Four Teenagers Escape Night of Terror in Texas
Whittington, 27, held on murder charge after hog tying a Tennessee teen placed face down in a tub of water. Four youths hitchhiking from Tennessee to Texas were held captive in a Houston house, beaten, gagged, and tied. One victim, Eddie Seat, 18, found dead. others injured. Survivors recounted terror as police investigated possible links to unsolved cases.
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Edmund Glen Johnson
Houston
UPI
George Albert Whittington
State School For Boys
Gatesville
Tex
Whittington
Tennessee
Texas
Austin
Robert Franklin Davis
Eddie
Eddie Seat
Harris quits Democratic presidential bid after saying he is broke
UPI reports Sen. Fred R. Harris withdraws from the 1972 Democratic presidential race after saying he is broke and owes money. He abandons his six week campaign to form a new Populist coalition and will not seek re election to the Senate. He leaves open a possible future run while saying his name may stay off some primaries.
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Washington
UPI
Fred R. Harris
Harris
Senate
George S. McGovern
South Dakota
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Henry M. Jackson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
John V. Lindsay
New York
Shirley Chisholm
Wilbur Mills
Arkansas
Birch D. Bayh
Indiana
Harold E. Hughes
Iowa
William Proxmire
Wisconsin
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Landslide at Kawasaki kills 13 during rainfall experiment
A group of Japanese officials and newsmen studying a rainfall trigger experiment were buried alive near Kawasaki. Police reported 13 killed, 10 injured, and two missing as a cliff edge collapsed sending mud and debris into a crowd of about 50 reporters and the project team. The test, by the Science and Technology Agency, construction ministry, and Kawasaki city, used a sprinkler system delivering 20 inches of rain onto the hillside. One cameraman, Shosaburo Shioda, 43, survived after crawling free.
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Kawasaki
Japan
UPI
Science and Technology Agency
Construction Ministry
Kawasaki Municipal Office
Tokyo
Shosaburo Shioda
Mitchells reveal two week silence over Supreme Court pick
Los Angeles UPI reports Attorney General John N. Mitchell endured two weeks without speaking as his wife Martha voiced anger over a Supreme Court nomination snub. She joked they were back on good terms and recounted plans to help Pat Nixon move out. She also criticized liberal critics and offered a blunt verdict on Nixon’s performance.
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Los Angeles
UPI
John N. Mitchell
Martha
Supreme Court
Okinawa unrest ends as UPI reports mass strike and death
Thousands of Okinawa unionists and supporters walked off jobs in a 24 hour general strike over US bases. Police confirm Sgt Matsuzo Yamakawa died after a firebomb attack as Tokyo experiences riots with 122 arrests. Reversion treaty would shift control to Japan while US keeps about 50,000 troops.
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Naha
Okinawa
UPI
Pacific
Matsuzo Yamakawa
United States
Tokyo
Diet
America
B52s Strike DMZ and Infiltration Route
U S B52s bombed inside the Demilitarized Zone for the first time in over five weeks, dropping nearly 90 tons on North Vietnamese storage bunkers in the southern DMZ. A second wave raided a Communist infiltration route between the A Shau Valley and the Laotian border. eight Americans were killed and 13 wounded last week, the lowest weekly tally since March 1965. Cambodian fighting near Phnom Penh left five Cambodian soldiers dead and 15 wounded, while 24 Viet Cong deaths were reported 37 miles southwest of Saigon as fronts showed little action.
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Saigon
Upz
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Neutral Zone
U.S
A Shau
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Anlong Koutet
Final taps for Americal Division honor funeral ends war record
UPI reports the Americal Division folded its colors at CHU LAI Vietnam with a brass band and honors from U.S. and South Vietnamese officials. Gen Abrams and Lt. Gen Hoang Xuan Lam dedicated a cement monument as Maj. Gen. Frederick J. Kroesen praised the division's service and professionalism despite a troubled wartime reputation. About 200 soldiers attended the ceremony. The unit formed in World War II to lead American forces in New Caledonia.
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Vietnam
UPI
Americal
U.S
Creighton W. Abrams
Hoang Xuan Lam
Abrams
Americas
My Lai
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