Authors urge Swiss asylum for Timothy Leary case
Twenty four American writers led by Ken Kesey and Allen Ginsberg petition Switzerland to grant asylum to drug advocacy Timothy Leary. Leary remains in Lausanne awaiting extradition to California after escaping a state prison last September amid marijuana charges. The authors call his sentencing a persecution of ideas and texts based on his writings and speeches.
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Timothy Leary
scocLeary
Lausanne
Switzerland
California
Dr. Leary
Leary
Missouri Storm Toll Rises After Violent Wednesday Night
A line of thunderstorms and tornadoes battered eastern Missouri injuring about 30 people and killing three. In Desloge a trailer home burned along with the bodies of Betty Bequette and two children. Minor injuries and property losses were reported across Cape Girardeau Jackson East Prarie and surrounding areas.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Betty Bequette
Jackie Vaisey
Tina Hasty
Desloge
Dunn's
The
Highway Patrol
First Assembly of God
Jackson
Cape Girardeau
KYMO
East Prarie
KZYM
Poplar Bluff
Kennedy kin to wed airline executive in quiet ceremony
Miss Gargan, 35, a Kennedy family relation who cared for Joseph P. Kennedy, will marry Thomas G. King, 48, Boston station manager for British Overseas Airways. A license was issued and plans remain undisclosed. Gargan has lived with Mrs. Kennedy at Hyannis Port and recently moved to Norwell.
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Ann Gargan
Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy
Miss Gargan
Thomas G. King
Boston
British Overseas Airways
Mrs. Kennedy
Hyannis Port
Norwell
Injured actor Sutherland tours Oakland hospitals for hand wounds
Actor Donald Sutherland and actress Jane Fonda visited several Oakland hospitals on a tour seeking treatment for a hand cut that required 44 stitches. They moved from Peralta to Highland to Merritt and Kaiser Foundation Hospital before final care.
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Donald Sutherland
Jaie Fonda
Oakland
Sutherland
Miss Fonda
Peralta Hospital
Highland Hospital
Peralta
Highland
Merritt Hospital
Merritt
Kaiser Foundation
Candy Mossler Remarries in Houston After Acquittal
Candy Mossler wed Barnett Garrison in Houston amid her previous murder case history. She had been acquitted in 1966 of conspiring with her nephew to kill her millionaire husband Jacquies Mossler, who was stabbed to death in 1964 in Miami. Mossler controls several investment firms and inherits the late husband’s fortune.
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Candace
Candy” Soysler
Jacquies
Houston
Barnett Garrison
First Presbyterian Church
Northern California carpenters approve three year wage deal
A week-long strike by 24 000 carpenters in Northern California ends with a three year contract worth about 82 57 more per hour, covering carpenters in 48 counties from Kern County north. The agreement was negotiated with the Associated General Contractors of Northern California and finalized Wednesday night.
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San Francisco
California
Associated General Contractors of
Northern
Carpenters
Kern County
Dockings dwindle in L B Harbor
Long Beach and Los Angeles harbors show fewer idle ships as West Coast longshoremen's strike enters its third week. ILWU and Pacific Maritime Association remain at impasse with no new talks scheduled. docked ships fall to two in Long Beach and seven in Los Angeles, while remaining vessels carry military cargo or relocate to other ports.
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Long Beach
Los Angeles
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Pacific Maritime Association
Long Beach Harbor
Orangutan Birth Reported by Phoenix Zoo
The Phoenix Zoo announced the birth of an orangutan, one of the world’s rarest primates. Officials said orangutans are endangered in the wild and a domestic birth is a rare event.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Upi
Phoenix, Zoo
Oil spills fouls Belmont Shore beach cleanup continues
Environmental crews fanned Belmont Shore along about a one mile stretch as oil from a Long Beach Harbor spill coated the sand in 3 inch globs. Pollution officer Ralph Wells said roughly 100 gallons remained in the outer harbor after Crosby Overton crews skimmed 2100 gallons from the water following the Gruschuna fuel overfill accident.
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Belmont Shore
Long Beach Harbor
Ralph Wells
Department of Fish and Game
Alamitos Bay
Crosby-Overton Co
Gruschuna
U.S. Tries to Avert Rail Strike Amid Labor Dispute
The Nixon administration pressed to avert a strike by UTU against Union Pacific and Southern Railway set for 6 a.m. Friday. W. J. Usery Jr. met labor leaders as rail industry officials warned of mass layoffs and possible nationwide impact if the work rule changes proceed. A separate Chicago strike was postponed to July 33 by a federal judge. In Argentina Italian riot aftermath reports, youths clashed in Reggio Calabria damaging cars and shops after a memorial ceremony.
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W. J. Usery Jr
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United Transportation Union
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Southern Railway
Usery
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Chicago & North Western
Southern Pacific
Norfolk and Western
Stephen Ailes
Association of American Railroads
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Unia
John Hiltz
Ftailways Labor Conference
SUTU
Reggio Calabria
Tlaly
UPI
Bruno Labate
Reggio
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Carpenter
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Miami
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