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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1970
Page
2
New York State Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh announced a new formula to maintain order in pretrial hearings for 13 Black Panthers charged with bombing conspiracy. The judge aims to manage disruption and keep hearings proceeding while addressing courtroom dynamics.
Five U.S. Marines from the 7th Marine Regiment were charged with murdering 16 Vietnamese women and children in Da Nang. All are enlisted and in the Marine brig awaiting further proceedings. The incident drew comparisons to the My Lai massacre and remained under investigation.
Israeli warplanes carried out a strike on a surface to air missile base about 19 miles west of Cairo. The raid was described as the first in nine days and involved deep penetration into Egypt’s heartland with no casualties reported.
Washington UPI reports the Nixon administration faces AMA opposition to a proposed limit on fees doctors and hospitals can collect for Medicare patients. Veneman outlined a plan pegged to 75 percent of local 1969 fees, with increases tied to wages and practice costs, a concept AMA president Dr. Gerald D. Dorman calls unrealistic.
The Kienast quintuplets, born six weeks early in New Jersey, cried through their first day as doctors address breathing issues tied to prematurity. Parents Margaret Kienast, 27, and her husband welcomed five children, following fertility drug use including Perganol.
A federal jury acquitted three white former policemen and a Black private guard of conspiring to violate civil rights at the 1967 Algiers Motel incident, while three Black youths were shot dead. The mothers of both sides faced the verdict with mix of relief and distrust.
Monique the wild elk found dead in the National Elk Refuge near Jackson, Wyoming, probably from pneumonia. The Smithsonian Institution and NASA partnered to fit her with a 23 pound red collar to track her for Nimbus III, but a defective timer disrupted signals. An autopsy by a University of Montana biologist confirmed pneumonia as the cause.
South Vietnam reports heavy losses as B52 bombers strike base camps and bunkers along the Cambodian border. The week sees the greatest U.S. raids in seven days, with 361 South Vietnamese killed or wounded and 83 American deaths, while Viet Cong and North Vietnamese losses reach about 2,469 killed.
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