SNMH Faces Decision on Dr. Ralph Adams Amid Tension
Tension rises at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital as the board prepares a personnel session to decide if Administrator Dr. Ralph Adams should be fired for insubordination. District Attorney George Franklin is close to concluding an inquiry into alleged conflicts of interest. Employees fear retaliation and many threaten to quit if Adams remains in place. The meeting agenda also covers a prior call for Adams to resign, sparked by an incident with Trustee William Purser.
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Peace or death in Nixon era war talk from Colorado Springs
Bass, a former Hanley aide, dies after an arson blaze linked to a 1966 slaying case. The article weaves Nixon peace talks, Hamburger Hill casualties, and threats, noting Bass warned of threats days before his death. Diane Bass reports from Columbus, Georgia.
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Mutiny sentences for twelve soldiers at Fort Ord
Twelve Army privates convicted of mutiny in a stockade sit down demonstration received fines, discharges, and prison terms from six to 15 months at hard labor. Eight others earlier got nine months to 16 years, with later reductions. Two more convicted on disobedience got lighter sentences. Larry L. Sales of Modesto, 22, received a bad conduct discharge.
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Brezhnev lashes China over nuclear war claims at Communist summit
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, at a world communist conference in Moscow, accused Mao Zedong's China of planning a nuclear war and border provocations. He asserted Soviet strength to defend itself and rejected Chinese territorial claims while China boycotted the gathering of 75 parties.
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Czechoslovakia
Weather Summary: Sunny with Light Southerly Winds
Fair and sunny conditions with southerly afternoon winds 10 to 20 mph. Today's high 95 and low 65 follow yesterday's 98 and 67. Noontime humidity at 10 percent. Sunrise at 5 23 and sunset at 7 56.
Crazed farmer kills family then himself in Beardtown
In Beardedown Illinois an agrarian man named James Dick 38 undergoing psychiatric treatment killed his wife Katherine 32 and children Linda 8 James 3 with a shotgun then took his own life. Debra 9 was found dead in a ditch after apparently trying to flee. Police said the killings occurred yesterday in their white frame house seven miles northeast of the Cass County town.
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Indianapolis Panthers raid leaves 40 arrested
Police raided the Black Panther Party headquarters in Indianapolis after two nights of violence in Negro neighborhoods. About 40 people were charged with disorderly conduct as two shotguns were seized. Three police officers and a civilian were injured in the clashes.
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UPI
Black Panther Party
30Th Street
Kenwood
Viet Cong seize Tay Ninh outskirts amid hostage scene
Communist forces pressed a major push into Tay Ninh city, tying civilian hostages to trees as they held a battered hamlet on the city’s edge. More than 1,000 American and South Vietnamese troops surrounded a battalion of about 400 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters in the northeastern fringe, in a high stakes move tied to the Nixon Thieu talks and a broader offensive.
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