U S Rejects Red Demand to Oust Saigon Leaders
At the Paris peace talks the United States flatly rejected the North Vietnamese Viet Cong call to remove Saigon's top three officials. Washington said only the unconditional troop withdrawal by June 30 was negotiable while insisting changes in the government were unacceptable. Bruce stated the US seeks a timetable for withdrawal as part of a broader settlement.
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Paris
United States
Saigon
Hie An
Swers
David K. E. Bruce
Bruce
Nam
Phang Dang Lam
Attorney accuses Abrams of permitting torture in My Lai case
A civilian attorney for Sgt. Esequiel Forres charges Gen. Creighton Abrams with dereliction for allowing torture and “inhumane treatment” of prisoners in 1968 at Chanh Luu. The filing asserts violations of the Geneva Conventions and Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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Abrams
Atlanta
UPI
My Lai
Creighton W. Abrams
Charles Weltner
Vietnam
Agaist Abrams
Welther
Chanh Luu
Weltner
William Westmoreland
Army
Westmoreland
U.S. casualties lowest since 1966 amid Vietnam conflict
U.S. Command reports 43 Americans killed in action last week, 279 wounded, and total casualties at 43,904 killed in action since 1961. South Vietnamese tolls decline while allied forces say 44 enemy troops killed in Cambodia and air activity falls due to a tropical storm Louise.
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Cambodia
Vietnam
U.S
Louise
Air Force
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Fish Trook
Route
Phnom Penh
American and Japanese journalists killed in Cambodian ambush
In the field south of Phnom Penh on Highway 2, American Frank Frosch 27 of Indianapolis and Japanese photographer Kyoichi Sawada 24 of Tokyo were found shot to death near their car. Both worked for United Press International. Frosch, a former Army intelligence adviser and UPI Phnom Penh bureau chief, was married with two young sons. Sawada, a 1966 Pulitzer winner, joined UPI in 1960 and covered Vietnam. His widow lives in Hong Kong.
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Cambodia
Frank Frosch
Indianapolis
Ind
Kyoichi Sawada
Tokyo
Highway 2
United Press International
Yrusch
Virginia Military Institute
University of Georgia
Georgia
Oglethorpe Echo
Athens News
Quang Ngai Province
UPI
Sandra Kay Huffman
Sawada
Vietnam
Hong Kong
Priests Back Consciencious Objection To Vietnam War
The New England Conference of Roman Catholic Priests voted to advise Catholic youths they may seek conscientious objection to Vietnam War on religious grounds. The resolution cites Vatican II and notes a Catholic can abstain from war or its preparations based on faith and personal judgment.
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Mass
New England Conference of
Calvary Monastery
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Patrick McDermott
S.J
Vietnam
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