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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1970
Page
1
President Velasco of Peru sends a message of thanks to President Nixon for U S aid to earthquake victims. He says the disaster and relief effort have erased months of tensions over nationalization and underscores continental solidarity and shared progress.
Dr Jonas Salk 55 will marry Francoine Gilot 48 ex mistress of Pablo Picasso in Paris on July 4, Claude Picasso said in New York. They plan to return to La Jolla where Salk will direct the Salk Institute before resuming research. Also Nixon named Churchman of the Year for White House prayers.
Bradbury 61 heads Los Alamos lab for ABC and 25 years directing key nuclear weapons work. Named 1970 Enrico Fermi award winner by AEC, with a $25,000 prize. Retirement set for Sept 1. Also noted for visions of peaceful atomic energy uses across medicine and propulsion.
Britons began voting in a general election for the 630 seat House of Commons with Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s Labour Party favored to win a new five year mandate. Polls predicted Labour majorities ranging from 20 to 100 seats as turnout neared a record level with 30 million of 40 million eligible voters expected to cast ballots.
Santa Ana Municipal Court judge ruled a woman has the right to decide on abortion while allowing state regulation of clinic conditions. Judge Thomson nullified some abortion-law sections as improper, upheld hospital and staff approval rules, and noted certain provisions fail to protect women from unsafe procedures. Dr Gwynne and assistant Debbie Moyer faced renewed charges as authorities consider appeals.
The Pottstown Mercury published a four page front page appeal in Vietnamese asking Ton Duc Thong to release U S prisoners of war. The appeal, translated by local Vietnamese wives of former soldiers, urges immediate release and requests readers to forward the segment to North Vietnam.
Congress faces a funding crisis as 14 appropriation bills stall. A one month emergency measure is proposed to finance the government starting July 1, with extensions likely. ElevenHouse bills have passed, but the Senate stalled on foreign policy debate and other major funding requests remain unsettled.
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