Thieu fears loss of U.S. aid amid election doubts
In Saigon sources say President Thieu, who runs unopposed in the October 3 vote, fears Congress may cut or reduce American aid. He has mused about resigning to trigger an aid cutoff, despite assurances from U S officials that Washington intends to back his government.
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Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
U.S
South Vietnam
Thien
Ellsworth Bunker
William P. Rogers
Nixon
Thieu
Vietnam
Law
Copters Ferry More Viet Troops To Laotian Front
American helicopters ferried 1000 South Vietnamese troops within two miles of the Laotian border in a major drive below the DMZ led by B52 strikes. Some 25 B52s dropped 750 tons of bombs on North Vietnamese positions as the offensive expanded to 13,500 troops and disrupted routes into South Vietnam. No major fighting was reported and North Vietnamese forces reportedly fled north across the DMZ.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Highway 9
Khe Sah
Dmz
Khe Sanh
South Vietnam
Laos
Pham van Phu
Democratic Reform Group Unveils Convention Plan
The Democratic Reform Group in Washington unveiled a final blueprint for a streamlined 1972 Democratic Convention. Proposals push equal candidate treatment, broader delegate representation, and faster nominating with public committee sessions and 50 delegate support from at least three states to nominate. Women and minorities gain assured representation and power to choose officers, while delegates select the convention chairman.
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Washington
Democratic Party Reform Commission
Democratic National Committee
National Committee
Chicago
James G. O'Mara
D-Mich
Scattered Protests Mark School Integration
Court ordered busing plans show progress in Northern and Southern schools amid resistance. In Pontiac Michigan 9,000 of 24,000 pupils are bused. 11 arrests, 9 injuries in fights between black and white students. Boston reports 124 white and 659 nonwhite pupils enrolled at Joseph Lee and reassignments meeting with low white turnout. Mobile Alabama opens schools with 6,300 bussed to reach racial balance in a system of 68,000 pupils.
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Associated Press
Pontiac
Mich
Puntor High
Boston
Joseph Lee
Lee
Mobile
Ala
Cumberland Man Wins Bank Post
Gov. Mandel appointed William I. Wilson of Cumberland as state banking commissioner, ending weeks of speculation that Joel Kline would get the post. Kline, a Montgomery County land speculator and major donor to Lt. Gov. Blair Lee, had ties to the campaign and faced prior disclosure questions.
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Annapolis
Marvin Mandel
William I. Wilson
Cumberland
Montgomery County
Joel Kline
Kline
Blair Lee
Lee
Walter Boucher
State Roads Commission
U S Envoy Charged in Equatorial Guinea Killing
An American Foreign Service officer Alfred Erdos is charged with first degree murder in the stabbing death of fellow embassy official Donald Leahy in Santa Isabel Equatorial Guinea. A complaint and summons were served on Erdos who arrived at Dulles Airport Virginia and he is to appear November 5 in Alexandria Virginia. The victim, Donald Leahy, was found at the embassy by Leonard Shurtleff, the consul in Douala.
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Washington
U.S
Equatorial Guinea
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Alexandria
Alfred Erdos
Dulles
Virginia
Erdos
Foreign Service
Donald J. Leahy
Santa Isabel
Leonard G. Shurtleff
Shurtleff
Corsul
Douala
Cameroons
United States
Hurricanes Edith and Fern Near Central America Gulf Coast
Hurricane Edith, at 115 mph, bears down on Nicaragua and Honduras with heavy rain and risk of flash floods and high tides. Fern strengthens to 99 mph in the Gulf, drifting toward the Texas coast with storm watches and port stays advised for Louisiana Texas and nearby shores.
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Miami
Mitch
Nicaragua
Honduras
Fern
Gulf of Mexico
Brownsville
Tex
Edith
Cape Gracias
Hirth
Texas
Matagorda Bay
Louisiana
Gulf Cosal
Medina Prosecution Nears Rest in My Lai Case
Army prosecutors plan to rest their case soon after polygraph expert Robert Brisentine testifies about his 16 hour interview with Capt. Ernest L. Medina. Lt. William L. Calley Jr. may be called as a witness for Medina in the My Lai massacre trial.
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Mcpherson
Brisentine
Medina
My Lai
Children Arrested After Toy Burglary in Utah
Five children aged 11 to 13 were arrested in Ogden Utah after a father of four turned them in for stealing $186 in toys from a store. Police said the fifth youth was a cousin to the four. Parents learned of the incident from an 11-year-old girl.
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Ogden, Utah
Det
K Malborg
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