Calley Case Jury Deliberation After Four Months
Six Army officers hear the William L. Calley Jr. My Lai case in a court martial at Fort Benning. Judge Reid Kennedy instructs jurors to weigh guilt or innocence with options including premeditated murder, unpremeditated murder, voluntary manslaughter, or acquittal. Jurors face a four to six member verdict and later sentencing.
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Harry F. Rosenthal
Associated Press
FT. Benning
Army
William L. Calley Jr
My Lai
Reid Kennedy
Calley
Cen
Calley on trial for My Lai killings in 1968
Hope Arkansas court records detail the November sequestered trial of Calley, a 24 year old second lieutenant, for the My Lai massacre during the March 16 1968 operation. He is the third among ten charged to face a capital offense. Two sergeants were acquitted and five enlisted men' charges dropped. Capt Ernest Medina faces trial soon for overall responsibility.
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Ark
Calley
Charlie Company
My Lai
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Legal Services for the Poor Proposed as National Corporation
TOM SEPPY reports that a bipartisan bill will create the National Corporation for Legal Services a private government financed agency to run the current Office of Economic Opportunity program for the poor. An 18 member board will include presidential and Judicial Conference appointees professional organization reps and two new agencies will name three governors each with funding patterned after the Public Broadcasting Corp estimates placing annual costs from 61 million to 140 million.
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Associated Press
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Congress
National Corporation For Legal Services
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Office of Economic Opportunity
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American Bar Association
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Public Broadcasting Corp
Economic Opportunities Act
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Nixon seeks U N police force with U S troops for Mideast peace
Secretary of State Rogers said Congress would back a U N police force including American troops to back a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. He noted impasse due to Egypt’s demand for full withdrawal and Israel’s security lines, and urged demilitarization of the Sinai with international guarantees at Sharm el Sheikh.
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Washington
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Congress
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Israel
Egypt
Senate
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D-Mo
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Foreign Relations Committee
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Aiken
United States
Soviet Union
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Gunnar Jarring
Abba Eban
Sharm el-Sheik
Pryor urges Resor to reject Westmoreland demotion bid
Rep. David Pryor says Gen Westmoreland overstepped by proposing Brig. Gen. George H. Young be demoted to colonel over the My Lai duty probe. Pryor notes the Army’s 1st Army commander dismissed the charge eight months ago as unsupported by evidence and warns against penalties without a trial.
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David Pryor
D-Ark
Army
Stanley Resor
William Westmoreland
George H. Young
Pine Bluff
Westmoreland
Young
My Lai
Resor
Pryor
1St Army
Aging Office Gets Director
LITTLE ROCK AP J B Jones 32 of North Little Rock is named by Governor Dale Bumpers as director of the state Office on Aging. Jones assumed the office Monday and earlier led a project of the Arkansas Farmers Union from 1967 to 1970 aiding the rural elderly.
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Little Rock
J.B. Jones
North Little Rock
Dale Bumpers
State Office On
Junes
Arkansas Farmers Union
Brooks Hays Robbed On Dallas Street
Brooks Hays former Arkansas congressman and adviser was robbed on a Dallas street Monday night. Police say two men with a gun forced him to surrender $175 and a wrist watch as he walked to a restaurant during a Bible Conference trip.
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Dallas
Brooks Hays
Arkansas
Hays
Crum's Vietnam Fortune Tied to GIs and Bribes
William J. Crum, a Shanghai-born American businessman, built a Vietnam war era fortune by supplying troop clubs and PX services across South Vietnam. He boasted a $40 million empire, drew generals and diplomats, then vanished from Saigon in 1970 as congressional probes labeled him the money king of Vietnam. Crum denied paying kickbacks and claimed accusations were lies, while CBS’s 60 Minutes conducted an interview aboard his yacht in Hong Kong.
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Associated Press
NEW York
South Vietnam
William J. Crum
Crum
Saigon
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Fiji
Madrid
Senate
Vietnam
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California
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Cbs-Tv
60 Minutes
CBS
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Earl Cole
Jack Bybee
Cole
Army Air Force
Bybee
Wallace
Barry M. Goldwater
R-Ariz
Korea
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