Taxi strike adds to IIs of New York Legislature
In a continuing debate on finance for rapid transit, New York lawmakers consider a one year tax plan tied to meter receipts with a 60 percent voter approval threshold. News notes that a previous taxi strike caused minimal violence and disrupted commuter flow, while Long Island Rail Road curtailment earlier worsened delays.
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Protesters Blockade Chicago U Demonstration at Admin Building
About 400 students blockaded the University of Chicago administration building to protest selective service policies. Miles Mogulescu, a New York student, said the group had the first floor hall blocked. staff kept few passages open as employees described the building closed. The demonstrators, some women, had occupied the premises since Wednesday afternoon, sleeping on the floor with bags and books while university spokesmen urged the school to observe the protest.
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Plane Missing in Western Samoa On Training Flight
A Polynesian Air Lines DC3 disappeared on a training flight from Faleolo Airport West Samoa after an explosion was reported over the channel between Upolu and Savaii. Capt George Scou 41 of Oakland was named as the pilot, with no other crew aboard. The aircraft had been purchased from the U S Coast Guard and delivered by Ernest Gann in August.
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Romania and Hanoi urge anti US bloc unite against Vietnam
Belgrade reports a communique from Hanoi and Bucharest calling large anti imperialist forces to join against American aggression in Vietnam. The appeal, released during Brezhnev's Romania visit, targets Red China and the Soviet Union and urges socialist states to unite with national liberation movements for peace and progress.
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Convicted Assessor in Prison Starts Sentence in California
VACAVILLE AP Former Alameda County Assessor Donald Feragen began a 2 to 28 year prison term for taking bribes to reduce property tax assessments. He was the first official convicted in California county assessor scandals. Feragen, 46, received $12,455 from tax consultant James Tooke of Castro Valley and was found guilty of conspiring with deputy Earle Parrish on additional bribes.
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Good Cook Gets Jail Instead of Prison
Phil Martinez aged 41 was ordered to serve a forgery sentence in county jail rather than the New Mexico Penitentiary after a persuasive defense by attorney Henry Coors. The lawyer argued Martinez was a trusty inmate, a good cook, trusted with keys in the jail kitchen.
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South Africa Students Hit Leader Curb
Johannesburg students condemned government bans on Tad Robertson, president of the National Union of South African Students, for arranging Senator Robert F. Kennedy's visit. Rallies of about 1,500 at Witwatersrand University and similar protests in Cape Town, Urban, and Grahamstown followed the action under the Suppression of Communism Act. Robertson was banned to the Cape Town area and barred from teaching.
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