Contempt Bid Over CBS Pentagon Documentary
The House Commerce Committee recommended holding CBS and president Frank Stanton in contempt for refusing to provide raw material used in The Selling of the Pentagon. The vote 25 to 13 reflected a split between leadership supporters and opponents amid efforts to avoid a floor confrontation.
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Washington
Pentagon
Congressional
House Commerce Committee
Columbia Broadcasting System
Frank Stanton
Congress
Harley C. Staggers
D-W.va
CBS
Mine Safety Disputed By Officials
Officials dispute coal mine safety measures as government fines reach 4.8 million for 37 000+ alleged violations amid appeals. Industry leaders push safety education. union officials threaten action over mine conditions including methane gas seepage at Florence Min Co No 2 in Huff Pa.
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Elbert F. Osborn
C. L. Machamer
Independent Miners & Associates
Pottsville
Joseph E. Moody
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Pennsylvania
Disco Slagle
UMW District 2
Ebensburg
Florence Min Co
Huff
Mother Fails To Recognize Own Children
Two malnourished kidnap victims, Trini Esquivale aged 6 and Paula aged 3, were found in a San Antonio residence and later reunited with their mother Victoria Esquivel. Police said the children were kidnapped last August near Chicago, bearing wrist scars from bindings, and had gone a year without proper food.
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San Antonio
Tex
Trini Esquivale
Paula
Chicago
Victoria Esquivel
Louisville house sitter offers cheap protection for homes
Sandy Taft markets himself as a full time house sitter who moves in while families vacation. He bats around flexible rates from 12 to 15 dollars a day for children involved, averages two to three dollars daily for longer sits, and adds pool fringe benefits. Taft, a University of Kentucky Law School graduate, says he has ten regular clients and plans to take the bar exam while staying in demand.
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Louisville
Sandy Taft
University of Kentucky Law School
Taft
No Fault Insurance Questioned in Pennsylvania Debate
Harrisburg based State Insurance Commissioner Herbert Denenberg said he would debate opponents of no fault auto insurance only after a bill is introduced in the legislature. Lawyers for accident victims pressed for a public debate at a Philadelphia press conference.
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Harrisburg
Herbert Denenberg
Denenberg
Elwood S. Levy
Philadelphia
Lawyers Committee For Public Education
Levy
Pennsylvania
VISTA Future In Doubt and ICCAP Dispute
A meeting over ICCAP and VISTA program tensions in Indiana County reveals concerns about VISTA research emphasis, supervision issues, and communication gaps. Officials discuss late reports, potential reapplication, and possible one year without VISTAs if ICCAP does not reapply. In Cambridge, police arrest Sharon Beagly and John Havelin for unlawful possession of marijuana after a plant complaint.
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VISTA
ICCAP
Miss Thompson
Indiana County
Dan McDivitt
Dorothy Merritt
Vistas
Rev. Thompson
Ron Rothman
Barbara Gershman
Art Miller
Cambridge
Mass
Sharon Beagly
Dorchester
John ©. Havelin
Vietnam War Wariness Grows As U.S. Withdrawals Accelerate
The Pentagon Papers illuminate shifting strategy but reveal little about current war dynamics. U.S. policy reversal toward Vietnamization plus Cambodia and Laos incursions reshape the conflict as Saigon prepares for a possible late 1972 to early 1973 confrontation, while ARVN hopes and fears mount amid ongoing troop withdrawals and intensifying battles along Laos Panhandle and near the DMZ.
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Saigon
U.S
Pentagon
Nixon
United States
Vietnam
Indochina
Nguyen van Thieu
Creighton W.W. Abrams
Thieu
North Vietnam
Tu Do
Pentagon Pa
South Vietnam
Arvn-Army
Republic of Vietnam
Laos Panhandle
Cambodia
Hanoi
ARVN
Pentagon Studies Trim Johnson War Policy Shift Analysis
The Pentagon papers outline 1964 to 1966 U S involvement growth under Johnson with Bundy and Rostow urging combined military pressure and pacification in the South. Johnson kept North Vietnam action contingent while expanding South strength as bombing began in 1964 and escalated through 1965.
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Quang Tri Province
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
South Vietnam
Dak To
ARVN
Hanoi
Peking
Pentagon
U.S
Times
McGeorge Bundy
Walt W. Rostow
Johnson
North Vietnam
South
North
Washington
Robert
McNamara
Central Intelligence Agency
The
William C. Westmoreland
Vietnam
the Times
Mitchell
Supreme Court
Justice Department
Daniel Elisberg
William P. Rogers
Rogers
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