Viet Cong Refuse To Release 27 POWs
A U S Air Force mission began Homecoming for 115 POWs from Hanoi. A snag halted release of 27 Vietnamese POWs at Loc Ninh amid Viet Cong exchange disputes. Military teams, hospital planes, and a four nation commission oversaw the operation under the Paris peace pact.
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Viet Cong
Control Commission
United States
South Vietnam
Paris
Vietnam
Tin
Hanoi
Four Party
Joint Military Commission
Saigon
Loc Ninh
U.S
Clark
Tan
Medical Centers and Bases List Across United States
A compilation of numerous military and federal medical facilities and related installations including Grant AF Medical Center Travis AFB Fairfield Oak Knoll Naval Hospital Tripler Army General Hospital Honolulu Lackland AFB San Antonio Brooke Army Medical Center Fort Sam Houston San Antonio U S Naval Hospital Great Lakes Wright-Patterson AFB Dayton and other regional hospitals such as Malcolm Grow and Andrews Air Force Base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malcolm Grow
Andrews Air Force Base
Nixon urges privacy for returning POWs at Capistrano Beach
President Nixon said Americans should respect the privacy of POWs returning from Vietnam. He noted two Kissinger reports from Hanoi and declined an official greeting for the prisoners to allow families to reunite first. He plans a White House meeting with Frank Fitzsimmons on Phase 3 policies and to witness Caspar Weinberger’s swearing in as HEW secretary.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Palisades United Methodist Church
Capistrano Beach
Henry A. Kissinger
Hanoi
White House
Teamsters Union
Frank Fitzsimmons
Caspar Weinberger
Voldemar Lien
Soviet Union
United States
Vietnam cease fire Homecoming returns POWs in giant hospital planes
U S Air Force planes began Operation Homecoming to retrieve 115 POWs freed under the cease fire. An advance party departed Hanoi at 6 25 a m to set up radio gear guiding three hospital planes evacuating detainees.
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Clark
Hanoi
U.S
Saigon
Clark Air Base
Philippines
U. S. Air Force
Vietnam
Bodies Raised From Staten Island Gas Tank After Blast
The 10 story gas storage tank on Staten Island yielded 26 of 40 presumed dead as firemen, under floodlights, remove charred remains from the debris filled cone shaped vessel. Autopsies show smoke inhalation. dental charts to identify the rest. The tank owned by Texas Eastern Transmission Corp had been empty nine months awaiting repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Staten Island
John T. O’hagan
O’hagan
Texas Eastern Transmission Corp
Death Ends Vow Soldier Wife-In-Law Promised
Orlando AP reports Maj. Glendon Perkins, after seven years in a POW camp, returns home to find his wife Kay Perkins facing a gravely ill mother and a mother-in-law who kept a vow to care for the family. The piece notes family vigil, faith, and coping amid a loved one’s return.
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Glen
Kay Perkins
Edward Perkins
Edna
Brainard
Minn
Ann Browning
Ralph
Tommy
Browning
Perkins
Mrs. Browning
Kay
Orlando
Godwin Howell Seek Virginia Governor Likely Independent Or GOP
Former Virginia governor Mills E Godwin Jr announces he will run for governor again in November. He says he may not run as a Democrat and leaves open running as independent or Republican. Lt Gov Henry Howell Jr also undecided on party and could run without labels. House Speaker Cooke urged by Democrats to consider the Democratic nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Mills E. Godwin Jr
Godwin
Henry E. Howell Jr
Howell Chooose
Howell
Noted Sportsman Pat Flanagan Dies at 70
Patrick J. Flanagan an attorney in Welch since 1924 and famed West Virginia compensation lawyer died after a long illness at Stevens Clinic Welch He suffered a December 1969 stroke and later cancer operations while continuing practice Physicians reported his determination and he received Catholic University Alumni awards in 1967 and 1971 for outstanding achievement and distinguished service to the university
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Patrick J. Flanagan
Welch
Catholic University of America
Washington, D. C
Stevens
Develo
Catholic University Alumni Association
C. VU. Alumni Association
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Bulletin
Air Force
Bien Hoa
Republic of Vietnam
Bui Tin
U.S. Military Hospital
Navy
International Commission For
Control and Supervision and
Four-Party
Mys. Naval Hospital
Bremerton
Provid Grant AF Medical
Travis Afb
Fairfield
Oak Knoll Naval Hospital
Oakland
U.S. Naval Hospital
Camp Pendleton
Oceanside
Usaf Regional Hospital
March Afb, Riverside
Army General Hospital
Honolulu
Or Fitsimmons Army Hospital
Denver
Sheppard Afb
Wichita Falls
Wilford AF Medical
Lackland Afb
San Antonio
Great Lakes
Usaf Medical Center
Scott Afb
Belleville
Memphis
Maxwell Afb
Montgomery
U. S. Naval Hospital
Philadelphia
Bethesda
Keesler Afb
Biloxi
Westover Afb, Chicopee Y Chelsea Naval Hospital
Boston
St. Albans Naval Hospital
New York City
Valley Forge General Hospital
Phoenixville
Balboa Naval Hospital
San Diego
A.S. Army General Hospital
Fort Gordon
Augusta
My. S. Naval Hospital
Jacksonville
Naval Hospital
Portsmouth
Camp Lejeune
Peterson Army Hospital
Fort Monmouth
Army
Clark Air Force Base
Respect Privacy
Clarfield
Quity
Washington
Carl Albert
Congress
Albert
Internal Revenue
Edward Erya
Los Angeles
Philip J. Reide
Jersey City
N. J
North Vietnam
Godwin, Howell
House
John Warren Cooke
Mathews
Pat Flanagan
Patrick Flanagan
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