Bunker Returning to DC for U S Viet Deaths Last Week Lowest
SAIGON AP The US Command reported 19 Americans died in combat last week the lowest weekly toll in more than 54 years. Another 19 died nonhostile causes and 261 wounded. The embassy said Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker will return to Washington for 10 days to discuss speeding troop withdrawals and the South Vietnamese presidential election.
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Bunker
U. S. Viet
Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
Snuol
Cambodia
Indochina
Ellsworth Bunker
Washington
Tricia France to Attend Pre Wedding Festivities
President Nixon prepares for his daughter Tricia's wedding with a White House bridal party and bachelor dinner. The sequence includes a Potomac cruise on the yacht Sequioa, dinners at private clubs, and last minute fittings by designer Priscilla Kidder. Julie Eisenhower departs Saturday as Navy Ensign husband David serves in the Mediterranean.
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Washington
Tricia
Nixon
White House
Edward Cox
Julie Eisenhower
David
Mediterranean
Priscilla Kidder
Boston
Charles R. Horsburgh Jr
Peace Corp
Iran
Cox
Princeton
Eddie
Hugh McKean
Winter Park
Fla
Sulgrave Club
Howard
Senate orders drug addicts in uniform identified treated
The Senate amended the draft-extension bill to require centers for drug treatment in the military and to encourage servicemen to use them without fear of punishment. Sen. Harold Hughes argued heroin use in Vietnam demands rehabilitation. Reported estimates place about 60,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam using hard drugs.
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Washington
Senate
Harold E. Hughes
Vietnam
Roger T. Kelley
U.S
House Panel Keeps Nixon Revenue-sharing Plan Out
Washington The House Ways and Means Committee shows no sign of backing President Nixon’s revenue-sharing plan or a Muskie variation. Senators indicate openness to alternative ways to aid states and cities amid financial strains, with further discussion noted as ongoing.
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Nixon
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Edmund Bs. Muskie
Nixon Lists Products That U S May Ship to Red China
President Nixon announced a broad list of American-made goods allowed for export to the People's Republic of China ending the 21 year embargo. The general license permits most farm fish and forestry products as well as machinery and consumer goods with specific licensing for items not listed. Imports from China are also allowed under a general license with future control retained. The move coincided with a U S table tennis team entering Red China.
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U.S
Red
China
Washington
White House
Red China
Amer
Ican
Europe
Soviet Union
United States
U. S
Commerce Department
People’s Republic of China
Humphrey disavows Kennedy charge on Nixon Viet policy
Washington AP Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey clarified to Republican leaders that Democrats do not doubt President Nixon's motives in Vietnam policy. He said Nixon aims for peace, though slower actions alarm Kennedy. The White House countered Clifford remarks as politics over POWs. Rogers called North Vietnamese flexibility on prisoner issues propaganda.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Edward M. Kennedy
Nixon
Minnesota
Robert J. Dole
Humphrey
White House
Kennedy
U.S
South Vietnam
Clark Clifford
Clifford
Pentagon
Johnson
Indochina
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
William P. Rogers
Paris
Army clubs chief M Sergeant Higdon convicted of kickbacks
Redstone Arsenal Alabama M Sergeant William Higdon a 24 year career soldier was found guilty of accepting kickbacks and stealing funds while running Army clubs in Vietnam. The five officer jury deliberated about eight hours before reaching the verdict and will hear arguments from both sides on sentencing.
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Redstone Arsenal
Ala
William Higdon
Vietnam
Belgium Withdraws From Open Skies Landings Pact
Brussels reports Belgium has withdrawn from a pact allowing U S airliners to land in Brussels and Belgian planes to land in New York. The U S refusal to grant the Belgian SaBen a Chicago flight alongside its New York route prompted the move.
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Brussels
Belgium
Ministry of Communication
U.S
New York
United States
Sabena
Chicago
Sadat demands Israeli withdrawal for Middle East peace
President Anwar Sadat says there can be no peace in the Middle East unless Israel withdraws from Arab lands and Palestinians gain self determination. He accuses U.S. military aid to Israel of making America a partner in aggression and criticizes U.S. role in peace efforts.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Middle East
Israel
U.S
Sadat
Man acquitted in Atlantic City officer shooting case
Craig Jackson, 22, was found not guilty in the shotgun murder of Patrolman John Burke outside an Atlantic City nightclub last Sept. 30. The acquittal followed a ruling by Atlantic County Court Judge Benjamin A. Rimm that the State failed to prove Jackson’s involvement, despite his marriage to a key prosecution witness while jailed.
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Mays Landing
N.J
Atlantic City
Craig Jackson
Atantic
Benjamin A. Rimm
John Burke
FAA and CAB Back Government Loan Guarantee for Lockheed L1011
FAA and CAB joined to support a government loan guarantee for Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Secor D Browne CAB chairman warned cancellation of the L1011 Tristar would hit airlines that paid over 200 million in advance. John H Shaffer said the Lockport plane is superb and vital to the fleet.
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Washington
Federal Aviation Administration
Civil Aeronautics Board
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Secor D. Browne
CAB
Lockheed
Airbus
John H. Shaffer
FAA
Lockport
Kin Identify Body with Scar and Tattoo
SACKETS HARBOR N Y AP The body of a man found in Lake Ontario May 4 is identified as Ralph E Cuthbert 22 of Sodus Wayne County by relatives based on an apparent appendectomy scar and a tattoo The man had disappeared from his home on December 7 troopers said
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Sackets Harbor
N. Y
Lake Ontario
Ralph E. Cuthbert
Sodus
Wayne County
Cuthbert
Demo Convention Site Likely for 1972 Nominating Event
Democratic sources say the 1972 national convention may be held in Miami Beach Florida or Louisville Kentucky. A party spokesman warned no decision has been made and the site will be chosen within the next month.
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Washington
Miami Beach
Louisville
Senate caps draft calls at 130000 for 1973
The Senate approved a 130000 annual ceiling for draft calls starting July 1 with a 10000 cap for fiscal 1973. The Pentagon projects 114000 for next year. Debate on Indochina policy looms with a vote on the McGovern Hatfield measure to halt operations by December 31. An amendment requiring congressional authorization for inductions above the ceiling was also approved 78 to 4.
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Washington
Senate
Pentagon
U.S. Indochina
U.S
Indochina
Senate Armed Services Committee
Armed Services
John C. Stennis
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Synod approves $10,000 to aid Angela Davis defense
Northfield Massachusetts AP The New England Synod of the United Presbyterian Church voted 52 to 22 to donate 10,000 to defend Angela Davis who is jailed in California awaiting trial for a murder connected to a courtroom escape. The decision criticized the Rochester General Assembly stance yet said such grants raise serious propriety questions.
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Northfield
Mass
New England Synod of
The
United Presbyterian Church
Angela Davis
Miss Davis
California
Church General Assembly
Rochester
General Assembly
Synod
Payoffs Offered to Two Legislators in Buffalo Case
An engineer testified that a businessman suing Erie County for 90 million dollars offered to pay 10 thousand dollars in bribes to two county legislators. The offer was said to come from Edward H. Cottrell, president of Dome Stadium Inc, whose firm sought to lease a proposed domed county sports stadium.
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Buffalo
Erie County
J. Lloyd Walker
Edward H. Cottrell
Dome Stadium Inc
Cottrell
Thirteen Yaqui Bodies Found Near Old Fort in Escalon
AP reports 12 men and one woman buried in a vacant lot beside a moxie house in Escalon Mexico. Police say the victims were shot in the head and dated to the early 1900s during the Mexican revolutionary era. Local papers cite an old Yaqui Indian fort nearby and land owned by the mayor's brother.
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Escalon
Mexico
el Heraldo
Chihuahua City
Juarez
el Paso
Tex
el Sold
Raimundo Palacios
Ricardo
el Sol
Flight crew reports Soviet space lab running excellently
Three cosmonauts aboard the Salute space laboratory said on Russian TV that their orbital mission is going excellently after five days in orbit. Vladislav Volkov noted all ship systems are functioning normally as they settle into a long stay following Soyuz 11 docking with Salute.
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Moscow
Orbital Space Laboratory
Space Laboratory
Vladislav Volkov
Tractor accident kills 15 year old in Brockport
Leland E. Knab Jr. aged 15 died after the farm tractor he was operating overturned and crushed him in Brockport New York on Wednesday.
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Brockport, N. Y
Leland E. Knab Jr
Soviet Ship Seized in California Port By U S Marshals
In Alameda California a 530 foot Soviet freighter the Suleyman Starskiy was seized at the San Francisco Bay port by federal marshals as security for a 377000 damage suit filed by Prelude Corp of Westport Point Massachusetts. The suit alleges Russian trawlers wrecked lobster gear and seized lines and pots. The seizure follows the ship loading lumber for Japan and marks a rare in port action against a Soviet vessel during the era.
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Alameda, Calif
San Francisco Bay
New England
U.S
Clifford H. Cline
Suleyman Starskiy
Japan
Cline
Llude Corp
Westport Point
Mass
Edward Ransom
Gray
Don Starling
U.S. District Court
San Francisco
Anatoly Rogachev
Vladivostok
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