East Coast college upheavals engulf campuses in protest
Across the Northeast and Midwest, students seized buildings and spread demands from eliminating ROTC and severing ties to the Pentagon to amnesty for demonstrators and race studies. At City College of New York and Cornell University thousands occupied sites as police and faculty debated responses and potential punishments.
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City College of New York
Cornell University
Pentagon
New York
City College
N. Yu
Barton Hall
Cornell
Upsala College
East Orange
N.J
Perm Dartmouth
Queensborough College
City University of New York
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
Purdue
Frederick L. Hovde
Harvard
SDS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
First Eye Transplant Achieved in Bold Medical Step
The procedure linked donor eye nerves to Madden’s optic nerves after his right eye, lost weeks earlier to a failed corneal transplant, left him hospitalized. If nerves unite, vision may return. otherwise the eye will still look normal.
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Madden
Moore
Sirhan Given Death Sentence at Los Angeles Hall of Justice
The 24 year old Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death after a 16 week trial at the Los Angeles Hall of Justice. Jurors, court officials, and defense counsel prepared for a May 14 motion while Sirhan, his family in attendance, showed restrained emotion as the verdict was announced.
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Los Angeles
Russell Parsons
Herbert V. Walker
Alice Nishikawa
Soho
Sirhan - Bishara Sirhan
Sirhan
Walker
Cooper
Adel
Pasadeha
Munir
Sirhian
Mary
Cour
Weekend novelist wins Britain's Booker Prize for fiction
London reports 50 year old P. H. Newby won the Booker Prize for Something to Answer For. Newby, a former Cairo University English lecturer and BBC director, writes mainly on Sundays due to radio duties. The prize totals $12,000 and honors his literary achievement. Witnesses described Kennedy’s pantry death scene with emotion during the trial.
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London
Britain
P. H. Newby
Cairo University
Newby
British Broadcasting Corp
Kennedy
Sirhan
Mary
Reagan Attacks Federal Welfare Move to California
Governor Ronald Reagan criticized a Supreme Court ruling ending residency requirements for welfare as violating states rights. He warned the decision could lure poor residents to California and urged officials to consider alternatives while noting California faces higher welfare costs and potential future tax increases.
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Ronald Reagan
California
Sacramento
U.S. Supreme Court
Reagan
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
Frank G. Bonelli
Los Angeles
Ed Reinecke
Two Planes Collide Near Middletown Killing Five
Five people died when two small planes collided over Middletown north of Newport. Investigators recovered three bodies from a burned six seat Beech craft. other victims were burned beyond recognition. One plane carried a student pilot and an instructor. the larger Beech craft reportedly came from Baltimore.
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Middletown
Newport
Portsmouth
Tropers
Mississippi River at flood stage reaches far south
Mississippi River runs above flood stage from Libby Minnesota to Cape Girardeau Missouri with crest forecast near 66 feet at Dubuque Iowa. Reinforced levees and dikes are urged as danger remains, while towns from Prairie du Chien Wisconsin to Cassville Wisconsin brace for high water and evacuations.
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Mississippi River
Missouri
Iowa
Illinois
Mississippi
Libby
Minn
Cape Girardeau
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Dubuque
Inwa
Weather Bureau
Dubuque. Ee
Army Corps of Engineers
Neche
N.D
Pembina
Sur
Wisconsin
Alla Crosse
Riverside
Cassville
Weather Bureau Flood Control Center
Hartford
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United Press International
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Institute For Defense Analyses
Marquette University
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Geen
Colgage University
Java
Newburgh
Free Academy
Carnnell
Thomas R. Jones
Afro-American Society
AAS
Joan of Arc Chapel
Marquette
Dartmouth University
Hanover
N.H
Students For A Democratic Society
Indiana
Edgar Whitcomb
Tn Wark
Bruce Elio
Ambassador Hotel
Dep. Dist. Atty
David Fitts
Cunard
Las Palmas
Southhampton
Eng
St Tenerife
U.S
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Murphy
Yar Inecome
Associated Press
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W.D
Carter
Soo Line
Minnésota
Des Moines
South Dakota
Red River
Minnesota-North Dakota
Canada
RankAmericart
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E. Broadway
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