Disorder In Trinidad Triggers Navy Readiness
In Port of Spain violence linked to Black Power unrest prompts U S Navy to a heightened alert. A soldier and a civilian youth die while dissension is reported in the army and coast guard. Officials say no evacuation plan for Americans, with 1500 to 2000 residents in Trinidad. The Caribbean Ready Group reportedly stands by in Puerto Rico.
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Port OF Spain
Trinidad
U.S. Navy
Puerto Rico
Army
Coast Guard
U.S
Venezuela
San Juan
Navy
Pentagon
Cambodia appeals for U S aid amid Vietnam war pressures
Cambodia renewed its plea for U S arms to bolster defense against Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. President Nixon faces a delicate choice amid ties to Lon Nol's regime and congressional pressure to limit Southeast Asia involvement.
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Washington
Cambodia
U.S
Nixon
Southeast Asia
Phnom Penh
Lon Nol
United States
Vietnam
Cuban invaders chased as Alpha 66 seeks U S war declaration
Cuban troops comb Oriente Province for antigovernment raiders while Alpha 66 in Miami demands US aid and official recognition of a state of war. The exile group seeks moral and material support for last week’s two pronged invasion to topple Castro.
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Miami
Oriente
U.S
Alpha 66
Cuba
Colombia under martial law after disputed election protests
In Bogota crowds accuse the government of stealing the vote for Misael Pastrana Borrero as 98 percent tabulation shows Rojas Pinilla trailing by nearly 50 000. Police and troops use tear gas and cavalry to clear streets. ten people are injured. President Lleras Restrepo imposes martial law curfew 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. and declares a subversive movement.
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Bogota
Colombia
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
Rojas
National Front
Misael Pastrana Borrero
Carlo Lleras Restrepo
Oleo Heir Detained at Neuropsychiatric Center
Michael James Brody Jr., heir to an oleo margarine fortune, is detained at Belmont Hills Neuropsychiatric Center after claiming a kidnapping and drugging in Ross California. Ross police and deputies report the kidnapping claim as unfounded.
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Burlingame
Calif
Michael James Brody Jr
Belmont Hills
Brody
Public Defender Office Relief Praised By County Clerk
Aiken County Clerk of Court Mrs. Cleo Scott welcomed the formation of a Public Defenders Corporation by the county bar association to appoint counsel for indigent defendants. The act required judges to back appointed attorneys, with clerks handling applications, indigency affidavits, and expense vouchers. In 2024, 145 four page applications and 250 waiver of counsel cases added clerical workload, while vouchers and potential liens created financial risks for defendants.
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Aiken County
Cleo Scott
County Bar Association
Public Defenders Corporation
Scott
Sue Roe
Roe
Bamberg
War Cost Estimate Censored in Vietnam War Testimony
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird gave figures on Vietnam War costs in congressional testimony. He cited 1969 outlays at 28.8 billion dollars and 1970 estimates at 23.2 billion, with the full cost for fiscal year 1971 left unfinished.
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Washington
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
George H. Mahon
D-Tex
Mahon
Laird
Pardon Appeal Rejected for Former Maryland Rep Johnson
President Nixon denied executive clemency to Thomas F. Johnson 60 a Democrat from Maryland who faced a six month sentence after a 1968 conviction for accepting $17 500 to influence the Justice Department to drop a mail fraud charge against a savings and loan officer.
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Washington
Maryland
Thomas F. Johnson
Nixon
Johnson
Justice Department
Savings and Loan
Missing Dali Panel from Hartford Gallery
A small wood panel painting titled Para noiac Astral Image by Salvador Dali vanished Tuesday from the Wadsworth Atheneum gallery in Hartford. The work is valued at about 50 000 dollars, according to museum curator Peter O Marlow.
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Hartford, Conn
Salvador Dali
Wadsworth Atheneum
Peter O. Marlow
Aiken Schools Unite in Pollution Fight for Earth Day
Aiken area students join Earth Day efforts with activities at Eustis Park Kennedy Junior High and Millbrook Elementary. Second graders stage a pollution funeral while others sing Keep Our World Clean and display anti litter posters. High school plans a Nixon era petition drive and a Savannah River Ecology Lab speaker.
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Eustis Park
Millbrook Elementary
Kennedy Junior High
L. C. Jones
Jones
Kennedy
Aiken High
David Coleman
Savannah River Ecology Lab
Breakins Target Weapons and TVs In Local Thefts
Thieves took two guns a portable television radio and sewing machine from H G Brady home on a country road off Highway 215 pistol meat from the freezer no serial numbers available police urge recording numbers. A juvenile faced charges in a Union Street theft and $30 currency a silver dollar 12 Kennedy half dollars and shoes were missing. Aiken Police investigate multiple breakins including a car stereo theft valued at 280 from a vehicle at the University of South Carolina Aiken campus. Evidence of a breakin at Dr H D Wyman's office was found but nothing missing.
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H. G. Brady
Highway 215
Paul Grant
Grant
Aiken City
Lula Mae Saylor
Union Street
Kennedy
William R. Wood
Hickory Road
Aiken
University of South Carolina
H. D. Wyman
Barnwell Avenue
Air Toll Rises With Losses Across Laos and Vietnam
The US Command reports four American planes and three helicopters downed in Laos and Vietnam, with one killed, three missing, and three injured. Skyraider bombers and a Navy Skyhawk jet were shot down. an RF4 Phantom and two OH6 helicopters were listed with crew losses and injuries amid ongoing Ho Chi Minh Trail operations.
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Saigon
Panhandle
Laos
South Vietnam
U.S
Air Force
al Skyraider
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Tonkin Gulf
Dak Seang
Highlands
Mekong Delta
Job Fair Planned Tomorrow Near Aiken
Local industry and school guidance counselors sponsor a Job Fair tomorrow from 3 30 to 9 p m at the Aiken Vocational School on Highway 1 six miles south of Aiken for 11th and 12th grade students seeking summer employment. The event is co sponsored by the Aiken Chamber of Commerce and the North Augusta Chamber of Commerce. Representatives of industry will meet with youths offering potential summer jobs and a chance to display their abilities regardless of prior employment.
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Aiken Vocational School
Highway 1
Aiken
Aiken County
Credit Cards Upset Oconee Legislator
State Rep. C A Mitchell of Oconee County warns about unsolicited credit cards being mailed to people including a Vietnam veteran who faced a $1100 debt. He backs a 1970 bill to bar businesses from issuing cards without a request, noting risks to credit and potential court costs.
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Columbia
C. A. Mitchell
Oconee County
Vietnam
California
Mitchell
South Carolina
General Assembly
House
Senate
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Edgefield Court House
Agnew
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Edgefield
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