Pullout Completed Ahead of Deadline in Cambodia
SAIGON AP Sizing up the exit South Vietnam reports pulling 5,000 troops from Cambodia while 34,000 remain. All American combat troops left earlier as advisers and air controllers return to Saigon. South Vietnamese base inside Cambodia supports cargo planes aiding Cambodian government forces. The operation ends a two month campaign against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong supply areas. Saigon claims 1,149 enemy killed with 168 own casualties and 784 wounded.
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Cambodia
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Sihanouk To Be Tried In Absentia
Cambodia announced that a military tribunal will try exiled former king and chief of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk in absentia on high treason and murder charges. Also charged were his wife Monique and mother-in-law Pommepeang, with the women accused of corruption.
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Warren Imprint Remains On Supreme Court Decisions
Washington reports that the Supreme Court closed its 1969 70 term under Chief Justice Burger advocating restraint in criminal and welfare matters and desegregation. Major rulings extended one man one vote and double jeopardy protections while school desegregation standards remain unsettled. Burger signaled practical limits, urging flexibility for juveniles and caution on constitutional reach. Justice Blackmun joined Burger on obscenity, aligning with Harlan on state leeway.
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Maudling urges law and order in Belfast violence
British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling arrived in Belfast to appeal for law and order as four days of sectarian violence left six dead. He planned talks with Northern Ireland Premier James Chichester Clark and announced 3,700 more troops would raise total to 11,000. Bernadette Devlin, jailed for August riots, urged an end to fighting from Armagh prison, asking if they have all gone mad. Mothers in Ballymurphy helped calm youths, some dragging children home by the ears. A joint government and union statement blamed Protestant warnings at Hartland Wolff’s Shipyard for aggravating tensions and urged stability.
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Grand Jury Instructed On Jackson Violence
A UPI report states a special Federal Grand Jury in Jackson, Mississippi was told to consider if campus protesters violated federal law and if Mississippi highway patrolmen acted to preserve order during May 15 violence at Jackson State College. The panel heard testimony and planned another session amid questions about who bears responsibility for the two deaths, James Earl Green and Phillip Gibbs.
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Hard-Liners Tighten Grip on Czechoslovakia after Dubcek Ouster
Czechoslovakia’s conservative faction consolidates power after removing Dubcek as party member and ambassador to Turkey. Only President Ludvik Svoboda remains from the 1968 reform group, while former premier Oldrich Cernik resigns. Lubomir Strougal, a tough realist, rises as a potential successor to Gustav Husak amid talk of suppressing liberal currents and press freedom. The article recalls the 1952 Slansky show trial and executions, noting renewed warnings of harsh measures.
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Vladimir Clements
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Noted Historian Warns Repression Grows in US
Historian Henry Steele Commanger, Amherst College, argues repression in the United States is more pervasive and formidable than during McCarthyism. He cites official sanction by government bodies, harassment of critics, and dossiers on citizens, with subtle erosion of First Amendment protections. He writes in Look magazine about intimidation, attempts to silence media, and widespread surveillance.
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Henry Steele Commanger
United States
Joseph McCarthy
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Look Magazine
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Hart Backs Narrow Antismut Amendment In Senate Vote
In a high profile session the Senate approved Goldwater's antismut amendment by 83 to 2. Senator Hart, after criticizing the eight page bill as vague and unstudied, voted for the amendment despite concerns about potential overreach. Critics warned it could chill artistic works and provoke criminal charges for mailing material.
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UPI
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Mike Mansfield
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Charles E. Goodell
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Jacob K. Javits
Unity Day rally draws 100000 Italo-Americans in New York
At Columbus Circle a large Italian American Unity Day protest against alleged harassment by police FBI and media drew about 100000 people. Two officers were stabbed as the crowd dispersed after speeches by Italians and non Italians. Organizers including Joseph Colombo Sr. urged unity while shopkeepers closed and a sea of Italian pride filled the scene.
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Robert Phillips
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Joseph Colombo Sr
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