B52 strikes intensify along Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos
UPI report says waves of B52s bombed the trail as part of a large Air Force campaign to halt the year’s record flow of war materiel to the Communists. In Vietnam’s highlands, ground fighting raged near Pleiku and Kontum as U.S. and South Vietnamese forces pressed operations against bases and infiltration routes.
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UPI
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
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Vietnam
Pleiku
Camp Holloway
U.S
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101St Airborne Division
U.S. Navy
Nixon
Pakse
Mekong River
Ban Kent Nhao
Kontum City
Cambodia
Kontum
Jeff Taylor
Ex Nixon aide critiques welfare reform bill in Senate testimony
Vienna-born economist Roger A Freeman, a former Nixon White House aide, urged the Senate Finance Committee to consider removing some children from welfare families and raising them in institutions. He warned Nixon's bill would lift welfare rolls, disrupt labor markets, and risk civil unrest, arguing some children might benefit from institutional care over inferior parental care. He noted the plan guarantees a $2,400 federal minimum for a four-person welfare family and prompts state additions.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Roger A. Freeman
White House
Eisenhower
Senate Finance Committee
Freeman
Sickle slayer Clarence Otis Smith found guilty in Nevada City
A seven women and five men jury convicts Clarence Otis Smith of first degree murder for the slaying of Donna Fitzhugh and second degree murder for John Simmons at a Sierra foothills campground. He faces the death penalty on the first degree count. The verdict came after a 12 day trial during which prosecutors described the killings as a near battlefield and witnesses testified a sickle like knife was used. Smith showed little emotion. he testified about demons and set fire to a shed to rid himself of them.
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Calif
UPI
Clarence Otis Smith
Sierra Foothills
Nevada County Superior Court
Smith
Donna Fitzhugh
Ontario
John Simmons
Weimar
Marie Parker
Pomona
Kenneth Garbe
Applegate
Illinois high court bans abortion for 15 year old ward
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that a 15-year-old ward of the state cannot obtain an abortion despite her attorneys claim of urgent need to end personal crisis. The court overturned a Cook County ruling allowing the procedure citing state abortion law tied to the mother's life risk.
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Illinois High Court
Springfield
UPI
Illinois Supreme Court
High Court
Cook County
William S. White
Patrick T. Murphy
White
Edward V. Hanrahan
Meany Keeps Options Open on Labor Election Stand
AFL-CIO president George Meany says organized labor has not ruled out supporting or opposing any candidate in November’s election. He notes no official AFL-CIO action yet, while some labor leaders push for defeating Nixon. Democratic hopefuls react variably to Nixon’s Vietnam peace proposals.
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Afl-Cio
George Meany
Organized Labor
Nixon
Meany
AFL Cio
South Vietnam
Indochina
Federation
Afl-Cio News
Alexander Barkan
Afl-Cio Committee On Political Education
Richard Nixon
Andrew J. Biemiller
Labor Movement
United States
Vietnam
Eugene J. McCarthy
George S. McGovern
Hubert H. Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
Henry J. Jackson
Humphrey
Jackson
Florida
Santa Fe Junior College
University of Florida
Muskie
McGovern
Eleanor McGovern
Manchester
N.H
EPA fires aide over strategy memos in Nixon re election drift
EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus dismissed Howard Cohen for policy differences after The New York Times published memos stressing willingness to weaken environmental bills to aid Nixon’s campaign. Cohen denied writing or forwarding the memos and said staffers drafted them to brief him.
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UPI
Nixon
William D. Ruckelshaus
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Ruckelshaus
Edmund S. Muskie
Dmaine
Howard A. Cohen
Cohen
New York Times
Times
Senate Agriculture Committee
The
Three Convicts Escape From Ohio Penitentiary
Three inmates at the Ohio Penitentiary slipped from a 40 foot wall via a dangling electrical cord after breaking through an air vent, crossing the roof and dropping to the ground. Identified escapees are James B. Lewis, 33, jailed 20 years for bank robbery. Donald F. Ferdinand, held for assault and armed robbery. and Donald Gilbert Manis, 29, convicted of first degree murder. Earlier, two other prisoners left a work detail nearby.
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Columbus, Ohio
UPI
Ohio Penitentiary
Harold J. Cardwell
James B. Lewis
Donald F. Ferdinand
Donald Gilbert Manis
Ridenour
Woodcock urges FBI probe of Chavez murder plot
UAW President Leo Woodcock called for a full FBI investigation into a reported plot to murder farm labor leader Cesar Chavez. Officials note the only information tied to the plot came from Larry Shears, a self-described paid informant, who claimed Delano farm owners were involved.
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FBI
Chavez
Washington
UPI
Leonard Woodcock
United Auto Workers
Caesar Chavez
Chevez
Larry Shears
Shears
California
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