Senate Deferral Fails to Cut Defense Budget Amid Vietnam War
The Senate rejected a bipartisan bid to trim 5.2 billion from Nixon’s defense plan, keeping a 66 billion current-year ceiling while the war’s continuation limited shifts. Proxmire and Mathias argued for cuts to manpower, weapons, and overseas bases as inflation strains domestic needs.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Nixon
William Proxmire
Dwis
Charles Mathias
Rmd
John Stennis
D-Miss
Senate Armed Services Committee
Proxmire
Mathias
Defense Department
Thomas F. Eagleton
DMO
Eagleton
New Year's Gang claims UW campus attack threatens violence
The New Year's Gang, an underground group, claimed responsibility for the UW Army Mathematics Research Center incident that killed physicist Robert Fassnacht and injured four others. The group warned of Oct. 30 as a deadline for demands and threatened open warfare if unmet. The FBI led an 80-agent probe. Kaleidoscope published the statement.
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Madison, Wis
UPI
University of Wisconsin
New Year's Gang
Madison
Kaleidoscope
UW Army Mathematics Research Center
FBI
U.S. Army
Milwaukee 3
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Robert E. Fassnacht
Agnew visits Cambodia to promise aid without military involvement
Vice President Spiro Agnew forges a careful message in Phnom Penh promising continued American military aid while insisting the United States would not engage militarily. Cambodian officials hailed the visit as proof Lon Nol could attract powerful allies, including the United States.
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Bangkok
Thailand
UPI
Spiro
Agnew
Cambodia
United States
America
Phnom Penh
Lon Nol
Saigon
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Legion convention opens as antiwar protesters mobilize
National Guard units are called out and Multnomah County sheriff granted emergency powers as the American Legion begins its 52nd national convention in Portland. Oregon Governor McCall orders troops. antiwar camps near Estacada report about 8 000 demonstrators. No injuries in a bomb blast at Portland Legion HQ. President Nixon invited, possible remote address if safety allows.
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Portland
Ore
UPI
National Guard
American Legion
Multnomah County
Oregon
Tom McCall
Terry Schrunk
Board of Commissioners
Seattle
Legion
J. Milton Patrick
People’s Army
Estacada
Terry Schmidt
Nixon
White House
Five Fires Reported in Valley Area
Five blazes struck Valley area locations overnight and today. One fire damaged lettuce boxes at California Pine Box Co. on West Laurel Avenue. boxes piled 12 feet high outside a storage building. Other fires burned seven acres behind Mission Hills Baptist Church with $50 shed damage. causes under investigation. Local and county units battled brush fires on Rucker Road and at Union Oil properties. A small grass fire was extinguished on East Walnut Avenue.
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California Pine Box Co
West Laurel Avenue
Lompoc Fhre
East Walnut Avenue
Vandenberg Village
Rucker Road
Calle Pasade
Burton Mesa Boulevard
Mission Hills Baptist Church
Union Oil Co
la Purisima Mission
Onstott
Kosygin to Meet Nixon During UN Visit
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin will head the Soviet delegation to the United Nations in October and meet President Nixon and other world leaders. This marks his first Nixon meeting and his second U.S. visit since 1967. Khrushchev was the only other Soviet premier to lead a UN delegation.
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Moscow
UPI
Alexei N. Kosygin
United Nations
Nixon
New York
U.N
Kosygin
United States
Khrushchev
Dag Hamarskjold
Israeli jets strike guerrilla bases in Jordan twice
Israeli jets attacked two Arab guerrilla bases in Jordan three miles east of the Jordan River for about 20 minutes. A later strike hit another base in the Jordan Valley as clashes persisted after a two day lull amid cease fire tensions.
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United Press International
Jordan
Tel Aviv
Egypt
Middle East
Suez Canal
United States
Jordan River
Jordan Valley
Sea of Galilee
Palestinian National Council
Amman
Israel
United Nations
Gunnar V. Jarring
New York
UPI
Peter D. Lynch
Lompoc Faces Gap in Police Patrol on Santa Lucia Canyon Road
The city, after annexing the FCI area, has no formal patrol on a two mile stretch from Floradale Avenue to Lompoc Casmalia Road. The FBI and FCI fire department will provide enforcement until easements and Army surveys finalize a formal police obligation. City officials say repairs and easements are routine while police say authority ends at city lines.
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Federal Correctional Institution
Lompoc
Floradale Avenue
FCI
Lompoc-Casmalia Road
Sixth Army
Gene Wahlers
Santa Lucia Canyon Road
FBI
Wahlers
Ken Dawson
Santa Lucia Canyon
Army Base
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Ray Robertson
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Lompoc Valley
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Wicks
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G.G. Schuknecht
John J Hannah
Donald Cameron
Schuknecht
Hannah
Cameron
Start of Portland
John Larsson
Robert Kranig
John Baker
Security Council
Johnson
Glassboro
FCI Road Patrol
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