Johnson recalls Kennedy ties and 1964 run nudge
In a Kennedy assassination era reminiscence Johnson describes not being on close terms with Robert Kennedy. He says Mrs. Johnson persuaded him to run for president in 1964 on Aug 24 after the Democratic Convention opened in Atlantic City. He recounts Sixth Fleet maneuver during the Six Day War and pride in Great Society enactments. He also recalls his reaction to Kennedy's death and notes no friction aboard the plane returning to Washington.
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Kennedy
Johnson
Robert Kennedy
Atlantic
Soviet Union
Alexei N. Kosygin
Israel
Middle East
Egypt
Gulf of Aqaba
State senator calls New York equal opportunity program a flop
State Sen. Samuel L. Greenberg released a 64 page study claiming New York's equal employment program for women has failed. He says top grade jobs for women are only 14.7 percent, with many agencies reducing female hires and women suffering more layoffs. He urges an interdepartmental committee, removal of sexist bias in exams, and day care centers in state offices.
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Albany
N.Y
Samuel L. Greenberg
Brooklyn
Finance Committee
Rockefeller
Greenberg
ADA Criticizes OBrien Tactics Against Hughes at Convention
The ADA board says Lawrence F. OBrien caused a harvest of discord by backing Patricia Roberts Harris for credentials chair at the 1972 national convention. It accuses his pressure tactics of echoing 1968 and steering toward Nixon reelect. The move aimed to shape reform of convention operations.
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Washington
UPI
National Board of the
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
Lawrence F. O’brien
Sen
Harold E. Hughes
Iowa
Richard Nixon
O’brien
Patricia Roberts Harris
Dr James E Allen Dies In Plane Crash
The death of Dr James E Allen is reported after a plane crash near Las Vegas following a Arizona weather outbreak. Several planes diverted or returned while one continued toward the Grand Canyon and landed safely. Allen, a former New York education commissioner and U S education chief, was a noted desegregation advocate and Princeton and Harvard graduate who led the University of New York and taught at Princeton. He is survived by two children.
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Las Vegas
Arizona
Grand Canyon
CAP
John Seibold
Scenic Airlines
Allen
New York State
Cambodia
U.S
Nixon
Princeton University
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton
State Education Department
University of New York
Kennedy
Long Island
Vietnam
Tiny Davis and Elkins College
Elkins
W. Va
Harvard University
Allens
James E. Allen
Judith Pell Dolven
Britain Sends More Men To Ireland Amid Rioting Attacks
British forces reinforce Northern Ireland as guerrillas blast two spans of the Rosscar bridge and Erne River viaduct near Belleek. London denies detainee torture claims while the Sunday Times reports alleged disorientation interrogations at Palace Barracks outside Belfast.
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Rosscar
Erne River
Belleek
County Fermanagh
Northern Ireland
Faulkner
Sunday Times
London
Palace Barracks
Hollywood Army Base
Belfast
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Police Shoot Rap Brown in Dramatic Baltimore Bar Robbery
Six patrol cars responded to a robbery and gunbattle in a bar where six victims, all black, were forced to lie on the floor while robbers emptied valuables into a bag later found. Rap Brown was wounded and fled into a building before leaping to a terrace, then was shot again on the roof. He disappeared before a Bel Air trial.
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Salvatore Rosato
Brown
Columbus Avenue
Bel Air
Cambridge
North Vietnam Attacks Diminish Amid Troop Standdown
Two attacks caused light casualties with no fatalities in North Vietnam and Cambodia. A firefight occurred in the U Minh forest southwest of Saigon. South Vietnamese rangers killed 10 enemies. a civilian bus hit a mine west of Saigon killing four soldiers and five civilians, with 10 civilians wounded. The Americal Division. stands down 3rd Battalion 16th Artillery shrinking U.S. strength from about 210,000 to 184,000 by December 1. one brigade deactivated, a second to stand down, division HQ to end next month. The remaining brigade becomes independent.
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Cambodia
South Vietnam
U Minh Forest
Saigon
U.S
Americal
16Th Artillery
Vietnam
Reuss Attacks Air Force Tour Costs in GAO Report
Rep. Henry Reuss cites a GAO audit showing the Air Force spent over 500000 on Madison Avenue style tours for 4228 civilian and business leaders. He notes 51 of 154 tours cost 224000 beyond participant payments for food lodging and materials.
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Washington
Henry S. Reuss
Air Force
Madison Avenue
Wisconsin Democrat
Congressional General Accounting Office
Reuss
CBS
Pentagon
GAO
Kissinger Aides Huddle In Hawaii Before China Talks
Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger and a group of aides kept to a sequestered Hawaii ranch setting near Mauna Kea as they refine plans for President Nixon's China trip. They arrived by presidential jet and prepared for Guam and then Shanghai and Peking talks spanning four days.
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Waimea
Hawaii
UPI
Henry Kissinger
China
Nixon
Kissinger
Laurence Rockefeller
Mauna Keae Beach
Mauna Kea Volcano
Island of
Honolulu
Ralph D. Albertazzio
Guam
Shanghai
Peking
White House
Uruguayans Miss Target In Gun Duel
Interior Minister Danilo Sena and Enrique Erro, a former cabinet member, fought a pistol duel in Montevideo. Each fired twice. all four bullets missed. A three man court ruled there was sufficient cause under Uruguayan duel laws.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
UPI
Danilo Sena
Enrique Erro
Sena
Erro
Industry and Labor
Frazier Trial Opens in Five Deaths Case
Bearded John Frazier faces trial in Redwood City California for the murder of Dr. Victor Ohta his wife Virginia two sons and the secretary Dorothy Cadwallader whose bodies were found in a pool at the burning mansion last year. The 25 year old former auto mechanic pleads not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Redwood City
Calif
John Frazier
Victor Ohta
Frazier
Ohta
Virginia
Derik
Taggart
Dorothy Cadwallader
Reagan In Japan On Tour Of Orient
Reagan arrives in Tokyo for six day official visit as part of a 16 day tour of the Orient. He will meet Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and deliver a personal message from President Nixon to the Japanese leader.
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Tokyo
Ronald Reagan
California
Seoul
Japan
Orient
Reagan
Eisaku Sato
Nixon
Pope Blesses Priest Martyred By Nazis
Pope Paul VI proclaimed Polish friar Maksymilian Kolbe a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church for dying in Auschwitz to save another inmate. The ceremony in St Peter's Basilica drew 5,000 Poles and 209 bishops as the pope highlighted Kolbe's selfless life and the priesthood's call to total self giving. Fraciszek Gajowniczek, whom Kolbe saved, witnessed the moment, and the crowd acclaimed the decree inscribing Kolbe in the book of blessings with the Aug. 14 date set for his heavenly birth.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Maksymilian Kolbe
Kolbe
Auschwitz
Father Kolbe
St. Peter’s Basilica
Paul
Fraciszek Gajowniczek
World Bishops Synod
Gajowniczek
Christ
Goodman backs conjugal visits in New York prisons
New York State Senator Roy Goodman a Republican from Manhattan urged allowing conjugal visits for inmates saying the practice could ease tensions traced to the Attica uprising. He referenced a study suggesting such visits might reduce prison stress and violence.
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New York
Roy Goodman
Manhattan
Goodman
Attica
Philadelphia Longshoremen Strike Sparks Port Tension
Philadelphia dockers warned to return to work as 13 ships remained tied up in Philadelphia after a press release by ILA locals. Lawyers argued authority and the unions sought more work hours while losses to the city reach $500,000 daily.
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Corry
Shippers’ Association
Philadelphia
Abraham Freedman
ILA
Spaeth
Moock
New York
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