Former GI testifies of slayings at My Lai in Calley case
FT BENNING Ga AP ex GI Paul Meadle testified that he shot women and babies during the My Lai assault, believing they were Viet Cong. He said mothers with infants in arms could still pose a threat and recalled orders linked to Medina and Calley during the 1968 massacre.
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Lubbock
My Lai
FT. Benning, Ga
Paul Meadle
William Calley Jr
Meadie
Calley
Pfe
Terre Haute
Ind
Meadle
Tommy Moss
Spartanburg
S.C
Compaing C
Ernest Medina
48Th
Viet Cong Bat
Talion
Moss
Medina
South China Sea
Nicholas Capezza
New York City
Fat My Lai
Capezza
Vietnam
Lt. Calley
Police storm Black Panther HQ after meat truck theft
In Winston-Salem North Carolina police fired hundreds of shots and used tear gas to raid a Black Panther headquarters after a meat truck was stolen. Two suspects surrendered including Grady Fuller 22 and a 15 year old. Officers recovered 20 boxes of frozen meat and weapons from the house.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
UPI
Black Panther
Justus Tucker
Tucker
Ralph Lindley
Lindley
Panther
Grady Fuller
Fuller
Badillo urges bigger city aid and Puerto Rican amendment
Rep Herman Badillo says Congress must increase federal aid to cities or mayoral ambitions won’t be worth pursuing. He calls for full federal takeover of welfare health and education costs and proposes a Puerto Rican amendment to all health and welfare bills noting PR residents deserve full benefits. He envisions three citizen planning councils and favors no strings sharing of tax revenues with states and localities.
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Washington
Herman Badillo
New York
Congress
Badillo
Puerto Rico
Manhattan
Queens
Bronx
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Education and Labor Committee
Levelland Seeks Police Teletype Installation
Levelland city approves teletype installation for police station with Robert Sokoll seeking federal grant via area council of governments. Federal funds would cover 60 percent, city 40 percent, estimated cost about 180 dollars monthly. county costs to be considered.
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Levelland
Robert Sokoll
Area Council of Governments Organization
Sokoll
Area C-C Elects New Officers
MEMPHIS Special Lester Campbell former Memphis Chamber of Commerce vice president and Hall County Board of Development is elected president. Don Cockrell becomes vice president and Bill Prince secretary. New three year board members are James Brown Dick Fowler Jim Markgraf and Prince.
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Memphis
Lester Campbell
Memphis Chamber of Commerce
Hall County Board of Development
Don Cockrell
Bill Prince
James Brown
Dick Fowler
Jim Markgraf
Prince
Fieldhouse Under Construction At Stanton High School
Construction is underway at Stanton High School’s Buffalo Stadium for a $15,000 fieldhouse funded by a drive started in November. Nearly $14,000 has been pledged. The facility will serve varsity and junior varsity football and basketball and include two dressing rooms showers laundry office and storage. The kangaroo gestation note appears unrelated.
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Stanton
Stanton High School
Buffalo
Doctor Finds Calcium Transport Link To Heart Failure
Dr Arnold Schwartz reports measurements of calcium movement in heart cells. The calcium shuttle between SR and sarcomere drives contraction, and failure occurs when acidity stalls calcium release, suggesting a potential cause of heart attacks and chronic heart failure.
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Schwartz
Postmaster Blount forecasts spring postage hike and semi autonomous USPS
Postmaster General Winton Blount said higher postage rates could come by mid or late spring and the post office would become a semi autonomous service by late June. He spoke at a news conference introducing seven governors of the upcoming postal board. conversion must occur by August 12, with changeover likely completed by June 30.
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Washington
Post Office
Postal Service
Winton M. Blount
Blount
Board of
Nixon
Blounti
Congress
Antiwar Priest and Five Others Indicted for Kidnap Plot
Federal grand jury indictments charge Father Daniel Berrigan and five additional conspirators with plotting to kidnap an antiwar priest. The case names Sister Elizabeth McAlister and nine others from Baltimore, Washington DC, New York, New Jersey, and Chicago. Warrants were served after sealed indictments, with charges including conspiracy to damage government property and transport explosives across state lines. Six main defendants face counts. seven co conspirators named face no charges at this time.
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Philip
Daniel
Philip Berrigan
Sister Elizabeth McAlister
Marymount College
Tarrytown
N.Y
Josephi Reese Wenderoth
Baltimore
Neil Raymond McLaughlin
Anthony Scoblick
Eqbal Ahmad
Chicago
FBI
Grand Jury
Washington, D.C
Daniel Berrigan
Beverly Bell
Washington, D. C
Marjorie A. Shuman
Washington D.C
William Davidon
Haverford College
Haverford, Pa
Thomas Davidson
Paul Mayer
Edgewater
N.J
Jaques Egan
New York
Berrigans
Howard Johnsons opens Amsterdam hotel marked by historic brick
Howard Johnsons expands into Europe with a hotel in Amsterdam. Chairman Howard B. Johnson places a brick from New Amsterdam as a ceremonial gift, aided by the Holland Society of New York and a Danbury facility. The long list of unrelated notices and birth announcements follows in the same column.
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Amsterdam
First Aid Training for Firemen and Policemen
Prothro notes rookies receive about 15 hours of first aid in a 12 week initial training. The Red Cross course covers basic rescue, childbirth, chest massage and splints, but no internal medicine. Officers may carry first aid kits. they stress safety and temporary aid until a physician.
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Prothro
Red Cross
Scott
Lubbock
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