Army orders life or death court martial for Lt Calley
The Army ordered a capital court martial for 1st Lt. William L. Calley Jr. on charges including premeditated murder of not less than 70 Orientals and murder of 109 South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. The trial will be at Fort Benning with a potential death penalty if convicted. A separate inquiry heads to determine if the massacre was hushed up.
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Orwin C. Talbott
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Calley
Fort Benning
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Talbott
William R. Peers
Waynesville
N.C
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Cused Calley
David Mitchell
Ft. Hood
Tex
My Lai
Quang Ngai
Israel planes raid Suez in heaviest night strike to date
Israeli warplanes conducted a four hour night raid across the Suez Canal targeting Egyptian positions along the west bank. An Egyptian soldier was wounded and Cairo claimed air defenses repelled the attacks. In Acre rioting Arab districts were pushed back by police. In Jenin two guerrillas and two Israeli border policemen were wounded. Israel said the raid was retaliation for cross canal commando raids damaging tanks and killing Israeli soldiers.
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Acre
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Egypt
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Qantana
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Tel Aviv
Tere
Lost underground rooms found at White House uncover relics
Workmen digging up the indoor pool area uncovered two buried rooms beneath the Flower Room dating to Thomas Jefferson's era. Artifacts include porcelain and crockery from Lincoln to Grant periods, with pieces from the Harrison era, eight feet below the current floor. No gold or skeletons found.
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UPI
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Abraham Lincoln
White House
James Ketchum
Presidential
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Lincoln
Jefferson
John Adams
Benjamin Harrison
Apollo 12 crews complete Pacific splashdown in Apollo era finale
Apollo 12 moon pilots Conrad Gordon and Bean splashed down southeast of Pago Pago after a 10 day mission. The USS Hornet recovered them as they shed orbit and prepared for 16 days of lunar quarantine and return to Houston Space Center. The crew retrieved rocks and samples and spoke with reporters in a televised news conference.
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Bean
Houston Space Center
South Pacific
Donald L. Lind
Don
Lavalavas
Conrad
Russia
Yuri Gagarin
America
Alan B. Shepard
Navy
Space Center
Tony Calio
Troops aid S Vietnam on border in border battle
UPI reports U S forces reinforced South Vietnamese troops along the Cambodian border after a 15 minute clash near Ban Me Thuot. Eight Americans wounded, attackers fled. Lt Gen Ewell voiced confidence in ARVN but warned of challenges without U S support. Communists pressed border bases earlier, with 140 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese killed to 38 Americans wounded.
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UPI
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U.S. 4Th Infantry Division
Highlands
Ban Me Thuot
Julian J. Ewell
ARVN
Bu Prang
Duc Lap
Nixon signs bill but withholds school funds
The local district faces an $811,000 share of federal impacted school aid delayed as President Nixon signs Public Law 874 but orders agencies not to speed funding until all appropriation bills finish. Congress may adjourn by Dec 23 or 24, making timely disbursement unlikely. the district currently receives about $2 million annually.
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U S and North Vietnam Open to Secret Negotiations
Washington reports the United States is willing to hold private talks with North Vietnam to end the war, with the exception of South Vietnam’s political future. Ambassador Lodge refutes charges of intransigence and asserts private talks covered general Vietnam issues and troop withdrawal. Weather notes follow.
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North Vietnam
Nixon
Ronald L. Ziegler
U.S
South Vietnam
Henry Cabot Lodge
Paris
Xuan Thuy
Ziegler
Thuy
Vietnam
Lodge
Glimpses of a Penn State probe and a celebratory family moment
Dave Lee urges Penn State University to investigate the khulyagus conspiracy as Brenda Feggerman copes with husband Hal breaking his arm a day after their newborn twins arrived home from the hospital.
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Penn State University
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