Mitchell pushes nationwide ban on literacy tests in Senate
A UPI report says Attorney General John N. Mitchell carried the Nixon administration’s plea to extend the Voting Rights Act ban on voter literacy tests to all states. He argued voting rights are a national concern and warned against only a regional approach, while an opposing voice urged passage of any extension before expiration next year.
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UPI
John N. Mitchell
Senate
Nixon
Houses
Mitchell
House
Lawrence Speiser
American Civil Liberties Union
Reagan backs liberal policy for guest speakers at UC
Regents meeting in San Francisco reports Gov. Ronald Reagan urging a looser rule on guest lecturers at the University of California. He favors removing the one appearance limit, citing the Eldridge Cleaver affair as a provocation and supporting a regents committee proposal approved Thursday.
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UPI
Ronald Reagan
University of California
Hitch
Eldridge Cleaver
University
Eomrse
Reagan rejects Winnie Ruth Judd extradition request
Sacramento reports Governor Ronald Reagan rejected Arizona requests to extradite Winnie Ruth Judd, the 1931 double murderess, who is held in Contra Costa County Jail after recent arrest in Danville. The article notes debate over university appointment rules, Regents opposition, and legal concerns surrounding the lectures program.
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Ronald Reagan
Arizona
Winnie Ruth Judd
Contra Costa County
Martinez
Danville
Lan Arizona Mental Hospital
Eee
University of California
Charles J. Hitch
Cleaver
California
Reagan
Britain warns Israel against escalating conflict
The British Foreign Office summoned the Israeli and Egyptian ambassadors and urged against war like actions amid U S efforts to restart Middle East peace talks. Reports from Tel Aviv cite an Egyptian raid near Suez as highly successful, with Israeli casualties and tanks damaged, while Washington and Paris weigh how to curb further clashes.
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Foreign Office
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Sisco
Paris
Moscow
Egypt
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Weather Snapshot for Redlands and SoCal
Redlands today prints a hot high near 96 and a chilly low around 41 by 1 30 PM with a year ago high of 101 and low of 6. San Bernardino Valley remains sunny and warm as Southern California experiences low clouds then clearing, with a dry five day outlook and 3 to 5 degrees above normal temps.
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Apollo 11 crew pass medicals ready for lunar flight
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin passed their final medical exam at Cape Kennedy. They appeared in good spirits and were cleared for flight as launch countdown continued toward the moon mission.
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America
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Michael Collins
Edmvin E
Buzz) Aldrin
Moonport
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Mike
Buzz
Charles A. Berry
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Iare
Space Agency
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Aldrin
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Nixon Backs Thieu Open Elections Plan in South Vietnam
President Nixon endorsed Nguyen Van Thieu’s plan for open national elections in South Vietnam inviting the Viet Cong to participate. He called the comprehensive offers a path to peace and said Hanoi has nothing to gain from delaying. Ziegler cautioned it is too early to draw conclusions from recent combat activity and whether reciprocity exists.
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Thieu
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Nixon
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Ziegler
Viet Cong Reject Saigon Free Elections Plan
The Provisional Revolutionary Government condemned Thien’s free election plan as a perfidious U S maneuver. It warned Hanoi backed insurgents would press on with efforts to topple the Saigon government despite Washington’s support for Thien’s proposals.
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UPI
Viet Cong
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South Vietnam
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Washington Dispatches
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Thien
Thieu
Search on for missing gambler airliner
Civil Air Patrol launches large weekend search for a DC3 aircraft known as the gamblers' special that disappeared nearly five months ago on a Hawthorne Nevada to Burbank California flight. All California CAP wings will join the effort.
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UPI
Civil Air Patrol
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Nev
Burbank
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ABM backers refuse to compromise despite opposition
In Washington, ABM backers refuse compromise offers as Sen. Everett Dirksen asserts enough votes to approve deployment. Sen. George Aiken signals potential for a compromise to avert defeat or narrow approval, implying possible changes with the White House. Debate centers on radar sites and missile deployment limits amid arms talks.
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Aiken
Nixon
Dirksen
Ackers
ABM
John Stennis
Senate Armed Services Committee
Steanish
Senate
White House
Ronald Ziegler
Soviet naval task force headed to Cuba off Florida
A Soviet flotilla 26 miles southeast of Jacksonville moved southwest toward Cape Kennedy en route to Cuba. U S Navy P3 planes shadowed the six ships as the aircraft carrier Independence trained 40 miles offshore and reporters were escorted for a first hand look.
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Fla
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Thomas J. Gary
Navy
Appeals court frees Spock and Ferber permanently
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the anti draft conspiracy convictions of Benjamin Spock and Michael Ferber and ordered them freed permanently. Yale chaplain William Sloan Coffin and author Mitchell Goodman receive new trials. Coffin and Goodman deemed errors in their earlier rulings. The court held that vigorous critique of the draft and Vietnam War is protected free speech under the First Amendment.
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UPI
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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Spock
Spocks
Harvard
Michael Ferber
Buffalo
Yale
William ‘Sloan Coffin Jc
Mitchell Goodman
D.C
Ferber
U.S
Bailey Aldrich
Frank M. Coffin
Edward M. McEnt
Bailey
Coffin
Goodman
United States
Sips
Marcus Raskin
Washington
Balloon flight ends early over Montana
The Free Life gas balloon seven stories tall drifted down about 25 miles northeast of Billing s Montana an hour after launching from a pasture en route to Bangor Maine aiming for a world distance record. Chief pilot James Contes and technician Arnold Holm rode beneath the craft and planned new records to precede a trans Atlantic flight this year.
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UPI
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Maine
James Contes
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Ohio
Arnold Holm
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