Battle Over U. S. Government Secrecy at High Court
The Associated Press reports a major constitutional clash over government secrecy and press freedom reaches the Supreme Court after appeals court rulings on the Pentagon Papers. News outlets including The Times, Post, Knight newspapers, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times published material from the secret study amid grand jury probes into leaks.
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Associated Press
U.S. Supreme Court Today
New York Times
Washington Post
Los Angeles
Federal Grand Jury
Pentagon
U.S
Washington
Post
New York
Times
Justice Department
Times, Post
The
Boston Globe
Chicago Sun- Times
U.S. District Court
Anthony J. Russo
Rand Corp
Defense Department
Russo
Rand
Daniel Elisberg
Elisberg
CBS
Walter Cronkite
Lyndon B. Johnson
Arrest 21 in 3 Southern Tier Narcotics Raids
State and local police conducted narcotics raids across Steuben Chemung and Cortland counties arresting 21 people for drug selling. The 67-strong force seized multiple suspects while a Steuben grand jury returned 41 sealed indictments. Leading officials were Steuben County District Attorney John M. Finnerty and State Police Captain William K. Dillon.
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Corning
N. Y
Steuben County
Chemung County
Cortland County
John M. Finnerty
William K. Dillon
State Police
Governor Vetoes Fort Covington Land Bill
Gov Rockefeller vetoed a bill granting clear title to six acres in Fort Covington, a measure vehemently opposed by the Regis Mohawk Indians who sent a delegation to Albany. The land lies about five miles from the St. Regis reservation in Franklin County, Northern New York.
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N.Y
Rockefeller
Fort Covington
New York
Capitol
Assembly
Senate
St. Regis Reservation
Franklin County
Nixon Honors Mother With Indiana Plaque Dedication
President Nixon travels to Indiana for a roadside plaque honoring Hannah Milhous Nixon born on a farm near Butlerville. Ceremony at Jennings County courthouse North Vernon precedes speeches in Indianapolis and a Chicago retirement conference. Plaque notes birthplace 440 miles southeast, moved to California in 1897. Hannah Nixon died in 1967 at age 84.
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Midwest
Indianapolis
Purdue University
Frederick Hovde
Nixon
Chicago
Continental Plaza
North Vernon
Jennings County
Indiana Junior Historical Society
Butlerville
Ind
Hannah Milhous Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
California
Hannah Milhous
Nixon Turns War Study Over to Congress With No Pledges
President releases 47 volume History of U.S. Decision Making on Vietnam and a secret 1965 Gulf of Tonkin study to Congress. lawmakers will read behind closed doors with no copying or notes allowed. Leaders promise lock and key. leaks denied but not guaranteed.
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Nixon
Congress
Washington
Vietnam
John E. Moss
D-Calif
House
Senate
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Mike Mansfield
White House
U.S
Gulf
Reds Seize S Viet Base Under DMZ Fire
AP reports North Vietnamese troops overran Fire Base Fuller below the DMZ in Quang Tri province and turned 800 shells on fleeing defenders. About 10 American advisers and GIs were unaccounted for as the base faced a ground assault and possible abandonment despite B52s and helicopter gunships support.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Fuller
Dmz
le Trung Hien
Hien
Vihear Suol
Phnom Penh
Industry opposes water pollution warnings on phosphate detergents
Washington AP industry representatives unanimously opposed a Federal Trade Commission plan to add water pollution warnings to ads and packaging for phosphate based detergents. Witnesses argued sewage discharge causes lake algae more than phosphates and cited Lake Washington and Lake Erie.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Paul F. Derr
FMC Corp
Two-Star General Denies Threat in Medina Pretrial Hearing
Maj. Gen. Berard Rogers told reporters at Fort McPherson that he never offered immunity to S&S, Sgt. Lawrence La Croix, who had testified in Medina's case. The pretrial hearing continued with the general denying threats of an immunity bargain to force testimony.
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FT. Mcpherson, Ga
Ernest L. Medina
Medina
Berard W. Rogers
Department of the Army
S&s
Lawrence Charles la Croix
Hoffa Resigns UMW Posts From Leadership
Washington AP James R Hoffa former president of the 2 million member Teamsters Union resigned today from all leadership positions within the union and its affiliates His letter went to Frank E Fitzsimmons Hoffa’s successor who won the presidency last Monday
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Washington
James R. Hoffa
Teamster Union
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Hoffa
Giant Union
Monay
Louisiana Racing Commission hears brief on police report
Baton Rouge AP report states attorney Kenneth Dejean says he briefed commission members on a confidential police report alleging a $25,000 campaign solicitation for Gov John McKeithen. He noted he cannot disclose what was said as the Jefferson Downs track owners fitness hearing unfolds.
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Baton Rouge, la
Louisiana Racing Commission
John McKeithen
Ing
Kenneth Dejean
Tho Returns to Paris Sees Possible Prisoner Talks Breakthrough
Le Duc Tho, senior North Vietnamese official, returned to Paris and said talks on American prisoners could be quickly settled if President Nixon sets a withdrawal date for U.S. troops.
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PARIS
le Duc Tho
Communist Party
Nixon
U.S
Space Record Set by Moscow Trio in Salute Station
MOSCOW AP reports the Salute station crew of three Soviet cosmonauts extended space endurance beyond 17 days 16 hours 59 minutes, surpassing Soyuz 9 and the 1965 U.S. record. Unofficial notes hint at a stay of three to four weeks.
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Moscow
Andrian Nikolayev
Vitaly Sevastyanov
U.S
U.S. and Soviet Space Experts Weigh Docking Compatibility
Houston AP report says American and Soviet space teams are exploring compatible docking systems and possible joint flights by 1973 or mid-70s. Talks consider Apollo and Salyut linkups and Soyuz with Skylab style craft, with technical and economic studies to follow.
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U. S
U.S
Salyut
Apollo
America
NASA
Soyuz
One Dead Sixteen Missing In Water Tunnel Blast
An explosion 178 feet underground near Sylmar Los Angeles left one worker dead and 16 others missing as a smaller blast earlier injured four. Debris and smoke filled the tunnel while ventilation was destroyed and officials weighed methane ignition as a possible cause. A body was found about 800 feet from the work area. no trace of the others was reported. The five mile tunnel is part of a California water project to Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Here
Roy Walters
Walters
Sylmar
California
Senate votes to limit debate on draft extension
The Senate approved cloture 65 to 27 to curb a filibuster on extending the draft as the bill nears passage. An amendment urged U.S. withdrawal from Indochina within nine months after prisoner releases, boosting moderate support but conference chances remain uncertain before June 30 expiry.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Indochina
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Vietnam
Gravel
FBI Seeks Source of Funds for Yablonski Killings
The FBI continues to pursue the source of money behind the 1969 murders of United Mine Workers insurgent Joseph A. Yablonski and his wife and daughter. Claude Vealey admitted a $5200 payment from a man he called Tony, arranged by a go‑between, while investigators seek Tony’s full identity and motive. UMW officials deny a link to W. A. Tony Boyle, the union president-elect. The case may yield more arrests.
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Washington, Pa
United Mine Workers
Joseph A
Jock” Yablonski
FBI
Thomas Henderson
U.S. Justice Department
Claude FE. Vealey
Washington County Common Pleas Court
Vealey
Tony
Yablonski
Washington
UMW
W. A
Tony” Boyle
Henderson
Special
Richard Sprague
Sprague
Am Rong
Phnom Penh
Governor Signs N Y Welfare Residency Law
Albany New York’s welfare residency rule faces challenge only one day after signing. Federal HUHEW objections and court challenges loom while the measure aims to deny benefits to newcomers resident less than a year during a five year emergency period. Rockefeller also creates welfare inspector general to combat abuses as part of reform package.
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Albany
N.Y
New York
Federal
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Nelson A. Rockefeller
U.S. Supreme Court
Rockefeller
Welfare Inspector General
Motorcycle drag racing weekend set for Niagara Falls
About 5,000 motorcyclists are expected to compete in the American Motorcycle Drag Racing Association event at Niagara Falls Air Port during the July 4 weekend. Sheriff Anthony Villella said patrols would be tripled near the drag strip to handle traffic hazards, though no trouble is anticipated.
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Niagara Falls
N.Y
American Motorcycle Drag Racing Association
Anthony Villella
Villella
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