New Orleans Campus Troubles Anticipated
An official of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference predicts trouble next week on the Southern University in New Orleans campus. Joseph Hammond, SCLC Alabama field director, warns that there will be demonstrations on Monday as SUNO reopens while Southern at Baton Rouge remains closed after a fatal police confrontation on Nov. 16.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Southern University
New Orleans
Southern
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Joseph Hammond
Alabama
SCLC
Southern At
Hammond
State Capitol
Denver Allen Smith
Lettsworth
Ralph David Abernathy
St. Mary Baptist Church
Smith
Leonard Brown
Gilbert Wednesday
Edwin Edwards
Secret talks in Gif-sur-Yvette as Kissinger meets Tho
Secret six hour session at a two story villa in Gif sur Yvette near Paris involved Kissinger and Tho with the Hanoi delegation hosting. Meetings extend this week amid tensions over North Vietnamese troop withdrawal and demilitarized zone rules. Governor Edwards orders Baton Rouge campus closed after memorials for slain students.
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Rue Darthe
Choisy
Paris
Hanoi
Kissinger
Tho
Gif-sur- Yvette
Communist Party
Agence France Presse
U.S
Nixon
Nguyen van Thieu
Nguyen Phu Duc
Saigon
Thieu
Duc
South Vietnam
Navy hearing cites long hours and suspected dissident risk
Ward testified that long 16 to 18 hour shifts forced hard work and limited options. The Navy said 13 more dissidents will be discharged within 10 days, joining 16 already sent home. The Hicks subcommittee will also probe a racial confrontation aboard the carrier Kitty Hawk returning from North Vietnam.
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Ward
Navy
Floyd V. Hicks
D-Wash
San Diego
North Vietnam
Firepower Demonstration Showcases Heavy Artillery and Air Support
A military demonstration features eighty six field artillery cannons on two firing lines with 18 155mm howitzers 54 105mm howitzers and four eight inch self propelled howitzers. An OV 2 FAC aircraft C 130 transports RF 4 Phantoms A 7 fighter bombers and six AH 1 Cobra helicopters participate in a coordinated attack and aerial artillery rocketry display followed by an Honest John rocket and a simulated nuclear explosion.
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South Boundary Road
Mon-way House
Air Force
C Battery
333Rd Aerial Field Artillery
5Th Training Battalion
U.S. Army Training Center
Field Artillery
Israel strikes guerrilla camps in Lebanon amid clashes
An Israeli raid damaged guerrilla camps in Lebanon with one Israeli soldier wounded and several attackers hit. Lebanese forces reported an infiltration east of the Hasbani River with clashes involving Palestinian guerrillas from the Popular Front General Command, which rejected a ceasefire accord. One guerrilla was killed and three others were arrested.
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Lebanon
Beirut
Hasbani River
WAFA
Popular Front—General Command
Improvement Needed In U S Foreign Affairs Machinery
William B. Macomber, deputy undersecretary of State for management, says the U S foreign affairs machinery needs reforms. He notes the diplo matic corps is already lean and that only about 13 percent of U S officials abroad work for the State Department. He defends current overseas activity and stresses modernization to speed presidential needs while cautioning secrecy.
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Washington
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Nixon
William B. Macomber
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White House
Narcotics Bureau
Smithsonian Institution
CIA
Area Man Completes Army Medical Field Training
Capt Walter J Skeistaitis son of Mr and Mrs Walter Skeistaitis Jr 2419 N 41st recently completed a five week medical training course for Army Medical Department aviators at Brooke Army Medical Center Ft Sam Houston Tex The course covered aeromedical evacuation of the sick and wounded and disease prevention Skeistaitis entered the Army in 1967 and was last stationed in Korea A 1962 Lawton High School graduate he earned a B S from Oklahoma State University in 1967 His wife Elizabeth lived at the fort during his training.
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Walter Skeistaitis Jr
Army Medical Department
Army Medical Field Service School
Brooke Army Medical Center
Ft. Sam Houston
Tex
Skeistaitis
Korea
Lawton High School
Oklahoma State University
Elizabeth
Fort
City Woman's Husband in Army Training Test
1st Sgt George C Whitehouse based near Bamberg Germany and his Lawton wife Jean participate in VII Corps Army training test in Germany to gauge unit readiness. Sgt Whitehouse holds two Army Commendation Medals and previously served at Fort Sill. Also named are Spec 4 Robert J Rooker and Airman C Vern Rasmussen with ties to Lawton and Sheppard AFB respectively.
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Jean
Lawton
Germany
Whitehouse
Bamberg
10Th Field Artillery
Fort Sill
C. Vern V. Rasmussen
LaVerne V. Rasmussen
Carroll Ave
Sheppard Air Force Base
Tex
Philippine officials: Americans hired to kill Marcos
Manila authorities accused prominent Filipinos of hiring professional American assassins to kill President Ferdinand E. Marcos. An American named Lawrence Truckman was identified, with another American unnamed. A Filipino and a non Asian alien were arrested in connection with a $147000 plot using divers and a marksman. truckman fled during martial law and was traced from Hong Kong. The U.S. embassy said cooperation in the investigation.
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Manila
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Francisco S. Tatad
Lawrence Truckman
Tatad
Marcos
U.S
Man Nabbed On Stolen Car Charge Near Walters
FBI agents and Oklahoma Highway Patrol arrested Joseph H. Coker 26 of Daleville Alabama near Walters on the H E Bailey Turnpike on a federal warrant for interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle. He was found with a 1970 Lincoln Mark III reported stolen in Metter Georgia.
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H.E. Bailey Turnpike
FBI
Arnold C. Larson
Joseph H. Coker
Daleville
Ala
Montgomery
Coker
Metter
Highway Patrol
Ron Wilson
Skip Hendricks
Walt Ward
Comanche County
Oklahoma County
Oklahoma City
U.S
Charles R. Jones
Larson
Turnpike
Lawton Constitution
NATO seeks plan to shield shipping routes in Indian Ocean
The NATO serial council meets in Brussels for a three day session to authorize planning to protect vital shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean and South Atlantic. A 36 man U S delegation led by Sen Edward Kennedy attends with other leading lawmakers. John Peel is re elected president as the assembly schedules its 1937 session in Turkey.
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Indian Ocean
South Atlantic
NATO
U.S
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
John Peel
Assembly
Turkey
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