Nixon urges Demos to join new majority
Nixon urges Democratic delegates to back a "new" majority while attacking McGovern proposals as leftward shifts that would wreck national security and raise the federal budget by 144 billion dollars. Protesters outside the Convention Center clash with police, tear gas deployed as Nixon accepts the ticket with Agnew.
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Nixon
Demos
New
McGovern
America
Convention Hall
Key Bistayne
Pan
Agnew
Compton Woman Stabbed to Death on Street
A 50 year old Compton woman Lois Alvarado was stabbed seven to eight times and robbed while walking home from a liquor store near Saunders Street and the apartment at 1631 B Saunders. She died at the scene and the incident marks the second homicide in Compton that year. The suspect remains at large according to police reports.
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Compton
Lois Alvarado
E. Saunders St
EB. Saunders
Five Kentucky inmates release hostages after 12 hours
In Eddyville five convicts held two guards and a lab technician for 12 hours in the prison pharmacy. They released the hostages unharmed early today after talks with corrections officials. One inmate had been hospitalized. the others entered from the prison yard during a shift change. The inmates chose to surrender and return to their cells.
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Eddyville
Kentucky ‘State
Thomas Treston
Wendell Ford
Charles Holmes
Holmes
Joe Craig
Chiang illness rumors denied by Nationalists
The Nationalist Chinese government denied rumors that President Chiang Kai-shek was seriously ill or dead. Dr. Frederick Chien said the president is healthy as usual. Rumors circulated from Tokyo and Hong Kong, blamed for stock declines in Hong Kong where the Hang Seng Index fell 9.11 points to 444.68.
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Taipei
Chiang Kai-shek
Frederick Chien
Government Information Office
Tokyo
Hong Kong
Reader seeks refund for missing needlepoint book order
In a letter to ACTION LINE a reader from San Pedra requests help recovering $4.32 paid to the Good Housekeeping Book Club for a needlepoint book never delivered. Officials replied they would check but no further contact was made. A second reader asks about the Dobbin Cycle Way, a once elevated bicycle path from Pasadena to Los Angeles opened 1900.
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Good Housekeeping Book Club
Good Housekeeping Magazine
New York City
Margaret Ol- Sen
Crowd Housekeeping
Hant
Los Angeles
Pasadena
Arroyo Seco
Action Evne
Long Beach
Dobbin
Elvic
Horace Mr. Dobbin
Arroyo Seca
Wheelchair Donation Aids Wilmington Neighbor In Need
E D of Seal Reach reported offering a wheelchair via ACTION LINE. A Wilmington woman, whose neighbor was in an automobile accident and without funds, requested help and arranged pickup of the chair after contacting the charity.
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Action Line
E.D
Seal Reach
Wilmington
Surfing community protests Huntington Beach parking meters
A Huntington Beach official defends meters to curb all day beachgoers, while 2000 surfers and parents petition against the 25 cent hourly rate. They argue the cliffside parking is largely unused and the beach should remain accessible and affordable for families.
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Huntington Beach
Pacific Coast
Moorehouse
Action Line
Huntingon Beach
R.D
Lakewood
Nixon Seeks New American Majority at Convention
President Nixon urged Republicans to unite as Americans and pursue a new majority to win the election and secure lasting peace after travels to Yeking and Moscow. He warned against critics who would weaken the United States and cited arms talks with the Soviet Union as essential. McGovern warned against deep military cuts that could weaken U S power. In other news a Dana Point man and his son died when their light plane crashed in New Mexico amid freezing rain. A Bangkok crowd witnessed the execution of Rahem Mordechai for rape and murder.
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Nixon
McGovern
U.S
America
United States
South Vietnam
United States of America
Spiro
Agnew
Mifore
Vis
Yeking
Moscow
Americas
Legionnaires
Edgewood
Dana Point
New Mexico
Edward Brandt
Verl
James Wade
Sedilla
N.M
Ueir
Protesters clash near Republican meet with police traps
Police faced about 1,500 demonstrators in the city as protesters used improvised barriers and vandalism to block delegates from entering the convention hall. Police reported 3% required hospital treatment while tear gas and riot control actions restrained violent participants.]]
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Convention Hall
Marsha Mantesievsky
Students For A Democratic Society
Trafic
Ute Hall
Hut
Leroy Stocks
Whiteville
N.C
Dade County
Five Zippies leaders seized in Miami Beach raid
Undercover officers arrested five Zippies leaders during the Republican convention protests in Miami Beach. Dana Beal and four others faced marijuana charges, with Mark Gallagher of Key West also charged with aggravated assault on a police officer and other offenses. Charges include inciting to riot and desecration of the American flag. Other arrestees include Patrick Small of New York and Cindy Orsheen of Miami for marijuana-related offenses and grand larceny. Tom Forcade faced traffic charges amid the raid.
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Miami Beach
UPI
Dade County
Dana Beal
Mark Gallagher
Key West
Fla
Bealeid Gallagher
Patrick Small
New York
Cindy Orsheen
Miami
Tom Forcade
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Chiang
Snaller
Donna Sue Spencer Hansen
Mike Peters
Uties, Mich
Dwight D. Eisenhower
San Clemente
Soviet Union
América
Bangkok
Rahem Mordechai
Republican
Interio
Poat Allen Ginsberg
Jeff Nighthyrd
Rocky Pomerance
Vietnam
Lakewood Blyne
Lakewood Center
N. Euclid
Ancheim
Huntington Beach Center
FER
Coa
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