Ray Starts Serving 99-Year Sentence
James Earl Ray began serving a 99 year term in Tennessee after pleading guilty to the April 4 1968 murder of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in Memphis. He was moved to the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville under heavy security and will be eligible for parole in 30 years.
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Nashville, Tenn
James Earl Ray
State Penitentiary
Martin Luther King Jr
Memphis
Ray
King
Missouri State
W. Preston Battle
Tennessee State
Nashville
Nixon Target of Offensive in Saigon War of Nerves
UPI reports U.S. officials in Saigon view the South Vietnam offensive as a nerve strike aimed at influencing American opinion rather than achieving clear military gains. Nixon weighs response while noting the attack’s disruption of pacification and rising U.S. casualties, with Tet echoes and anti-war reverberations in the United States.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Phu Khuong
Hue
Cambodia
Grant
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
UPI
South Vietnam
Richard M. Nixon
Daniel Southerland
Nixon
United States
Mrs Meir Named Premier Designate of Israel and Sets Cabinet
Mrs. Golda Meir, 70, named premier designate by President Zalman Shazar and begins choosing her coalition. She plans to present a cabinet by Thursday, with political sources not expecting major changes. The coalition spans 14 factions, with Dayan supporters pressured but most factions backing her. Meir, a veteran leader, endured wartime peril and political storms since arriving in Palestine in 1921.
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Jerusalem
UPI
Golda Meir
Israel
Zalman Shazer
Meir
Levi Eshkol
United States
Moshe Dayan
David ben-Gurion
Murder Weapons Sought in Cape Cod Slayings
Officials shifted from recovering bodies to seeking the murder weapons in a Cape Cod case in which four women were slain and dismembered. Autopsies on Mary Ann Wysocki and Patricia Walsh, both 23 from Providence, indicated head gunshot wounds, with a .22 caliber gun suspected. Investigators also search for a hatchet or axe used in the dismemberment. Antone Costa, a 24 year old Provincetown carpenter, faces murder charges and undergoes hospital observation after pleading innocent.
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Truro
Mass
UPI
Cape Cod
Mary Ann Wysocki
Patricia Walsh
Providence
R.I
Daniel Herbert
Herbert
Miss Walsh
Miss Wysocki
Provincetown
Antone C. Costa
Rhode Island
Bridgewater State Hospital
Provincetown District Court
Pueblo skipper denounces North Koreans in court testimony
Cmdr Lloyd M Bucher swore before the Navy Court of Inquiry that North Korea brutalizes people and recounted the Pueblo capture on January 23 1968. He described captivity hardships and praised Lt Edward R Murphy while criticizing shipboard weapons and the anti American indoctrination he observed in captors.
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Navy
Donald R. Peppard
Bremerton
Wash
Peppard
Pueblo
Bucher
E. Miles Harvey
Edward R. Murphy
San Diego
Calif
Murphy
Michigan Bans Empty Phrases on Packaged Goods
A new Michigan law prohibits phrases like giant quart and jumbo pint on jars bottles and cartons. The rule requires the smallest unit of weight or measure to be clearly stated on all packaging sold in the state.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
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New Move
Gia Dinh Province
Creighton W. Abrams
U.S. Command
Battle
FBI
Washington
Eric Starvo Galt
Tennessee
Atkins & Gould
Atkins and Gould
Jewelers
Bennington
Mrs. Meir
County National Bank
Bennington & Arlington
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
THE
Bennington Banner Telephones
Bennington Banner
Main St
Banner Publishing Corporation
United Press International
Vermont
Harvey
RPI Field House
Troy
Roberts
Berkshire Plaza
Main Street
North Adams
Buick
Ence
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