Secret Revolutionary Union linked to Nixon attack in San Jose
A House Internal Security Committee hearing revealed that the Revolutionary Union, a Bay Area radical group, orchestrated a demonstration against President Nixon in San Jose before last fall’s elections. A San Jose couple, infiltrating the RU with FBI help, testified about plans to violently overthrow the U S government. They named Bruce Greenburg as RU head and described the group’s Palo Alto origins in 1985.
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Lawrence Goff
Sue Ann
House
Internet Security Committee
San Jose
AP Wireahoto
Washington
Revoluuionary Union
Nixon
House Internal Security Committee
A Dase
United States
Lewis
L. Galt
Betty Bie
FBI
Goff
Armed Services
Bruce Greenburg
Stanford University
Mary Lou
Bay Area
Frankfi
Greenburg
Jeff
Franklin
Venceremos
The
Revolutionary Union
PBL
Los Angeles
Mass retirement feared over apportionment dispute
Assembly Ways and Means committee delays hearing on a proposed reform led by Assemblyman Lanterman to curb a mass retirement wave tied to 1965 reapportionment. Lanterman warned the current law may force many lawmakers to retire to gain immediate or staged benefits totaling millions of dollars.
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Assembly Ways and Means
Lanterman
R-La
Joh T
Buwion
D-San Francisco
Thany
Jose
Ae Lanterman
Soviet arms gains cited as U S fights in Vietnam
A former State Department official said the Soviet Union gained in armaments and tech while the United States spent over 10 times as much on the Vietnam war, with Capen noting costs of 125 billion for the U S against 12 billion for the Soviets to sustain North Vietnam. He spoke at Disneyland Hotel a luncheon for Town Hall of Orange County.
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Soviet Union
United States
Viet-nam
State Department
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Richard G. Capen
Town Hall
Orange County
Disneyland Hotel
Capen
Copley Newspapers
State Dept Rejects Land Sale Near Mt Vernon
Washington officials say the State Department advised the Soviet Embassy it could not approve a Russian purchase of a $1 million, 28 acre tract of land near Mt Vernon, a move seen as securing a strategic site from Soviet interests. The notice highlights U.S. concerns over foreign acquisition of key territory and its implications for Mt Vernon and surrounding areas.
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State Dept
Mt. Vernon
Washington
UFT
State Department
Mt. Ver
Amtrak keeps Cleveland on route after six month review
Amtrak will keep Cleveland as a stop on the New York to Chicago route after a six month trial ends November 11. An Amtrak spokesman said the government plans no withdrawal, despite Ohio and New York not funding two thirds of expected losses around 1.5 million dollars annually. The article also notes State Department actions blocking a Soviet purchase of a 28 acre Potomac River estate once owned by George Washington.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Amtrak
New York
Amrak
Hart Hore
George Washington
Department
William P. Rogers
Rogers
Vadim I. Kavalerov
Potomac River
Washington
Vernon
Charles W. Bray
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