Officers Face Pressure Over War Time Kill Counts
In Vietnam, two young Army officers testified they faced pressure from commanders to report high enemy kill counts. Lt James Duffy and Lt John Kruger said body counts determined promotions, with Do Van Man killed Sept 5 in a Viet Cong area.
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Long Binh
Vietnam
UPI
James B. Duffy
Claremont
Calif
Saigon
Duffy
Do van Man
Henry Rothblatt
New York
John D. Kruger
New Orelans
Ralph C. Kreuger, Jr
Wilmington
Del
9Th U. S. Infantry Division
Controversial talk show host Joe Pyne dies
Joe Pyne 45 longtime acid tongued broadcaster dies after two year lung cancer battle at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. Funeral held. survivors include widow Britt Larsen mother Catherine Pyne two daughters and a son. A second item notes a 95 year old Culver City patient identified by Social Security card number 007 named James Bond.
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Pyne
Cedars of Lebanon
Britt Larsen
Catherine M. Pyne
Pasadena
Calif
Culver City, Calif
UPI
Culver City Convalescent Hospital
James Bond
Air Traffic Controllers Strike Widens Slowdown Nationwide
About one third of Oberlin Traffic Control Center’s 150 day-shift controllers joined a coast to coast sick call strike led by PATCO over working conditions and bargaining rights. Hopkins airport operations slowed while Columbus and other Ohio centers reported full staffing except Oberlin.
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John T.rady
United Press International
Oberlin
Cleveland Hopkins
Ohio
National Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
PATCO
Sidney Rose
Cleveland
Edwin J. Kent
Hopkins
Port Columbus
State plans costless expansion of upper division at branches
Ohio state budget official told a legislative panel that adding third and fourth year business and education courses at regional campuses would cost the state little. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Robert J. Corts, would extend upper division courses to Ohio State University branch campuses at Lima and Mansfield and Ohio University at Zanesville.
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Ohio State University
Lima
Mansfield
Ohio University
Zanesville
Board of Regents
Collier
Senate
James A. Rhodes
Ross Pepple
Columbus
Pepple
Ohio State
Priestly Celibacy Vows Renewed in Maundy Thursday Services
In a public reaffirmation of priestly celibacy, Maundy Thursday services in several Roman Catholic archdioceses will include a renewal of the vow. The plan involves Baltimore St Louis Dubuque Iowa and Los Angeles. The Vatican earlier announced a new service making the vow explicit in the missal.
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Washington
UPI
U. S. Catholic Conference
U. S. _ Bishops Conference
Baltimore
St. Louis
Dubuque
Iowa
Los Angeles
Vatican
Manhattan porter sentenced in rape slaying case
David Thomas Jr., a 33 year old Manhattan porter, was given an indeterminate prison term not to exceed ten years after pleading guilty to raping Deborah Neil, 13, of Vickery Ohio. The body was found in an airshaft in Chinatown after she and her boyfriend hitchhiked to New York in 1968.
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New York
UPI
David Thomas Jr
Manhattan
Ohio
Thomas
Deborah Neil
Vickery
Chinatown
Irvin D. Davidson
Freuhauf to Close Avon Lake Plant in June
Freuhauf Corp. announced the Avon Lake Ohio plant will shut in June due to high maintenance and direct hourly labor costs. The closure affects 800 hourly and 200 salaried workers as operations move to other plants nationwide.
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Detroit
UPI
Freuhauf Corp
Avon Lake
Ohio
Freuhauf
Cleveland
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