POW Families Hope Amid Mixed POW Release News
Families of California service members cling to hope as lists of returning POWs appear incomplete. Kin of Allan Kennedy and Richard Nyhof learned they were not named, while Verlyne Daniels and Harlan Chapman await word. The ceasefire offers a glimmer as relatives across Bay Area await confirmation of their loved ones.
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Harlan P. Chapman
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Richard Nyhof
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Doris Xytof
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Allag Kennedy
Minky Daniels
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Chapman
Fremont
Ceasefire Fails As Viet Combat Flares Across South Vietnam
Violent clashes across South Vietnam Laos and Cambodia persist despite a ceasefire. Official reports list 480 Communist attacks since the truce began with near 10 South Vietnamese and one American casualty. Air operations in Indochina mixed with tensions and disputed ceasefire progress.
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Indochina
Laos
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Budget cuts demanded Great Society death knell sounds
Nixon calls for a rigid 267 billion dollar budget ceiling and vows to end or curb many social and health programs. He seeks major military spending despite Viet Nam peace, flags deficits, and promises a broad bureau overhaul while pushing hospital construction cuts under Hill Burton.
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APY
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Families of missing servicemen face grim accounting
In Washington it was reported that many U S families remain uncertain about loved ones listed as missing or captured in Southeast Asia as the Defense Department released a partial list of POWs and captives. Officials cautioned the tally is incomplete with no Laos list yet and many names still unaccounted for.
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National League of Families of American
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Hang
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Jerry W. Priedhein
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Vietnam
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Hungarian vandal Laszlo Toth ordered to psychiatric confinement
Laszlo Toth, Hungarian vandal of Michelangelo’s Pieta, is to be confined in a psychiatric hospital for at least two years after the May 23 incident. The damaged statue will be repaired and placed on public view behind bulletproof glass.
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Toth
Weather update forecasts extended heavy rain
The weatherman expects continued rain for at least 24 hours. Tonight has a small chance of showers, with a better chance tomorrow. Temperatures will reach the 50s tomorrow, and overnight lows in the 40s.
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Song of Rain Echoes Among Vietnam GIs
James Taylor’s Fire and Rain became a symbol for soldiers in South Vietnam, easing loneliness and fear. The author recalls how troops hummed it in mess halls and on the line, alongside other songs of solace, during their three passes to Chu Lai and near the DMZ.
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Naker
Sole saving fading as shoe repair dwindles in town
Alfred Grieseschi, owner of The Cobbler at 2260 Adapted Court, says shoe repair is aging out with few young cobblers. He notes four shops remain, ages up to 82, and predicts only one will be left in town in 200 years. He cites high startup costs and credit barriers as barriers to new entrants.
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Fremont
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Chuck Marquez
Grimmer
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Marquesil
Navent
Ers
Armenian immigrant blamed Turks for long past massacre
Gourgen W. Yanikian, 77, an Armenian immigrant, is held for investigation of killing two Turkish officials in Santa Barbara. Turkish consul Mehmet Baydar and deputy Bahadir Demir were shot at the Biltmore Hotel during a visit to collect a painting Yanikian claimed to own. No witnesses. police say Yanikian had harbored a decades long grudge dating to massacres of his family. The State Department and FRE are involved. arraignment set for Tuesday.
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Bahadir Demir
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