Vietnam War Crimes Hearings Reveal Atrocities
Veterans testified at a Senate subcommittee hearing that U.S. forces in Vietnam routinely violated the Geneva convention. They described torture, body counts, and incentives for higher kill rates, asserting such actions reflected policy, not isolated acts, and called for accountability.
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George Brimmell
Southam
Washington
Nuremburg
Belsen
Buchenwald
Dachau
Vietnam
U.S
Senate
National Veterans
Robert Bowie Johnson
William Calley
South Vietnam
Galley
My Lai
Oregon
U.S. Army
Provincial finance chiefs meet for economic talks in Ottawa
Provincial treasurers and finance ministers from most provinces meet Finance Minister Edgar Benson in Ottawa for the annual conference. New ministers Peter Nicholson Jean Maurice Simard and Raymond Garneau attend for the first time as discussions cover tax reform inflation and federal revenues and expenditures through 1968 69 with Ottawa loans of 150 million planned for public works.
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Ottawa
British Columbia
Edgar Benson
W. A. C. Bennett
R.C
Benson
Peter Nicholson
Nova Scotia
Jean-Maurice Si
Mard
New Brunswick
Raymond Garneau
Quebec
Federal Finance Department
Bank of Canada
John Young
Federal Prices and Incomes Commission
Charles MacNaughton
Ontario
Mir
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Portugal Denies Guinea Invasion Involvement
Lisbon rejects UN inquiry conclusions that Portuguese armed forces led the Guinea invasion in concert with external dissidents. The foreign ministry faults Guinea’s government as the sole information source and notes Western and Communist states questioned the mission.
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Lisbon
Reuter
Guinea
United Nations
Sriday
Portugal
British envoy Cross freed after 60 days in Cuba bargain
James Cross, the British trade envoy, was released after 60 days in captivity by the FLQ. He returned to London where he will meet reporters and take a vacation in Switzerland. Cuban authorities housed the six kidnap suspects and family members in Havana as relations with Canada and the West were under observation. Cross arrived lighter and said to be recovering from the ordeal. Cross and the kidnappers met briefed officials in Montreal before Cross boarded a Canadian Pacific flight to Britain.
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London
James
Jasper) Cross
Cross
Dorney Wood
Alec Douglas- Home
Front de Liberation du Quebec
Havana
China
Russia
East Germany
Barbara
Switzerland
FLQ
Cuba
Western Hemisphere
America
Montreal
Terrorists kidnap Swiss ambassador in Brazil raid
Swiss Ambassador Giovanni Enrico Bucher was abducted in Rio de Janeiro by armed terrorists who wounded a Brazilian guard and fled in a car after surrounding the ambassador's vehicle. Leaflets identified the group as National Liberation Alliance.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Giovanni Enrico Bucher
National Liberation Alliance
Brazil
U.S
C. Burke Elbrich
Berton Sees Obsolete Education System Needs Change
Pierre Berton told a Calgary Edmonton congress that education must move beyond schools as youths seek learning via television radio travel science centers and arts exhibits. He warned most forecasts for education look bleak and current methods fail to engage students.
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Berton
Edmonton
Pierre Berton
Congress of Education
Alberta Human Resources Research Council
The
Worth Commission On Educational Planning
Educa
Stanfield challenges gov at Montreal fundraiser speech
Opposition Leader Robert Stanfield accused the Trudeau government of economic negligence during the Quebec kidnap crisis and denounced farm policy and the auditor-general's independence. He urged disclosure of actions since invoking the War Measures Act and criticized the budget for failing to cut taxes or reduce unemployment.
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Montreal
Robert Stanfield
Trudeau
Quebec
Stanfield
Internation
Can
Liberal Party
Jean Marchand
Io Agric
Tral Products
Defence lawyer missing in Sharon Tate murder case
Los Angeles AP reports Ronald Hughes, 35, vanished over a week ago near Sespe Hot Springs in Los Padres National Forest. A search failed to find him and the Tate trial stalls as Leslie Van Houten’s new lawyer fights to grasp 18,000 pages of transcripts, with a possible mistrial sought due to late representation.
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Los Angeles
Sharon Tate
Ronald Hughes
Sespe Hot Springs
Los Padres National Forest
Hughes
Leslie van Houten
Miss Houton
Pakistan votes in first one man one vote general election
Across Pakistan millions including women vote in the first one man one vote general election. The event marks a milestone as citizens participate nationwide despite tensions and logistical challenges.
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Robert Bourassa
Walter Green
Public of
Mitchell Sharp
Canada
Susan
Nobuo Okuchi
Japan
Sao Paulo
Ehrenfried von Hollenden
West Germany
Bucher
Tion
Gov't
Mr. Stanfield
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United Auto Workers Union
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