US role in Viet War ends as last troops depart Saigon
The United States official end of its Vietnam War involvement marked by 2501 troops leaving Tan Son Nhut Air Base at 5:53 p.m. as 67 POWs are repatriated from Hanoi. General Weyand proclaims peace with honor while 1000 plus Americans remain in Vietnam and broader Southeast Asia forces stay on call.
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Saigon
UPI
United States
Tan Son Nhut
South Vietnam
U.S
Southeast Asia
Phnom Penh
Laos
McCord Testifies Mitchell Approved Watergate Bug Plans
James W. McCord Jr testified before the Senate committee that former Attorney General John N. Mitchell personally approved bugging Democratic National Headquarters in February 1972. Mitchell denied involvement, calling the reports slanderous and false.
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Washington
UPI
James W. McCord Jr
Senate
John N. Mitchell
Washington Post
the Post
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
McCord
Mitchell
The
Post
DeVan Shumway
Committee For
Nixon
Sen
Nine of Ten Lompoc candidates hold forum at church
Nine of ten Lompoc Unified School District trustees candidates addressed about 85 listeners at First Presbyterian Church in a three of four forums series. They discussed school funding, class size, remedial reading, administrative structure, and the hot lunch program.
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Kenneth R. Boyd
Boyd
First Presbyterian Church
Billie L. Grider
Edward H. Kranz
Gail
Harry J. Crompe
Lompoc Unified
Evan Brossman
George Mills
Julio Longoria, Jr
Richard Dinkel
DeWayne Holmdahl
Richard Jacoby
Gail Steiger
Mills
Steiger
Jacoby
Grider
Senate panel clash over redistricting bill stirs California
In Sacramento the Rules Committee backed a move to add two members to Senator Mervyn Dymally's Reapportionment Committee, a bid seen as stacking to advance Zenovich SB195. Dymally denounced the plan as an outrageous breach of good faith while rival SB62 remains on the Senate floor.
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Sacramento
UPI
Senate
Ronald Reagan
Mervyn M. Dymally
Los Angeles
Rules Committee
George N. Zenovich
Fresno
Zenovich
Republican Rules Committee
Robert J. Lagomarsino
Royal
James R. Mills
San Diego
Mills
Rules
Lagomarsino
Randolph Collier
D-Yreka
Peter H. Behr
R-Tiburon
Dymally
John L. Harmer
Glendale
Republican Caucus
Democratic Caucus
Beach reopenings set for Easter week at two state beaches
Gaviota State Beach will reopen for camp use tomorrow and Refugio State Beach is scheduled to reopen April 13 for Easter vacation week. State Parks official Pat Dougherty said closures were due to water supply and sewer repairs and general camp and beach renovations. Campsites will be first come first served at both beaches.
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Gaviota State Beach
Refugio State Beach
Pat Dougherty
State Parks and Recreation Department
Final group of POWs arrive in the Philippines
The last 67 American prisoners of war were released from North Vietnam, completing the release of 604 POWs after the Vietnam War ended. At Gia Lam airport, Lt. Cmdr. Alfred Agnew led the procession home to Clark Air Base. One more POW, Army Capt. Robert White, was still acknowledged as held by the Vietcong.
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North Vietnam
Hanoi
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Max Bielke
Alexandria
Minn
UPI
Indochina
Navy
Alfred Howard Agnew
Mullins
S.C
Gia Lam
Manila
Agnew
Spiro T. Agnew
America
U.S
Robert Thomas White
Newport News
White
Haiphong
Food price protest prompts meat boycott plan in 1970s
UPI reports farmers and consumer groups escalate a meat price protest. Protesters mailed 20 pound sticks of baloney to President Nixon and Governor Reagan and urged an April 17 meat boycott. Organizers threaten market withdrawals April 1 to 15 to push prices higher. A 200 strong rally outside the San Francisco federal building voiced anger with signs and slogans.
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San Francisco
Nixon
California
Ronald Reagan
Cowbelles
American National Cattlemen's Association
San Francisco Federal Building
Reagan
Denver
Cyril Woodward
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John Mitchell
E. Howard Hunt Jr
Howard H. Baker Jr
Rtenn
Senate Committee
Capitol
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Ed Kranz
Billie Grider
Imperial Savings and Loan
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