Americal Division exits Vietnam to become paper unit
The Americal Division begins stand down and will be disbanded into a Pentagon filing cabinet while its 196th Brigade remains in Vietnam. The unit faces My Lai 4 massacre ties, defoliant incidents, and investigations involving Brig. Gen. Donaldson, with ongoing Army reviews and Medal of Honor recipients noted.
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API
Americal
America
Pentagon
Vietnam
Americas
U.S
23Rd
196Th Light Infantry
William Calley
John W. Donaldson
11Th Brigade
Americal Command
Army
Weather shifts as West warms while circus resumes journey
The nation reports a moderating West with rising temperatures after a record cold spell. Snow grips Spokane, Salt Lake City sets date records, and the Miller Johnson Circus resumes travel from Denver toward Salt Lake City as cold air and rain intrude on the Pacific coast. A cold East brings showers, while the Southeast remains warm and humid. Early readings span Ely Nevada five degrees to Key West Florida eighty.
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Pacific Northwest
Spokane
Wash
Miller-Johnson Traveling Circus
Wyoming
Denver
Salt Lake City
John Baldwin
Baldwin
Atlantic
Midwest
Ely
Nev
Key West
Fla
Killer frees girl hostage in Philippine escape plan
A five man gang robber held 14 year old Susan Butler hostage for more than ten hours in Manila while a helicopter escape devised by two Philippine publishers and a crime reporter let the assailant flee. The gunman, calling himself Shotgun, stabbed a maid to death and wounded a woman before surrendering to the plan, and he was flown to a mountainside area northwest of Manila where police suspect ties to the New Peoples Army.
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Manila
UPI
Desperado
Charles R. Butler
Susan “Suzie” Butler
Manila Times
Newsboy
New Peoples Army
Confessed killer Edwards hangs self at San Quentin
Mack Ray Edwards 52, a confessed LA area serial killer, died by hanging in his Death Row cell at San Quentin. He had pleaded for the gas chamber during his murder trial and was executed by his sentence May 22, 1970, for the killings of Stella Nolan 8 Pacoima Donald Todd 13 Granada Hills and Gary Rochet 16. Edwards claimed three additional victims, all bodies unrecovered.
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SAN Quentin
UPI
Mack Ray Edwards
Los Angeles
Edwards
van Nuys
Stella Nolan
Compton
Donald Todd
Pacoima
Gary Rochet
Granada Hills
Don Baker
Azusa
Brenda Howell
Baker
Roger Madison
Sylmar
Woman to be arraigned on welfare fraud charge
Peggy McGinnis, 32, is to be arraigned November 9 on alleged welfare payment fraud totaling 750 dollars. The complaint claims she received welfare for a dog she asserted was her son, a two year old named Thomas, with fictitious physician names on a birth certificate showing birth at Atascadero State Hospital.
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San Bernardino
UPI
Peggy McGinnis
Aristotelian marriage contract details revealed for Onassis wife
The People newspaper reports a 170 clause marriage agreement between Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. It outlines monthly and yearly sums for her comfort, a separate bedroom arrangement, substantial alimony, and inheritance plans tied to their marriage.
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London
UPI
Aristotle
Jacqueline Onassis
People
Christian Kafarakis
Onassis
Christina
Skorpios
San Andreas fault really two fissures says seismologist
Dr Don L Anderson of Caltech argues the San Andreas system comprises two distinct faults with separate origins and displacement rates. He says the convergence of the southern and northern segments created the San Gabriel mountains and the February San Fernando quake, and warns the northeast Los Angeles area may host the next major event.
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Pasadena
Calif
San Andreas
Los Angeles
Don L. Anderson
Seismological Laboratory
California Insitute of Technology
Anderson
Scientific American
California
San Gabriel Mountains
San Fernando Valley
Los Angeles County
San Fernando
China Rejects Eban Telegram on UN Admission
Foreign Ministry spokesman said China would not accept Abba Eban’s telegram of congratulations on Beijing’s UN admission. China reportedly returned the message citing no postal links between the two nations. Israel had voted for China and against Taiwan’s retention.
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UPI
China
Abba Eban
United Nations
Foreign Ministry
Israel
Taiwan
Eban
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