Kerr ousted at UC Berkeley over partisan politics
President Clark Kerr of the University of California was fired by the Board of Regents in a 14 to 8 vote after a heated budget debate. Reagan and Regent Mrs. Hearst defended the move, while Kerr blamed partisan politics and called for truth over politics. Kerr, 55, had led the nine-campus system since 1958 and was replaced by UC Vice President Harry Wellman as acting president.
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Berkeley
Calif
Clark Kerr
Mammoth
University of California
Board of Regents
Kerr
Ronald Reagan
Randolph Hearst
Reagan
Los Angeles
Edmund G. Brown
Harry Wellman
United States
Hearst
Theodore R. Meyer
San Francisco
Regents
Center
Theodore Meyer
Obscene Cornell magazine halted after campus riot in Ithaca
A Tompkins County judge issued an injunction to stop sale or distribution of Cornell University's magazine The Trojan Horse describing it as obscene. The ruling followed a campus riot where police faced 1,000 shouting students and several arrests. Fifteen students were ordered to show cause for confiscation. The university said processes were already in motion to handle the matter.
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Ithaca, N.Y
Supreme Court
Cornell University
Harold Simpson
Tompkins County
Richard Thaler
Thaler
Trojan Horse
David Murray
Proctor
Simpson
James A. Perkins
Cornell
Perkins
Red China in civil war, Lin Piao says
Tokyo reports Communist China defense minister Lin Piao declared the country in a state of civil war in a wall bulletin. Lin, Mao loyalist fighting Liu Shao chi, warned the purge would wreck Mao’s machinery. Dr Lin Yutang predicted Mao’s regime would become a wreck after the purge.
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China
Lin
Tokyo
Lin Piao
Mao Tsetung
Tokyo Yomiuri
Liu Shao-chi
Mao
Lin Yutang
Manila
Taipei
Formosa
Mae
Mao-Lin
Communist Party
Party Central Committee
Peking Radio
New China News Agency
Peking People’s Daily
Ministry of Culture
Rothers
Liu
Beagles Cause Havoc At Musical Event In New York
Report describes 22 beagles interrupting a performance of the Hunting Symphony by Leopold Mozart during a Festival Orchestra of New York concert. Dogs leaped among players and audience, while the orchestra continued. The piece featured four movements with the dogs causing bedlam during the second and third movements.
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NEW York
Philharmonic Halil
Leopold Mozart
Wolfgang
Festival Orchestra of
Atlantic Cruise Ship Beached Off Port Everglades
The 563-foot liner Atlantic with 643 aboard ran aground on a sandbar 700 yards offshore near Fort Lauderdale at dawn. Tugboats struggled to refloat before the next high tide, as passengers endured a stranded cruise near Port Everglades awaiting inspection and possible damage checks.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Atlantic
The
St. Thomas
Virgin Islands
Port Everglades
Islbrandtsen Lines
New York
John Fenton
Miami International
Mild Weather Continues With Mild Break
The region sees a mild spell with tonight lows in the mid 30s and tomorrow highs in the upper 40s. Partly cloudy skies persist as southwest winds of 10 to 20 mph reduce any chance of snowfall to about 20 percent.
Today’s Chuckle Wife Reminds Husband of Fourth Grade Gap
A humorous exchange has a wife chiding her reluctant husband about helping their son with homework. She quips that he should assist now since next year the boy enters the fourth grade, implying a push for timely support. The joke hinges on timing and parental expectations.
Teens Run Car Fix Scheme In Ashwaubenon Lot
In Ashwaubenon Wisconsin two teenagers operated an unauthorized car repair scheme charging three dollars to start cars. They would loosen wires and wait for owners to arrive then offer help after the engine failed to start. Officials said the youths fled before identification.
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Ashwaubenon
Wis
Paratroopers rout Viet Cong near Saigon killing 114
UPI report says South Vietnamese paratroopers and U.S. advisers engaged a Viet Cong battalion near Saigon, killing 114 communists in close combat near Tan Son Nhut Air Base. Allied forces also engaged North Vietnamese targets with ships and B52 raids along with near QUang Ngai and Than Hoa areas.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Tan Son Nhut
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Red China
USS
Benner
Stoddard
Navy
Hanoi
Than Hoa
Panhandle
South Vietnam
Quang Ngai
Saizon
Saion
Baker recalls Lyndon Johnson as best friend during fraud trial
In Washington, Bobby Baker testifies about 1962 financial troubles and says Johnson steered him to lender Robert Kerr for loans totaling 200000. The White House declines comment while Johnson aides previously described Baker as a trusted ally, with past praise contrasted by later investigations.
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Washington
White House
Robert G
Bobby) Baker
Senate
Capitol
Baker
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Johnson
Robert EB. Kerr
Dokla
Senate Democrats
Don B. Reynolds
Johmson
Johnson Family
Austin
Tex
Reynolds
Abe Fortas
Supreme Court
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Jesse M. Unruh
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Toeek
Sproul Hall
Frederick Dutton
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John Roderick
Vo V
Beagles
Nowhere
By Bryce Miller
Bobby Baker
Lyndon
Everett M. Dirksen
Angel
Senate Rules Committee
New England
George Reedy
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