POW Welcomes Home Father As Family Reunites
In San Francisco and Oakland scenes, Returning POW Albert Carlson and Marine Lt Col Harlan Chapman arrive to joyful welcomes. Carlson, wounded in the April 1972 Loc Ninh battle, departs Travis Air Force Base for home with his wife and son Eric. Chapman, released after POW captivity, spends first day with family at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in Fremont and plans to reach North Vietnamese prisoners’ families.
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Eric Scartson
Lellurman General Hospital
Albert Edwin Carlson
Loc Ninh
Travis Air Force Base
Philippines
Narev
Eric
Pleasanton
Arthur Carlson
San Lorenzo
Carleom
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Carlson
Ofler Reinupees
Travis
Oakland
Fremont
Chapman
Oak Knoll Naval Hospital
Elizabeth
Harlan
Harlan T. Chapman
Ohio
Young Harlan
Centerville Junior High School
North Vietnam
Tehile
Elizabeth Chapman
Daily Review
Frewmens
Bodies of headless women found near Castro Valley area
Five headless young women were found about 14 miles from Interstate 580 on Eden Canyon Road, east of Castro Valley. Bodies lay 20 feet below an embankment, some with bound hands, one without hands. Coroner to perform autopsy. identities not yet established. Authorities noted prior similar cases in Santa Cruz area and ongoing investigations by multiple agencies.
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Castro Valley
Interstate 580
Eden Canyon Road
Alameda
United Press
Santa Cruz
University of California At
Rosalind Thorpe
Alice Liu
Sheriff's Department
Clay Cacliz
Nedwood Foad
Peggy Corthick
Crow Canyon Road
Livermore
Mario Charles Edgar
California Highway Patrol
Gary Voorhies
Washington Manor Park
Nimite
20 to be freed Saturday POWs head home
United Press International reports the largest group yet of American prisoners of war will depart Clark Air Base for the United States, with 60 POWs on three flights expected to land at Travis Air Force Base. The release schedule includes two more prisoners later, pending Pentagon approval.
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United States
Navy
Cnr
Everett Alvarez
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Alvarez
Travis Air Force Base
California
Clark
Pentagon
Washington
Hanoi
Defense Department
Jerry W. Friedheim
Sy Luan
Air Force
Pied 4. Gharry
Portsmouth
Mags
Alvara
Douglas Ramsey
Boulder City
Nev
Sale Department
Dlay
Jie
Mania
Clark Base
Hspital
Court loss for Calley overturns My Lai conviction
The Army Court of Military Review refused today in Washington to overturn Lt. William Calley Jr.’s murder conviction or reduce his 20 year sentence for the killings of 22 civilians at My Lai in South Vietnam five years ago.
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Army Court of Military Review
Washington
William Calley Jr
My Lai
South Vietnam
Unarmed U.S. Chinook Shot Down Near An Loc Vietnam
An unarmed U.S. CH 7 Chinook helicopter on loan to the Joint Military Commission was shot down near An Loc, seven miles south, bursting into flames. All five crew members were injured, two seriously. The craft ferried material for field headquarters under constraint at An Loc, sixty miles north of Saigon, and reportedly took hits from machine gun fire.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Joint Military Commission
An Loc
JMC
Weekend Fair Weather Promised by Weatherman
The weatherman forecast fair skies for the weekend with no rain. Temperatures were expected in the upper 40s to mid 40s. More weather details on page 8.
Hayward's 10th Street nightmare
Residents of East 10th Street in Hayward near the South Hayward BART tracks face a chronic pothole plagued corridor. The street sits in a jurisdictional limbo as the city has never accepted ownership or responsibility, leaving the muddy cratered surface to worsen under economic strain and stalled policy.
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Hayward
BART
Haywardl
Alta Vista
Isola
Highspeed Transit
East 10Th Street
Lower East
Court orders desegregation actions in 16 states
A federal judge ordered HEW to begin desegregation proceedings against public school systems in 10 states and parts of six others. Judge John H. Pratt mandated steps to bring 16 states into compliance with the Civil Rights Act within four months and targeted districts in Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Florida, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, plus actions against systems in Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Missouri.
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
U.S
John H. Pratt
BIA
Pratt
Louisiana
Massassippi
Oklahoma
North Carolina
Florida
Arkinsas
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Maryland
Virginia
Kentucky
South Caroline
Tennessee
Texas
West Virginia
Missouri
Ingside They
Kansas City
Six Shootings Tie to San Francisco Priest Killing
Herbert W. Mullin, 25, arraigned in a Santa Cruz County court on charges of shooting six people with a .22 rifle and stabbing Rev. Henri Tomei inside a confessional at St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church. Investigators say Mullin, described by friends as having “freaked out on acid,” was involved in the grim spree linked to past disturbances in the Haight Ashbury district and the community nine miles south of San Francisco.
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Santa Cruze
Sto Themis
Herbert W. Mullin
San Pranecisco
J. Ken Pitenger
Santa Claz County
Pittenger
Mullin
San Francisco
Haight Ashbury
Trou
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