Tet Offensive Underestimated Troop Strength, Former Analyst Says
Former CIA analyst Samuel Adams testified before the House intelligence committee that Abrams and Bunker kept Viet Cong strength at 300000 despite intelligence pointing to about 600000. Secret cables showed pressure to delete troop categories to preserve the lower figure. The miscalculation helped surprise U S forces during the 1968 Tet offensive launched January 23 1968.
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Vietnam
U.S
Samuel A. Adams
House Intelligence Committee
Creighton Abrams
Ellsworth Bunker
Saigon
Adams
CIA
Abrams
Bunker
Congress
Intelligence Committee
Ford Administration
Defense argues on shellfish toxin destruction by 1970 order
Senate investigators question Defense Department compliance with the 1970 order to destroy chemical and biological agents. Mondale accuses it of hiding about 11 grams of shellfish toxin transferred to the CIA, with possible disbursements to private labs. Immunity talks involve a CIA scientist tied to Project Naomi and LSD testing.
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Washington
Senate Intelligence Committee
Defense Department
Walter F. Mondale
D-Minn
Army
Central Intelligence Agency
Mondale
CIA
The
Intelligence Committee
CLA
F A.O. Schwarz Jr
Justice Department
Sidney Gottlieb
Gottlieb
Richard M. Helms
HEW Chief Calls Review of Fund Cutoff Penalty Policy
HEW Secretary David Mathews urges reviewing the use of federal fund cutoffs for resisting desegregation and social goals. He notes penalties harm the innocent, delays actions on Medicaid disputes, and signals possible changes to national health insurance and welfare reform proposals while the White House moratorium on new spending remains in place.
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Washington
Congress
Mathews
HEW
Ferndale
Mich
White House
Ford
Zarb foresees oil price hikes if controls lapse by November
Federal Energy Administrator Frank G. Zarb warned that oil companies could raise prices by November if Congress does not reimpose price controls. He noted two thirds of U.S. crude remained under limits and that firms have held back amid uncertainty over retroactive restoration.
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Washington
Frank G. Zarb
Congress
Zarb
Ford
U.S
House
Carl Albert
Eloise Storm Pummels Caribbean Inland Areas
Torrential rain and strong winds from Hurricane Eloise lashed Guantanamo Cuba and eastern Oriente prompting evacuations and preparations. The storm left at least 28 dead and 30,000 homeless in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, while Cuba moved to westward tracks and authorities prepared emergency actions.
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Guantanamo
U S. Naval Base
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Oriente
Santiago
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Dominican Republic
National Hurricane Center
Miami
Ohe
Miami Center
United States
Red Cross
Civil Defense
Florida
Cubana de Aviacion
Haiti
Hispaniola
Cease Fire Ends Beirut Fighting Between Moslems and Christians
In Beirut, Moslem and Christian gunmen agreed to a cease-fire effective at 1 p.m. EDT, halting Lebanon's latest political and religious clashes. Despite the truce, sporadic explosions and shooting lingered in eastern Beirut as residents reported calmer areas earlier in the day.
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Lebanon
Ltill
Rashid Karama
Radio Beirut
Radio Bewat
Martyr’s Square
U.S
Ohio lottery plans two new games ahead of year end
Ohio lottery commissioners approve a $100,000 holiday game concept and the Buckeye 1,000 game. The session also features five firings, the resignation of Deputy Director James Dickerson, and a clash between Acting Director Gerald Patronite and Region 6 Director John Burnworth. Dickerson quits after a leave to run for mayor of Cleveland amid a feud with the state auditor.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Ohio Lottery
James Dickerson
Gerald Patronite
John Burnworth
David Korosi
Earl Thompson
Canton
Thomas Coyne
Paul Saba
Leslie Rose
Cleveland
Commission
David Leahy
Dickerson
Thomas Ferguson
Metzenbaum presses on Columbia Gas curtailment proof
In Columbus, former U S senator Howard Metzenbaum urged the Ohio Public Utilities Commission to force Columbia Gas of Ohio to show by clear and convincing evidence that gas curtailments are necessary. He asked the commission to reject the plan without more information on gas availability. In Chicago, teachers returned to classrooms under a tentative contract costing at least 40 million dollars to taxpayers. The Chicago Teachers Union approved the pact, with rank and file to vote on ratification next Thursday.
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Columbus, Ohio
Columbia Gas of
Ohio
U.S
Howard Metzenbaum
Metzenbaum
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Columbia
Chicago
House of Delegates
Chicago Teachers Union
Hughes Fails to Appear in Dead-Declaration Bid
An attorney labels a bid to declare Howard Hughes dead as blackmail. Hughes did not appear as ordered by a judge in a suit by Victor and Elen Kurtz, Air Liquidation shareholders. Judge Thomas Hughes reserved ruling on dismissal.
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NEW York
Howard Hughes
Chester Davis
State Supreme Court
Thomas Hughes
Victor
Elen Kurtz
Air Liquidation
Air West Inc
Hughes
Israel Offers Missile Pledge Amid US Pershing Talks
Israel's defense minister Shimon Peres says Israel would guarantee not to place nuclear warheads on missiles the United States contemplates supplying. Secretary Kissinger confirms U S consideration of Pershing missiles within Sinai peace accord secret provisions.
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Washington
Shimon Peres
United States
Peres
Warlier
Henry A. Kissinger
U.S
Israel
Sinai
Weather Forecast Showers Tonight and Friday
Showers or thundershowers expected tonight and Friday with highs in the low to mid 70s. Lows tonight in the upper 50s and low 60s. Details on Page 8.
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Cincinnati
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