Disputes Delay Civilian Cease Fire Observers
AP reports procedural disputes delaying dispatch of cease-fire observers in South Vietnam while Da Nang and Saigon log ongoing truce violations. Agnew visits Saigon reaffirming US support for Thieu regime and nonrecognition of North Vietnamese presence. ICCS struggles to place seven regional teams amid credential fights.
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Honolulu
U.S. Pacific Command
Laos
Cambodia
Spiro T. Agnew
Southeast Asia
Nixon
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
U. S
Agnew
Thieu
Tan Son Nhut
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Joint Military Commission
Britain’s Peace Mediation Embarrassed U S Says Pentagon Papers
Los Angeles AP reports newly released Pentagon papers show Britain’s mediation in Vietnam peace talks sometimes embarrassed the United States. The study criticizes Johnson for publicity seeking diplomacy while relying on Britain to press for talks, with terms Sunflower and Marigold cited as century-old code names.
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Los Angeles
Pentagon Papers
Britain
United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
Harold Wilson
Johnson
Pentagon
Daniel Ellsberg
Anthony Russo
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Wilson
Kennebunk Planning Board Approves 180-Lot Development
The Kennebunk Planning Board granted final approval to Lloyd Robinson for the Longview Terrace subdivision extension after reviewing drainage and sewage schematics and street profiles. The board read letters from the Department of Environmental Protection and the State Highway Department. the project is expected to finish by 1975. Robinson plans a 24-unit apartment complex off Brown Street pending topographical maps and soil surveys. A gravel pit ordinance was sent back to selectmen for revisions after a public hearing revealed inconsistencies.
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Kennebunk Planning Board
Lloyd Robinson
Longview Terrace
Robinson
Harlow L. Brown
Saco
State Highway Department
Planning Board
Brown Street
Marshall Weeman
Mousam
Patriots Draft Highlights Sport Bits and Teen Page
Curtis presents a package of sports bits and theater notes with mention of parachuting accident updates and political tie ins. Heath to confer with Nixon on a three year plan frames the political context. Hannah and Cunningham cited in brief items.
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Curtis
Hannah
Cunningham
Heath
Nixon
U S Builds Laser Bomb
Washington reports the Nixon administration proposes a 1974 budget adding 34 million dollars for laser bomb research by the Atomic Energy Commission. The plan targets a laser triggered hydrogen device, potentially simpler smaller and with reduced radioactivity.
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Washington
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC Laboratory
Livermore
Calif
Withdrawal Continues From Vietnam
SAIGON AP The last U S fighter bomber group in Vietnam has begun withdrawing. Marine Aircraft Group 12 and its gear are being air lifted from Bein Hoa Base near Saigon to Iwakuni Japan. The group of about 900 Marines provided close air support for South Vietnamese and Cambodian troops. An average of about 4100 American troops per day are leaving Vietnam, reducing total U S forces to about 22,000. All are to be gone by March 2 under the cease fire.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
U.S. Command
Marine Aircraft Group 12
Bein Hoa
Iwakuni
Japan
Committee To Hear County Budget Bill York County Bill Refer
Augusta The House referred House Paper 320 creating a County Budget Review Board for York County to the Joint Standing Committee on County Government. Presented by R-Kennebunk James McMahon with support. Municipal officials dissatisfied with the 1973 74 budget process voiced objections at a December Alfred hearing. The board would include the top elected official in each town. The budget was to be submitted to the York County Delegation Wednesday night at the Holiday Inn. Many officials planned to attend to protest taxation without representation.
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Augusta
House of Representatives
York County
Joint
James McMahon
R-Kennebunk
Alfred
Holiday Inn
Curtis Proposes State Control Of Public Lots
Gov Kenneth M Curtis urged the legislature to overhaul public lots and unorganized territories. He proposed creating plantations to govern unorganized townships, ending timber and grass rights. Public lots and their income would transfer to the state, not remain windfalls to incorporators.
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Curtis
Augusta
Kenneth M. Curtis
Man Charged For Nursing Home Fire
A Baltimore man, 22 year old Harry Kemp, faced arson charges in a Pleasantville New Jersey nursing home fire that killed ten elderly residents. Kemp, hospitalized with burns, was one of six residents who escaped along with two staff members. Four victims were women, one aged 106. Police noted an internal alarm sounded as a building alarm failed.
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N.J
Baltimore
Harry Kemp
Somers Point Hospital
Kemp
Walt S. Schlundt
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India
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Ceclis B. Munson
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Inside the Journal
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N. J
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