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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1970
Page
2
Tufts University held commencement for 1500 graduates in Medford Mass but most attended an improvised Sunday ceremony by the seniors. Speeches and songs by Juan Barz Phil Ochs and Garfunkel replaced pomp and circumstance. The class redirected a $10,000 graduation budget to campus activities.
Briaw McNenvell and Tam Mahany sit on blankets in Lafayette Park opposite the White House fasting until U S troops leave Cambodia. McDonnell began May 11 losing 45 pounds. Mahany joined May 23, Vietnam veteran from Rochester N Y. They sleep at a Quaker meeting house and say their aim is to provoke thought about peace.
Edward R Delano 65 started from Red Bluff California on April 25 riding a $300 Italian racing bicycle to attend his Worcester Polytechnic Institute reunion. He faced a Nevada snow storm and Ohio arrest worry but pressed on with a beard to duck shaving and promote bicycless cause. He plans to fly home to California with his three children and wife understanding.
James G. Sparks, 22, a microwave technician from Fort Lewis, says a surgical rod in his left thigh limits walking but he will still be sent to Vietnam. He learned of his draft in 1949, recalling remarks from Army officials and his mother's concern. Separately, evangelist Billy Graham concluded a 1 day Knoxville crusade at the University of Tennessee, drawing 550000, with 12403 commits to Christ and a warning about God judging sinners.
In one of the war’s largest artillery assaults, American forces fired 20 howitzers, delivering over 2,000 shells into a suspected North Vietnamese staging area near Kra Sang, Cambodia, five hours of bombardment from a Teopelled firebase. Weather hindered full aerial assessment. the attack targeted a crescent jungle zone near the border, with reports of bunkers blown and munitions exposed. Meanwhile, South Vietnamese forces launched operations near Prey Veng, clashing with enemy units as Yagers and marine units moved north from Prey Veng along Route 15, pursuing the 272nd Regiment. Cambodian spokesmen cited Viet Cong mortar fire on Kompong Thom and damage along roads toward Angkor Wat.
Washington reports President Nixon's daughter Julie Eisenhower did not attend her graduation at Smith College to avoid campus turmoil. She and her husband David Eisenhower spent the weekend at Gettysburg with David's grandparents and met his parents. David will skip Amherst College commencement next weekend in protest against the main speaker.
Phnom Penh declares martial law as military patrols enforce a nightly curfew and searches without warrants. Cambodia seeks international aid while rumors swirl over trials and press restrictions. Bangkok moves to approve Thai military backing including ground forces and naval support.
An 800 acre brush fire in Kern River Canyon 15 miles east of Bakersfield challenged 26 firefighters as gusty winds and extreme heat hampered efforts. The Caliente Canyon fire was controlled late Saturday.
Israeli warplanes renewed strikes along the Suez Canal in reprisal for cross canal raids. May casualty figures rose to 43 Israeli dead with about 10% wounded, the costliest month since the 1967 war. A separate report from California developer Irvin J. Kahn describes his Riverside County spa gambling raid arrest and subsequent arraignment schedule.
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