Heavy fighting in northern South Vietnam as U S troops shift
South Vietnamese forces mounted their heaviest battles of the new year in Ho An region south and southwest of Hue An 350 miles northeast of Saigon. U S units reported 65 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese killed nationwide with four Americans killed and 34 wounded.
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Walter Whitehead
Saigon
UPI
South Vietnam
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Honlulu
Ho An
U.S. Navy
South China Sea
U. S
Bien Hoa
Siagon
Quan Ngai City
Candy Bomber to Lead Berlin Based 7350th Support Group
Air Force Colonel Gail Halvorsen famed as the Candy Bomber is reassigned from Vandenberg to Berlin to command the 7350th Support Group. He recalls candy drops during the Berlin Airlift and the little Vittles mission that uplifted West Berlin children. He has a distinguished record including the Cheney Award and the Air Force Commendation Medal. He is married with five children.
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Air Force
Gail Halvorsen
Berlin
7350Th
Halvorsen
Vandenberg Afb
6596Th
Air Force Systems Command
6595Th Aerospace Test Wing
Air Force Western Test Range
Tempelhof
West Berlin
Brad
Denise
Marilyn
Robert
Mike
Newspaper rolls out of battle scarred plant in San Rafael
Deliver trucks of a strikebound paper rolled out of the San Rafael Independent Journal plant before dawn to circulate the Saturday edition. Earlier, 700 striking typographers and allies clashed with 150 police, injuring six and arresting twelve as windows were shattered and a truck set on fire.
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SAN Rafael
UPI
Hamilton Afb
San Pablo Bay
S. J. Bumenburg
Fairfax
Bruce B. Scopes
McNear’s Point
Coast Guard
Judge Hoffmans actions spark legal debates nationwide
UPI reports U S District Court Judge Julius J Hoffmann jailed all seven Chicago Seven defendants for contempt after sentencing. William Kunstler received four years and 13 days. ACLU leaders called the actions unconstitutional and plan friend of the court briefs. Demonstrations sparked in New York San Francisco and Los Angeles while Vietnam moratoriums gathered near the White House.
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United Press International
U. S District Court
Julius J. Hoffman
Chicago
American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU
New York
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Hoffman
William M. Kunstler
Edward J. Ennis
Ennis
Fifth Avenue
Federal
U. S
Lawyers Guild
San Francisco Federal Building
New
Federal Court House
Nathasha Dellinger
David Dellinger
Jerry Rubin
Ucla
Long-time convict Hector to face new hearing in Alameda
Edward M. Hector, imprisoned for 42 of his 74 years, is ordered moved from California Men’s Colony to Oakland for a second Alameda County Superior Court hearing. The California Supreme Court demanded the new hearing after Hector argued he lacked counsel and that a recent U S Supreme Court ruling on free legal aid should be retroactive.
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Oakland
UPI
Edward M. Hector
Hector
California Men’s Colony
San Luis Obispo
Alameda County
State Supreme Court
San Francisco
U. S. Supreme Court
Leon Gray
Santa Barbara
Marines See MDM as Threat to Defense
Gen Leonard F Chapman Jr warns the Movement for a Democratic Military endangers the corps and national defense. Four Navy shore patrolmen are under investigation after a raid on MDM HQ in San Diego amid injuries and arrests of Marines. The MDM advocates broader rights for service members and protests over riot and Vietnam duties.
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San Diego
UPI
Leonard F. Chapman Jr
U.S. Marine Corps
MDM
Navy
Chapman
Marine Corps
Students
Democratic Society
Black Panthers
Camp Pendleton
Ernesto
Che
Guevara
Eldridge Cleaver
San Diego Street Journal
Six bodies found after collision of aircraft over Sierra foothills
Wreckage of two light planes in the Sierra Nevada foothills produced six deaths including three children. Pilot Mahoney of Redwood City and his stepson among the dead. other victims from Folsom and nearby areas. Cause of crash under investigation.
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Placerville
API
Sierra Nevada
Civil Air Patrol
Here
George Frank Mahoney
Redwood City
Dennis Widmer
South Lake Tahoe
Palo Alto
Mammoth Lake
Cameron Park
James Kuntz
Charles
Geoffrey
Dale Hansen
Folsom
Kuntz
Pat Casey
Casey
CAP
Francis Hart
Northeast Snow Sleet Strikes Region Hard
Snow and sleet battered the Northeast as freezing rain glazed roads. West Virginia residents evacuated about 100 families near Logan and Tug River with 65 from Island Creek and 25 from Matewan near the Kentucky border. Temperatures plummeted to deep minus values across the Upper Midwest and icy air moved southeast toward the border. Travel warnings remained in effect and widespread travel disruption continued.
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United Press International
West Virginia
Midwest
Logan
Tug River
Island Creek
Kentucky
Matewan
Hershey Ends SS Career After Long Draft Years
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey ends his 30 year tenure as selective service director at age 76. He departs without a replacement or an office for his new role as presidential adviser on military manpower. Hershey plans to help devise a backup draft system for an all volunteer army.
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Washington
UPI
Lewis B. Hershey
Indiana National Guard
Nixon
Hershey
Supreme Court
Lompoc Record Details and Staff Highlights
Lompoc Record published daily except Sundays and Christmas Day under Superior Court Decree No. 47065. It lists staff including President Mrs. Kenneth L. Adam, Publisher J. Donald Adam, Editor Harry J. Crompe, and others. rate is 2.25 dollars per month by mail in advance.
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Lompoc
California
Lompoc Record
Lompoc Record Publications
Kenneth L. Adam
J. Donald Adam
Harry J. Crompe
Gaylen Jackson
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