Laird criticizes Saigon efforts to curb drug flow to troops
Defense Secretary Laird voiced dissatisfaction with South Vietnam’s steps to halt heroin trafficking to U.S. troops. Pentagon says more measures are expected as hearings on GI drug problems approach. U.S. and Spain clash reveal a 249 pound heroin seizure worth 35 to 40 million dollars bound for the United States.
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Washington
UPI
Melvin R. Laird
Saigon
U.S
Laird
Pentagon
Jerry W. Friedheim
Friedheim
Vietnam
Tran Thien Khiem
Nixon
Senate
Harold E. Hughes
Lowa
Hughes
Defense
Roger T. Kelley
State Department
John N. Mitchell
Valencia
Spain
United States
Mitchell
Labor secretary says cuts in jobless on schedule
Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson said despite a May unemployment rise to 6.2 percent, the administration is on track to reduce the jobless rolls. He linked slower job gains to lagging production and housing starts and cited defense cuts to justify aerospace job safeguards. Hodgson spoke at Benson High School in Portland.
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Labor
Portland
Ore
UPI
James D. Hodgson
Hodgson
Nixon
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Rockets Hit Da Nang Air Base Amid Vietnam War Attacks
Communist gunners fired about a dozen 122mm rockets into Da Nang and its U S airbase wounding civilians and causing casualties at the base. South Vietnamese sources reported five civilians killed and ten wounded near the base. Key fighting continued along the DMZ with shelling and air strikes as U S forces reinforced positions and pursued guerrilla groups.
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Saigon
UPS
da Nang
U.S
South Vietnam
A Shau
Dmz
Central Highlands
Dak To
23Rd Infantry Division
Pleiku
North
California Space Shuttle funding hopes fade says M Gillivray
W Don MacGillivray 36th District assemblyman said hopes for $75 000 from the State Legislature to back California's space shuttle push are impossible in time to prepare reports. He urged unity after a California Committee on the Space Shuttle resolution.
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California
W. Don MacGillivray
MacGillivray
Lompoc
Santa Maria
California Coordinating Council
Sheriff Ends Final Feather River Grave Search
In Yuba City UPI reports deputies used aerial infrared maps to locate nine more possible graves as they wrapped up searches in the Feather River peach orchards. Twenty five farm workers bodies had already been found and the latest victim was uncovered near the site of the 24th body.
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Yuba City
UPI
Feather River
Roy Whiteaker
Whiteaker
Edison Co continues nuclear plant search near Pt Conception
Southern California Edison says it remains committed to investigating the Santa Barbara County coastal site three miles east of Pt Conception for a potential nuclear facility. AEC required two years of site study, with preliminary plans after three years of public discussion and earlier hopes for a 1975 unit.
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Dick Praul
Southern California Edison Co
Santa Barbara County
Conception
Los Angeles
Pt. Conception
The
Atomic Energy
Nixon Opens 1.2 Billion Oklahoma Waterway Sea Coast
President Nixon dedicates the McClellan Kerr navigation project linking the Arkansas and Verdigris rivers as a new growth magnet for rural America. He cites private investment over 800 million dollars and potential to reverse urban migration while stressing environmental planning.
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Tulsa
Okla
UPIL
Nixon
Oklahoma Sea
McClellan-Kerr
Great Central
America
Arkansas
Verdigris
Reagan backs payroll withholding to balance California budget
Gov. Ronald Reagan said payroll withholding could raise more revenue and help balance the state budget despite welfare reform gaps. He defended tax status, noted possible future deficits, and accused Democrats of favoring higher taxes. Also a Civil Air Patrol led search for missing Gen. Richard Hunziker and wife over six counties.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Sacramento State College
Rosemarie King
Richard O. Hunziker
Margaret
Calexico
Civil Air Patrol
Air Force
Hunziker
1St Strategic Aerospace Division
Vandenberg
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al Garcia
Pam Perry
Virgil Anderson
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Lompoc High School
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Highway 9
M’‘Gillivray
Waco
Atlanta
Birmingham
Ala
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J. Thomas Lowe
State Chamber of Commerce
Robert Volk
Volk
James Cook
AEC
Edison Co
Hollister
Mgic Equities Corp
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Oklahoma
Sea Coast
Sparky
Walnut Avenue
City Hall
Cabrillo High School
SST
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