Army judge rebukes leak over My Lai case timing
In Fort Benning Georgia an army judge says the order barring witnesses from discussing the My Lai massacre case in public is being defied and calls a Friday meeting to resolve the issue Lt Col Reid Kennedy will set guidelines for the Calley court martial The defendant William Calley faces murder charges for the My Lai killings in 1965 Calley remains free in the Columbus area and is temporarily assigned to Maj Gen Long's office as a staff aide while awaiting trial
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West German moves on nuclear nonproliferation treaty
Washington reports West Germany and the United States moved toward signing the nuclear nonproliferation treaty amid divisions in Bonn and strong Western pressure. Chancellor Brandt pressed to sign, despite Kiesinger critics. 24 nations must ratify before entry into force as U.S. and Russia ratified earlier.
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Soviet Union
Britain
Sister Claims Lt Calley Adopted Viet Nam Tot
Marian Keesling, wife of a college instructor, says Lt. William Rusty Calley adopted a half naked Viet Namese girl and fed her until she vanished during war maneuvers. She recalls his distress over starving children and says he reacted to publicity through his family.
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Rusty” Calley
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Texas Gets Foot of Snow in Southwest Regions
Up to a foot of snow fell Friday across southwest Texas with four inches at El Paso and 12 inches at Toyah in the Davis Mountains, disrupting travel and daily life in the region.
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Collins to State Dept. Astronaut to Join Foreign Affairs Office
President Nixon approved astronaut Michael Collins to assume a public affairs role at the State Department. Collins, 39, aims to leave NASA after Apollo 14 to coordinate the department’s participation in foreign policy discussions. The $38,000 annual post was created after the news bureau’s status change, with Rogers endorsing the move during a White House event for Apollo 11 astronauts.
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Edwin Aldrin
Eclipse by Earth Captured in Apollo 12 Footage
National Aeronautics and Space Administration released scenes from Apollo 12 showing Earth eclipsing the sun during the mission. The film captures Conrad and Bean on the moon, the lunar module departing, and astronauts at work in the lunar gravity with 16 mm and Hasselblad cameras in use.
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Pilot sport killings hush up claim alarms Army
Ralph Ginzburg accused the Army of ignoring charges that American helicopter pilots killed Vietnamese civilians "for sport" as reported from a 1967 Avant-Garde article by Thomas Loffin. Loftin and a civilian engineer corroborated pilots bragging about killings at Camp Holloway and beyond.
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Fifth Session Allies Open Talks On Arms Limitation
HELSINKI UPI reports the United States and the Soviet Union concluded the fifth session of preliminary strategic arms limitation talks and adjourned until Tuesday for further negotiations.
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UPI
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Soviet Union
Escapee Allen Stevens linked to armed robbery spree
Allen Stevens, 32, escaped from a Marengo Iowa jail and was later captured in Springfield after a cab fare dispute. Police traced him using a tattoo reading The Outlaw, tying him to prior armed robbery arrests in Victor and Sterling. Detectives in Peoria seek warrants for car theft. no Springfield charges yet.
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Maiden Arava makes major test flight in Israel
TEL AVIV AP Israel's first home built aircraft the Arava completed its major test flight on Thursday marking a milestone for local aviation and aerospace efforts with engineers and officials from the project praising the milestone.
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Suburban L A area famed for foreign sports cars
A Chuckle U item notes a Los Angeles suburb with a high concentration of foreign sports cars where pedestrians have not been hit above the knees in three years, a claim attributed to Comvriant.
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Yank Freed From East German Jail
Leon James, a 25 year old American from Los Angeles, was released from a Bautzen prison in East Germany after over a year. He arrived in West Berlin weighing about 120 pounds and did not speak much, expressing surprise at not being arrested on the West side. James was apprehended in East Berlin in September 1988 and sentenced to a year on a visa charge.
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Rockefeller'son and Wife Split Amid Public Romance
Steven Rockefeller, son of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, and his wife Anne-Marie Rasmussen of Norway have separated. They wed in 1980 in Somme, Norway, after a widely publicized romance. The statement denied plans for divorce. the couple have three children. In London, Britain’s beer drinkers faced a two pence rise per pint approved by the government.
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Nelson Rockefeller
Anne-Marie Rasmussen
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Somme
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Fred
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Britain
Viet Totals Near 300000 War Casualties in Vietnam
In nearly nine years of fighting Vietnam casualties reached about 300000 with almost half in the last 18 months since Paris talks began. U S command figures show 295728 wounded and missing, 29528 killed in action, with updates pending. American and allied losses in Southeast Asia are detailed, including enemy actions in the Mekong Delta and clashes near Da Nang.
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