Nixon plans new large troop withdrawals from Vietnam
Washington reports President Nixon intends to announce a 50 000 man pullout from Vietnam in late August with another 50 000 to follow in October raising total withdrawals toward 125 000 this year. Wheeler and Nixon aides say phased reductions are feasible and may be announced later this month.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Vietnam
Defense
Clark M. Clifford
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint, Chiefs of Staff
Wheeler
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
Los Angeles
Mysterious Lompoc girl murder widens regional probe
Sheriff's investigators probe link between the Lompoc Valley body and northern California slayings. The unidentified blonde girl, 15 to 25, was found along a road five days after death, stabbed repeatedly and throat cut. Autopsy pending.
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Record
Rennie Adam
Lompoc
Gresco
Salinas
Vaughn Proctor
Sheriff's
San Jose
Lompoc Valley
California
Peter J. Zanella
Zanella
Robert M. Failing
Robert W. Kelly
Bud Olson
Two Boys on Unicycles Parade Down North H Street
Two boys ride unicycles along a sidewalk on North H Street yesterday. Press Club members work hard to bring a new refrigerator to second floor quarters while Dan Duffy hosts his girlfriend’s softball team after league play concludes.
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North H St
Press Club
Dan Duffy
Soviet and Nixon visits mark tense Bucharest scene
In Bucharest a second string Soviet delegation arrived for the 10th Communist party congress signaling displeasure over Nixon's weekend trip. Romania welcomed Nixon but stayed loyal to Soviet led communism. In Vietnam, Allied forces reported 208 enemy killed in multiple engagements including a helicopter strike on Communist supply bicycles and scooters. one American was killed and seven wounded.
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Bucharest
UPI
Soviet Union
Romania
Communist Party Congress
Nixon
Saigon
Armstrong Turns 39 In Lunar Mission Quarantine
Space Center Houston reports Neil Armstrong marking his 39th birthday in quarantine as Apollo 11 scientists study lunar rocks. Jeff Warner notes moon samples show molten rock, aiming to resolve whether the moon is Earth like or not, while rocks and astronauts remain in separate quarantine zones of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory.
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Earth
Warner
Russian trawlers escorted by Canadian Navy reach Victoria
Two Russian fishing vessels captured inside Canada’s 12 mile limit were en route to Victoria with a Canadian Navy escort. Fisheries officers boarded them about 90 miles from Tofino, and Fisheries Minister Jack Davies ordered the escort to stay with the ships to the city.
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Victoria
B.C
UPI
Canada
Fisheries Department
Tofino
Vancouver Island
Jack Davies
Lompoc Council Considers Youth Center Proposal Tonight
The City Council will discuss a youth center suggestion from the Lompoc Jaycees during the regular 7 30 pm meeting at City Hall. Jaycees propose a long range program with building, fulltime counselor, and youth adult board, tied to a tentative community center plan at Ryan Memorial Park. Also on the agenda are a water line reimbursement with the Lompoc Unified School District at Miguelito Elementary and a Parks and Recreation commissioner vacancy.
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City Hall
Lompoc Jaycees
Bill Cockshott
The
Jaycees
David Beret
Jaycee
Ryan Memorial Park
Parks and Recreation Department
Lompoc Unified School District
Miguelito Elementary School
Parks and Recreation Commission
Outgoing SSS Appeal Board Chair Attacks Hershey’s Leadership
The National Selective Service Appeal Board’s chair Judge Henry J. Gwiazda and resigning member Dr. Kenneth W. Clement accuse Director Gen. Lewis B. Hershey of overpowering board independence. They describe attempts to curb dissent, push for a civilian executive secretary, and turn the board into a rubber stamp.
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NEW Britain, Conn
UPI
National Selective Service Appeal Board
Selective Service
Lewis B
Kenneth W. Clement
Bratenahl
Ohio
Hershey
Henry J. Gwiazda
New Britain
Appeal Board
Shey
Gwiazda
Nixon
Harry S. Truman
Washington
Similarities checked in multi girl slayings
Police compare seven Michigan and five California murders amid cross country links. Fugitives Andrew Manuel and John Collins are sought as possible suspects tied to slayings from Ann Arbor to Salinas. FBI joins probe into shared evidence including earrings and vehicle use.
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Ypsilanti, Mich
UPI
Michigan
California
Federal Bureau of Investigation
John Norman Collins
Eastern Michigan University
Karen Sue Beineman
Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti
Collins
Washtenaw County
FBI
Andrew Manuel
Richard Diaz
Rooming House
Manuel
Salinas
Calif
Claremont
Marina Elizabeth Habe
Hans Habe
Elise Hardt
Hollywood Hills
Miss Beineman
Committee to correct mistake delaying income tax cuts
Washington UPI Chairman Wilbur Mills said the House Ways and Means Committee unknowingly denied millions of middle income Americans a tax cut in the reform bill. He called a session to fix rate schedules and ensure at least a 5 percent cut by 1972.
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Washington
UPI
Wilbur D Mills
House
Ways and Means
Mills
House Rules Committee
Nixon
Charles A Vanik
Ohio
Vanik
Kennedy calls ABM system folly in Senate address
Senator Edward M. Kennedy denounced the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system as folly in his first Senate speech since a July auto accident that led to a secretary's drowning. He warned the U S and Russia may soon possess enough warheads to destroy each other silos regardless of defenses.
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John Hall Washington
UPI
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Nixon
Senate
United States
Russia
Mariner 7 Mars Photos Show Bright Spiral and Unexplained Markings
In Pasadena UPI reports Mariner 7 sent closeup Mars images in fantastic detail. 31 pictures from about 2000 miles reveal a bright spiral feature dubbed The Great Shoelace and cloudlike white areas over the polar cap with dark linear splotches.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
Mariner 7
Mars
South Polar
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Robert F. Leighton
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