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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1971
Page
2
Ironworkers sign on a Cleveland construction site read Would Nixon go on work for less money on the 18th floor girders of an unfinished building near the Federal Building. The message was painted as Nixon suspended the Davis Bacon Act requiring prevailing wages on federal construction jobs.
Rumors swirl over Terrry Nixon engagement to Harvard law student Edward Finch Cox with White House denials. Reports claim tensions exist between the Nixon and Cox families amid plans for a March 16 announcement and a June wedding. An Irish eve at the White House is proposed with notable guests and friends in attendance.
More than 300000 people flooded downtown Long Beach on Sunday to glimpse the Queen Mary at her berth, creating a mass traffic jam four to five times heavier than the prior day. Police reported backups stretching 22 blocks along Ocean Boulevard and Magnolia Avenue, with fire crews detoured and a fatal accident on the Queen's Way Bridge. Officials warned the pattern could continue weekends and may force relocating Station One.
Jane Fonda and roughly 300 demonstrators gathered at the McNeil Island Ferry Dock to support prisoners. Fonda said inmates seek freedom to define themselves and solidarity, arguing the system is to blame for crimes of desperation. The protest followed a Monday inmate work stoppage in which 11 to 6 percent stayed in their cells.
British troops faced a ferocious ambush as assailants in Londonderry and Belfast firebombed and shot at patrols. A driver died from a burning vehicle explosion. another officer was injured, and a police constable died from gunfire in another attack. A third activist was captured by residents before handing him to police. The weekend saw multiple killings and rising tensions as authorities consider arming police.
Federal raids in San Francisco and the East Bay arrested five men and four women after wiretap monitored heroin from a Tijuana supplier to a Fremont dealer. Nearly seven kilograms of heroin valued at almost two million dollars at retail were seized from six Fremont Union City and Hayward homes. The investigation by the Justice Department strike force began last year after chemists warned of rising rubber prophylactic purchases.
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