Hershey to Give Up Draft Post in February
Washington AP report says Lt. Gen. Lewis Hershey will be relieved as Selective Service director on February 16 and reassigned as advisor to the President on manpower mobilization. A civilian successor to lead the agency will be named soon, and Hershey will help transition to a younger draft system and standby draft plans. President Nixon will nominate Hershey for full general, praising his service. Hershey declined to comment.
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Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
White House
Hershey
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Nixon
Egypt reverses stand on talks with Israel
Egypt rejected indirect peace talks via the Rhodes formula or any mediation through U N envoy Gunnar Jarring. Al Ahram said there is no basis for negotiations and Egypt remains unwilling to engage with Israel, while observers note a hard line shift since the war. An Israeli military report said Arab guerrillas fired a mortar at two farm settlements on the Jordanian border south of the Dead Sea with no casualties.
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Israel
Cairo
al -Ahram
Usu
Gamal
Abdel Nasser
Essmat Abdel Meguid
U.N. Special
Gunnar V. Jarring
Rhodes
U.N
Ralphe Bunche
al Ahram
Mead Sea
Police raids clear Covenant Methodist church as SDS protest ends
Chicago and Evanston officers arrest 43 youths at Covenant Methodist Church in Evanston on the final day of a four day SDS action. About 100 others were left undisturbed as National Guardsmen were stationed in Chicago after earlier disturbances. The raid targeted Weathermen linked demonstrators. authorities found warrants for six LDS members.
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Covenant Methodist
Evanston
The
Students For A Democratic Society
Weathermen
LDS
North Side
James Gillespie
Gillespie
Aiken Blames U S Policy On Vietnam Failures
Senator George D. Aiken of Vermont told Norwich University that the United States bears fault for Vietnam self determination being thwarted by an undisciplined foreign policy bureaucracy. He urged Nixon to time to repair policy and to end personal diplomacy, saying the war ended America’s age of innocence.
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George D. Aiken
Vermont
Nixon
Vietnam
GOP
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Aiken
Norwich University
America
U.S
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Saigon
Washington
Soviet Union launches Soyuz 6 to weld metals in space
MOSCOW AP The Soviet Union sent two cosmonauts Georgy Shonin and Valery Kubasov aboard Soyuz 6 to test welding metals in weightlessness as a step toward an orbital space platform. Tass said both men feel fine after liftoff marking the 18th Soviet manned spaceflight. Officials anticipate more launches to pursue a docking experiment and orbital station concepts outlined in Izvestia sketches.
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Soviet Union
Tass
Izvestia
Georgy Shonin
Valery Kubasov
Alexei, Yeliseyev
Yevgeny V. Khrukov
Radio Moscow
Shonin
Las Vegas Man Escapes Kidnappers
A Las Vegas landowner, Dean Petersen, 35, escaped after 24 hours of confinement when he freed himself from handcuffs inside a small house trailer and fled a field to a crowded supermarket to call the sheriff. Police said two men abducted him at gunpoint in downtown Las Vegas, with a third suspect being sought. Petersen, shaken but unharmed, thanked law enforcement and stated he was happy to be free.
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Nev
Las Vegas
Dean Petersen
Petersen
U.S. Air Losses Near 6000 In Vietnam War Toll
U.S. military said enemy gunners shot down four helicopters killing five Americans and wounding 15. Total U.S. losses in Vietnam approach 6,000 aircraft, with 3,972 helicopters and fixed-wing planes lost since Jan 1, 1961. Ground fighting was limited and two large munitions caches were found amid new threat preparations.
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U.S
Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
U. S. Command
Laos
Nixon moves to blunt antiwar protests with policy steps
President Nixon gathers Vietnam policy advisers for a swift series of moves aimed at stealing thunder from next Wednesday's antiwar demonstrations. Gen Wheeler reports on a war zone trip as a possible prelude to new troop withdrawal plans. Defense chiefs and Melvin Laird attend. Humphrey endorses Nixon policies and hints at secret peace plan details. A new Selective Service director will replace Hershey in February. Laird signals a reduced combat posture and lower weekly casualties, timing linked to Oct 15.
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Frank Cormier
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
U.S
Joint Chiefs
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Vietnam
Saigon
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
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