Cambodia Grants Asylum To Munitions Ship Hijackers
Washington reports two alleged mutineers who seized the U S munitions ship Columbia Eagle have been granted political asylum in Cambodia. The men Clyde McKay and Alvin Glatkowski are Americans from California. Cambodia official Lloyd Rives says nine U S warships stand by off Sihanoukville as the ship remains under Cambodian navy control amid no confirmed violence.
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Cambodia
State Department
Columbia Steam Ship Co
Portland
Ore
U.S
Sihanoukville
Phnom Penh
Lloyd Rives
Irving C. Thayer
Columbia Line
McKay
Glatkowski
Thailand
Rives
LaBrea Hills
Illinois Voters Pick Senate Candidates In Primary
Illinois voters face a Republican Senate primary between Ralph T. Smith and William H. Rentschler with Adlair Stevenson III unopposed on the Democratic ticket for the June race. Smith favored by Gov. Ogilvie and Vice President Agnew, while Stevenson advances to a November contest against the primary winner.
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Chicago
UPC
Ralph T. Smith
Spiro T. Agnew
William H. Rentschler
Richard M. Nixon
Illinois
Adlair
E. Stevenson III
Smith-Rentschler
Weather Bureau
Nixon
Agnew
Smith
Richard B. Ogilvie
Ogilvie
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Daley
Atmospheric scientist says pollution controls backfire
Vincent J. Schaefer testified before the Senate subcommittee that crackdowns on air pollution hide sources and create pervasive bluish hazes across much of the United States. He urged rethink of industrial design, suggesting horizontal chimneys to allow gravity to remove larger particles, and warned once airborne haze cannot be retrieved.
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Washington
API
United States
Vincent J. Schaefer
Senate
Air and Water Pollution
Schaefer
Edmund S. Muskie
Dmaine
Robert H. Finch
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Nixon
Muskie
Congress
Philadelphia
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
State University of New York
Albany
Week's Delay Granted In Rap Brown Trial
Rap Brown gains another week before trial on inciting riot and arson for a 1967 Cambridge speech. Judge Dyer set a Tuesday appearance for jury selection and warned of a bench warrant if Brown does not show. Brown has been missing since last week's bombings that killed two of his associates, with SNCC naming him as the slain driver in their car explosion.
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Bel Air, Md
UPI
Rap Brown
Brown
William M. Kunstler
Harry E. Dyer
Ralph E. Featherstone
William ‘Che’? Payne
Student National Coordinating Committee
SNCC
Featherstone
Payne
Dyer
Cambridge
Kunstler
Guerrillas Close In On U.S. Base in Laos
North Vietnamese troops pushed toward the U.S. base at Sam Thong in Laos as government outposts at Tha Tam Bleung and Phou Phai Xai fell to about 3,500 enemy fighters. Laotian officials reported 56 government troops wounded. U.S. bombing supported Laotian defenses while the number of American personnel at Sam Thong and Long Cheng remained limited. The threat level near Vientiane rose, and the U.S. Embassy canceled routine staff trips to Sam Thong.
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Vientiane
UPI
U.S
Sam Thong
Hanoi
316Th Division
766Th
Long Cheng
Vang Pao
Tha Tam
Bleung
Vang
Ban Phadeng
Plain of Jars
Soviets Promise Help To Keep Cambodia Neutral and Sovereign
Sihanouk delays departure to Peking as Moscow promises backing to maintain Cambodia's neutrality and sovereignty. Tass notes U S aggression in Laos and Vietnam as the region's main issue while unclear if Soviets will press Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops to leave Cambodia.
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Cambodia
Moscow
Norodom Sihanouk
Peking
Sihanouk
Kremlin
Laos
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Tass
Soviet Union
China
Hanoi Seen Maintaining Hard Line in Talks
Paris dispatch says Le Duan, North Vietnam's top leader, reaffirmed war aims on the 40th anniversary of the party. He pledged to fight until Americans are driven from Vietnam, signaling an enduring hard line despite Paris negotiations and Ho Chi Minh's death.
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Paris
UPI
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Vietnam
le Duan
North Vietnamese
Communist Party
Ho Chi Minh
Sihanouk Voted Southeast Asia's Shrewd Politician
UPI analyst PHIL NEWSOM notes Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns from Europe while Lon Nol and Sirik Matak hold real power in Phnom Penh. Observers credit Sihanouk with neutrality and deftly balancing Soviet, Chinese and American interests, despite police absences during anti Viet Cong protests.
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Cambodia
Norodom Sihanouk
French Riviera
Moscow
Peking
Lon Nol
Sirik Matak
Sihanouk
Phnom Pehn
Prince Sirik Matak
U.S
Lloyd M. Rives
Soviet Union
Red China
United States
Southeast Asia
Loan of Subs to Nationalist China Testimony
A censored transcript shows Chairman L Mendel Rivers pushed House Armed Services to approve a loan of three surplus attack submarines to Taiwan Formosa. The Nixon administration did not ask for the subs and was not questioned on them by State and Defense departments.
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China
Washington
UPI
L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
House Armed Services Committee
Taiwan
Formosa
Nixon
State and Defense Departments
House
Senate
Armed Service Committee
Navy
Foreign Military Assistance Division
G. M. Hagerman
Russell Blandford
Blandford
Hagerman
U.S. 7Th Fleet
U.S
Cummins Prison Farm Paper Denounces Arkansas Government
An inmate newspaper at Cummins Prison Farm blasts the Arkansas Legislature and Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller for mistreatment of inmates in an uncensored edition. It includes a rambling open letter to the 135 General Assembly members and humorous fake ads about reforming the penal system.
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Cummins Prison Farm
Ark
UPI
Cummins
Arkansas
Winthrop Rockefeller
United States
Arkansas General Assembly
U.S. District Court
J. Smith Henley
Tucker
Constitutional
Mike Gocke
Rockefeller
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