Rusk defends Vietnam handling amid Pentagon papers flap
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk says the administration misjudged North Vietnam’s resolve but denies any deliberate deceit. He notes no bombing plans during Johnson's 1964 campaign and explains he learned of the Pentagon study only after reading The New York Times report.
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Dean Rusk
Rusk
Kennedy
Johnson
Pentagon
Vietnam
New York Times
North Vietnam
Lyndon
B. Johnson
Athens, Ga
Daily News
Atlanta
University of Georgia
John F. Kennedy
NBC
Texas
Times
Lawyer Seeks VA Help for Vietnam Vet Drug Addicts
Portman urges President Nixon to address already discharged veterans like David Bellomo who struggle with heroin after Vietnam service. Bellomo, 20, was denied VA hospital care due to an undesirable discharge and six months in jail, despite attempts at treatment and a military shift toward aiding drug addicts.
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San Jose
Calif
Vietnam
Nixon
Sheldon Portman
Santa Clara County
White House
Portman
David Bellomo
Veterans Administration
Bellomo
Wne
Japan
Defense Rests In Ford Case in Tennessee Murder Trial
Defense lawyers told the jury they have rested after failing to admit testimony about threats against Jesse Hill Ford and his family. Ford, 42, is charged with first degree murder in the shooting of George Doaks Jr. on Ford's estate driveway last November. Miss Alie B. Andrews testified as the key witness for the state.
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Ford
Charles
Circuit
Richard Jerman
Tennessee Supreme Court
Jerman
Doaks
Alie B. Andrews
Hijackers Seize Braniff Jet Bound for Texas
An American man and Guatemalan woman hijacked a Braniff International Airlines jet over Mexico on Friday afternoon. They forced it to Lima then departed for Rio de Janeiro, after collecting a $100,000 ransom and freeing 100 passengers and three stewardesses in Monterrey. The hijackers identified as Robert Lee Jackson, 36, of Tennessee, and Ligia Lucretia Sanchez Archila, 23, a Guatemala native living in Mexico. Stewardess Jeanette Crepps, 21, Oklahoma City, reported the ransom and the pistol aboard during the Caracas flight preparations.
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Peru
Mexico
Rio de Janiero
Brazil
Braniff International Airlines
Monterey
Algeria
Robert Lee Jackson
Tennessee
Ligia
San Antonio
Texas
Acapulco
Monica Am
Comment Stopped On Unemployment Comment Stopped On Unemployment
The AP reports President Nixon’s Council of Economic Advisers were told to withhold comment on June unemployment figures showing a 5.6 percent rate, while Labor Secretary Hodgs on spoke of a significant improvement and a continued decline. The Bureau of Labor Statistics noted a 1.1 million rise in unemployed since May to 5.5 million.
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Nixon
Council of Economic Advisers
Council
James D. Hodgson
Treasury
John B. Connally
Connally
Hodgson
White House
Capitol Hill
Harold Goldstein
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Paul W. McCracken
Colombo Shooting May Spark Underworld War in City
Police say the Colombo shooting arose from a power struggle in the Italian underworld and fear a broader gangland war. Joseph Colombo Sr. remained in critical condition at Roosevelt Hospital as investigators guarded other underworld figures and pursued a possible double cross plot.
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New York
Joseph A. Colombo
Colombo
Brooklyn
Civil Rights League
Jerome A. Johnson
Johnson
Robert Daley
Roosevelt Hospital
Friday Johnson
League
Manhattan
Columbus Circle
Daley
Boston
Patrolmen Work Hard On Holidays
North Carolinians head to mountains and beaches for the Fourth of July as patrolmen brace for a busy weekend. The Motor Club projects 20 traffic deaths and 700 injuries over 78 hours from Friday 6 p.m. to Monday midnight, with cooler, less humid weather expected. Charlotte promotes a Family Fourth in Freedom Park with a fishing rodeo, sky divers, a band, and fireworks.
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Associated Press
North Carolina State Motor Club
Charlotte
Freedom Park
Stanford medical school expands recruitment of women
Stanford University School of Medicine aims to recruit more women as students interns residents and faculty. Sixteen of the 77 entering class next fall will be women, double the prior level. The policy shift follows open faculty recruitment and an editorial by Dr. John P. Bunker and Dr. Judith Pool.
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Stanford
Calif
Stanford University School of Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine
Judith Pool
Dr. Pool
John P. Bunker
New England Journal
Bunker
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Draws Officials and Blues Power
Washington AP Sen. Fred Harris and Rep. Frank Thompson Jr host a hearing on an American Folklife Foundation at the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife on the National Mall. The five day event heightens as crowds, music from Johnny Shines, and sausage seasoning demos mingle with heritage displays.
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Fred Harris
D-Okla
Frank Thompson Jr
D-N.j
National Mall
American Folklife Foundation
Mall
Smithsonian Institution
Bill Williams
Greenup
Johnny Shines
America
Hy Perry
Baltimore
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Apples) McIntosh
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