Notable Church Anniversary in Philadelphia Draws VIPs
Mrs Mamie Eisenhower and General Rameey Clark attended Christ Church Philadelphia for its 3275th anniversary service. Clark urged balance of law and justice while noting the church has links to American founding figures and the Declaration signers buried nearby. Abdy Williams and Claudine Longet discuss a trial separation amid a London stay. Margueritte Piazza wed Harry Bergtholdt in Memphis. she leads the National Cancer Crusade. Adoptions fight in Newark ends with judge ruling against Burke couple on grounds of atheism pantheism and separation of church and state sparking ACLU critique. The 42 year old Burke teaches at Southern Illinois University.
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Alty
Rameey Clark
Christ Church
Philadelphia
Eisenhower
George and
Martha Washington
Episcopal Church
Benjamin Franklin
Clark
Margueritte Piazza
Memphis
San Francisco
Harry Bergtholdt
The
del Monte Corp
William J. Condon
Miss Piazza
National Cancer Crusade
John
Cynthia Burke
Superior Court
William Camarata
Newark
Burkes
Camarata
Children’s Aid and Adoption Society
American Civil Liberties Union
Carterville
New Jersey
Burke
Vietnam Shifts Command To South Vietnamese Forces
South Vietnamese troops have assumed control of offensive operations north of Saigon, with four American bases along the Saigon River handed over over a 50 mile stretch. Cu Chi base camp and parts of the 25th Infantry Division area are drawing down to Hawaii by Christmas, while U.S. troop strength in Vietnam falls to 368,000.
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Saigon River
Cu Chi
U.S
25Th Infantry Division
Hawaii
Dau Tieng
Vixon
Vietnam
25Th Division
18Th Artillery
Phnom Penh
Lion Is Killed After Escape From Collector’s Compound
In Boring Oregon a male lion was shot by a policeman and two locals after escaping its cage. It mauled a horse and terrified a teenage babysitter. A female lion from the same collection was shot earlier. The owner Wilbur Tracy now has one lion, a jaguar, and several smaller cats remaining.
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Boring, Ore
UPI
Wilbur Tracy
Jess Lion
Tracy
Karate School
California Lawyer Seeks Death Penalty Standards From Court
Beverly Hills lawyer Herman Selvin urged the Supreme Court to set jury standards for capital punishment in the California case of Dennis MecGautha. California and the federal government called the move an attack on the death penalty while opposing uniform standards. Justice Burger questioned how juries would use community conscience if sentencing became purely a legal question.
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High Court
Washington
UPS
Supreme Court
California
Herman F. Selvin
Beverly Hills Calif
Selvin
U.S
Erwin N. Griswold
Slevin
Dennis C. MecGautha
Los Angeles
Benjamin Smetana
Ohio
Ronald M. George
George
Berlin Sentry Shooting Blamed on Neo Nazi Youth
Police said 21 year old Ekkehard Weil confessed to shooting a Soviet sentry at the Soviet War Memorial in West Berlin on Saturday. They report Weil a hospital orderly and extreme rightist with swastikas at home, seeking to disrupt West Germany's pact with the Soviet bloc and coal ition government led by Willy Brandt. Police seek other right wing accomplices and believe Weil can reveal an underground extremist network.
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Berlin
UPS
West Berlin
West Germany
Russia
Ekkehard Weil
Weil
Coaliion
Willy Brandt
Dawson dies at 82 oldest Black congressman
CHICAGO UP I William L Dawson veteran politician and longtime U S House member for Illinois First District died of pneumonia at Veterans Research Hospital. A World War I veteran and Fisk Northwestern Law graduate, Dawson chaired the House Government Operations Committee and declined cabinet moves. He entered Congress in 1942 after serving as a Chicago alderman, later yielding his seat to Ralph Metcalfe. His South Side political machine drew GOP criticism amid era of shifting party loyalties.
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Harlem
Charles Rangel
Nixon
Spiro Agnew
America
Chicago
UPI
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Congress
Veterans’ Research Hospital
House of Representatives
Tinois
Ralph H. Metcalfe
Dawson
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Kennedy
Albany, Ga
365Th Infantry
Fisk University
Northwestern University College of Law
South Side
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Sinvis
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