Congressman Button Accuses Wallace Backers of Lynch Mob Tactics
Upstate New York Rep. Daniel Button, who hired former Alabama attorney general Richmond Flowers, says Wallace supporters form a lynch mob masquerading as justice. Flowers will work on small business issues, aiding urban minority concerns amid Alabama trial questions.
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Alan Emory Washington
Nana
New York
George Wallace
Alabama
Richmond Flowers
Daniel E. Button
Albany
Button
Congress
Tom Bevill
D-Ala
House
Wallace
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Bevilla Wallace
Montgomery
Dothan
Flowers
Dixie
New Yorker
Small Business Committee
18 Americans Die In Enemy Attack Near A Shau Valley
North Vietnamese sappers attacked a U S brigade base near the A Shau Valley killing 18 American paratroopers and wounding 47. U S command said 31 N Viet soldiers were killed and enemy mortars and rockets hit bases across South Vietnam as withdrawal plans began.
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Saigon
U.S
A Shau
101St Airborne Division
U.S. 9Th Division
Clash Between Arch and Rockefeller Sparks WV Politics
West Virginia Gov Arch Moore and John Rockefeller IV clash over the proposed West Virginia Service Corps. Moore vetoed the $64,000 OEO funded project citing supervision and residency limits. Rockefeller aided student organizers and criticized the governor’s handling as immature.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Arch A. Moore Jr
John D. Rockefeller IV
Jay Rockeller
Moore
Student Volunteer Service Corps
Statehouse
Our Grand Area visit to Bluefield and next stop
Stubby Currence continues his Our Grand Area tour with a Bluefield Va visit this week and promises a final Bluefield W Va feature next week while back page items note a Salvation Army campaign aims at 350000 dollars and a Cumberland Road annexation discussion is planned along with other classified and feature pages across sections like Hobbies Business Society and Editorial.
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Stubby Currence
Bluefield
Classified
Buchanan
Nixon Faces possible compromise on ABM plan
Washington AP report says Nixon may have to accept a compromise on deploying an antiballistic missile system though officials expect a Senate showdown. A Senate vote on two operational sites could be delayed until late month or early July. Cabinet views warn that signaling compromise might hurt Nixon's chances. Secretary Rogers cites early summer for disarmament talks with the Russians.
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Nixon
Washington
Senate
Senate Armed Services
Congress
House
William P. Rogers
Pompidou Leads In Final French Poll
Paris AP reports Georges Pompidou, poised to win France's presidential race, leads interim president Alain Poher 58 to 42 in a France-Soir poll. The result mirrors other surveys predicting Pompidou's 56 to 60 percent range and follows De Gaulle's resignation.
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Paris
Georges Pompidou
Charles de Gaulle
Alain Poher
Pompidou
de Gaulle
Poher
France-Soir
France
Bonnet Blanc
Communist Party
Bomb call traced to 11 year old in Boone County
A Charleston bomb threat telephoned to Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. was traced to the Big Mountain Coal Co. office in Prenter Boone County. An 11 year old boy confessed after police narrowed suspects to eight with access to the mine's phones. He said he got the idea from a television program and demanded nothing in return.
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Charleston
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
Boone County
Big Mountain Coal Co
Prenter
Deactivation Slated For Guard Divisions
About 8 000 Army troops including 2 000 reservists mobilized last year will be returned to the continental United States and inactivated or demobilized. The pullout is part of 25 000 Army Marine and Navy personnel withdrawing from Vietnam by August end. Navy numbers were not disclosed. Major elements in Vietnam include two brigades of the 9th Infantry Division and a Marine regiment totaling about 16 000 troops. The first brigade of the 9th will be flown home for deactivation, with another 4 000 in nondivisional Army units to be demobilized. Some units may be reassigned to Okinawa or Hawaii for contingency reserves. An infantry battalion of about 900 men will be the first to land in the United States in the second week of July. Details follow a three day conference at Pacific Command in Honolulu.
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U. S. 9Th Marine Regiment
U. S. 9Th Infantry Division
U. S
da Nang
Vietnam
West Virginia
Moore
U.S. House
Rockefeller
Jennings Randolph
D-W.va
New York
Arkansas
Sharon
Charles Percy
Bill
West Virginia Service Corps
Peace Corps
OEO
Capitol
Washington
United States
Pentagon
U.S. 9Th Infantry Division
Defense Department
9Th Infantry Division
Saigon
3Rd Marine Division
9Th Infantry
Okinawa
Hawaii
Pacific
Vietnamese to Take Over Secret U S Sensor Posts
South Vietnamese will assume operation of sensitive US electronics outposts along Laos and Cambodia borders as part of Nixon era troop swap plans. The shift aims to show Vietnam’s capability to manage advanced defense tasks, with sensor tech used to detect enemy traffic and direct air power.
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Laos
Cambodia
Saigon
Pentagon
Nixon
McNamara
Demilitarized Zone
South Vietnam
Skepticism Grows Over Viet Nam Troop Withdrawal
Senators backing Nixon's plan to pull 25 000 U S troops express doubts Saigon can assume major combat duties. George Aiken and Stuart Symington cautiously support withdrawal while George McGovern warns of costs and political risk in training South Vietnamese forces. John Stennis also doubts Saigon's readiness.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
Vietnam
Saigon
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
GOP
Senate
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Senate Armed Services Committee
Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Symington
George S. McGovern
D. S.D
Senate Appropriations Committee
McGovern
Prater Soldier Killed in Vietnam Identified
A Prater Virginia soldier Pfc Stoney Lee Deel was killed June 9 in Vietnam the Defense Department announced Survivors include his parents Mr and Mrs Victor Deel three sisters Charlene Deborah Lynn and Shelia Gayle four brothers Cooper Herman James Michael and Victor Deel Jr and his maternal grandmother Mrs Hettie Stanley of Prater Funeral plans were incomplete at Virginia Funeral Home in Grundy pending body arrival.
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Prater
Vietnam
Defense Department
Pfc
Stoney Lee Deel
U. S. Army
Victor Deel
Charlene
Deborah Lynn
Shelia Gayle Deel
Cooper
Herman
James Michael
Victor Deel Jr
Hettie Stanley
Virginia Funeral Home
Grundy
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Beckley
W.va
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Inside the
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Korea
Pacific Command
Honolulu
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I Corps
Tricia Nixon
Pasha
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