Nixon to meet Thieu at Western White House for aid talks
President Nixon hosts South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu at the Western White House in California for four meetings. Observers anticipate discussions on U S aid continuation and cease fire violations. A communique is expected after the talks.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Nguyen van Thieu
White House
U.S
Thieu
Air Vietnam
Los Angeles International
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Viet Cong
California
Los Angeles
Final POWs Reach Home Front Shirts and cheers greet returning POWs
U S forces welcomed the last known American prisoner of war in the Philippines with a malaria delay to his homecoming. In California Air Force Lt Col Louis Bernasconi held his mother and daughter as the crowd cheered. In Massachusetts Air Force Maj Fernando Alexander told a welcoming crowd of the long journey home. In Texas ex POW Capt William Spencer arrived home amid celebrations.
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Philippines
California
Air Force
Louis H. Bernasconi
America
Massachusetts
Fernando Alexander
Texas
William A. Spencer
Clark
Freedom
Newport News
Judith
United States
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Andrews Afb
Thomas R. Hall Jr
Hanoi
Cambodian War Escalates As Govt Forces Fight Khmer Rouge
In Phnom Penh and Washington, reports say Lon Nol troops push against Khmer Rouge at Mt Kirirom and retreat south of Phnom Penh. U S bombers intensify raids to support a government under heavy guerrilla pressure, with casualties and equipment losses documented among retreating units.
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Washington
Elliot L. Richardson
U.S
Cambodia
Thieu
South Vietnam
Richardson
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Indochina
Prasat Niang Khmau
Phnom Penh
Chambak
Khmer Rouge
Mt. Kirirom
the Resistance
Kompong Thom
US Pacific Military Command
Honolulu
Ervin rejects Nixon offer for secret Watergate testimony
Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. says he will not permit White House aides to testify in informal secret sessions and rejects Dean III's claim of attorney client privilege. He urges Nixon to study evidence law at Duke and says subpoenas must follow Senate terms. Weicker accuses White House aides of political espionage and outlines surveillance plans against McGovern supporters.
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Washington
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Nixon
White House
Special Committee
Ervin
Senate
John W. Dean III
Dean
Democratic National Committee
Watergate
Duke University
Special
Committee
Lowell P Weicker
R-Conn
Nixon Committee
Weicker
H.R. Haldeman
Alfred C. Baldwin
Charles Percy
R-Ill
Jacob Javits
R-N.y
Charles McCloskey
R-Calif
Baldwin
FBI
Miami Beach
Fla
George McGovern
D-S.c
Miami
Lawrence F. O’brien
Airman POW survivor cites over 100 killed in captivity
Washington AP report quotes Col. James H. Kasler saying more than 100 U.S. airmen were killed by North Vietnamese militias or civilians after their downed planes. He also cites 12 to 15 POWs who never reappeared and notes widespread torture during captivity and a 1971 survey reporting 95 percent tortured.
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Washington
U.S
Air Force
James H. Kasler
Kasler
Earl G. Cobiel
Navy
Kenneth R. Cameron
James J. Connell
Hanoi
United States
North Vietnam
Collect money not dust from unused household items
Advertises turning no longer used items into cash with a low-cost service. Emphasizes quick conversion of clutter into money by selling belongings.
Navy Captain Defends War Stance From POW Interview
Navy Captain Walter E Wilber says antiwar remarks while a North Vietnamese prisoner sprang from conscience not torture. He credits Christianity and love for country and family for his changed view. In Washington, returned POWs’ accounts of abuse spark renewed opposition to U S aid to North Vietnam with Rep Broyhill calling the country run by savages.
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New York
Navy
Walter Eugene Wilber
North Vietnam
Wilber
CBS
60 Minutes
Washington
U.S
Joel T. Broyhill
R-Va
Meat boycott threats target Lorain steakhouse
Lorain police seek a man who threatened to kill all Ponderosa Steak House employees over a meat price boycott. In South Dakota, a provisional agreement may end the 34 day Wounded Knee occupation after talks led by Kent Frizzell.
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Lorain, Ohio
Lorain
Wounded Knee
S. D
Asst
U.S. Atty
Kent Frizzell
Man Poses As Vietnam POW Arrested in Binghamton
William Jerome Harmon, 52, was arrested and charged with impersonating a U.S. government officer after posing as a returned Vietnam prisoner of war and marrying a local widow following a four day courtship in Binghamton New York.
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Binghamton, NY
William Jerome Harmon
U.S
Vietnam
Binghamton
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Chicopee
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Land of the
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Playboy Magazine
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Clark Air Base
Mekong
Edward M. Kennedy
Edmund S. Muskie
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