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The nation in brief
Compiled from Times wires King told Johnson he feared 'race war'AUSTIN, Texas -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told President Lyndon Johnson he feared a "full-scale race war" after the deadly 1965 Los Angeles riots in a tape-recorded conversation released Friday. The LBJ Library and Museum released 40 hours of phone conversations Johnson secretly recorded in 1965, including the 13-minute call from King. The men discussed racial tension after the Watts riots and Johnson complained about opposition in Congress to some of his antipoverty initiatives. The president also implored King to publicly support him on Vietnam. Appeals court blocks sale of artifacts from 'Titanic'RICHMOND, Va. -- A federal appeals court Friday refused to let an Atlanta salvage company sell artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Titanic. In a 3-0 ruling, a panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision by a lower-court judge in Norfolk and said that R.M.S. Titanic Inc. does not have title to the artifacts taken from the bottom of the sea. The company has used a submersible to recover about 6,000 items since the wreck was discovered in 1985. In 1994, it received the sole right to recover artifacts by promising it would make money only by displaying the artifacts at museums and traveling shows. The company, which continues to salvage Titanic artifacts, said the restrictions might force it into bankruptcy. The ruling came three days before the 90th anniversary of the sinking of the luxury liner. The ship went down in the North Atlantic in 1912 on its initial voyage after hitting an iceberg. About 1,500 people died. Scholar to leave Harvard black studies programProminent cultural critic Cornel West will leave Harvard for Princeton University this fall, Princeton announced Friday, depriving Harvard's black studies department of its most glamorous star and delivering a high-profile rebuke to president Lawrence H. Summers. The department has been at odds with Summers, who took over the post last year, because he did not make a strong statement in support of affirmative action at an early meeting with department members. West's appointment is subject to approval by the board of trustees, which meets today. He did not immediately return messages.
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