Gun battle at home of Teamster official
In Nashville Tennessee a gun battle erupted in front of the home of Don Vestal president of Teamsters Local 327. Police arrested Vestal and seven others amid charges from attempted murder to obscene phone calls. Up to 30 shots fired with no injuries reported. Three pistols and a 22 rifle found in a union car. Vestal’s home and nearby vehicles sustained damage. Several arrestees include TVA truck drivers and local agents. all were released on bonds from $250 to $4,000.
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Nashville
Tenn
Teamsters Union
Don Vestal
Tocal 327
William Leon Fl Jis
Vestal
Tr Yer
Tocal
Jie Inh
Chester Duffield Jr
Harry Jordan
Gerald Vestal
327
Vetal
West Meade
TVA
East Tennessee
Middle Tennessee
Teamster International
James Hoffa
Interntional
Ellis
Slders
Buford Baxter Smith Jr
Erwin Tenn
Charles Albert Wallace
Canberland City
Gary Hernandez
Neuhoff Packing Co
Augusta Palmer
James Craighead
King's Kingston Prison Riot Shocks Canada
Kingston prison riot ends in standoff as 500 convicts seize a cellblock and hold six guards hostage overnight. Troops ring the yard with a precautionary perimeter while a citizens committee of 10 prominent Canadians negotiates with prison officials. Warden Arthur Jarvis proposes fresh food delivery as talks continue.
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Kingston
Canada
Arthur Jarvis
Cammissary
Jarvis
John Moloney
Federal Penitential Service
Citizens’ Committee
Hundreds stranded as trio of trains stall in tunnel
In New York the 4:30 pm Penn Central train to Philadelphia stalled in the Hudson tunnel causing mass delays as the 5:33 to Trenton and 5:37 to New Brunswick queued behind it. All three cars sat for about two hours before the Philadelphia train moved at 7:23 pm and others followed.
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New York
UPI
Penn Central
Philadelphia
Hudson River
Trenton
New Brunswick
Pope Receives Five Rock Groups at Vatican Audience
Pope Paul VI met five rock music groups in a private audience at the Vatican. He praised their search for spontaneity and peace while noting he cannot approve perhaps the form of art. British musician John Bedson pressed about the draft and war, and the groups performed for peace at St. Cecilia Hall near St. Peter's.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
John Bedson
Hot Pains
Paris
I Beati
The
Blessed
Heap
Pope Paul
St. Cecilia Music Hall
St. Peter’s Square
Vatican
L'Osservatore Romano
Italy
Yugoslav TV Crew Heads to Red China for Six-Week Tour
A Yugoslav television crew departed Belgrade on Thursday night for a six week visit to Communist China. It marks the first Yugoslav team to visit Red China as relations between the two nations improve following the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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Belgrade
China
Red China
Czechoslovakia
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Motorola
Penny Owsley
Kemball Pings Company
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Baldwin Spinet
Accrosonic
Steinway St
Walnut
Steinway
Knabe
Teamster
Wills
Teamsters Local 327
Thio
Frank Bros
Los Angeles
Hans Wegner
Tne
Museum of Modern Art
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Bill Curry
Cedere Olhate
Emos
Stoneas
Audeet Tery
Arthur Fiedler
Boston Symphony
Napoleon
Bonn
Germany
Peter and the Wolf
Joan Kennedy
Sen
Edward Kennedy
IRS
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Internal Revenue Service
Treno Guerra Jr
Guerra
Bick
Pope
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