Laird cites Soviet ICBM buildup and Viet Nam withdrawal pace
Secretary Melvin Laird warns the Soviet Union continues deploying ICBMs to boost its nuclear force as the U.S. adds multiple warheads to existing missiles. He forecasts a faster Vietnam troop withdrawal, targeting Oct 15 as the low water mark, while Congress weighs defense loan controls and a Penn Central bailout faces scrutiny.
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Louisiana House kills vote at 18 bill in Baton Rouge
In Baton Rouge the Louisiana House defeated a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to 18 by a 17 vote short of the two thirds needed. Rep. Ford Stinson argued against the change while Rep. John Hainkel warned it would turn high schools into political battlegrounds as about 75 college students observed from the chamber rails.
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Ford ‘Stinson
Stinson
Louisiana
House of Representatives
John Hainkel
House
U.S. War Deaths at 3 Year Low Amid Vietnam Conflicts
Weekly U.S. combat fatalities fell to 61 with 463 wounded in the week ending July 4, the lowest toll since December 1966. South Vietnamese losses rose as Cambodian operations continued. Maj. Gen. Casey, missing since a helicopter crash, is presumed killed with six others. Aramburu case advances in Argentina, Northern Ireland protests surge, and Britain faces a planned 80 percent pay rise strike across dock unions.
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Perjury verdict in McCormack aide Swieg case
McCormack aide Martin Swieg was found guilty on one perjury count and acquitted of five others and a conspiracy charge in a long influence-peddling trial. Sentencing set for Aug. 31. Swieg faces up to five years and a $2,000 fine. The trial featured 47 witnesses for the government and highlighted lobbyist Voloshen’s alleged influence in the office.
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Gary” Roth
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Rep Scherle criticizes Cambodian release of two U.S. reporters
Rep William J. Scherle said the two freed U.S. newsmen Richard Dudman and Michael Morrow were released by North Vietnamese troops because they wrote pro-Communist propaganda. He cited their dispatches as slanted to mask Hanoi's voice. In a separate case at Valley College, a judge heard professors defend and condemn a poem read by Deena Metzger, with closing arguments set for July 31 and a decision by August 10.
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Cambodia
Iowa Republican
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St. Louis Post- Dispatch
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Dispatch News Service
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Dudman
Asia
Scherle
Ditchman
Morrow
Deena Metzger
Francis Fallon Evans
Immaculate Heart College
Evans
Valley College
Fletcher Flynn
Fatal Dive for Fame Unrecorded at Golden Gate
Photographer says he destroyed film of stuntman Ronald Miller a 27 year old from Lodi after Miller jumped 220 feet from the Golden Gate Bridge and vanished beneath the bay. Three photographers filmed the tragedy while Miller declared he could make it. Miller did not resurface and the incident adds to 384 confirmed personal crisis reports from the bridge with only five survivors.
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Ronald Miller
Lodi
Miller
Paul Kayfott
Berkeley
Black publisher urges secession to form a separate nation
Dr. Carl Goodlett says two or three states should secede from the union to create a black nation, arguing integration has failed. He spoke Thursday at the 1970 National Broadcast Editorial Conference in Park City Utah. Gen Earle G Wheeler was awarded the first Defense Distinguished Service Medal by President Nixon, a ceremony noting a high military honor behind the Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service Crosses.
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Park City
Utah
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Byesiant Nixon
Craig Jr Seeks Senate Nomination Against Humphrey
Karl D. Craig Jr a black University of Minnesota instructor and vocal Vietnam war critic filed to oppose Hubert H Humphrey for the Democratic Senate nomination The Democratic primary is set for September 10 with the winner facing Republican Clark MacGregor in the November 3 general election The seat to be filled vacates Eugene J McCarthy who did not seek another term
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University of Minnesota
Hubert H. Humphrey
U.S. Senate
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Eugene J. McCarthy
Hitchcock Aboard Unperturbed Air Canada Flight
The DC 8 with 96 aboard including film director Alfred Hitchcock experienced automatic pilot trouble on the California Galaxy Flight 621 from Montreal to Los Angeles via Toronto. It diverted to Toronto after fuel jettison over Lake Ontario and waited four hours for another flight while Hitchcock rested in the VIP lounge.
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