Campus Unrest Spreads Across Major Universities
Nationwide campus protests escalate as armed actions and occupations ripple from Cornell to NYU. Faculty resignations follow Cornell’s intransigent stance while ROTC drills face disruption at Princeton. Demonstrations turn violent with police action, mass walkouts, and campus-wide antiwar marches across New York, Boston, Baltimore, Seattle, and San Francisco.
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Homewood
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
SDS
Tufts
Northeastern
Boston
Cambridge
Mass
CCNY
City College of New York
Buell Gallagher
Hampton
Hampton Institute
George Washington University
Washington
San Jose City College
Fordham University
New York University
Washington Square
New York City
San Francisco
Jerry Varnada
San Francisco State College
Varnado
Black Students Union
No Korea Warns of Disaster
Nedong Shinmun, North Korea’s main Labor Party publication, vows never to allow insult or provocation and says Nixon’s April 18 statements reveal aggressive imperialist aims. The paper blasts U S reconnaissance flights deep into North Korean air space as hostile and warns of disaster if provocation continues.
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Nedong Shinmun
North Korean Labor Party
Communist
North Korea
Nixoon
Nodong Shinmun
U.S
Nixon
Boy Bitten by Spider Improves After Coma in Cleveland
Five year old Todd Quester of Amherst Ohio who was bitten by a brown recluse spider ten days earlier showed improvement for the first time since slipping into a coma four days ago Doctors said the child is being treated at Babies and Children’s Hospital with nine serum injections flown from Brazil to Cleveland. The spider, muddy brown with a violin-shaped design on its head, hides in attics and old shoes.
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Cleveland
UPI
Todd Quester
Michael Wald
Amherst
Ohio
Thomas ‘Teree
Babies and Children's Hospital
Todd
United States
Brazil
Yank Dies in Laotian Ambush
An American aid worker Chandler Scott Edwards died when Pathet Lao forces ambushed his jeep near Boun Keo, southern Laos. Edwards, 23, from Telford Tennessee, had delivered school supplies and served 21 months in country. A district officer’s wife and a young girl also perished. four Lao civilians were wounded.
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Vientiane
Laos
Pathet, Lao
Chandler Scott Edwards
Pathet Lao
Edwards
Boun Keo
U.S
Boun Keo School
Telford
Tenn
North Pole anniversary visit by Whale submarine
Washington reported that the nuclear submarine Whale surfaced at the North Pole on April 6 marking the 60th anniversary of Adm. Robert E. Peary's 1909 visit. The under ice operation occurred during a month long Arctic Ocean mission led by Cmdr. W. M. Wolff Jr. of Grand Haven Michigan.
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Washington
North Pole
Adm
Robert E. Peary
Pentagon
Arctic Ocean
Cmdr
W. M. Wolff Jr
Grand Haven
Mich
U.S
Navy
Skate
Faslane
Scotland
Delay Sirhan New Trial Arguments Given May 21
Attorneys for Sirhan Bishara Sirhan had their new trial arguments postponed to May 21 due to scheduling conflicts. In a brief hearing at Los Angeles County Hall of Justice, Judge Herbert V. Walker moved the date from May 14 after a death verdict was returned following a week long trial for the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Los Angeles
Cranston's Bill to Save Job Corps Units Faces Cosponsors
Senator Alan Cranston says 21 colleagues will cosponsor a resolution opposing the shutdown of Job Corps installations. Secretary Shultz reports a $1 million fund to train displaced students and allows transfers to other centers. Cranston urges the President to reconsider the planned closures, warning of potential disaster.
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Cranston
Washington
Alan Cranston
Calif
Senate
George P. Shultz
Shultz
Senate Labor
Fires and protests erupt at Reagan speech in Atlantic City
Flames damaged hotel rooms in Atlantic City as Reagan spoke to a Nuevas Vistas Conference crowd. Investigators pegged damages at up to 100000 dollars with 10000 in room losses. Protesters shouted anti Reagan chants prompting police arrests of 14 people for disturbing a public meeting during the talk.
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Soe
Charles McCown
Reagan
Collier McDermon
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Town Evacuated After Cars Pile Up and Explode
Evacuation followed a 110-car Indianapolis to Harrisburg freight derailment near Cambridge City. Fire and chemical releases, including vinyl chloride and butyl acetate, led to dangerous blasts as responders sought to control leaks and fumes. Police obtained gas masks from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Melvin Brown
Cambridge City
Levendoski
Indianapolis
Harrisburg
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Ohio
Wright- Patterson
Penn-Central
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