Nixon to Outline Major Vietnam Troop Withdrawals Tonight
President Nixon is expected to announce a further withdrawal of about 250000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by mid 1972 leaving 50000 or fewer. The 9 p.m. EST address will chart a rapid disengagement and follow calls from Republican and Democratic leaders for a clear end to U.S. operations. The latest troop total had dipped under 300000 in the prior week.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
U.S
Vietnam
White House
Creighton W. Abrams
Abrams
California
Saigon
Washington Post
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Jacob K. Javits
Laird
US S
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Investigation of FBI by Congress Suggested
Deputy Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst urged Congress to conduct an investigation of the entire FBI operation to clear air from spying charges. He said a few congressmen had been investigated in the past for specific illegal acts, none involving taps.
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Washington
UPI
Richard G. Kleindienst
Congress
FBI
Kleindienst
Hale Boggs
House
Boggs
J. Edgar Hoover
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
Byrd
Community Good Friday rites set by Ministerial Assoc
The Lompoc Valley Ministerial Association sponsors annual Good Friday services at First Southern Baptist Church from noon to 3 p.m with a seven sermon sequence on Christ's words from the cross. Clergy from Peace Lutheran First United Methodist Foursquare Presbyterian Nazarene Valley Chapel Calvary Baptist and others lead.
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First Southern Baptist Church
Lompoc
Robert Montgomery
First United Methodist Church
Harold Drain
Foursquare
Kenneth Boyd
First Presbyterian
Eugene Ashlock
Church of the Nazarene
David Chamberlain
Valley Chapel
Valley of the Flowers United Church of Christ
First Baptist Church
Bernard Howard
First Methodist Church
Peace Lutheran Church
la Purisima Mission
Vietnamese attack on Fire Base 6 near Laos border
North Vietnamese troops attacked twice near Fire Base 6 in the Central Highlands about 12 miles from Laos and Cambodia. South Vietnamese sources claim 1,873 enemy killed and 72 VN troops died, while U.S. observers say ARVN losses were heavy and the figures may be exaggerations. Major Vo An led the defense amid a broader clash after the base’s prior fall on March 31.
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Saigon
UPI
Laos
Cambodia
Robert E. Sullivan
U.S
Vo An
North Vietnam
Major An
22Nd
Lompoc Council delays electric rate hike amid budget review
City officials shelved action on an eight percent electric rate increase pending a full preliminary budget review. Councilman George Cotsenmoyer opposed any hike citing possible survey errors and urged caution, while City Administrator Gene Wahlers defended the figures and said delay costs about $8,500 monthly.
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Lompoc
George Cotsenmeyer
Cotsenmoyer
Gene Wahlers
Marvin Loney
William Ruffner
Loney
Wahlers
Red China Invites U S Table Tennis Players for Peking Visit
UPI reports Communist China extended an invitation to U S table tennis players to visit Peking marking the first official American group invitation since 1949. Rufford Harrison of the American Table Tennis Federation accepted and said the team may depart Japan for Peking around April 15.
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Nagoya
Japan
UPI
China
U.S
Peking
Rufford Harrison
Sung Chung
Tokyo
Harrison
Two More Blacks Elected Mayors In Berkeley And East St Louis
Voters in two municipal elections added two black mayors to the national count. Warren Widener won Berkeley California by a slim margin amid a heated race and possible recount. James E Williams Sr won East St Louis Illinois as a political newcomer. Oklahoma City elected Patience Latting as the nation's largest city with a woman mayor by about ten thousand votes, and Chicago re elected Richard J Daley to his fifth four year term by a margin exceeding four hundred thousand. Berkeley election featured a narrow victory and a vote on a three department police plan that was defeated. Widener proposed a community control alternative. Sixteen councils seats opened, three radar coalition backed candidates won.
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United Press International
Warren Widener
Berkeley
Calif
James E. Williams Sr
East
St. Louis
Ill
Oklahoma City
U.S
Patience Latting
Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Richard E. Friedman
Daley
West Coast
Widener
Wilmot Sweeney
Sweeney
University of California
State
Two Yugoslavs attack Yugoslav embassy in Stockholm
Two Yugoslavs shouted Long Live a Free Croatia fired at the Yugoslav embassy in Stockholm wounding ambassador Vladimir Rolovic aged 55 and his secretary Mira Stempha aged 58. Both were listed in very critical condition as doctors attempted to remove bullets. Stempha was shot in the chest.
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Stockholm
UPI
Croatia
Sweden
Vladimir Rolovic
Mira Stempha
Rolovic
Miss Stempha
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