Nixon blasts May Day protesters over Washington demonstrations
President Nixon denounced the May Day protests as vandals and hoodlums while praising police handling in Washington. He rejected claims of mass arrests suspending constitutional rights and said arrests do not imply guilt, noting the operation was conducted with minimum force and efficiency. The remarks came during a White House news conference broadcast live.
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Marquetia
Hugo Delgado
Havana
Ronald L. Ziegler
Czechoslovakia
Turkish hostage drama ends in rescue and gunfight
Turkish police stormed a third floor apartment to free Sibel Erkan a 14 year old hostage of two TP LA guerrillas in Istanbul. One kidnapper was killed the other wounded as police fired from a fire ladder. Sibel escaped unharmed and was hospitalized in shock later reported in high spirits. The capture followed the kidnapping tied to the Ephraim Elrom murder and involved streetside crowds and a tense siege with snipers and gunfire. The attack sparked anger among locals and a strong police response praised by Ankara authorities.
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Sibel Erkan
Elrom
Huseyin Cevahir
Mahir Cayan
Sibel
Cevahir
Cavan
Turkey
Ankara
Ismail Arar
TPLA
Editorial Attacks Charter Managers Choice in Rensselaer County
An unidentified blue card campaign opposes the proposed Rensselaer County charter. It claims no choice in selecting a manager, while the plan actually broadens input by creating a seven member citizens council and a larger applicant pool for the county manager position.
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League of Women Voters
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Troy
Cuba To Release U S Jet Today
The Pan American jet hijacked four days ago is expected to fly from Havana to Miami at 11 a m Havana time after Cuba notified U S officials of the release The hijacker Ivan Gustavo Garcia Landaeta 22 Venezuela said he acted for political reasons and the fate of passengers and crew remains unclear
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High Court Rules on Assembly Powers and Labor Strikes
The high court limited police power to clear public gatherings deeming loitering ordinances unconstitutional. It held that assembling for social or political purposes cannot be punished as annoying and warned such laws invite discrimination. The court also allowed federal judges broad leeway to block railroad strikes when negotiations are not reasonable. Additional actions included Greyhound's meat packing interests, the Buffalo printing merger, and admissibility of a co defendant's confession under cross examination.
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Supreme Court
Cincinnati
Potter Stewart
William McClain
Greyhound
Armour & Co
Beef Trust
Greater Buffalo Press
International Color Printing Co
Buffalo
Legislature Resumes Wind Up Tasks Today
State legislators return to Albany after a Memorial Day break to press toward adjournment. The session, already the third longest of the century, contends with NYC budget issues and parochial school aid while Lindsay seeks broader city funding.
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New York City
South Viets Regroup After Fleeing Snuol
South Vietnamese forces regroup near the Cambodian border after abandoning hundreds of vehicles and equipment in a retreat from Snuol. Officials call it a planned tactical maneuver as about 900 dead or wounded are reported overall and losses include 70 enemy killed by air strikes.
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Snuol
Sauol
Cambodia
Nguyen van Minh
Washington
Pentagon
Jerry W. Friedheim
Army Probes New Massacre Report
Army opens a probe into charges that US airborne troops killed 24 to 40 Vietnamese civilians on a Bong Son beach in September 1968. The allegations involve a company of the 2nd Battalion 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade amid an amphibious assault near Landing Zone English in Binh Dinh Province.
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Army
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Bong Son
William E. Marhoun
St. Paul
Minn
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Marhoun
Minneapolis
Citizens Commission of Inquiry
U.S
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173Rd Airborne Brigade
Hoai Nhon
Binh Dinh Province
Niebuhr Theologian Dies At 78 In Massachusetts
Reinhold Niebuhr, noted Protestant theologian regarded as a giant by scholars across faiths, died Tuesday night at his summer home in Stockbridge Massachusetts. He was 78. His widow said cause of death undetermined after years of ill health. His writings on idealism with realism and philosophy in action influenced many worldwide.
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Stockbridge
Mass
Reinhold Niebuhr
Morrissey of Cohoes Dies Former Mayor of 1932 Lifetime Politics
John J. Morrissey 77 of 35 James Street Cohoes died Tuesday at Cohoes Memorial Hospital after being stricken at home. Elected mayor in 1932 on an independent ticket with allied Republicans, he served 1933 to 1935 and cut property tax rates and water rents. He had earlier been an alderman and Albany County supervisor.
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John J. Morrissey
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William Mooney
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