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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1972
Page
1
Washington officials said the White House instructed the Air Force to plan a gradual withdrawal over the next year or two of a substantial part of its force on Taiwan after the President's trip to China.
Officials say the plan would pull four squadrons of C-180 transports from Ching-Chuan-Kang Airbase Taiwan to cut the U S military presence there. The operation involves about half of the 8600 American personnel on Taiwan. Pentagon confirms a general phase-out was requested before Nixon's China trip and detailed timing and numbers are to be worked out by the White House.
Democratic presidential hopefuls assail President Nixon over his antibusing plan. McGovern calls it surrender to Wallaceism while Jackson denounces it as unconstitutional. Muskie says he will judge specifics after reviewing the fine print. Wallace notes credit for Nixon while urging stronger action.
In today’s date line from 1776, George Washington’s troops occupy Boston following the British evacuation. The notice also includes the Athens weather listing mild, mostly cloudy with a high of 65 and a low of 41 today, and a forecast of 67 for Sunday.
A U.S. helicopter carrying soldiers on a combat mission crashed in the Dong Nai River about 21 miles northeast of Saigon. All 11 Americans aboard were feared dead, marking the worst loss involving Americans since a CH47 crash near Phu Bai last November 28 killed 34 servicemen.
Three American labor leaders arrived in Hanoi for a week long visit to push for an end to the war. They pledged union support for peace and noted broad backing among their memberships. The delegation included David Livingston, Harold Gibbon, and Clifton Caldwell, welcomed by Vietnamese trade union leaders.
Mrs Beard dismisses a memo tying ITT antitrust settlements to a $400000 donation to the Republican Convention as a hoax and forgery. She says she prepared a memo to William R Merriam but did not write the document cited by Jack Anderson and offers to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
New York Mayor John V. Lindsay waves to the crowd during Fifth Avenue parade day in New York City wearing a black armband in memory of 13 killed in Londonderry Northern Ireland. The parade theme satirically urged England to leave Ireland amid political tension.
A Kaiser Foundation Medical Center obstetrician in Santa Clara says a woman delivered seven babies, two of whom were stillborn after 22 weeks of premature birth. The report notes the unusual multiple birth and outcomes.
Funeral services for Redus C. Collier, 65, president of Mutual Savings Life Insurance Co., will be held at First United Methodist Church in Decatur. Burial follows at Decatur Cemetery. Collier, who died Thursday at Decatur General Hospital after a heart attack, was a longtime Auburn University trustee and civic leader. Gunthorp Funeral Home in charge.
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