National Guard faces possible drop in strength
Washington officials warn the National Guard may fall short of its authorized 400000 as 17 and 18 year olds and veterans with prior service fail to enlist or reenlist. Defense plans seek funds to boost recruitment and provide incentives while draft calls rise, risking reduced guard capacity and implications for national security.
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Washington
APY
AMY National Guard
Pentagon
Tittala
Bratt’ Aft
National Guard
Defense Department
Congress
Guard
United States
Vietnam
Matador Hurt In Half Pay Fight In Tijuana
Matador Arturo Ruiz Loredo, 23, was seriously gored in the groin during a city benefit corrida in Tijuana before about 5000 in the downtown bullring. He received surgery in the bullring and was moved to a private clinic. Another matador killed the bull in the half pay event.
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Tijuana
Mexico
Arturo Ruiz Loredo
Ruiz Loredo
Hacienda de Cahhapa
Sammy Davis Jr To Rest Six Weeks For Liver Disorder
Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr, 45, was hospitalized in Las Vegas with abdominal pains and liver misalignment from exertion. He will take about six weeks of rest for recovery. He had one week left in a Sands Hotel engagement and planned a Vietnam tour starting in September.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Sammy Davis Jr
Davis
Sunrise
Sands Hotel
$40 Million Heroin Seized in Imported Jaguar
Federal agents uncovered 200 pounds of heroin valued at $40 million hidden under a false floorboard and inside hollow door compartments of an imported Jaguar. Five people were arrested on narcotics smuggling charges in the second largest heroin seizure in New York City history.
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New York
Federal Narcotics Bureau
John E. Ingersoll
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
Jean Pierre Andre Huguen
Marseilles
Etienne Charles Gunther
Raymonde
Paris
George Warren-Perez
Luis Gomez Ortega
North Bergen
N.J
New York City
Lab School student Barbara Benjamin enrolls in St Louis course
Miss Barbara Benjamin daughter of Mrs Robert T Benjamin 921 West Monroe Street enrolls in a year long medical laboratory technique course at Gradwohl School of Laboratory Technology St Louis She will complete a hospital internship and become a qualified medical laboratory technician after graduation
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Barbara Benjamin
Robert T. Benjamin
W. Monroe Sr
Gradwohl School of Laboratory Technique
St. Louis
Old Farmers Almanac Praises Youth In 1971 Edition
Lewiston Maine AP reports the 155 year old Farmers Almanac highlights youth in its 1971 edition. In Signs of the Times a billboard features a long haired youth and a girl with granny glasses flashing peace signs. Editor Ray Geiger says the almanac aims for love, wholesomeness, peace and to attract young readers.
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Lewiston
Maine
Ray Geiger
Almanac
Johnson Almost Ordered 1965 Wage Price Freeze
President Lyndon B. Johnson nearly ordered a wage price freeze in 1965, former OSS director Michael V. DiSalle disclosed. DiSalle recalled Johnson, during a July 28 White House fundraiser, saying he almost had another CPA as the nation debated a freeze amid Vietnam escalation.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Michael V. DiSalle
DiSalle
Ohio
Johnson
President’s Club
White House
Vietnam
Mike
CPA
Population Will Double In 30 Years
Census Director George Hay Brown warned population growth will continue, predicting global numbers will double by 2000. He urged serious study of limiting population and noted births in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan have slowed to 1 to 1.5 percent, with U.S. zero growth unlikely this century.
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Washington
George Hay Brown
Brown
United States
Europe
Japan
U.S
General's Barber Really A Head Man
At Chu Lai Vietnam Glena Hood a barber to generals dominates the Americal Division scene He trims three generals staffs greets officers and contractors and says he cuts 80 to 90 heads weekly While his room doubles as a changing area for showgirls Hood asserts equal footing with officers and claims confidences flow from the chair despite strict military rules
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Chu Lat
Vietnam
Glena Hood
Bari Zeiner
Hood
Americal Division
Samson
Zeiner’s
Chu Lai
Coulterville
Ill
Belleville Barber College
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Kiwanis Travelogue
Hong Kong
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Walter Werner
Vangalla
Vandalia
Leddonia
Rolla, MQ
Callaway Stock Sales Co
Bulton, Miggouri
Old Farmers’ Almanac
Geiger
LBJ
Central Missouri Livestock Auction, Inc
Mexico, Missouri
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Missouri
Pete Wilson
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Key Loan Co
W. Monroe
Deep Well Drilling
Hunt Drilling Co
Wayne Shellabarger
Hwy
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Power & Equipment
Evelyn Wood
Mexico High School
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Reading Dynamics Institute
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