalessia
Alexander Dalessio
Gambino
Hanoi
U.S
Lyndon B. Johnson
Virginia Hospital
AP Witephate
Lyndon Johnson
Mexico
Mayo Clinic
Minnesota
Sugarloaf
Big Bear City
San Bernardino County
Marlene
Marlene Dietrich
Nina Foch
A. I. Paramount
Maria Riva
L.A
Dooley
Hhodal
Hema
Ato Wad Scere
Renee Ieva Blam Ste Ta Ae
North Long Beach
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