Post Complicates Statu In Leak Of Secret Documents
The Washington Post reports a secret Defense Department study shows Saigon's Diem regime vetoed the proposed 1956 elections for Vietnam reunification, a finding tied to the NYT case in which the Justice Department seeks to stop further publication. State Department access was denied to newsmen.
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Publication fight over Pentagon study reaches courts
The federal government lost a bid to block the Washington Post from printing a secret Pentagon Vietnam study while DOJ fights the New York Times. Judge Gesell said no showing of serious injury to the United States justified prior restraint. The Times case proceeds in Gurfein’s court with a temporary ban under review.
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Nixon Sees Approval Of Major Bills By Congress
President Nixon told Northeast news executives in Rochester that Congress will pass revenue sharing welfare reform and government reorganization bills backed by a taxpayers revolt. He said the revolt targets rising property taxes and that federal revenue sharing could cut levies about 30 percent. He warned against false euphoria while noting Vietnam and other issues.
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Pentagon study hush up and NYT ban continues
A federal judge in Washington allowed publication of a secret Pentagon Vietnam study to proceed while a ban on further similar NYT material stayed in force at least until Saturday. Various items cover Saigon shelling, U.S. policy moves, heroin treatment plans for servicemen, a theft ring case, a fatal motorcycle club assault, tax cuts, hijacking bluff, and a stock market dive.
Virginia to offer aid through banks for needy students
Gov Linwood Holton told Virginia bankers that financial aid will be offered through banks to economically distressed areas and to needy students this fall.
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Dow Jones Records Largest One Day Drop in Year
The Dow Jones average fell sharply amid several weak economic signals signaling a major one day decline. Investors faced losses as concerns over inflation, unemployment data, and corporate profits weighed on the market.
North Vietnamese file raises questions on U S Viet secrets
The 1965 Hanoi White Book described by the North Vietnamese Foreign Office and broadcast publicly aligns with what the New York Times revealed in the Pentagon papers. It notes a Honolulu conference where officials discussed extending the war to North Vietnam and cites remarks by Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.
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Drug Treatment Program For Als To Begin Sunday
In Saigon the US Command will start a program to detect heroin use among servicemen about to return home. Urinalysis machines at Long Binh and Cam Ranh Bay will test departing personnel, with positive cases sent to holding centers for five to seven days of medical and psychiatric treatment.
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Doves Seek July 4, 1972 Southeast Asia Pullout
Senate moves to set a withdrawal date as past attempts fail. Pastore drafts an amendment urging all U S troops out by July 4 1972 without mandatory funding cuts while the chamber votes on nine month funding cutoff measures and a broader two year draft extension faces amendments.
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Romney Says He Was Brainwashed About Vietnam War
George Romney secretary of housing and urban development says the secret Pentagon papers prove his 1965 claim that he was brainwashed about Vietnam. He says the findings reveal deception but confirm his past statements and he maintains Nixon is telling the truth about Vietnam.
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Mine Strike Nears End as Miners Return to Work
UMW District 29 leader James Leeber says the Appalachian coal strike is effectively over with signs of dissipation and some miners returning to work on Friday. He predicts full returns by Sunday night as courts ordered Boyle removed from union welfare fund control.
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Josephine
Smithsonian hot line tracks short lived science events worldwide
The Smithsonian Center for Short-Lived Phenomena runs a global network of 3000 volunteer correspondents in over 100 countries to report sudden events within hours. In three years it logged 113 events last year and 328 overall, including 22 volcanic eruptions, 19 earthquakes, and 16 oil spills, plus mercury contamination near Lake St. Clair.
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Lake St. Clair
United States
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