Sudden date change opens hearings on draft law reform
The House Armed Services Committee will hold hearings Tuesday on President Nixon's draft reform proposal. Chairman Rivers, who had delayed action, announced the move after supporting Nixon and Defense Secretary Laird. The plan would repeal the prohibition on a lottery style system and could limit eligibility to 19 year olds, altering deferments and college exemptions.
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Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Nixon
L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
Rivers
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Libyan Rebels Set Traffic Checks at Wheelus Base
Libya's revolutionary council moved two military committees inside Wheelus air base to check traffic after two smuggling incidents. Libyan officials and Libya’s News Agency cited searches of cars at the gate and Libyan customs officials stationed at the base to prevent illegal passengers or cargo on planes.
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Libya
Revolutionary Council
Wheelus U.S
Wheelus
Malta
Damascus
Daniel D. Carlo
U.S
Red China Nervous on 20th Birthday
The World reports Beijing shows nervous atmosphere as its 20th anniversary nears this week. A separate feature describes a Mafia chief who rules with terror yet outwardly projects respectability and quiet conservatism.
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China
RED China
Nixon ties GOP fate to Vietnam peace timetable
President Nixon links Republican gains in the 1970 elections to a Vietnam peace settlement by late 1970 or mid 1971. He argues a failed peace effort would invite accountability, while some senators press for faster U.S. withdrawal.
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Nixon
Vietnam
House of Representatives
Senate
Congress
GOP
U.S
IMF Chief Sees SDRs Supplant Gold in Dollar Reform
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, head of the IMF, says Special Drawing Rights could substitute for gold price hikes in recalibrating the dollar system. He notes SDRs would raise nations’ settlement capacity and denies any push for drastic exchange-rate flexibility.
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Washington
International Monetary Fund
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
Fund
United States
Top Beret Case Defense Hinges on Williams Arrival
Edward Bennett Williams, famed Washington lawyer, heads to Saigon to defend Col. Robert B. Rheault and five other Green Beret officers in the murder case of Vietnamese double agent That Khae Chuyen. Army charges name Marasco as trigger man. court-martial date set for October 20.
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Edward Bennett Williams
Washington
Robert B. Rheault
Green Beret
Williams
Army
Robert F. Matasco
Bloomfield
N.J
Khae Chuyen
New Jersey
Marasco
Vietnam
Thomas Young
Budge E. Williams
Athens
Leland J. Brumley
Duncan
S.C
David E. Crew
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Rheault
Middleton
Crew
Green Berets
Nha Trang
Special Forces
Chuyen
South China Sea
Brumley
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Gunfire Flare Across Suez Amid U.S.-Soviet Talks
The clash roared along the Suez Canal as U S and Soviet discussions stalled. One Israeli soldier died in Port Taufiq during artillery exchanges. Arab guerrillas shelled Israeli positions in Beisan valley near the Sea of Galilee as Rogers and Gromyko wrap up another round in New York.
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Suez Canal
U.S
Jordan
Jordan River
Beisan
Sea of Galilee
New York
Rogers
Andrei A. Gromyko
Middle East
Four Women Slain in Delhi Savings Vault Robbery
The four women victims were laid to rest after Roman Catholic masses as police and FBI hunted two remaining suspects, Watterson Johnson and John Leigh, in a Kentucky county near the Tennessee line. Warrants allege four counts of murder. two other suspects await grand jury action in Cincinnati. The killings occurred during a $275 robbery at Cabinet Supreme Savings and Loan Co. vault.
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Savings and Joan Firm
Helen Huebner
Lillian DeWald
Henriet
Ta Stitzel
Luella Stitzel
FBI
McCreary County
Tennessee
Watterson Johnson
John Leigh
Raymond Kassow
Carl Ingle
Hamilton County
Cabinet Supreme Savings and Loan Co
Delhi
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