Nixon Acknowledges Troop Withdrawal Ahead Of Schedule
The U S Command announced Phase 5 troop withdrawals completed three weeks early reducing U S personnel in Vietnam to 343700. By December 31 an additional 7000 troops were slated for withdrawal. The peak force reached 543400 in April 1969 with over 200000 withdrawn since then. Violence across the region included a Mekong Delta grenade attack killing four civilians and wounding 46, plus a firebomb attack on a bus with no injuries. Cambodian forces recaptured Battheay reopening Highway 6 and suffered casualties, while Vietnamese pilots faced heavy ground fire and air losses in Cambodia and Laos.
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Time reports Hughes corruption tipoff spurs Las Vegas exit
Time magazine reports a federal tipoff on possible corruption within the Hughes empire prompted Howard Hughes to flee to the Bahamas and dismiss several aides. The piece notes plans to sell Las Vegas hotels and possibly surrender Air West to regain control of TWA, alongside details of backroom payments, skimming, and investigations.
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Time
Aide fights to halt ouster from Hughes inner circle
Robert Maheu, Howard Hughes' longtime Nevada aide, says he will present a witness in a Las Vegas court today to support his claim that Hughes was spirited away from his Desert Inn penthouse refuge. Maheu contends he should not be ousted as Hughes' chief aide despite the battle.
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Clark County District Court
Howard Babcock
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Galane
Charles A. Appel
Chester C. Davis
Tool Company
Khrushchev recalls 1962 Cuban missile crisis actions
Former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev argues the USSR blocked U S military action in the 1962 Cuban crisis while Cuba and the world doubted Moscow. He credits Kennedy as sober and resolute to avoid war and says missiles deterred a U S invasion.
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UPI
Soviet Union
Cuba
Russia
Nikita S. Khrushchev
John F. Kennedy
Khrushchev
Life Magazine
U.S
Robert F. Kennedy
Anatoli Dobrynin
Washington
Robert Kennedy
Life
United States
The Strawberry Statement and Other Films At Local Theaters
The Strawberry Statement offers campus unrest from a student view and is playing at Cinema Theatre Manchester with show times 7:30 and 9:15. The Out-Of Towners starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis is at Harte Theatre with mixed reviews but noted Lemmon Dennis chemistry. Williamstown College Cinema presents Yellow Submarine and Let It Be with Beatles humor and music, showtimes 7:30 and 8:50.
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Manchester
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Lemmon
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King Kong
Montserrat Monastery Bunkers Basque Protest Meeting
About 300 artists writers actors and intellectuals gathered at the Montserrat Monastery near Barcelona to protest the Burgos court martial of 16 Basque nationalists. Police sealed the monastery blocking entry and exit as strikes and university shutdowns spread nationwide in support of the defendants.
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Beltone Offers Free Tiny Hearing Aid Model Albany Ad
Albany ad promotes a free Beltone behind the ear hearing aid model weighing under a third of an ounce. No cost or obligation, discreet home use, no body-to-head wires. Write Beltone Hearing Aid Center, P.O. Box 67, Albany, NY 1220 or call 436-9604 for information.
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