Gideon death highlights landmark 1963 Supreme Court ruling
Clarence Earl Gideon, central to the 1963 decision ensuring state defendants receive counsel, died at 61 after cancer surgery in Fort Lauderdale. The ruling expanded rights for thousands denied lawyers, with a related high court order confirming resentencing rights for a bank robber.
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Clarence Earl Gideon
Supreme Court
Jane
Gideon
Broward General Medical Center
Fort Lauderdale
High Court
Potter Stewart
Panama City
Fla
Raiford
Trick Backfires as Snake-Prank Ends in Gunfire
David Hutchinson tried to scare a snake-fearing friend in Parkersburg West Virginia with a 3 foot rubber reptile. The friend shot Hutchinson in the chest. Hutchinson survived and declined charges. In Defiance Ohio Douglas Grine confronted a following driver and was fatally shot. Robert Gibson 29 Edgerton later surrendered and faced manslaughter charges.
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David Hutchinson
Parkersburg
W. Va
Hutchinson
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Douglas Grine
Defiance
Ohio
Grine
Bryan
Robert Gibson
Edgerton
Joan Baez to publicize health needs in Lee County Ark
Folk singer Joan Baez plans a nationwide program to publicize health problems of the poor and Black in Lee County Arkansas. She will tour Marianna and the Volunteer in Service to America clinic to learn conditions and aid efforts amid rising racial tension and violence.
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Joan Baez
Joan Bats
Lee County
Ark
Mississippi Delta
Miss Baez
Mariana
Irwin Redlener
Marianna
Frame
America
Vista Clinic
Memphis, Tenn
Mid-South Coliseum
Lee County Clinic
Nixon Consults Malraux for China Study Ahead of Talks
President Nixon, three days from Pe king, seeks more information on China. He meets with Andre Malraux the former French cultural minister to glean insights from his writings on Mao and Chou En-lai. Ziegler says more material is being prepared as Nixon returns from Florida.
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Winton M
Red’ Blount
U.S. Senate
Birmingham
Ala
Nixon
Congress
Washington
Alabama
Postal Service
GOP
James D. Martin
Gadsden
Bert Nettles
Mobile
Doris Callahan
John Sparkman
Life of the Land Ecology Group
Honolulu
Jaycee
Hawaii
Sophie Ann Aoki
Rifles
Jeffrey Wong
Miss Aoki
Hasan
U.S
Peking
Andre Malraux
China
White House
Malraux
Antmemoires
Mao
Chou Eun-lai
Ronald Ziegler
Florida
National Security Council
Ziegler
Asia expert belittles Nixon trip
Edwin D. Reischauer, former U.S. ambassador to Japan, warned that Nixon and Kissinger may favor 19th century diplomacy. He urged US talks with China while preserving ties to Japan and Western Europe, and cautioned against a 19th century balance of power.
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Nixon
Hamburg
Germany
Edwin D. Reischauer
U.S
Japan
Peking
Reischauer
Henry A. Kissinger
Soviet Union
Europe
Treischauer
der Spiegel
Harvard University
United States
Otto von Bismarck
Prussia
Klemens von Metternich
Nano- Jean Reischauer
Tokyo
John F. Kennedy
Romanians execute general for Soviet espionage
An authoritative source says Gen Ion Serh, once chief of Bucharest garrison and Military Region 2, was executed by firing squad for passing secret defense information to the Soviet Union. He was shot after a late 1971 arrest and a military court trial. Romanians kept the case secret to avoid widening the Soviet conflict.
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Paris
Soviet Union
Ion Serh
Bucharest
Grand National Assembly
Striking Canadian Air Technicians Vote on Ottawa Settlement
Air port technicians 2,200 members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers vote on a compromise wage agreement in Ottawa to end a walkout that crippled air traffic nationwide. Weather and equipment outages caused widespread flight cancellations and chaotic conditions at Toronto Pearson and other hubs.
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Canada
Air Canada
Cleveland
Toronto
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Montreal
Halifax
Toronto International
Ottawa
Gordon Simmons
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Ross Terrill
Atlantic Monthly
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