Nixon plans rapid Vietnam troop withdrawal by December
President Nixon announced a plan to remove 100,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam between May 1 and December 1, reducing total forces to 184,000 while pursuing Vietnamization. He rejected setting a fixed end date, saying withdrawal would end involvement in a way that preserves South Vietnam’s freedom. Democratic critics urged a definite deadline.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Vietnam
U.S
Communists re elect ruling troika at Moscow congress
The 24th Communist Party Congress reelected the ruling troika Leonid Brezhnev Alexei Kosygin and Nikolai Podgorny to the Politburo amid a show of support for the Five Year Plan. Central Committee and Politburo votes were secret with no anticipated defections.
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Troika
Moscow
UPI
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Kosygin
Brezhnev
Central Committee
Alexander N. Shelepin
Shelepin
Trade Union Federation
State Committee For Security
Vasili Prokhorov
Politburo
Moscow Television Today
Palace of Congresses
Soviet Communist Party
Congress
United States
Middle East
Nixon vows to end Vietnam War worthy of Karl Taylor
AVELLA Pa. Mrs Shirley Taylor widow of Staff Sgt Karl G Taylor was surprised and proud when President Nixon said he would end the Vietnam War in a way worthy of her husband's sacrifice Taylor who earned a posthumous Medal of Honor after dying Dec 9 1968 while trying to rescue wounded Marines Mrs Taylor lives with her parents in a small southwestern Pennsylvania town and watched the address with friends and newsmen.
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Avella
UPI
Nixon
Karl Taylor
Shirley Taylor
Taylor
White House
Karl G. Taylor
James Pratt
Pennsylvania
U.S
Southeast Asia
Heavy fighting yields high enemy losses near Laos frontier
UPI reports 320 North Vietnamese killed near Fire Base 6 on the Laotian border as U.S. forces log the heaviest weekly American death toll since Cambodia operations. Stewart Kellerman notes an armored unit withdrew from Fire Support Base Vandergrift near Khe Sanh and returned to Quang Tri.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Stewart Kellerman
Vandergrift
Khe Sanh
Cambodia
Pich Nil Pass
Phnom Penh
Mary Ann
da Nang
Kellerman
77Th Armor
Quang Tri
Momentum grows for FBI wiretap probe in Congress
The House moves to hire an electronics firm to inspect all House phones for eavesdropping devices as debates mount over FBI monitoring. Senators Kennedy and Ervin discuss expanding probes to include FBI practices amid charges by Hale Boggs and others.
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Washington
UPI
FBI
House of Representatives
J. Edgar Hoover
House
Hale Boggs
Senate
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
House Judiciary Committee
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
Sam Ervin
D-N.c
Ervin
Kennedy
Senate Judiciary
House Administration
Substantial federal subsidies paid to 23 large farm operators
Washington disclosures list 23 farm operators with subsidies over 500000 in 1970. nine exceeded 1 million, led by J. G. Boswell Co of Corcoran California with 4.4 million. Overall 137000 farmers received 5 million plus payments totaling 3.7 billion across cotton sugar and other crops.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
J. G. Boswell Co
Corcoran
Calif
J. G. Boswell
Giffen,Inc
Huron
South Lake Farms
Fresno
Salyer Land Co
H. M. Tenneco
Bakersfield
Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co
Pumene
Hawaii
Waialua Sugar Co. Ltd
Waialua
Vista del Llano Farms
Firebaugh
U.S. Sugar Corp
Clewisto
Fla
L.A. Camp Farms Co
Shafter
Lemoore
State of
South Bay
Florida
Lihue Plantation Co. Ltd
Lihue
Jack Harris Inc
Coalinga
Zone change limits mobile facility use in county
County planning director Herbert Diverbiss clarified that a proposed ordinance limits supplemental mobile facility use to commercial industrial or residential zones already established, excluding savings and loan mobile branches. The measure, sent to the board of supervisors, arose from requests for temporary facilities as accessory uses to ongoing businesses.
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Herbert Diverbiss
County Planning Commission
Savings and Loan Institution
Lompoc Savings and Loan Association
Planning Commission
State Savings and Loan Commissioners Office
Solvang
Buellton
Te Association
Board of Supervisors
Weather Outlook With Warmer Temperatures Ahead
Fair weather today with partial cloud cover and a slight rise in temperatures. Highs in the 60s and lows in the 40s or upper 30s under NW winds 10 to 20 mph. tides reach 4.4 to 5.1 feet on Friday with two high tides and two low tides at noted times.
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