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Friday, April 5, 1968

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize winner and advocate of nonviolence, was fatally shot in Memphis by a gunman who escaped. The 39-year-old civil rights leader had returned to the city to organize support once again for its striking sanitation workers. He was shot while leaning over a railing outside his motel room. Gov. Buford Ellington called out 4.000 National Guard troops and a curlew was imposed in Memphis. The police said the assassin might have been a white man who was 50 to 100 yards away in a flophouse." Two persons were taken into custody, but the police said they had no definite leads.

President Johnson deplored the "brutal slaying" of Dr. King in a brief television address from the White House. He asked "every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck Dr. King, who lived by nonviolence." An immediate inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation was ordered by Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Across the country there were reactions of dismay, shame, grief and foreboding from Government officials, dvil leaders and men in the street. Some Negro militants responded angrily, although most major Negro leaders expressed the hope that Dr. King’s death might spur others to carry out his dream.

Rioting broke out in scattered parts of the country, including Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Raleigh, N. C.; Washington, D. C.; Jackson, Miss.; Boston, Hartford and Memphis.

President Johnson delayed at least until today his flight to California and Honolulu as a result of Dr. King’s death. He had planned to see former President Eisenhower at March Air Force Base in California before continuing to Hawaii for a series of conferences with his aides on various aspects of the current probes for peace and tactics in Vietnam. During a vigorous day. Mr. Johnson attended the installation of the new

In Saigon, United States officials fear that the quietly bitter South Vietnamese reaction to American peace efforts may badly strain the working relationship between the two countries.

North Vietnam charged that American planes had bombed a "populated area” in northwestern Vietnam about HO miles above the 20th Parallel, the northernmost limit imposed by President Johnson on bombing strikes. The Defense Department said it did not know of any such raid, but an investigation was under way.

Vice President Humphrey indicated he would run for the Presidency but not announce his plans until President Johnson returned from his Hawaii conference. He told 2,000 labor representatives in Pittsburgh that he was "not one to walk away from a decision."

President Johnson reportedly told Senator Robert F. Kennedy that he would remain out of the political fight this year because he did not think it appropriate for a "lame duck” President to try to pick his successor. The meeting Wednesday was described as "extraordinarily friendly."

The second unmanned launching of the 363-foot-high Saturn 5 moon rocket ran into one problem after another, and serious doubts were raised whether the rocket would be cleared for manned missions without further testing. Two engines shut down prematurely, gas leaks developed and another engine failed to re-fire.

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Elvis Presley, center, waits in Gov. Buford Ellington office at the State Capitol with the governor's daughter, Ann Ellington, before meeting and speaking to the Legislature March 8, 1961. The young star drew the biggest crowd that has engulfed the legislative corridors and chambers in the last 35 years, according to a veteran House member. Photo by Jack Corn / The Tennessean.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: I am SO excited to announce that I'll be touring in November with the amazing Rachael Leahcar!! If you haven't already, do yourself a favour and go get yourself a copy of her latest album, Shadows! It's available online and in stores NOW! Tour dates: Friday November 10th - Thornbury Theatre's Velvet Room (Melbourne) Sunday November 12th - Riverside Theatre's Lennox Theatre (Sydney) Sunday November 19th - The Gov (Adelaide) Friday November 24th - The Old Museum's Concert Hall (Brisbane) Thursday November 30th - Ellington Jazz Club (Perth) Can't wait to see you all there! 💃🏼 #music #rachaelleahcar #australiantour #australia #australianmusic #newmusic #shadowsalbum #hen #juliahenning #news #announcement #musicsa

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There are several challenges facing state officials like Mays, who in a war metaphor would be the logistics officer making sure that frontline combat troops — in this case health care workers — have the equipment they need. Urgent demand and lack of centralized purchasing in the U.S. have put intense pressure on his team to close deals quickly without getting cheated by scam artists. Most contracts now call for deposits before shipping, making vetting of suppliers a continual concern.

“In blue-sky days the state doesn’t prepay for anything,” Mays said. “In China right now to secure orders, we’re seeing 50 percent or more deposits required to secure these orders. If you don’t get into that space and compete in that space, then New York is going to get the items or Florida is going to or someone is.”

Costs are skyrocketing. “Pricing on ventilators is through the roof,” Mays said. They’ve gone from $18,000 each to $50,000 a pop. In a normal year, a blue-sky year, Mays said his office will spend about $1 billion on all the contracts he executes. He said it will spend that much, easily, just on the coronavirus crisis.

His office has to field a flood of inquiries from would-be middlemen without experience in medical supplies, seeking to cash in on the bonanza — or just to keep their businesses alive.

“We’re getting hundreds of vendors hitting us up every hour telling us they can sell us what we need, and we know that’s not true given how volatile the supply chain is,” Mays said. “Event management companies … now they’re going to their suppliers that usually make touring equipment and scaffolding and saying, ‘Do you have any suppliers who make N95 masks?’”

“They’re trying to keep themselves in business. Everybody’s trying to enter this space because this is the only space generating revenue right now, this and DoorDash,” Mays said.

At first, Mays tried to manage the incoming inquiries through his own email, but drowned under the 1,000 or so that were coming in daily. Since then, the Maryland Department of Emergency Management has set up a central email that vendors can go through, and it has a triage team that weeds through those emails and forwards promising leads on to Mays and his team. He’s down now to dealing with a mere 50 a day.

Mays’s 7 a.m. call includes a small group, and is run by Ellington Churchill, the secretary of general services. They discuss “what was done yesterday, what didn’t get all the way done,” Mays said. Churchill reports that information to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.

At 9 a.m., Mays is on his second call of the day with the senior leadership of the State Procurement Office. And then, at 11 a.m., he hops on a teleconference with the 38 procurement officers who report to him.

“Can’t stress enough how hard my team is working and how proud I am of them. Especially having to do all this remotely when we really were not set up to do so,” he said.

After lunch, he’s on a 1 p.m. call with others on his team to prepare fo

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Deborah A. Batts, First Openly Gay Federal Judge, Dies at 72

Deborah A. Batts, the first openly gay judge to sit on the federal bench, who presided over prominent cases involving political corruption, terrorism and the Central Park Five civil case, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 72. Her wife, Dr. Gwen Zornberg, said she died unexpectedly of complications after knee replacement surgery.Judge Batts served for a quarter-century on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. After her nomination in 1994 by President Bill Clinton, it took 17 years before a second openly gay judge, J. Paul Oetken, was appointed to the federal bench.She was also the first African-American faculty member at Fordham Law School, where she continued to teach even after she became a judge.She was a federal prosecutor in New York in the 1980s and early ’90s, when Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the New York Democrat, suggested that she fill out an application to become a federal judge.Her application languished through the presidency of George H.W. Bush. The administration thought that while she was “very nice,” she said in 2011, “my view of what a federal judge should be” was not their view.After Mr. Clinton nominated her, however, she sailed onto the bench. The American Bar Association rated her “unanimously qualified.” Her sexual orientation, about which she was open, was not an issue, and the Senate confirmed her on a voice vote. She was sworn in on June 23, 1994, during Gay Pride Week.“It was like hiring Jackie Robinson, putting him on the field and no one saying anything about it,” Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals told the American Bar Association Journal in 1994.Among the high-profile cases Judge Batts presided over was the decade-long civil litigation involving the Central Park Five, the youths who were wrongly convicted in the 1989 beating and rape of a female jogger in Central Park.In 2007, Judge Batts rejected New York City’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit by the Central Park defendants. In 2014, the city settled, agreeing to pay the men almost $41 million.In 2010, Judge Batts sentenced Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, a reputed former top adviser to Osama bin Laden, to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to stabbing a federal jail guard while he awaited trial on terrorism charges.Judge Batts also oversaw a civil suit against former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, who was accused of misleading the public when she was administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency about the risk of toxic air pollution after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. Judge Batts found that Mrs. Whitman had made statements that were so misleading, they were “conscience-shocking.” An appeals court, however, dismissed the suit in 2008.Judge Batts was set to preside over the embezzlement trial of Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who is accused of swindling $300,000 from his client, the pornographic film star Stormy Daniels, while he was representing her in her suit against President Trump. (Mr. Avenatti has pleaded not guilty.)One of Judge Batts’s closest friends, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, recalled on Tuesday that they had both been recommended on the same day for judgeships in the Southern District.“From that day forward, we became sisters,” Justice Sotomayor said in a statement to The New York Times. “Most importantly, she lived her life openly and earnestly, with fortitude and conviction.”In May, during a recorded panel discussion held in Manhattan to commemorate Judge Batts’s 25 years on the bench, she appeared with three other openly gay federal judges. The three — Judge Oetken, Alison J. Nathan and Pamela K. Chen — said she had been an inspiration.Judge Batts “literally broke down the closet door and allowed the rest of us to walk through it,” Judge Chen said.Judge Batts, after hearing them speak, remarked, “There was this lone wolf sitting up here in the Southern District of New York, and I can’t tell you — I can’t tell you how happy I was when I got company.”Deborah Anne Batts was born in Philadelphia on April 13, 1947. Her father, Dr. James A. Batts Jr., who was a decorated combat surgeon in World War II, was an obstetrician and gynecologist and the director of maternal and infant-care services for the city of Philadelphia. Her mother, Ruth V. (Silas) Batts, was a nurse and then a homemaker, raising four girls.Deborah and her twin sister, Diane, graduated at the top of their class from the elite Philadelphia High School for Girls in 1965.From there, Deborah went to Radcliffe, where she majored in government and was president of the student government organization. She graduated in 1969. She said that the tumult of that decade, with the Vietnam War and the assassinations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, made her want to pursue social justice and inspired her to study law.At Harvard Law School, she served on the editorial board of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. After graduating in 1972, she clerked for Judge Lawrence W. Pierce, a longtime federal judge in New York.In 1973, she joined the prestigious New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore in the litigation department. Six years later, she became a federal prosecutor.At Fordham, where she joined the faculty in 1984, she was a mentor to legions of law students in her more than three decades of teaching.As a judge in the Southern District, she worked closely with a mentoring program that seeks to increase diversity among lawyers appointed for indigent defendants, said Anthony L. Ricco, one of the directors.“Judge Batts passed the baton,” Mr. Ricco said in an interview. “She made sure that in her position as a judge, she created opportunities for people coming behind her.”Judge Batts had grown up believing she was heterosexual, Dr. Zornberg, her wife, said in an interview. She married a man and had children, but they divorced. “It was an evolution for her,” Dr. Zornberg said. “She evolved, and society evolved.”By the time Senator Moynihan suggested that she apply for a judgeship, she was open about her sexuality.“Debbie was always very clear and straightforward about who she was,” Dr. Zornberg said. “She was who she was with complete integrity.”Judge Batts married Dr. Zornberg in 2011. In addition to her, Judge Batts is survived by her children, Alexandra S. McCown and James Ellison McCown; two grandsons; and her sisters, Mercedes Ellington, Diane Batts Morrow and Denise I. Batts.Despite her busy schedule, Judge Batts made time to help former prisoners, working evenings as part of a Southern District program called RISE aimed at reducing recidivism among at-risk offenders.On a recent Saturday, as Judge Batts was recovering in a Manhattan rehabilitation center after her knee surgery, a fellow judge, Denise Cote, visited and found her in bed, finishing a letter of recommendation for a former inmate who was seeking housing.Judge Cote said in an interview that it was typical of Judge Batts that even in these circumstances, she was helping someone else.“She had decided that the landlord needed to know he was reliable and responsible even though he was in prison recently,” Judge Cote said.Judge Colleen McMahon, the Southern District’s chief judge, said the attention that Judge Batts paid to former inmates was among her greatest contributions.“Judge Batts’s devotion to these individuals and to their rehabilitation earned their loyalty and trust,” she said in a statement. “Deborah Batts was a trailblazer in every respect.” Read the full article

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Shooting surge has Kansas City residents searching for new solutions

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A surge in shootings has residents searching for new solutions to stop gun violence. At Southeast High School, participants in a rolling prayer caravan are seeking divine intervention for a violence free KC.

Gathering to pray is not new in Kansas City. People horrified by bloodshed have been doing it for decades. But prayer alone didn’t prevent four men from being killed in Kansas City on Sunday.

That’s why Councilman Brandon Ellington has launched his No More Excuses Coalition, which seeks to change what is socially and culturally accepted in urban core neighborhoods.

The group’s first event is Saturday at the Brush Creek Community Center, the same place where someone shot and killed two men earlier this week. The focus of the gathering will be on taking ownership of your life and your community.

Ellington, a former state lawmaker, understands that violence must be solved at the grassroots level. He said there’s no help coming from the state of Missouri.

“Jeff City is 175 miles away,” Ellington said. “That’s one of the issues I have had with previous leadership in the city. We typically look to blame an entity that’s not here for not addressing the social, culturalistic and economic life issues that we see prevalent on the east side.”

Republican Gov. Mike Parson has rejected a request from the Missouri Black Caucus for legislators to consider allowing cities to enact their own gun control measures during a special session next month.

Parson said the special session is not the correct avenue, saying it will take all levels of government working with the community.

Of the 97 homicides so far this year in Kansas City, 68 victims have been black. The city is on pace to exceed last year’s homicide total of 143.

from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports https://fox4kc.com/2019/08/27/shooting-surge-has-kansas-city-residents-searching-for-new-solutions/

from Kansas City Happenings https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2019/08/27/shooting-surge-has-kansas-city-residents-searching-for-new-solutions/

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stefanjase · 5 years

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Trump lands in Houston

Texas President Donald Trump has landed in Houston where he was welcomed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

Air Force One landed at Ellington Joint Reserve Base in southeast Houston at 2:54 p.m. Trump waved to a group of nearly five dozen supporters but did not shake hands.

The president is en route to the Houston suburb of Crosby where he will speak before the International Union of Operating Engineers and sign two executive orders to boost the oil and natural gas industry.

Related: Trump to order EPA to review pipeline permitting

The Houston visit is part of a day long series of events in Texas. Trump touched down in San Antonio this morning and attended a fundraiser at a private club.

Before leaving Houston, the president is expected to speak at a private fundraiser at the Lone Star Flight Museum.

from Business https://www.chron.com/business/article/Trump-lands-in-Houston-13757340.php

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West Virginia Lawmakers Considering Bill to Legalize Adult-Use Marijuana

Today, West Virginia lawmakers are taking their first look at a new bill to legalize and regulate adult-use marijuana. Democrats introduced the bill two weeks ago, but have so far only garnered support from within the party. Now that the bill is in multiple committees, it’s unlikely to see a full House vote this year. However, lawmakers who support the legislation hope it can at least begin the conversation on adult-use legalization in West Virginia.

Virginia Democrats Want to Let Communities Chart Their Own Course on Cannabis

Cannabis legalization is becoming a highly partisan issue in West Virginia. At the start of the first legislative session of the year, House Democrats introduced HB2331. In many ways, the bill is similar to adult-use legislation introduced or passed in other states. It permits adults 21 and over to possess cannabis for personal use, regulates a production and retail industry through the Bureau of Health and seeks to earn revenue via taxation.

But Virginia Democrats have introduced one twist into the boilerplate approach to legalization, a “county option”. Signing HB2331 into law wouldn’t automatically legalize cannabis across West Virginia. Rather, it would allow counties to elect to allow production and sales in that county. Conversely, counties could elect not to permit the industry. The “county option” approach resembles the authority many adult-use states give to municipalities to restrict or ban cannabis businesses from operating in their jurisdictions.

Appealing to the principle of government of, by and for the people, Del. Mike Pushkin (D-Kanawha) said lawmakers should be asking what the people want. “We want to have this conversation to find out what the people are for,” Pushkin told reporters. “That matters to me more than what the governor or the speaker or the president wants.”

High-Ranking Republic Opposition Will Likely Block Progress on Legalization Bill

But West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, Senate President Mitch Carmichael and House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, all Republicans, stand strongly opposed to adult-use legalization. And what they want is to keep West Virginia a medical-only state.

Among lawmakers in a state that is in many ways just beginning to look at legal adult-use, the debate centers around a familiar opposition between public safety and revenue. Proponents of legalization say they don’t want West Virginia to miss out on one of the country’s growth industries. Those opposed say they’re concerned about drug addiction, underage consumption, and impaired driving.

Speaking on the House floor, Del. Mike Bates (D-Raleigh) said “West Virginia is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the cannabis industry,” which he described as the “single greatest economic opportunity West Virginia has.”

But Republican delegates spoke against the bill. Del. Larry Kump (R-Berkeley) said “West Virginia already has drug problems and alcohol abuse problems. We don’t need to go down that road.” New research shows that cannabis can actually help people suffering from addiction to hard drugs, prescription opioids, and alcohol. Furthermore, a recent analysis of consumer purchasing in California suggests that younger people who consume cannabis are decreasing their consumption of alcohol and tobacco.

Other delegates opposed to adult-use legalization spoke out about drug-impaired driving. Del. Joe Ellington (R-Mercer), who chairs the Health Committee, called Colorado an “experimental” state before claiming it has problems with impaired drivers “and other problems with minors.”

Legalization Bill Faces Long Odds in Committee

Opposition to West Virginia Democrat’s adult-use bill means it likely won’t make it out of committee this year. Currently, the judiciary, finance and health committees are all considering the bill. HB 2331 would have to clear all three committees before it could come to a full vote on the House floor.

The post West Virginia Lawmakers Considering Bill to Legalize Adult-Use Marijuana appeared first on High Times.

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A statue of Justice Adolpho A. Birch, Jr., was unveiled on August 27, 2016 to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Justice A.A. Birch Building in downtown Nashville. Justice Adolpho Birch was the first African-American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court and spent 37 years in the judiciary, serving at the General Sessions, Trial, intermediate Appellate and Supreme Court levels. The statue honoring Justice Birch will be an eight-foot bronze sculpture with a four- foot granite base and historical marker affixed permanently in the plaza area outside the front of the Justice A.A. Birch Buildingthat houses the general sessions and criminal courts in Nashville. The tribute is designed by sculptor Brian Hanlon. Birch, who in 1996-1997 was the state’s first African-American chief justice, began his judicial career in 1969 when Gov. Buford Ellington appointed Birch as a General Sessions Court judge in Davidson County, making him the first African American to serve in that office. In 1978 he was appointed Criminal Court judge for the 20th District (Davidson County) by Governor Ray Blanton. Again, he was the first black ever to serve in this capacity. In 1987, he was appointed to the Court of Criminal Appeals. He was elected to the appellate court in 1988 and was re-elected in 1990. Gov. Ned McWherter appointed Birch to the state Supreme Court in 1993. He was elected to the court the following year and re-elected to an eight-year term in 1998. Know. Learn. Follow. #blackstorian #history #blackhistory #remember #neverforget (at Nashville, Tennessee)

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kansascityhappenings · 5 years

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Despite overwhelming voter approval, Missouri lawmakers pushing to alter amendment

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri General Assembly this week is expected to make changes to a constitutional amendment approved by nearly two-thirds of voters last November.

The government reforms known as ‘Clean Missouri’ are under attack in Jefferson City.

“Lawmakers are just going to propose this to the people again,” Kansas City attorney Ed Greim said.

Voters in the Show-Me State overwhelmingly approved restrictions on lobbying, limits on campaign contributions and opening legislative records when they enacted Amendment 1 last year.

But as soon as lawmakers returned to Jefferson City, many began working on going back to voters seeking changes.

“This has happened before in Missouri where voters pass something drafted by outsiders and flaws are found,” Greim said. “Ways to perfect that are found. That`s really what`s going on in the General Assembly right now. There were many flaws with Clean Missouri, despite the good intent behind it.”

Greim has been involved in many statewide ballot measures. He says Republicans are most concerned about changes to the way legislative districts are drawn. A so-called neutral demographer nominated by the state auditor, currently a Democrat, would determine district boundaries, instead of a bi-partisan citizens commission.

“Nationwide nobody sees Missouri as a problem with gerrymandering,” Greim said. “It`s other states. Yet somehow these same groups pushed a radical Frankenstein version of their measure. Missouri unwittingly became an experiment.”

Republicans aren’t the only ones who don`t like the redistricting. African-American lawmakers say Clean Missouri will reduce their numbers in the state capitol and make it harder for black candidates to win. That`s why Kansas City Democrat Brandon Ellington opposed Clean Missouri last November.

“I feel as an elected official, we have to articulate the problems in here and hopefully galvanize the community to draft another amendment that would preserve our way of minority representation so it will not be diluted,” Ellington explained.

Other proposals would eliminate Sunshine Law sections in Clean Missouri by keeping secret virtually any message between a voter and an elected or government official. Gov. Mike Parson already redacts identifying information of those contacting him, citing so-called privacy concerns.

“I’ve never seen the First Amendment used in quite this way, as a defense of basically hiding things from people who frankly you work for,” said Allan Katz, a political science professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Initiative petitions have been used in recent years to reject right to work legislation, raise the minimum wage and legalize medical marijuana. Democrats claim following each referendum result, Republicans lawmakers try to counter the will of the people.

“From campaign contribution limits to puppy mills, to renewable energy, to the minimum wage, Clean Missouri and redistricting reform, the Sunshine Law; unfortunately it`s a growing list in which the legislature has said, “I guess we know better than the people of Missouri,'” said Rep. Jon Carpenter, a Democrat from Kansas City.

Democrats claim that may explain why another bill at the state capitol would make it harder to put citizen referendums on the ballot by imposing new fees and regulations.

“It probably makes sense to ensure that petition circulators don`t just go the same areas every time to get signatures,” Greim said. “They go to the big cities where voters are clustered together. But parts of rural Missouri never see an initiative petition circulator. Why is that?”

Democrats claim voters will reject changing the reforms they approved in Clean Missouri, even though they`re likely to be asked again next year.

Opponents claim the Clean Missouri campaign was funding by Democrats and groups that support Democrats, including billionaire George Soros.

In an emailed response to legislative attacks on Amendment 1, Sean Soendker Nicholson of the Clean Missouri campaign wrote: “There is a multi-step process for selecting a state demographer involving the State Auditor, leaders in the state senate, and then a possible lottery.

“The bipartisan citizens commissions are still in place for the next redistricting cycle, and are able to modify draft plans proposed by the nonpartisan demographer.

“Protections for the voting power of communities of color in the state constitution now are the strongest in the country. Language to ensure communities of color can elect representatives of their choice are prioritized over all other criteria for future maps.

“Amendment 1 was supported by a huge coalition of both Democrats and Republicans. Sen. Jack Danforth endorsed the measure, along with AARP Missouri, the League of Women Voters and many other groups.”

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President Donald Trump spent time meeting with Hurricane Harvey victims at the Houston NRG hurricane relief center on Saturday before serving meals from the Red Cross. Gov. Greg Abbott, the state’s first lady Cecilia Abbott, and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner met Trump and first lady Melania Trump upon their arrival at Ellington Field in Houston. The Texas governor and Houston Mayor continued on…

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Wednesday, May 17, 1967

President de Gaulle again in effect said "no” yesterday to Britain's application for membership in Western Europe's Common Market for the foreseeable future. At a news conference, the French leader listed the "formidable obstacles" he said the British would have to overcome. He cited, among other points, Britain's unstable currency and her "special ties" with the United States.

North Vietnamese ground fire downed six armed United States helicopters and damaged seven in the course of paratrooper operation northeast of Saigon. The damaged seven managed to reach safety under their own power. Of those downed, five were lifted from crash sites by crane helicopters.

Six hundred students held a sit-in at Madrid University to demand the release from jail of three of their leaders. The prisoners are leaders of the illegal Democratic Students’ Syndicate, which announced it would hold a general strike today. In Barcelona, the university was closed to forestall a protest against the war in Vietnam.

School teachers in Tennessee will be authorized to discuss Darwin's theory of biological evolution in their classrooms when Gov. Buford Ellington signs a measure approved by the Tennessee Senate. The bill, already passed by the House, repeals the state's antievolution law.]

A Congressman, a general and an admiral, a television commentator, a British producer and two noted American singers are among thousands of victims shaken down by members of a nationwide extortion ring that has preyed upon homosexuals during the last decade, authorities revealed. The Congressman paid $40,000 on threat that his homosexual proclivities would be exposed. Federal and local authorities said that 32 persons have been jailed and six more have been indicted and are sought.

David Stein, an art dealer who “never had any formal art training, as far as we’ve know," according to the District Attorney’s office, was indicted on charges of having painted and sold 41 pictures for $165,800 as works by Chagall, Picasso and Matisse. Assistant District Attorney Joseph Stone termed It “one of the biggest art fraud cases we've ever hid.”

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