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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1970
Page
5
Born today you are vigorous and restless, but you seek balance through daily exercise and a good diet. You handle increasing responsibility, learn quickly, and prefer to work on your own steam, enjoying steady progress though not always flawless in duties.
More than 2600 attended the Aiken High School Senior Class Play over the weekend in the junior high auditorium. Officials praised the superb cast and directing while proceeds of about 2200 will fund renovations to the school baseball field including dugouts and a home run fence.
Army investigators hold hearings at Ft. McPherson to determine if Sgt. Charles E. Hutto Pvt. Mac D. Hutson and Sgt. Equipo Torres will face court martial. Hutto Hutson and Torres face charges including rape murder and assault with intent to murder for actions around My Lai in March 1968.
Insurgent military plotters failed to topple Congo Brazzaville leader Marien Ngouabi after dawn fighting. Ngouabi was arrested briefly and reports said the coup leader was killed as Radio Brazzaville announced the attempted overthrow and dissolution of the constitution.
Reliable sources in the former Belgian Congo report that a former army lieutenant named Kiganga led a group that captured Radio Brazzaville and claimed the government was overthrown with Ngouabi arrested. Brazzaville troops retook the station after two hours. Ngouabi later said Kiganga was dead and ordered the insurgents’ bodies publicly displayed.
Columbia Richland Rep Heyward Belser introduced a bill for mandatory training for all South Carolina law enforcement officers. The measure would establish a training academy, create an advisory council, and set minimum standards, reflecting recommendations from the governor’s January state of the state message.
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