Inside Campus Revolt Then and Now
An undercover agent recalls covert links between campus radical groups and violent plots. He charts his early Redemptorist High School activism, the 4 Square Power Movement, and the Los Angeles office near UCLA where Vietnam Day Committee influence emerged through leaflets and burn-ins as a pathway to upheaval.
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Chance Association
New Orleans’ Redemptorist High School
Louisiana State University
4 Square Power Movement
the Square
Los Angeles
Ucla
Jerry Palmer
VDC
Palmer
Unclear Negotiations After Strike Impacts Shipyard Jobs
A tentative resumption of negotiations is planned as the strike began August 15, idling about 500 workers at three shipyards. The dispute concerns a three year contract with cost increases and wage proposals, with talks ongoing in China.
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China
Tainadass
Autonay,ffer
Trease
Steinbrenner predicts strong year for shipbuilder amid strike
Executives report 68 percent stock rise and 22 cents per share earnings from subsidiary sale. Revenues fell from 45.3 million to 38.3 million year over year due to a plant strike by eight unions. Steinbrenner cites focus on profitable contracts and expansion of inland and sea vessel fleets as key to an excellent year ahead.
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Steinbrenner
Supreme Court orders Mississippi desegregation now
Civil rights lawyers review hundreds of pending suits as the Supreme Court rejects a delay and mandates that 30 Mississippi districts end dual school systems at once. The ruling directs New Orleans appellate judges to implement unitary schools and accept or modify HEW desegregation plans.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Mississippi
South
New Orleans
Appellate Court
James C. Eastland
D-Miss
Justice Department
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
High Court
HEW
NAACP
Legal Defense Fund
Jack Greenberg
Defense Fund
New York
Department of Justice
President proposes new White House consumer affairs office
President Nixon asks Congress to create a permanent White House consumer affairs office and a Justice Department consumer protection division. He urges new laws to broaden consumer rights and allow damage suits on behalf of the public, not only individuals.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Congress
Office of
Consumer Affairs
White House
Justice Department
Consumer Protection Division
Week's 102 GI deaths highest in month
U.S. combat deaths jumped to 102 last week, up 24 from the prior week, with 48 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in three new battles near An Khe Pleiku and An Hoa. U.S. wounded totaled 530 as B52 strikes hit suspected Communist concentrations near the Cambodian border.
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Saigon
An Khe
Pleiku
Hear An Hoa
South Vietnam
U.S
David Packard
Vietnam
Vatican Delays Mass Reform Over Translation Ready-Backlog
The Vatican announced a reform of the Mass scheduled for November 30 may be postponed up to two years. The Congregation for Divine Worship cited the enormous work translating Latin texts into modern languages and readjustment issues among clergy and faithful.
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Vatican City
UPI
Vatican
Vatican Congregation For Divine Worship
Union files grievance over Kellogg pay rates in auditor's office
The city employees union charges Elyria's auditor Dale C. Kellogg with hiring Mrs. Frank Burrows and Mrs. James Wilhelm above starting pay and bypassing the personnel committee. It seeks rollback to starting rates and repayment of pay differences, with a legal opinion sought from City Solicitor Kosma J. Glavas. The case concerns an elected official and a pay ordinance authorizing three positions in the auditor's office.
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Elyria
New City
Dale C. Kellogg
Kellogg
Frank Burrows
James Wilhelm
Burrows
Wilhelm
Safety Service
James T. Tracey
American Federation of State
Kosma J. Glavas
American and 40 receives Nobel Prize in physics
A 40 year old American, Murray Gell-Mann of Caltech, won the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for classifications and interactions of elementary particles. The chemistry prize went to Derk Barton of Imperial College London and Odd Hassel of the University of Oslo. The awards total 72,800 dollars.
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Stockholm
Royal Swedish Academy of Science
Murray Gell-Mann
California Institute of Technology
Derk H. R. Barton
Imperial College of Science and Technology
London
Odd Hassel
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