Congress adjourns after frosty foreign aid stalemate
Washington AP reports Congress adjourned for holidays after a thin attendance, returning Jan 18. Nixon hailed gains on economic legislation including a $15.8 billion tax cut and extended wage price rent controls to April 30 1973, while domestic reform and health care proposals stalled. An 18 year old voting amendment passed, marking a key constitutional shift.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
Senate
Key Biscayne
Fla
Democratic Congress
Hugh Scott
Scott
House
Fidence
Senate Finance Committee
Executive Branch
Henderson acquitted in My Lai case at Ft Meade
Col Oran K Henderson, last and highest ranking officer tried, is acquitted of all charges of concealing the My Lai killings. Of 25 accused and six tried, only 28 year old Lt William L Calley Jr was convicted of murder for 22 civilians. Calley’s life sentence was reduced to 20 years on appeal. Henderson said the verdict was anticlimactic and that the government spent $10 million to convict him. The Army probes and trials involved 106 witnesses in Henderson’s case and 104 in Calley’s.
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FT. Meade, Md
My Lai
Oran K. Henderson
William L. Calley Jr
Calley
Ft. Benning
Henderson
Charles M. Mount
Pentagon
Calley’s
Army
11Th Brigade
Vietnam
Ernest Medina
Charles E. Hutto
David Mitchell
Eugene M. Kotuoc
Koster
George H. Young
Sgt
Mitchell
Army of Innocents not being withdrawn from Vietnam
Saigon photo essay on Vietnamese orphans prompts U.S. readers to seek adoption or aid. Despite interest, few adoptive families succeed due to disease, records, and wartime barriers. Agencies in Saigon guide hopefuls through complex procedures as orphans wait.
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Army of Innocents
Vietnam
Saigon
James A. Bourcier
Sun
James A. Bourcher
New York
U.S
United States
Christmas in Belfast 1971 A memo on a city at war
AP special correspondent Hugh A. Mulligan portrays Belfast during Christmas 1971. Troops patrol desolate streets while shoppers face bomb searches and a city scarred by fire, internment, and sectarian tension. A Protestant family’s home burnings and a Catholic mother awaiting a husband in Long Kesh frame a grim holiday landscape.
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Tommy
Belfast
Hugh A. Mulligan
Arjdoyne
Ballymurphy Estates
Crumlin Road
Long Kesh
Donegal Square
Kings of Orient
Father Columb O’donnell
Ardoyne Chapel
I.R.A
Northern Ireland
Lance Cpl
Eddie Chilton
2Nd Battalion
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Ulster
Newcastle
Eddie
Lorraine
New Lodge
Camay
Avery Scale Co
Marie
Frankie
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Sacred Heart High School
Sacred Heart Register
Steve
Shhs Senler
Diane Adams
Dana Smith
Col. Henderson
South Vietnam
Clare
Berlin
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