U S Planes Hit Reds in Cambodia Heaviest Raid Yet
U S warplanes including all available B52 bombers hammered Communist forces in Cambodia in the night as part of Nixon’s cease fire push. Sources say about 120 B52s may have dropped up to 3600 tons, with attacks aimed at Khmer Rouge concentrations near Phnom Penh and the Khmer plateau. Congress debates presidential authority while intelligence notes movement near the Cambodian South Vietnamese border.
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U.S
Southeast Asia
Cambodia
Hanoi
Haiphong
North Vietnam
U.S. Pacific Command
Honolulu
Indochina
Khirom
Phnom Penh
Chambak
U. S
Nixon
Vietnam
South Vietnam
South Vietnamese
Supreme Court upholds 23 million in parochial school aid
The Supreme Court backed Pennsylvania parochial school aid for 1970-71, 5-3, citing preexisting contracts despite a 1968 law and a 1971 ruling against state funding. Harrisburg officials and Catholic leaders welcomed the decision, with Philadelphia Archdiocese set to gain about nine million.
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Washington
U.S. Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Vincent McCoola
Office For Aid
Harrisburg
High Court
Philadelphia
Nixon
Byron White
William 0. Douglas
Douglas
Thurgood Marshall
Msgr
Francis B. Schulte
Supreme Court
Warren paper fakes dam demolition in April Fools stunt
The Warren Times-Mirror and Observer pretended Kinzua Dam would be razed within ten years in an April Fools spoof. The dramatic report with a dam photo claimed demolition would start Sept 1, 1973 to honor the Seneca holiday lirpa loof, a back-translation of April Fool.
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Warren
Warren Times-Mirror and Observer
Kinzua
Observer
Pennsylvania
Township Can't Get Booze Vote Underway
Erie A petition by Greenfield Township Volunteer Fire Dept to allow liquor sales was rejected for too few signatures. Only 79 were filed, short of the 92 required, as officials noted no circulator affidavit. A separate Harrisburg note: an experimental sliding-scale day care program will start in fall under state sponsorship, Gov. Shapp announced.
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ERIE
Greenfield Township
Schaaf
Fire Department
Harrisburg
Gav
Shapp
Senator Raps ITT Actions In Chile
Senator Frank Church criticized ITT for offering a 1 million dollar dual purpose support to U S government actions in Chile as improper intervention in Chilean politics. ITT chairman Harold Geneen defended the offer but said no action followed. Church plans to push legislation banning corporations or individuals from funding the CIA. Urine Test Tabled Harrisburg A bill to require urine tests on students suspected of drug use was tabled by a House sub committee after concerns it resembled a police law.
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Frank Church
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
U.S
Chile
Church
Senate Foreign Relations
ITT
Salvador Allende
Harold S. Geneen
Allende
Geneen
D-Idaho
Itt-Chile
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Harrisburg
House
Memorial Recording Presented for Diana Lenz by Corry Teachers
The Corry Area Teachers Association presented a memorial recording to the Corry Public Library in memory of Diana Schramling Lenz wife of a union member. Robert Ludwig, PR officer, presented to librarian Mrs James Knipp. The East Stroudsburg College Choir and Pocono Boys Singers accompany Lenz in a solo.
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Association
Robert Ludwig
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James Knipp
East Stroudsburg College Choir
Pocono Boys Singers
Attorney Requests Prater Convictions Be Overthrown
ERIE Pa AP Pittsburgh attorney H David Rothman seeks overturning the three first degree murder convictions of William J Prater over 1969 Yablonski killings or a new trial He argues prosecutions relied on accomplices testimony and perjured witnesses The motions await President Judge Edward Carneys return from vacation including claims Carney overemphasized the state's case.
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Pittsburgh
H. David Rothman
Erie County Court
William J. Prater
Yablonski
Prater
United Mine Workers
LaFollette
Tenn
UMW
Joseph A
Jock
Rothman
Edward Carney
Carney
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Bob Garfield
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John G. Volk
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Robert L. DeMauri
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