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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1970
Page
1
Ten people were killed and at least 44 wounded when Communist gunners shelled two camps housing families of South Vietnamese soldiers northeast of Saigon. Eight dead and 24 wounded at Pleiku area camp. two dead and 20 wounded at Nha Trang camp.
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird told 737 Air Force Academy cadets that the U S will reduce armed forces by up to one million from Nixon era levels and rely on allies with increased aid as a counterbalance. He outlined a path to 2.5 million by mid 1971 with 400000 more cuts after.
Vice President Spiro Agnew lambasted glamorized vice and antiwar dissent during a West Point graduation address in Michie Stadium. He warned of corrupt elites deriding achievement while U.S. servicemen die abroad, a scene echoed by security patrols and cheering cadets.
Typhoid outbreaks threaten the Callejon de Huaylas valley after Peru's major quake. Health officials report vaccine access and counter measures set to deploy once rescuers reach about 50 isolated dwellings. Bulldozers clear roads toward Huaraz as U. S. helicopters aid relief amid poor weather.
Goateed Black Panther leader Bobby Seale is denied yard, dining and recreation access at the Connecticut state correctional center in Montville after refusing to shave his goatee. Prison officials report Seale staged a modified hunger strike to protest the grooming rule and access limits.
Secretary George Romney told the Pacific Coast Builders Conference in San Francisco that the housing industry faces a disaster with a recession and a depression, despite unprecedented Administration steps to aid it.
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