Haymarket memory marks 92 years since riot and deaths
Waldheim Cemetery holds five men executed after the Haymarket Square bombing. About 150 gathered at Haymarket Square to demand full employment and a six hour day. The 1887 riot involved police clashes during a protest for an eight hour day. Four of the five condemned were hanged in Chicago. Lingg died by detonating dynamite.
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Haymarket Square
Coalition of Labor Organizations
McCormick Harvester
Haymarket
Albert Parsons August Spies
Adolf Fischer
George Engel
Chicago
Louis Lingg
Begin arrives in capital amid plane sales dispute
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin lands in Washington for a White House reception marking Israel's 30th birthday amid U S plans to sell warplanes to Israel Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Vance Dayan clash on the sale underscores ongoing tensions as Carter seeks Middle East peace appeasement.
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Washington
Menachem Begin
White House
Israel
Carter
Saudi Arabia
Egypt
Begin
Andrews Air Force Base
Cyrus R. Vance
State Department
President Carter
Vance
Moshe Dayan
Dayan
Middle East
Congress
Saudia Arabia
Supreme Court Rules for Landmark in Secret Notes Case
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states cannot criminally punish truthful reporting on confidential judicial commission proceedings. Landmark Communications had been fined under a Virginia law after publishing about the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission's studies of a domestic relations judge. The decision extends First Amendment protections to reporters and broadcasters in similar contexts.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Court
Virginia
State Judicial Commission
Landmark Communications
Virginian-Pilot
Norfolk
Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission
Landmark
Warren E. Burger
William J. Brennan Jr
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Burger
Virginia Supreme Court
Judicial Commission
Administration of Justice
Commonwealth
AAM meeting in Roswell to unite farmers for Washington clout
An American Agricultural Movement gathering in Roswell at 7 p.m. at the Sally Port Inn will host governor and lieutenant governor candidates from New Mexico. Lt. Gov. Bob Ferguson, Sen. Tom Rutherford, and Rich Sims attend as Democratic hopefuls while Joyce Robinson of Chateau, Missouri, will speak on grazing, farm programs and a pending farm bill. Also present or possible: aides for Runnels, Domenici, Schmitt, and Lujan.
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New Mexico
Carla Charles
Roswell
Virgie Charles
W. Frazier Sr
Mobile
Ala
American Agricultural Movement
AAM
Sally Port Inn
Bob Ferguson
Artesia
Tom Rutherford
Albuquerque
Rich Sims
Dexter
Don ‘Pug’ Thigpen
Thigpen
Washington
Joyce Robinson
Chateau
Moat
Montana
Ray Noling
Roswell Aam
Harrison Schmitt
Manuel Lujan
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Waldheim Cemetery
Des Plaines River
Waldheim
United States
Booger Bryant
New Mexico State Fairgrounds
Dan Williams Photo
Bryant
First National Bank of Hagerman
Capital
The
House
Michigan
Ig Ae
Eas Ee
Sharon Janecka
U.S
Harold Runnels
D-N.m
Frank DeBoyce
Pete Domenici
R-N.m
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