Nixon outlines Cambodia exit and renewed push for peace
President Nixon announced the withdrawal of all U S ground troops from Cambodia and outlined future policy including no U S ground personnel except embassy staff, no American advisers with Cambodian units, and air interdiction missions with Cambodian government approval. He urged Hanoi to join in a negotiated settlement, emphasizing there is no military solution and peace must come sooner or later.
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Cambodia
Paris
Indochina
Vietnam
U.S
Phnom Penh
South Vietnam
United States
Hanoi
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Senator Smith Urges Probe Into 2.1 Billion Destroyer Pact
Sen. Margaret Chase Smith urged a full investigation by the General Accounting Office into the Navy destroyer contract won by Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries. She cited alleged disclosures of proprietary data and possible criminal violations before the 30-ship award, urging delay of payments pending review. Bath Iron Works competed for the contract.
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Washington (Ap
Margaret Chase Smith
Navy
Maine Republican
General Accounting Office
Con
Ingalls Shipbuilding Division
Cascagoula, Miss
Litton Industries
Maine
Bath Iron Works
Senate
Litton
House of Representatives
Bath
Mrs. Smith
Senate Armed Services Committee
Final Cooper-Church Amendment Clash in Cambodia Debate
Senate ends eight week Cambodia debate as GOP moves to soften Cooper Church ban on future U S military activity in Cambodia. Dole says amendment likely to pass. Griffin and Jackson propose changes to ease restrictions amid Nixon troop withdrawal plans.
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Washington
Senate
Cambodia
GOP
Robert P. Griffin
Henry M. Jackson
Cooper Church
U.S
Cooper-Church
Robert J. Dole
R-Kan
Jets Hit Reds as advisers withdraw from Cambodia
SAIGON AP U S planes and artillery pounded Cambodian border areas as the last American advisers pulled back into South Vietnam. Some advisers remained with South Vietnamese forces but all Americans were to be out of Cambodia by midnight. Bombing aimed at supply dumps and base camps before the June 30 withdrawal deadline. unclear if attacks would continue.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Nixon
Inside Armagh Jail Bernadette Devlin Keeps Hope Alive
Bernadette Devlin, 23, begins a six month term in Armagh Prison after Northern Ireland rioting. Her routine includes washing, sewing for hours, meals of porridge and stew, and daily exercise. Her ally Ivan Cooper visits and says she seeks early release and urges calm amid Belfast and Londonderry unrest.
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Armagh
Northern Ireland
Bernadette Devlin
Gray Stones
Bernadette
House of Lords
Miss Devlin
Ivan Cooper
Cooper
Belfast
Londonderry
Devlin
Lutherans Allow Women to Be Ordained in LCA
Delegates at the Lutheran Church in America convention voted to admit women to the ministry, the first such decision by a major Lutheran church body in the United States. After a 25 minute debate, opponents offered only minimal dissent as the measure, proposed by a Doctrine of the Ministry commission, passed with a strong majority in Minneapolis.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Lutheran Church In America
LCA
Commission On Doctrine of the Ministry
Minneapolis
Robert J. Marshall
New York
Settlement Means Jobs For Indians
WINDOW ROCK Ariz AP A federal financial settlement for millions of acres of land claimed by the Navajo Indians may help solve the tribe s unemployment problems The Indian Claims Commission ruled in Washington Monday that the tribe occupied a much wider area of Arizona New Mexico Utah and Colorado than was included in an 8 million acre reservation when a treaty was signed in 1868.
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Window Rock
Ariz
Indian Claims Commission
Washington
Arizona
New Mexico
Utah
Colorado
Navajo Reservation Ruling Hits 16 Million Acres
The boundary decision credits the Navajos with about 30 million acres, roughly the size of Ohio, for possible 1868 compensation. They lose additional grazing land though may receive a settlement based on 1868 values. The tribe pegs value at $1 per acre, to be decided by the Indian Claims Commission, with much of the funds to fund industrial development.
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Commission
Ohio
Indian Claims Commission
Harold Mott
Morey
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