Carbondale protest turns violent with windows broken
A candlelight campus protest in Carbondale over the war ended in violence as tear gas dispersed a crowd of 400 to 1,000 along South Illinois Avenue. About 20 people were arrested, eight treated at SIU Health Service, and four thousand dollars in damage reported.
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Michelle S. Klaus
Southern Illinoisan
South Illinois Avenue
Carbondale
Neal Eckert
Illinois Avenue
SIU Health Service
SIU
Health Service
Doctors Memorial Hospital
Ed Hogan
Carbondale Police Department
William Ripkema
Southern Illinois Peace Committee
Towers
Brush Towers Complex
Brush Towers
Wilson Hall
Wall Street
Viet Center
No curfew in Carbondale despite downtown rioting
After a window smashing spree during a student antiwar march in Carbondale, no curfew tonight. Plans to close Illinois Avenue for weekend street parties continue amid a call for restraint. officials warn curfews could follow if more damage occurs. SIU and city leaders discuss parade permits and safety as student protests proceed.
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Ly Gary Blackburn
Michelle S. Klaus
Bonita Troutt
Southern Illinois
Carbondale
Illinois Avenue
Bill Shwegman
Schwegman
Tax bill defeated in Illinois House Revenue Committee
The Illinois House Revenue Committee defeated a bill to permit a state income tax deduction for daycare costs for working spouses or widows with incapacitated spouses. A tied vote also halted a bill allowing a 1 percent hotel tax on receipts to fund city services. The committee approved a pension plan income deduction from state tax base and sent it to the House floor.
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Lindsay-Schaub News Service
Springfield
Illinois House Revenue Committee
Secret report condemns federal block grant crimefighting program
A House Government Operations Committee vote 22 to 14 approved a secret report criticizing the Justice Department Law Enforcement Assistance Administration program SEAA for waste and misallocation. The document asserts no clear crime reduction despite $1.5 billion in grants and cites improper bidding and equipment spending.
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House Government Operations Committee
Justice Department
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Associated Press
Rep
John S.S. Monagan
D-Conn
United States
Nixon Meets Two Top Soviets In Courtesy Session
President Nixon held a surprise meeting with Soviet officials Nikolai Patolichev and Anatoly Dobrynin, a courtesy call described by the White House. The gathering with Nixon and aides followed Soviet Vietnam measures and may signal progress toward the May 22 Moscow summit.
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Washington
Nixon
Moscow
White House
Nikolai Patolichev
Anatoly Dobrynin
Vietnam
Ronald Ziegler
Patolichev
Commerce
Peter G. Peterson
Peterson
Oval Office
Henry A. Kissinger
Telephone workers back on job after two day sick note
About 200 General Telephone Co. servicemen and switchmen in nine Southern Illinois counties returned to work today after a two day sick call stoppage. The action, blamed on a customer complaint against a Marion employee, spread from Franklin and Williamson to Jackson Perry Union Randolph Saline Pope Massac and Johnson counties before ending. No grievance had been filed and no union official could comment.
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General Telephone Co
Illinois
Franklin
Williamson
Jackson
Perry
Union
Randolph
Saline
Pope
Massac
Johnson
Marion
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
St Mild Tonight With Mild Weekend Forecast
Tonight will be partly cloudy and a touch warmer with low 53 to 58. Friday remains mostly cloudy and mild with a chance of showers or thunderstorms in the afternoon or evening, high 68 to 76. Saturday through Monday stay mostly cloudy with little temperature change and showers likely Saturday and Sunday.
Freighters Leave Haiphong Under Nixon Passage Deadline
Several freighters including at least one Soviet-flagged ship departed Haiphong before Nixon's safe-passage deadline. Mines planted by U S planes at Haiphong and six other ports threaten to explode when ships pass. The U S 7th Fleet continued heavy air and naval bombardment near Haiphong with major cruiser-destroyer forces patrolling the coast.
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Haiphong Harbor
Nixon
U.S. 7Th Fleet
U.S
Haiphong
North Vietnamese
Saigon
North Vietnam
7Th Fleet
Western Pacific
Hanoi-Haiphong
No Vietnam
Navy
Randy Cunningham
Shelbina
Constellation
William Driscoll
Framingham
Mass
Cunningham
Tonkin Gulf
Carterville nursing class overcome by furnace fumes
Twenty one John A. Logan College practical nursing students were taken to Doctors Memorial Hospital in Carbondale after inhaling fumes from a blocked furnace flue at the Carterville nurses training center. Some were unconscious on arrival. instructors remained unaffected.
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John A. Logan College
Doctors Memorial Hospital
Carbondale
Nurses Training Center
N. Division St
Carterville
Bill Anderson
College
Central Illinois Public Service Co
Anderson
Doctors Hospital
Pat McLaughan
Sylvia Ward
Herrin
Ellen Dunn
Violet Odum
Madeline Stearns
Elkville
Alice Earl
Regina Richeson
Susan Giffen
Patricia Flanigan
Gladys Patton
Marion
Marion Memorial Hospital
John B. Taylor
Shirley Everingham
Beatrice Chiodini
Soviets denounce Nixon mining as dangerous to peace
The Soviet government denounced U S mining of North Vietnamese ports as fraught with serious consequences for world peace while urging a return to Paris talks. Tass distributed statements insist Moscow seeks negotiations and press for end to U S aggression, with China condemning the move as a dangerous provocation.
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Moscow
Nixon
United States
Paris
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
U.S
Soviet Union
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Tass
Drv
China
Hanoi
Communist Party
Peking People’s Daily
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Anthony Hall
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Mit
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Southernllinois Peace Committee
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Pleasant Hill
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Murphysboro
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