Kudirka Defector Alleges Rejection Fueled by Reluctance to Interfere
Kudirka testified in a four hour- long Lithuanian defector trial that he did not betray Lithuania and accused Americans of warmth while Russian sailors beat him. He cited discrimination, forced labor, and the lack of true socialism as framing his decision to flee aboard a U S ship. Volpe called the Coast Guard error in returning him to the Soviet Union.
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Russia
Soviet Union
Kudirka
United States
America
U.S.A
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Tol
Siberia
Joseph Stalin
Skotkhozes
Stalin
Sav
Alexander Herzen
Karl Marx
V. I. Lenin
Soviet
United Nations
Transportation
John A. Volpe
Coast Guard
U.S. Coast Guard
Mekong clashes near Phnom Penh and Da Nang
The report notes heavy fighting across the Mekong River east of Phnom Penh for three weeks in June. U.S. forces said some Americans were wounded in a mortar attack about 25 miles south of Da Nang. Ambassador Bunker travels to Washington for talks with Nixon on South Vietnam elections.
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Mekong
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
U.S
da Nang
South Vietnam
Saigon
Ellsworth Bunker
Washington
Nixon
Bomb rocks Omagh district magistrate home in Northern Ireland
In Omagh 65 miles west of Belfast a terrorist bomb exploded at the home of district magistrate William Miller and his wife was hospitalized after severe shock. Another blast damaged Tyrone county council offices as violence in Northern Ireland raises known deaths to 58 since January 1.
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William Miller
Omagh
Belfast
Tyrone
Thornton
Northern Ireland
Chilean Radical party fractures amid pro Marxist shift
Chilean leaders held talks at the presidential palace and later at Viña del Mar as Radical ministers resign. Radical senators quit to protest a pro Marxist peace and a class struggle stance, halving party strength in the 200 seat legislature and weakening the cabinet. MAPU members shift toward youth led Marxist aims and Chanchol joins a new Christian Left movement after a split in the Christian Democratic party.
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Vina del Mar
Popular Unity Coalition
Chile
Radical Party
Chanchol
MAPU
Christian Democratic Party
NEA Consitution Aims to Limit Administrators' Role
Delegates at the three week NEA constitutional convention approved a draft to curb administrator influence and bar some from membership. The plan requires state and local adherence, with minorities guaranteed representation and a president from an ethnic minority every third election. A definition of classroom teacher was postponed to spring.
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NEA Board of Directors
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Wilson
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