Ex-Defense Dept. Employee Allegedly Gave Secret War Info
New York AP report states former Defense Department staffer Daniel Ellsberg supplied the Pentagon Vietnam study to The New York Times via Sidney Zion. The Times, which published excerpts, faces a government restraining order and a pending court case. Rand and Ellsberg are cited with Ellsberg’s earlier career and shift against the war. Denver, Cambridge, and Oswego Harbor details appear alongside unrelated local scene notes.
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New York Times
Pentagon
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Daniel Ellsberg
Defense Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sidney Zion
U.S
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Wmca Radio
Zion
Times
Cambridge
Harvard Square
Daniel
Patricia Ellsberg
Rand Corp
Rand
Neil Sheehan
The
Harbor Busy Again as Freighters Load and Unload
In a port scene, the Maplebranch a Canadian diesel freighter loads liquid calcium chloride for Canada at Metropolitan Petroleum division of The Pittsley Co Tank City. Behind, the Lake Transport unloads fuel oil. A smaller speck shows the Paul H Townsend waiting to dock with hulk cement cargo from Wuran Portland Cement Co.
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Oswego Harbor
Martin Rose
Maplebranch
Canada
Metropolitan Petroleum Co
Pittsley Co
Tank City
Lake Transport
Donald Kranz
Paul H. Townsend
Wuran Portland Cement Co
Senate rejects funding cut for Vietnam war before House vote
The Senate rejected two amendments to halt war funding this year while steering toward a House vote on a Nedzi-Whalen proposal to bar spending on war weapons after December 31, 1971. Supporters estimated 150 to 170 of 434 House members might back the plan amid broader antiwar efforts, and lingering hopes for a March toward end dates surfaced despite Senate losses.
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House
Nedzi-Whalen
U.S
Indochina
Nixon
Southeast Asia
Lawton M. Chile Jr
D-Fla
North Vietnam
Mark C. Hatfield
R-Ore
George S. McGovern
D-S.d
Hatfield
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Labor Leaders Split Over Lockheed Loan Bailout
In Washington AFL-CIO President George Meany supports a 250 million government loan guarantee to keep Lockheed Aircraft solvent and save jobs across 35 states. USW leader Leonard Woodcock warns the proposal risks national welfare and may not save the company. Floyd E. Smith of the IAM applauds the potential aerospace impact and cites 46 000 potential layoffs if the bill fails.
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Washington
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Senate Banking Committee
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Lockheed
Labor Federation
Leonard Woodcock
United Auto Workers
Woodcock
Floyd E. Smith
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Smith
Ithaca man arraigned for threatening Nixon in letter
John P. Stark of Ithaca is jailed after arraignment on a charge of threatening the life of President Nixon in a letter to Newsday. Secret Service says the unsigned note resembled Stark's handwriting from a prior letter to Rep. Howard Ribison. Stark, 43, unemployed former postal worker, is held in Montgomery County Jail on $100,000 bail. case adjourned to June 30.
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Rome
N.Y
Ithaca
Nixon
Long Island
Secret Service
John P. Stark
U.S
Robert W. Arthur
Montgomery County
Fonda
Stark
Mike McGrady
Newsday, Inc
Garden City
Atlanta
Howard Ribison
Owego
N. Y
Okinawa Returned to Japan in Historic Treaty
The United States and Japan sign a treaty restoring Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty after 27 years of occupation while keeping 88 U.S. base facilities. ratification by Japan's Diet and the U.S. Senate sets the effective date two months hence. The agreement includes a nuclear weapons assurance and compensation of $320 million to the United States.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Okinawa
Tokyo
William P. Rogers
Kiichi Aichi
Diet
U.S. Senate
Nixon
Eisaku Sato
Alexis Johnson
U.S
Sato
Naha
Secrets in Stolen Mail Pouches Top theft ring testified
Robert F. Kudak, a 29 year old federal convict, told Senate investigators that top secret missile plans and other sensitive papers often appeared in stolen U S mail pouches. He said the thefts totaled over 100 million dollars in valuables and that he sold loot cheaply to fences in New York and New Jersey while sometimes burning or tossing papers overboard. Kudak testified amid armed marshals and immunity, warning that unnamed accomplices may face danger.
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Washington
Senate
Robert F. Kudak
U. S
New York
New Jersey
U.S
Cudak
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Kudak
John F. Kennedy International
FBI
Racial disturbance shuts Charlotte High in Rochester
In Rochester New York police report a racial disturbance led to a rock-throwing confrontation near Charlotte High School. Principal Ronald Heigenrich described the incident as racial and said classes closed 10 minutes after start with no injuries.
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Rochester
N. Y
Charlotte High School
Charlotte High
Ronald Heigenrich
North Vietnam presents analysis at Paris talks
The Hanoi paper accuses the United States of aggression in Vietnam and calls the Gulf of Tonkin incident a pretext for bombing North Vietnam. It also alleges Walt Rostow devised a three point plan including a Haiphong naval blockade and sea borne attacks on North Vietnamese shores.
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Paris
U.S
Vietnam
Hanoi
Gulf of Tonkin
North Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson
Walt W. Rostow
Haiphong
Seek Injunction Over Genesee River Silt Dump
The Monroe County Conservation Association asked Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan to halt Army Corps of Engineers dumping polluted Genesee River dredgings into Lake Ontario. An injunction request cites 285000 cubic yards of toxic silt already slated for disposal unless halted.
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Washington
Monroe County
N.Y
Army Corps of Engineers
Justice
Fish kill eyed as potential eight to ten pesticides used
TICONDEROGA N Y AP state conservation officials said a fish kill rated serious in a section of Four Mile Creek north of Ti conderoga may involve as many as eight to ten different pesticides.
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Ticonderoga
N.Y
Four Mile Creek
Emprise Official Confirms Campaign Gifts to Louisiana Officials
Attorney Robert Leacy signed a notarized affidavit saying Emprise Corp gave a $10,000 campaign contribution to the late Gov. Earl Long and a similar payoff to former State Racing Commission Chairman J.M. Pete Menefee. Arizona Rep. Sam Steiger cited the affidavit and said Leacy fears testifying in Louisiana.
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Emprise Corp
Jefferson Downs
Earl K. Long
State Racing Commission
J.M
Pete” Menefee
Sam Steiger
R-Ariz
Wvue-Tv
Robert Leacy
Leacy
Louisiana
Racing Commission
Steiger
House to Settle Dispute Over Korean War Era Law
Lawmakers weigh repeal of a 1950 act that would allow detention of alleged subversives fearing it could enable the government to round up black rioters and antiwar demonstrators. Committees clash over keeping or scrapping the measure as the House moves to end the dispute.
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Washington
House
Times Fights Government's Effort to View Pentagon Papers
New York Times argued against a government bid to inspect secret Pentagon documents underlying its Vietnam war reporting. Judge Gurfein reserved decision after a hearing on the injunction and the government's request for the papers and other classified materials. The paper warned that forcing disclosure of sources could threaten press protections granted by the First Amendment.
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NEW York
U. S. District Court
Murray I. Gurfein
Pentagon
New York Times
U.S
The
the Times
Wanted in Chilean Slaying Leftist Uses Bomb After Shootout
SANTIAGO Chile AP Heriberto Salazar 45 a leftist member of the Organized Vanguard of the People was allegedly involved in a deadly attack on the headquarters of Chile's plain clothes police. He reportedly used a submachine gun and detonated home made devices killing two detectives and wounding another before dying. Two other members linked to a prior incident, Ronald Rivera Calderon 25 and Arturo Rivera Calderon 20, were noted as dead in related violence.
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Santiago
Chile
Heriberto Salazar
Edmundo Perez Zujovic
Ronald Rivera Calderon
Arturo
Salazar
Plainclothes Police
FBI
Humphrey recalls watching LBJ struggle over war decisions
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey says as vice president he saw President Lyndon B. Johnson anguish over Vietnam escalation. He cites a secret Pentagon study published by The New York Times indicating a lack of candor to the public. He says he did not know of the report or some papers until the Times account and would have challenged campaign timing if aware.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Lyndon B. Johnson
Humphrey
Pentagon
New York Times
Minnesota Democrat
Times
Johnson
U.S
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Barry M. Goldwater
Goldwater
the Times
Justice Department
Nixon pushes four front national offensive on drugs
President Nixon seeks expanded funding for narcotics control and rehabilitation and proposes a White House office of drug abuse prevention. He outlines a plan for U S service members overseas and measures to curb overseas production and trafficking of illegal drugs amid rising GI addiction concerns in Vietnam and Europe.
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Washington
South Vietnam
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White House
U.S
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