Prison Plot Ties to Large Scale Breakout Plan
San Quentin escape attempt linked to broader prison revolt, with Prisons chief Procunier saying there may have been many more involved. He cited 9mm pistol found on George Jackson, other Soledad Brothers inmates, and guards killed or wounded in the May incident.
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San Quentin
Calif
California
George Jackson
John
Larry
Spain
Raymond K. Pro- Cunier
Jackson
San Quentin Adjustment Center
Procunier
Suledad Brothers
Maximum Security
Stephen M. Bingham
San Francisco Bay
Oakland
Berkeley
Binghan
Berkeley Neighborhood Legal Service
Franck, Hill, Stender, Ziegler & Hendon
Bingham
Jonathan B. Bingham
D-N
Marin County Dist
Bruce Bales
James Park
Park
Goy
Ronald Reagan
Black Panther Party
Bobby Seale
United Prisoners Union
Spt
Jere Graham
Paul Krasnes
Frank P. de Leon
Krasnes
Graham
John Lynn
Ventura
Ronald Kane
Fresno
Rat Control Project Makes Some Progress
Four summers after a federal rat control plan faced ridicule in Congress, progress is seen in cities like New York's South Bronx where cleanup efforts killed about 110 rats. Despite funding, money shortages persist as officials report mixed results in the ongoing war on rats.
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Carl C. Crafty
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
New York City
South Bronx
America
House
U.S
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
QandA on price controls during freeze and exemptions
A government Q and A discusses retroactive pay denial for July to August, how to seek exemptions from the price freeze, and likely post freeze price behavior. It covers who may apply for exemptions, the 10 percent rule for price ceilings, potential price increases, and authority over interest and profits.
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Seattle
OEP
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Treasury
John B. Connally
Connally
Federal Reserve Board
Bloody My Lai retold at Henderson court martial hearings
The My Lai massacre case returns to court with Col Oran Henderson facing charges of dereliction and perjury. Recordings of radio transmissions from Task Force Barker will be played for the two generals and five colonels jury as testimony unfolds. Witnesses describe sights of numerous dead villagers and recall questions to Henderson during proceedings.
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Harry F. Rosente
Associated Press
FT. Meade, Md
Charlie Company
My Lai
Oran K. Henderson
Task Force Barker
Lth
Henderson
Army Board of Inquiry
Charlie R. Lewellen
Lewellen
Temple Tex
Central
Ernest Medina
Ft. McPherson
Board of Inquiry
William R. Peers
Peter S. Wandolowski
Calley
James Flynn
Rochester
Minn
Roger Alaux
San Bernardino
Calif
Col. Henderson
Alaux
Ft, Meade, Md
Nixon Eyes Broad Economic Plan Amid Global Tensions
AP dispatches show Treasury Secretary Connally signaling lingering controls after a 90 day wage price freeze while Nixon seeks a self funding economic strategy that may still leave a 1972 deficit near 20 billion dollars. The report notes turmoil in the steel sector and rising U.S. alert levels in Vietnam with heavy air strikes and anti aircraft fire as Porter prepares to assume a Vietnam peace negotiator post in Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
John B. Connally
Nixon
No Roadblock to China Trip Seen
A reported official indicated there is little chance of Nixon being barred from visiting China within eight months, following mid-July statements. Mills of Arkansas suggested uncertainty about any conditions for a Red China visit and signaled possible political considerations shaping such a trip.
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San Clemente
Calif
Wilbur Mills
Nixon
Peking
China
Frank Cormier
Associated Press
Mills
Arkansas
Little Rock
Mainland
Red China
Watermelon Wins Big At Arkansas Poultry Science Meet
Hope resident John Treat displayed a 75 pound prize watermelon grown by the Allen family of Hope at Pomfret Hall during the University of Arkansas event August 15 to 20. The fruit will be given away at the banquet Thursday night. A watermelon hust at Pomfret Center on August 17 drew about 1500 people from nearly all states and Canada, co sponsored by the Hope Chamber of Commerce and Hempstead County Farm Bureau.
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Hope
Poultry Science Association
University of Arkansas
John Treat
Allen
Pomfret Hall
Hope Chamber of Commerce and Hempstead County Farm Bureau
Aubrey Goodwins
Brian Roberts
Lester Keats
Oscar D. Middlebrooks
Mr. Middlebrooks
Dick Powell
Hollywood
California
Middlebrooks
Arkansas
Hope Chamber of Commerce
United States
San Diego
Seattle
Mobile Oil Co
Dallas
Texas
Tom Watson
Communists See Doom of Democracy
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan surveys Communist views on the Western monetary crisis and notes how Soviet press uses the situation to argue capitalism’s decline. The piece contrasts Lenin’s NEP with Nixon era policy, recounts NEP’s 1921 shift, and traces its dissolution under Stalin in 1928, framing a global debate on economic systems.
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William L. Ryan
Soviet Union
Russia
V. I. Lenin
NEP
Lenin
Nixon
Pravda
America
Party
Stalin
Jury selection in Baggett murder trial proceeds in Little Rock
In Little Rock, jurors were seated as the state moves toward the first degree murder trial of 21 year old Robert Edward Baggett for the strangulation death of 62 year old June B Shillcutt at a local drugstore. A second suspect, 17 year old Charles L Anthony, remains in custody awaiting trial.
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Little Rock
Robert Edward Baggett
Baggett
June B. Shillcutt
Shillcutt
Charles L. Anthony
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Tal
AP News Digest
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U.S. Command
Demilitarized Zone
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Berlin
Willy Brandt
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Lebanon
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Jordan
Israel
William J. Porter
Paris
Ronald J. Ziegler
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Ziegler
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Basic Foods Corp
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