Mystery Girl recalls scene at RFK killing
Testimony described Sirhan Sirhan firing at Senator Kennedy as guards and bystanders fought to subdue him. Roosevelt Grier, former Rams tackle, testified he defended Sirhan and then tended Kennedy, lifting the crowd away and keeping watch over the scene amid chaos and tears.
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RFK
Barry
Rafer Johnson
Olympic Decath Jonster
Roosevelt Grier
Rams
Rosie
Sirhan
Grier
Stong
Kennedy
Dallas
Embassy
Mrs. Kennedy
Assembly Democratic
Jess Unruh
Educator to Be Heard in Campus Ills Quiz
Union calls for stronger protection for UC Berkeley women after rapes on campus. Two UCLA students were shot on campus. Buildings damaged at San Francisco State as protests erupt. Hearings will invite Regents chair DeWill Higgs and others as lawmakers probe campus unrest.
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Union
University of California At Berkeley
UCLA
San Francisco State
DeWill Higgs
University of California Board of Regents
Theodore Merriam
State College Trustees
Charles J. Hieh
Glenn Dumke
State Colleges
Stull
Berkeley
Roper Heyns
S. J. Hayakawa
Reagan
John Rivers
Chico State College
UC Berkeley
Guardsmen Help Save Chickens In Freezing Alabama
In Rainsville Alabama residents request aid as winter cold bites farms. Fifteen guardsmen from Fort Payne’s 151st Engineer Battalion install four emergency generators to power water heat and lights at local chicken farms to prevent chick losses.
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Montgomery
Alit
Rainsville
National Guard
Fort Payne
151St Engineer Battalion
North Alabama
Bliss to Quit Top GOP Job
Ray C Bliss resigns as Republican national chairman effective mid April to return to private business. Nixon accepts the decision praising the job done. Bliss planned to stay after a meeting with Nixon but now leaves, with no stated reasons given.
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Bliss
Washington
White Horse
Ray C. Bliss
Ronald L. Ziegter
Nixon
Jetters
Ziegler
White House
New York
AERGN
Ohio
Beacon-Journal
Rogers Morton
Morton
Akron
Jesler
Heat Fights Mark Rio Carnival Deaths
In Rio de Janeiro a carnival tragedy left 74 dead as heat and unruly revelry spurred violent clashes. Police report more than 1,000 injured and 30 missing children found, while crowds of over 100,000 watched the samba parade and revelers slept on curbs and doorways.
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Rio DE Janeiro
UPI
Rio
Reds Slow Traffic to W Berlin Amid Autobahn Halt
Heavy snow and Communist restrictions slowed traffic on the autobahn between West Germany and West Berlin. A memorial tank at the entrance to Berlin was removed as blasting planned for March threatened to disrupt access ahead of West Germany’s presidential election.
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Reds
W. Berlin
West Germany
West Berlin
East Germany
Europe
Babelsberg
Conrad Ahlers
Bonn
Harold Wilson
House of Commons
Liberal Students Federation of Germany
Berlin
Borman Receives Spanish Honor for Apollo 8 Flight
In Madrid Gen. Francisco Franco presented Col. Frank Borman with Spain's Cross of Aeronautic Merit after an audience at El Pardo Palace. Borman given copies of the UN treaty on peaceful uses of outer space plus a color photograph of the moon and mission maps.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
Spain
Frank Borman
Franco
el Pardo Palace
Borman
Outer Space
Reds Use Truce to Shuttle Troops for Da Nang Attack
Saigon reports say Communist commanders exploited the 24 hour cease fire to move forces toward Da Nang for a possible assault within days. Attacks broader than Da Nang include Mekong Delta outpost clashes, Da Nang area fighting, and a New Jersey battleship strike in the north.
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da Nang
Saigon
UPS
U.S
Mekong Delta
Gardison
Dupg
USS
New Jersey
Demilitarized Zone
UPI
David Lamb
Marble Mountain
Red Beach
Na Mo
Cam le
Dien Ban
Cam le Bridge
Delta
Gia Duc
Red China Cancels Parley Angered by Defection
In Hong Kong, China cancels the Sino-American ambassadorial meet in Warsaw citing anger over the Hague defection of Waffaire Liao Hu-shu and U S plans to move him to Taiwan. The statement blames U S protests and notes the 1967 Warsaw talks last met in January. Actress Victoria Shaw divorce details follow.
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Hong Kong
China
Warsaw
United States
Peking
Nixon
Washington
Red
Hague
Liao Hu-shu
Taiwain
Formosa
Ee Re
Liao
Taiwan
Peking Radio
America
Liuoo
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Louis Armstrong
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Slull
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Ways and Means Subcommittee On Higher Education
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GOP
Murray Chotiner
California
Mixon
Ray C, Bliss
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Los Angeles
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Elliot F. Alexander
Encino
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San Antonio
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