Calley Trial Opinion Letter Calls for Review and Support
A Navy veteran urges public backing for Lt William Calley amid the Army trial, arguing the court missed factors from combat stress and urging widespread letter writing to demand a full review. The writer recalls wartime duty and seeks law and order while criticizing alleged injustices. April 2 1971 Hope Arkansas letter.
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Calley
the Star
William Calley
Naval Station
New Orleans
New Orleans Naval Station
America
King Aide Is Arrested in New York Cathedral Protest
Hosea Williams, aide to the late Martin Luther King Jr., was arrested at St. Patrick's Cathedral during Palm Sunday services in New York. Williams, SCLC program director, led a small group to protest church ties to big companies. he was released on his own recognizance and pledged to return with demands to Cardinal Cooke.
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New York
Hosea Williams
Martin Luther King Jr
St. Patrick’s
Williams
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
King
SCLC
Joseph Flannelly
Terence Cardinal Cooke
South Africa
Willams
St. Patrick's
Cardinal Cooke
Fighting in Pakistan Continues Amid Bengla Desh Tactics
From Calcutta reports skirmishing around East Pakistan persists as Bengali independence fighters harass West Pakistani units and India withholds arms. Air raids and supply cuts hinder Pakistani control while civilians flee border towns and volunteers train.
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Mort Rosenblum
Associated Press
Calcutta
India
East Pakistan
Indira Gandhi
Congress Party
Freedom Movement
East Pakistan Rifles
Bangla Desh
Chuadanga
Kushtia
Cuadanga
United News of India
Krishnagar
West Pakistan
Dinajpur
Supreme Court Rejects Catholic Draft Conscience Ruling
Washington (RP) The Supreme Court set aside a federal judge Alphonso J. Zirpoli ruling that the draft law violates Catholics rights to free exercise in opposition to the Vietnam War. The court directed a reconsideration and noted March precedents limiting choice of wars for conscientious objectors. Justice Douglas dissented.
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Washington
Supreme Court
U.S. Dist
Alphonso J. Zirpoli
San Francisco
William O. Douglas
High Court
Zirpoli
James Francis McFadden
McFadden
Lackawanna
N.Y
Kennedy Park Homes
John T. Curtin
Buffalo
U.S. Circuit Court
New York City
Tom C. Clark
Clark
Fulbright Warns Israel Uses Communist Threat as Bait
In a Yale speech, Sen. J. W. Fulbright accuses Israel of employing Soviet threat warnings to manipulate the United States. The Arkansas Democrat, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, likens anticommunism to drug addiction and calls it ideological manipulation by small countries.
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Israel
South Vietnam
Soviet Union
Middle East
Fulbright
United Nations
Willian P. Rogers
New Haven
Conn
J.W. Fulbright
United States
Yale University Political Union
Arkansas
Plan to Meld Existing U S Departments in Hope Arkansas
President Nixon proposes creating the Department of Human Resources by merging 103,000-employee HEW with parts of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Labor, and Agriculture to form a unified agency serving individuals and families. The plan reduces HEW management and aims to cut waste and program fragmentation.
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HEW
Office of Economic Opportunity
Labor Department
Agriculture Department
Unification plan outlines new health and welfare department
Printed by Offset HEW describes ending separate inspections by FDA and Agriculture for the same plants and outlines advantages of the new department. It details that programs would be run by a contented function, not interest groups, with focus on broad areas such as income security health and human development.
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Food and Drug Administration
Agriculture Department
The
Health Administration
National Institutes
Indian Health and Mental Health
Food and Oil Administration
Income Security Administration
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Yates Center
Kansas
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C. C. Truitt
Rayborn
U.S. Departments
the Kroger Co
U.S
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Home Pride
Kraft Soft Diet
Parkay
Pillsbury Buttermilk Biscuits
Kroger Frozen
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Ance
Morton
Mrs. Smith
Bloom East
Libby
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