Nixon Exceeds Vietnam Troop Withdrawal Target
President Nixon is pulling U.S. troops from South Vietnam at a faster rate than planned, with 75,000 expected out by December 15. Senate leaders split on the move, praising the action while others warn it could extend the war. Total U.S. forces in Vietnam stood at 475,200 as of December 4.
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Nixon
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George D. Aiken
Senate
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J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
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Aiken
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Saigon
Mekong
Delta
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My Lai
National Arms Budget Cut and Safeguard Spared
The House approved a 5.3 billion cut in Nixon's defense request and rejected efforts to halt the Safeguard antimissile deployment. Lawmakers passed a 69.9 billion defense bill for 1969-70, rejecting further trims. Separate actions trimmed foreign aid, with a 1.6 billion aid bill and 54.5 million for Nationalist China, while South Korea funds were debated. A Farm Bureau leader warned against hunger relief reducing work incentives as a four day meeting opened. A winter storm blanketed the upper Midwest with heavy snow, while a propane tank car explosion in Jamestown led to evacuations and injuries.
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Nixon
Senate
Defense Department
Appropriations
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D-Tex
China
South Korea
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American Farm Bureau Federation
Charles Shuman
Sullivan
Ill
White House
Jean Mayer
U.S
Shuman
Hunger Strike and War News Dominate Sirhan Case And More
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan on death row at San Quentin has been on a hunger strike since November 28 protesting treatment, with associate warden Park noting minimal eating and health could be affected. Air Force Capt. James White remains missing in action in Southeast Asia. Ole Singstad, famed underwater tunnel builder, dies at 87 in New York. Pope Paul VI condemns pornography as he prays at a Madonna statue in Rome. Frank Borman visits Vietnam as Nixon envoy to troops. Tricia Nixon’s engagement rumors are downplayed by the White House. Terry Klug found innocent in Ft. Dix riot case. two fellow soldiers receive sentences. Georgia appoints first Negro to a major state board. United Mine Workers election ends with Tony Boyle and Jock Yablonski courting votes among about 200,000 miners.
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Sen
Robert Kennedy
San Quentin Prison
Sirhan
James W. L. Park
Park
Hitler
Tanzanian Red Cross counters blood donation vampire myth
In Tanzania the Red Cross urged leaders to persuade the public that blood donations are for medical use, amid a widespread belief that clinics and donation stations are fronts for vampires who lure people to drain blood for drinking.
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Dar ES Salaam
Tanzania
Red Cross
Massacre Claims Roil British Parliament
Prime Minister Harold Wilson warned in a stormy session that if alleged My Lai massacres are proven and backed by the United States it could trigger a crisis in Anglo American relations. He stressed it is unthinkable Washington would shelter wrongdoing and said Britain would not abandon U.S. Vietnam policy despite the controversy.
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Harold Wilson
My Lai
U.S
Washington
Wilson
Vietnam
Awaiting Orders GI Charged With Desertion
Pvt. Riccardo Carace of Somerville Massachusetts is charged by the Army with desertion after 21 months at home awaiting orders. He says drafted August 1967, sent to Vietnam March 1968, then given leave for wife’s expected child and told to wait for further orders.
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Riccardo Carace
Somerville
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Carace
Vietnam
Paul Carbone
Boston
Carbone
Friml 90th Birthday Party With Rock Version
Rudolf Friml celebrated his 90th birthday at the Shubert Theater in New York where 1,100 guests watched a rock group perform his songs The Indian Love Call and L Amour Toujours L Amour. He joked about buying a guitar and danced the buck and wing in reaction.
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New York
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