Nixon may set pullout date to resume draft
Senators and White House aides expect Nixon to accept a legislated end date for U S combat in Vietnam as the price for resuming the draft. A Senate plan seeks a nine month withdrawal timetable with House conferees resisting while Defense Secretary Laird warns that manpower shortages could force renewed drafting. The stalemate risks continued drafts for student deferments.
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Viet narcotics crackdown yields 2785 arrests in 1971
Saigon reports 2,785 persons arrested on narcotics charges this year amid the joint U.S. South Vietnamese effort to curb drug distribution. Six months’ seizures include 78 pounds of heroin 40 pounds of opium and 782 pounds of marijuana.
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Joseph M. Daley
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Sirik Matak
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Burma
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Fourth fall victim identified at Yosemite park
Randy Friedman, 14, of Hartsdale New York, was identified as the fourth person killed by a plunge over Yosemite National Park waterfalls in two weeks. Park information officer Larry Quist said he climbed over a guard railing near the top of Vernal Falls to fill a canteen in the Merced River last Tuesday.
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UPI
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Red tide fish toll climbs in Tampa Bay area
A new red tide outbreak spread through the Tampa Bay region causing mass fish kills along miles of coastline from Fort Myers to Clearwater. Marine officials and volunteers cleaned up the rotting fish as scientists investigate the bloom and potential related organisms.
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Voronov Named Chief Inspector General of Soviet Union
Moscow reports Gennadi Voronov, long a Politburo member and engineer by training, is reassigned from premier of Russia to chairman of the State Committee of Peoples Control, the Soviet Union's chief inspectorate. The move signals a top level reshuffle with Voronov replacing Pavel Kovanov. details of the premier replacement were not disclosed.
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Alexander Shelepin
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Trade Union Federation
Pavel V. Kovanov
Firebomb injures men in office in Hawthorne
A man was seriously burned Friday when a rear window firebomb crashed into an office at Floyd Patten Realty Co and Design Construction Co in Hawthorne. Gerald Newcomb, 26, said he was in the office when the blast and flames struck, then was taken to a hospital for treatment.
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Floyd Patten Realty Co. and Design Construction Co
Problems Averted in Apollo 15 Moon Shot Countdown
Launch directors kept the Apollo 15 countdown on track by replacing a faulty battery gel aboard Falcon and by planning to keep the service tower in place to guard against lightning. Astronauts Scott Worden and Irwin prepared in simulators as weather forecasters issued a go for Monday morning with mild winds and clouds. Police warned of potential traffic jams around Cape Kennedy during the launch week festival atmosphere.
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Irwin
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Big band leader dies at 71 in Arizona
Ted Pio Rito, famed big band leader of the 10308 and composer of many songs including Toot Toot Tootsle, died in Scottsdale Arizona late Thursday from an apparent heart attack. He was 71. A 1943 file photo shows him.
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Airmen Convicted for Refusing Weapons in Vietnam
Three airmen, James Crawford, 21, of Massachusetts, John Tomhave, 22, of New Jersey, and Charles Wells, 20, of Ohio, were convicted by a five member military court at Phu Cat Air Base of disobeying orders by refusing to bear arms on guard duty. They received six months in jail and dishonorable discharges. Defense plans an appeal.
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UPI
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Mass
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Haledon
Charles Wells
Dayton
Ohio
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Wells
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Kent State probe ruling pending at highest level
The Justice Department said a decision on convening a federal grand jury for the Kent State University shootings would come soon. Attorney General John N. Mitchell, in Europe, weighs a private report by Jerris Leonard and departmental recommendations with prior indictments of students and demonstrators. guardsmen were exonerated.
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Peter Davies
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