Vietnam Policy Shift With Cease Fire Talk Continues
Officials described a move from large scale search and destroy to protective reaction as part of a broader Vietnam policy shift led by President Nixon. Mansfield credited the president for the change while noting ongoing bombing and a lull in ground fighting, with troop withdrawals anticipated nationwide within a year. Senate hearings were postponed until after the November 3 national address.
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White House
Ronald Ziegler
Mansfield
Vietnam
Nixon
Montana
Democrat
Creighton Abrams
Melvin Laird
U.S
Laird
Lyndon B Johnson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Aiken
Foreign Relations Committee
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Kennedy death debate over autopsy in Kopechne case
Dinis seeks autopsy in the Chappaquiddick death inquiry to corrobor the cause of death and clear suspicions. Testimony includes Kennedy's July 25 TV remarks about leaving the party with Miss Kopechne and the timing of the accident.
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Dinis
Kennedy
Brominski
Miss Kopechne
Mills
Zodiac killings prompt Bay Area school bus security measures
Police in Palo Alto and nearby counties increase bus security after a series of Zodiac linked attacks. Sheriff patrol cars will accompany 25 district buses while guards may ride buses. Napa and Vallejo officers convoy buses as investigators heed threats from an anonymous caller claiming to be The Zodiac.
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Earl Whitmore
San Mateo County
Palo Alto
Ray Carlisle
Napa
Vallejo
San Francisco
Carlisle
Eugene Stewart
Portola Valley
Ladera
Los Lomitas
Stewart
William F. Baker
Ex Mayors Fault Nixon City Policy In Retrenchment
Three former mayors Jerome Cavanaugh Arthur Naftalin and Joseph Barr criticized the Nixon Administration for failing to grasp urban problems and retreating from city needs. They cited cutback programs and daily Washington announcements as evidence of disconnect from cities.
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New York
UPI
Nixon
Jerome Cavanaugh
Exmayor
Detroit
Agnew
Washington
Arthur Naftalin
Minneapolis
Joseph Barr
Pittsburgh
Dentist's Trial Set Over Park Estates Noise Complaint
Long Beach dentist Dr. Lawrence Spaulding faces peace disturbance charges after police broke up a 3 a.m. concert with a trash can lid and dog barking tapes. He awaits a jury trial in Long Beach Municipal Court on November 17 and is free on $125 bail.
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Long Beach
Lawrence Spaulding
Long Beach Municipal Court
Lonna Linda
Park Estates
Jury to Probe Slaying in Whittier Narcotics Raid
Los Angeles County grand jury to investigate the fatal shooting of Heyward Henry Dyer 22 during a narcotics raid on October 3. Dyer died from a bullet through a ceiling as Sgt Frank E Sweeney testified he fired his rifle accidentally in the raid. Coroner jury ruled death was occasioned by criminal means. Deputy District Attorney Ralph Mayer will call 20 to 25 witnesses.
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Los Angeles
Quest
Dyer
Atty
Ralph Mayer
Learys Son Warned In Dope Trial For Spitting In Courtroom
John Leary twenty was warned by Superior Court Judge Byron McMillan to stop spitting on the Santa Ana courtroom carpet or face three days in jail. The Laguna Beach arrest followed a December 26 stop by Officer Neal Purcell amid a marijuana and LSD possession case involving Dr Timothy Leary's son.
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Dr. Leary
Timothy Leary
John Leary
Santa Ana
Leary
Marvin Cooper
Superior Court
Byron McMillan
Laguna Beach
Neal Purcell
Purcell
John
Smith
Students clash with police over Shah visit in San Francisco
About 300 demonstrators from Iranian student groups and U S political organizations clashed briefly with police outside the Iranian Consulate in San Francisco during Shah of Iran talks in Washington. One demonstrator was booked for assaulting an officer as 32 officers kept guard at the consulate.
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San Francisco
United States
Students For A Democratic Society
The
Arab Student League
Progressive Labor Party
Nixon
Federal
Iran
Hossein Eshraghi
Man Held In Baby Death In Harbor City Case
A 40 year old Harbor City man Phillip Alvarez faces a murder charge in the suffocation death of his two month old daughter Diahann. At a preliminary hearing in San Pedro Alvarez admitted placing his hand over the infant’s mouth to stop crying. He will be arraigned in Long Beach Superior Court on November 4.
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Harbor City
San Pedro
Phillip Alvarez
Alvarez
Hawkins attacks Nixon policy over rising unemployment
Rep. Augustus Hawkins, a Democrat from California, charged the Nixon Administration with creating a low mood to fight inflation and cited 350,000 job losses since January 1969. He urged expanding the Office of Economic Opportunity funding, while the panel balked at reporting the administration bill for a two year OEO continuation. Hawkins cited Labor Department data to back his figures.
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Augustus F. Hawkins
D-Calif
House Education and Labor Committee
Nixon
Office of Economic Opportunity
Hawkins
OEO
Senate
John N. Erlenborn
R-Ill
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Kopechne
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Armand Fernandes Jr
Spitz
K. Dunn Gifford
Wilkes-Barre
Martha's Vineyard
Massachusetts
Nna
Cisco Bay Area
William Hydie
Baker
Nixon City Policy
United Press International
David A. Smith
Haight-Ashbury Medical
Shah
Depression Nixon
Aim —Hawkins
America
California
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