Medina Testimony Shows Cease Fire After My Lai Slayings
Witness Thomas Kinch testified that Captain Ernest Medina told troops the party was over as he helped evacuate an injured soldier. Kinch described Medina ordering no one left alive and said the cease fire followed reports of bodies in My Lai. Trials concern Medina and Calley over civilian killings during the operation near the South China Sea.
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FT. Mcpherson
Kinch
Medina
My Lai
Army
Charlie Company
Jeffrey LaCross
Grand Rapids
Mich
William L. Calley Jr
Stephen Brooks
LaCross
Brooks
Calley
Montrose
Colo
8Th Army
Vietnam
South China Sea
F. Lee Bailey
Trim Infantry
Abel Flores Jr
San Antonio
Tex
Flores
Judge Denies Injunction Over Fort Wayne Throughway
US District Judge Jesse Eschbach denied a conservation group’s request to halt a federal 50 percent payment for the Baer Field Throughway. Citizens for Preserving Foster Park and others argued the 342 mile route from the airport to central Fort Wayne damaged parkland in violation of road rules. About $1.5 million in federal funds were involved.
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Fort Wayne, Ind
Jesse Eschbach
U.S. Transportation
John Volpe
Baer
Two Purdue NROTC Graduates Commissioned in Navy
West Lafayette reports two county residents have been commissioned in the U.S. Navy after Purdue University NROTC graduation. Ensign Robert A. Utterback plans to report to the USS Badger in Long Beach, California, and Ensign Kelly E. McCelland is assigned to the USS McMorris in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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West Lafayette
Purdue University
U.S. Navy
Robert A. Utterback
USNR
Washington Ct
Badger
Long Beach
Calif
Kelly E. McCelland
Elwood
McMorris
Peral Harbor
Hawaii
Moving Brothers at American Legion Hall Aug 21 28
The event titled Those 'Moving' Brothers takes place at the American Legion Hall starting at 9:50 and running to 1:30 pm on Saturday August 21 and Saturday August 28. The card lists times and venue for the community performance.
Polls show Nixon economy support in Indiana visit
Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans said administration polls indicated 77 percent support for Nixon's new economic policy, with 12 percent opposed and the remainder uncommitted. He warned continued restraint may be needed after the wage price freeze and discussed options, excluding permanent wage price controls. Stans spoke to Indiana business leaders and noted differences with labor leaders, defended the policy's overall aim, and discussed deficits and possible early budget balance. He also urged youth to engage in problem solving at the Junior Achievement conference in Bloomington.
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Indianapolis
Commerce
Maurice H Stans
Nixon
Stans
Indiana
Organized Labor
Preston Smith
Texas
John Connally
Vietnam
Bloomington
Puerto Rico
Canada
France
Trinidad
Nader charges GM tipped off on price freeze
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader testified that circumstantial evidence shows General Motors was alerted in advance of the 90 day price freeze and tried to beat it. A GM spokesman denied the allegation as false. The hearing also covered inequities in the Nixon package and calls for a 90 day price debate between labor and government officials.
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Washington
Ralph Mader
General Motors
Detroit
Nader
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Joint
Congressional Economic Committee
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Congress
Nixon
Mansfield
Charles Sschultze
Budg
Lyndon B. Johnson
Schultze
Treasury
John B. Connally
James M Roche
Roche
Connally
Treasury Department
Proxmire
Young Hoffa Pleads For Father's Release
James P Hoffa, a Teamsters lawyer and son of James R Hoffa, told the U S Parole Board to release his father from federal prison in Lewisburg Pennsylvania where Hoffa is serving a 13 year sentence for jury tampering and mail fraud He sought a rehearing based on undisclosed new and substantial evidence The parole board granted the review and Hoffa testified before a federal grand jury in New York City where an indictment was later returned against Allen Dorfman a Teamsters Pension Fund consultant for conspiracy to accept a kickback in a loan to a bankrupt North Carolina firm
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Washington
U.S. Board of Parole
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
James P
Teamsters
Detroit
Lewisburg
Will R. Wilson
Justice Department
Criminal Division
The
Tthe Parole Board
New York City
Allen Dorman
Dorfman
Teamsters Union Pension Fund
North Carolina
Military Pay Raise May Be OK
Rep. F Edward Hebert says there is no legal way to delay the 2.4 billion military pay raise past October 1 unless Senate foes can vote to revive the draft-pay bill Hebert opposes altering the date even if the draft bill is sent back to conference Hebert argues the raise should start October 1 by law if Nixon signs the bill Senate aide says the Senate agrees with Hebert final approval was blocked in the Senate before a recess Senators Cranston and Gravel threaten to filibuster to restore the nine month Indochina war pullout deadline
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Washington
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
House Armed Services Committee
Nixon
Senate
Hebert
House-Senate
Senate Armed Services
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
House
Congress
Alan Cranston
Calif
Mike Gravel
Alaska
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