Laos War Secrets Shadow US Involvement
Washington faces persistent leaks revealing deeper US aid to Laos than publicly admitted. Presidents from both parties have denied combat forces while the country’s neutral stance borders Vietnam China Cambodia and Thailand.
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Donald M. Rothberg
Associated Press
Washington
Laos
GischSs
China
Vietnam
Cambodia
Thailand
Burma
United States
Nixon
Laos Involvement Revealed In Senate Hearings And CIA Ties
Senate Foreign Relations Committee disclosures outline U S military activity in Laos including Thai and Cambodian troops funded by the United States. The reports cite CIA backed operations with Meo tribesmen, bombing along the Ho Chi Minh trail and ongoing U S presence through 1971.
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Associated Press
Saigon
U.S
Laos
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Pentagon
Congress
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Ho Chi Minh Trail
South
Vietnam
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
State—Department
Agency For International Development
Air America
Continental Air Services International
Kennedy
Souvanna Phouma
Geneva
W. Averell Harriman
Police Seek Bodyguard in Colombo Shooting Case
FBI describes Philip Rossillo as bodyguard to Joseph Colombo Sr and his family and names him prime suspect in Jerome Johnsons killing after Colombo shot last June 28. The affidavit notes Rossillo and three associates were searched. Bevacqua found with two guns. a car parcel reportedly containing three loaded firearms.
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New York Times News Service
New York
Philip Rossillo
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Joseph A. Colombo Sr
Jerome A. Johnson
Colombo
Rossillo
Federal Treasury
Paul Bevacqua
Joseph A. Colombo Jr
Joseph Colombo Sr
Johnson
Civil Rights League
Columbus Circle
Raymond Talia
Brooklyn
New York Police Department
Soviet Documents Claim JFK Rejected Summit Over Cuba
Khrushchev proposed a U S Soviet summit before Kennedy’s Oct 22 1962 broadcast on Cuban missiles but Kennedy initially appeared to agree then rejected the idea, per newly public archive material. Gromyko’s article in Voprosy Istorii outlines the crisis and key meetings including Dobrynin and Rusk.
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Bernard Gwertzman
New York Times
Moscow
John F. Kennedy
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Foreign Ministry
Cuba
Anatoly A. Gromyko
Voprosy Istorii
Caribbean
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Gromyko
Dean Rusk
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Rusk
Dobrynin
U.S
Andrei A. Gromyko
White House
Bay of Pigs
Soviet Union
Medina to be tried by five Vietnam veteran officers
Capt. Ernest L. Medina faces court martial with a five-member jury at Fort Meade. Col Kenneth Howard presides as Bailey enters a not guilty plea. The panel includes four combat veterans and one noncombat veteran, with 48 witnesses to be subpoenaed for the resumption on August 16.
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FT. Mcpherson
Bailey
Medina
My Lai
Vietnam
Korea
Jurors Picked Through My Lai Trial Panel Forms
Prospective jurors for the My Lai case include 10 examined officers with one peremptory challenge used by the prosecution to strike Lt Col Philip Blanton. The judge allowed Lt. Bailey to decide on his one challenge. The pool includes Col William Proctor as foreman and four new members Col Robert Nelson Lt Col Clarence Cooke Lt Col Bobby Berryhill Maj Dudley Budrich.
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My Lai
Bailey
Medina
William L. Calley Jr
Calley
Robert E. Nelson
Korea
Vietnam
Clarence Cooke
Bobby G. Berryhill
Dudley J. Budrich
Army
William Eckhardt
Philip Blanton
Nixon deficits loom as worst postwar back-to-back gaps
The Nixon administration faces the largest consecutive deficits since 1945 46 with projected totals for 1971 and 1972 exceeding 40 billion dollars. Officials defend the plan noting deficits reflect tax revenue in prosperous times and cite a 2.5 billion full employment surplus in 1971.
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Washington
Nixon
Treasury Department
White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Administration
Treasury
John B. Connally
Johnson
Conally
George P. Shultz
Office of Management and Budget
Medina case: Court-martial recess to subpoena 48 witnesses
Capt. Ernest Medina and his wife exit the Ft. McPherson court as a military judge calls an 8 day recess in the My Lai premeditated murder case. The pause enables time to subpoena 48 witnesses.
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Ernest Medina
Ft. McPherson
Kenneth Howard
Medina
My Lai
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Montana
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Poole
England
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Soviet Academy of Sciences
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