Last U S Ground Combat Infantrymen Leave Vietnam
The 3rd Battalion 21st Infantry completes phased withdrawal marking the end of the 74 year old U S ground combat role in Vietnam. Sgt Ronald Wegerle, 21, from Wichita, recalls tired troops and limited gains as 240 men fly back to Da Nang to turn in gear.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
Ronald Wegerle
Wichita
Kan
21St Infantry
da Nang
James McVicar
Chester
Calif
United States
Wegerle Eaves
Diane
Fina
Cor
Americal
Quang Tin
Quang Ngai
House votes to reject Indochina pullout directive
The House defeated a directive to pull U.S. forces out of Indochina by October 1 in a 226 to 178 vote. It then passed a 2.1 billion foreign military aid bill 221 to 172, sending it to the Senate where riders on war funding could be debated and possibly defeated.
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Washington
House
Nixon
Senate
U.S
Congress
Lee Hamilton
D-Ind
Indochina
America
Hamilton
Hanoi
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
Massachusetts
O'Neill
Perkins Convicted in Smuggling Case at Tyndall AFB
M. Sgt. Walter T. Perkins, 37, a top intelligence NCO at Tyndall Air Force Base, was found guilty of attempting to smuggle secret U.S. defense documents to Soviet agents in Mexico City. The trial center focused on covert efforts amid war politics and calls in Congress for U.S. withdrawal from Indochina.
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Tyndall Air Force Base
Fla
Walter T. Perkins
U.S
Perkins
Florida
Mexico City
Bank Office Rise Captured In Silhouette
Workman guides a steel beam into place on the new Barnitz Bank office at the Roosevelt and Breie Boulevards corner. A clouded sky forms the backdrop as construction proceeds. (Sheckler Photo)
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Barnitz Bank
Roosevelt and
Breie] Boulevards
Sheckler
Repeal tax campaign faces irregularities amid petition checks
Backers of Ohio's income tax repeal acknowledge some irregularities in petition handling though limited to a few hundred of 367 000 signatures. Secretary of State Ted Brown will deliver petitions to 88 counties for signature checks while opponents vow to challenge actions seen as illegal.
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Columbus
Joseph Tulley
R-37
Tulley
Newsmen
Ted Brown
Brown
Ohio
Hall
Tak Hall
John Mahaney
Ohio State Council of Retail Merchants
Ray Ross
United Auto Workers Union
Morris Alston
Ohio Farm Bureau Federtion
Bittersweet reunion recalls Tuskegee airmen
Survivors of the first all black segregated Army Air Corps squadron meet in Detroit to revisit their Pearl Harbor era flight training at Tuskegee. Leaders include Rep. Charles Diggs and Michigan figures. memories span bitterness at segregation and pride in wartime achievement.
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Detroit
Army Air Corps
Air Force
Big Ten
Executtive
Michigan
Alabama
Tuskegee Institute
Charles Diggs
Mich
Population Research Report Shows Abortions Shrink California Welfare Rolls
California’s liberalized abortion law correlates with a 16 percent drop in legitimate pregnancies and an 11.6 percent fall in live births in 1971. The UC International Population and Urban Research Center notes declines in welfare rolls may follow, with 116 749 legal abortions statewide in 1971. Kingsley Davis and Jack Thompson cite trends supporting reduced welfare reliance among less stable families.
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California
Ment of Public Health
UC Center
Jack Thompson
State Board of Social Welfare
Davis
Mpson
New York
United States
Weather Outlook Mostly Warm With Possible Showers
It will be partly cloudy and warmer with a chance of showers or thundershowers tonight and Saturday. Highs will reach the upper 80s, with a yesterday high of 72 and a morning low of 50. The extended forecast calls for highs in the 80s, lows in the 60s, and daily thundershower chances through Tuesday.
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R-Mich
Andrew Jacobs Jr
John Hall
Ohio Education Assocation
Eera Arai
Kinemy
Bom
Diggs
William T. Patrick
Italy
Patrick
University of Michigan
Harvard
Clifton R. Wharton Jr
Michigan State University
Gene Dericotte
James N. Garrett
Roman
Ann Arbor
Ann Landers
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Valley News
Population Research Report
Sacramento, Calif
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University of California
Berkeley
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