Berets Contested Roles of Green Beret Troops in Vietnam
The article notes ongoing investigation into leaders including Rheault head of the 5th Special Forces, with Majors Crew Middleton and Capt Brumley among those charged. It describes Green Berets as elite paratroopers active since the 1960s, conducting reconnaissance, border surveillance, and mercenary leadership across Vietnam from DMZ to Camau Peninsula, facing Viet Cong and North Vietnamese attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rheault
U.S. Army
5Th Special Forces Group
Green Beret
Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Camau Peninsula
Green Berets
U S Officers Face Inquiry in Collision
Three U S Navy officers will face undisclosed charges as a preliminary inquiry opens into the collision between the destroyer Evans and the Australian carrier Melbourne off Subic Bay. Seventy four sailors died when Melbourne sliced Evans in two during South China Sea maneuvers last June 3.
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Subic Naval Base
Philippines
UPI
Frank E. Evans
Melbourne
Evans
South China Sea
Long Beach
Albert S. Mee Lemore
Vallejo
Calif
Ronald C. Ramsey
James A. Hopson
Kansas City
Kans
McLemore
Hopson
Ramsey
Mars Photos Reveal Cratered Polar Cap Findings
Closeup Martian images from the southern polar cap show a dark maze called Meridiani Sinus with a crater roughly 150 miles across. JPL scientists Dr. Robert J. Leighton and Dr. Robert P. Sharp described the shots as exciting and fascinating as the Mariner 7 data are reviewed on Earth.
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Pasadena
UPI
Mars
Earth
Mariner 7
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPL
Mariner Project
Robert J. Leighton
Robert P. Sharp
JPL Mission Control
Leighton
Sharp
Mariner 4
Frishman POW Return Highlights Arm Loss and Survival
The three returned American prisoners of war describe medical care in Hanoi and their Diet of bread and squash soup. Frishman, missing weight and a limp right arm, voices relief at being alive while his mother expresses gratitude and hope for reunion.
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Frishman
Hanoi
Rennard C
Rennie) Davis
Chicago
Vientiane
International Control Commission of
India
Canada
Poland
North Vietnam
Lt. Frishman
Collins linked to Beineman murder after Schell slaying
A witness says Collins dropped off Miss Schell with intent to pick her up later before her nude body was found stabbed and throat slashed in a lov ers lane. Police sources tie Collins to Miss Schell and say his roommate was in the car. A week later Karen Beineman is murdered and Collins is charged.
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Miss Schell
Michigan
Lovers’ Lane
Collins
Arnie Davis
Karen Sue Beineman
State College board forms ad hoc panel on San Francisco State talks
Daniel H. Ridder chairman of the State College board names a special study committee to determine whether ordinary channels of communication at San Francisco State are functioning following November student unrest. Ex officio members Ridder and Chancellor Dumke will join former trustees Luckman Ruffo and Meriam with Hayakawa and college leaders to report findings and possible improvements.
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Daniel H. Ridder
State College Board of Trustees
San Francisco State
Bay Area
Ridder
S. I. Hayakawa
Charles Luckman
Los Angeles
Albert J. Ruffo
San Jose
Theodore Meriam
Chico
Glenn S. Dumke
Hayakawa
Dumke
Crew Wades Ashore From Shipwreck
Three persons leaped into the surf and made their way ashore Tuesday after the 67 foot commercial fishing boat Jeannie Taggert ran aground in Sant Moni.
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Jeannie Taggert
Sant Moni
Veterans Win Tax Exemption Uphold in California
San Francisco Court of Appeal upholds the 1000 property tax exemption for veterans. It rejects Monterey County taxpayers' claim that real estate be assessed at full cash value. Assessed value now used, about one quarter of cash value, would nearly erase the exemption for homeowners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
California
Court of Appeal
Monterey County
Missing Anaheim widow sought after car found in Mexico
Loretta Wangeman from Anaheim disappeared after leaving St Anthony's church to visit a Tijuana orphanage. Tijuana police report she was found unconscious in her car, treated in hospital, then left without permission. San Diego liaison notes her effects were in the impounded car. Her son Edward Neubert, 26, reported her missing Friday. she planned to meet two women at San Ysidro’s Holiday Lodge.
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Anaheim
Mexico
Tijuana
Loretta Wangeman
Arthur Palmer
San Diego
Palmer
San Ysidro
Wangeman
Edward Neubert
St. Anthony’s Church
San
U S Acknowledges MIRV Equipped Missiles In Senate Inquiry
Defense official John Foster Jr. testified to a House subcommittee that Polaris A-3 missiles carry MIRV warheads and that some missiles were deployed close to one another. He discussed U S arms control aims, past dummy warheads, and Soviet ABM deployments around Moscow and Tallinn.
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Washington
U.S
Defense Department
John
Foster Jr
Department
House Foreign Affairs
Foster
Soviet Union
Moscow
Tallinn
ABM Debate Highlights Split Over Hart Cooper Amendment
Lawmakers weigh the Cooper Hart amendment to restrict ABM deployment with McIntyre proposing a Montana North Dakota site capability limit. Key votes hinge on Williams and Anderson as Gravel opposes ABM while Kennedy urges early arms talks with the Soviet Union.
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Johnson
Vietnam
House
Pearl Harbor
Spiro T. Agnew
Senate
ABM
Thomas J. McIntyre
D-N.h
Montana
North Dakota
McIntyre
Cooper-Hart
John J. Williams
Delaware
Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Mansfield
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachussetts
Gravel
Soviet Union
Kennedy
Nixon
Humphrey Delays Decision On 1970 Senate Run
Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey declined to confirm a 1970 Senate bid but said the issue is under very serious consideration. He spoke in Toronto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Berets
David E. Crew
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Thomas C. Middleton Jr
Jefferson, S.C
Leland J. Brumley
Duncan
Okla
Robert F. Marasco
Bloomfield, N.J
Budge E. Williams
Athens
Edward M. Boyle
New York City
Alvin L. Smith Jr
Naples
Fila
S.F. State
Ralph Hinman
Widow’s Tri
Ysidro
Neubert
United States
Russia
Amerncas
Bond's
Lakewood Blvd
Lakewood Center
Anaheim Shopping Center
Huntington Beach Shopping Center
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