Three Month Wait GI Faces AWOL Hearing On Reassignment
California GI Cunningham 21 faces AWOL charges after nearly three months waiting for reassignment. He had ended leave April 5 and says officials at the San Francisco Presidio told him to await orders, with orders reportedly sent to the Pentagon for review. His sister Shannon says he was ordered to report to the Presidio to straighten out the matter.
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Fall River Mills
Calif
URD
California
Army
Willis G. Cunningham
San Francisco Presidio
Cunningham
Presidio
Sounly
Vietnam
Pentagon
Washington
Shannon
Straighlen
Two Toddlers Drown At Murky Hippie Commune Pool
In Marin County California, two children fell into a murky pool at the Ratcho Olampali commune north of Novato. Nika Carter aged 2 died. Audrey Keller, 3, was in critical condition. County officials called for closure of the 760 acre ranch citing dangerous unsanitary conditions and hazardous electrical wiring. The death is under investigation for possible criminal negligence.
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San Rapael
UPT
Novato
Ratcho Olampali
Tye
Nika] Carter
Audrey Keller
Keller
Marin
Douglas “Maloney
Board of Supervisors
Guido Battaglia
Carter
Ben Het Siege Lifted by 2400 Vietnamese Relief Troops
A column of 2,400 South Vietnamese infantry moved from Dak To and relieved the U.S. Green Beret camp at Ben Het in the Central Highlands, ending a two month siege. Paratroop air drops and heavy U.S. air support followed as the attackers reportedly pulled back toward Cambodia and Laos. Casualties were light for the allied side, while North Vietnamese forces casualties were not immediately confirmed.
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Saigon
UPS
Ben Hel
Central Highlands
Dak
Cambodia
Laos
Ben Het
U.S. Green Beret
UPI
Shunsuke Akasuka
Licir
Akasuka
Creighton W. Abrams
U.S. Command
U.S
Highlands
Vienna
Khe Sahn
Avang Tri
Castro Valley Boys Club Opens New Headquarters
Castro Valley opens its Boys Club headquarters at 20669 Santa Maria Ave on a limited basis. The facility will operate Monday through Saturday during summer hours. President Lou Frank said the opening was delayed from June 15 due to lease and construction issues. Activities include dables and ping pong, with a registration booth for summer programs, and a plan to expand to full operation in about two weeks.
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Castro Valley
Santa Maria Ave
Lou Frank
Frank
Franks
SDS Founder Seeks Campus Job
The board of regents of the founder of Students for a Democratic Society discusses potential hiring of DeWitt as a faculty lecturer at the University of California. The meeting covers his possible role and whether California at Santa Barbara or Richard Flacks would participate as a sociology professor and speaker at an upcoming address.
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San Diego
Board of Regents
Students Forlsays
DeWitt
California At
Santa Barbara
Richard Flacks
Bill Would Name Glen Canyon Dam After Ike
The Senate approved a bill to rename the Glen Canyon dam on the Colorado River in honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The measure ties to the Upper Colorado River storage project which the former president helped authorize, tying the dam to a broader water storage effort.
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Washington
Senate
Colorado River
Glen Canyon Dam
Dwight D. Hisensigner
Hisenhower
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Adela Chacon
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Venezuela
Maloney
25Th Infantry Division
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ST. John's Indian Mission
Ttromtaveen, Ariz
Thur
Pitter
Europe
Pape John
Denmark
Germany
Helland
Southland
SDS
Bill
Electric Club
Regents
San Francisco
Flacks
Higgs
Charles Hitch
University of Chicago
Piiacreldad
ER Teele
Hay Ward
Monterey
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