Larsen Decorated and Flown to New Pacific Command
Lt Gen Stanley R Larsen 55 receives the Distinguished Service Medal and a 21 gun salute at the Presidio as he moves to deputy commander in chief of U S Army Pacific in Hawaii. The Presidio stockade protest of 27 soldiers led to mutiny charges later overturned on appeal. Surles Jr. will replace Larsen as 6th Army commander in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Presidio
Golden Gate
America the Beautiful
Larsen
Military Review Court
Washington
Army
Alexander D. Surles Jr
U.S. European Command
Stuttgart
Germany
Staggers Fights CBS Contempt Over Pentagon Documentary
Representative Harley Staggers presses for contempt of Congress against CBS over The Selling of the Pentagon documentary. He seeks access to unaired footage citing 1st Amendment protections and questions editing. House vote expected Tuesday amid cross-party doubts and committee dissent.
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Washington
Harley O. Staggers
West Virginia
CBS
Mineral County
Potomac
Capitol Hill
Columbia Broadcasting System
Commerce Committee
Staggers
Pentagon
House
the Nation
Bob Eckhardt
D-Tex
John Dingell
D-Mich
Potomac State College
Keyser
W.va
Dogma Fight Shapes Up in Lutheran Convention
Milwaukee AP The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod debates enforcing stricter doctrinal conformity during its biennial convention led by President J A O Preus who advocates literal Bible interpretation. Liberals fear a purge of moderates as conservatives push unity in belief across the churchs 2.8 million members with congregations nationwide.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod
J. A. O. Preus
Preus
Concordia Seminary
St. Louis
Clarence Brunkhorst
O'Neill
Neb
Richard Koening
Amherst
Mass
Plan to Halt Medicaid Abuse Halts After Scant Findings
Raleigh AP report says North Carolina Board of Social Services partially suspended its Medicaid abuse check plan after May launch. Prior approval remains for psychiatric therapy cosmetic surgery transplants eyewear and lens repairs while data review showed few abuses and doctors' and dentists' practices verified.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Board of Social Services
Department of Social Services
Jordan
Fayetteville Building Destroyed By Blaze
A nighttime fire in Fayetteville North Carolina gutted a building after being sparked by lightning. The blaze consumed one third of a city block in the main business district, leaving substantial damage and an emergency response in progress.
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Fayetteville
Fayetteville, N.C
Tar Heel DAV Has New Head
Charles M. Harris of Charlotte was elected president of the North Carolina Department of Disabled American Veterans at the state convention. John T. Puckett was named Veteran of the Year amid debate over a state license bill for fund raising. Firefighters battled a lightning sparked blaze at the Hedgepeth Building on Hay Street, with no casualties reported and significant damage to the second floor. The building housed the Fayetteville Observer offices and other tenants.
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Burlington, N.C
Charles M. Harris
Charlotte
North Carolina Department of Disabled American Veterans
Robert Miller
Morganton
John T. Puckett
Veterans Hospital
Durham
DAV
Hay Street
Hedgepeth
Thurman Bishop
Attitude on Union Miners Hits Labor Department
Miners for Democracy attorney Kenneth J. Yablonski testifies to a Senate subcommittee that the Labor Department tolerates a boys-will-be-boys climate in UMW affairs. He cites free spending, threats and numerous violations and recalls his father’s 1969 death. Trbovich and Antal condemn a Labor Department seen as passively aiding Boyle era leadership. Budzanoski and Seddon face federal charges over false vouchers and embezzlement schemes.
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Washington
Labor Department Today
United Mine Workers Union
Kenneth J. Yablonski
Miners For Democracy
Joseph A. Yablonski
Labor Department
UMW
Yablonski
Senate Labor
Union
Clarksville
W.A
Tony” Boyle
Mike Trbovich
Reform Group
Louis A. Antal
Arnold, Pa
Harmerville
District 5
Boyle
International Executive Board
Boyle-Titler- Ownes
Antal
Mike) Budzanoski
John) Seddon
Budzanoski
Seddon
U.S. District Court
Pittsburgh
Maddox urges war critics to reveal war origins and purpose
Georgia's Gov. Lester Maddox told about 100 Raleigh listeners that those who sacrifice sons for war deserve the truth about how and why Vietnam began and continues. He faulted top secret papers and urged a return to patriotism, criticizing welfare reform and revenue sharing at a FACT dinner.
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Raleigh
N.C
Georgia
Lester Maddox
Maddox
Pentagon
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John Jordan
Tar Heel Dav
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Fayetteville Observer
Iin
Janet Stashar
Associated Press
Vietnam
A. F. Blackburn
the Gospel Baptist Church
High Point
Sheldon Jones
Evangelistic Temperance Crusade Association
Jimmie Luther
Deral
N.main
Jamestown
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