Marine Sergeant Innocent Of Desertion In Vietnam
Marine Sgt. Jon M. Sweeney, 21, from West Babylon New York, was found innocent of desertion and communicating with the enemy after a week long court martial at Quantico He testified that his unit left him behind and that Viet Cong scouts found him while being transported on the Ho Chi Minh trail He endured six hour daily interrogations and beatings in North Vietnam and signed antiwar statements under duress He faces an honorable discharge and plans to aid POW understanding.
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Quantico
Jon M. Sweeney
Vietnam
Sweeney
Quang Tri Province
Perkins
Ho Chi Minh
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Sweden
Stockholm
U.S
United States
Corn crop yields: Kansas Missouri below average in 1971
Washington AP reports the 1971 corn crop estimates show Kansas and Missouri below the national average yield of 83 bushels per acre at 80. Total production expected to reach 5.345 billion bushels, about 30 percent above last year. Severe southern leaf blight boosted losses elsewhere. Kansas and Missouri detail key crops: wheat soybeans sugar beets sorghum with state totals for each.
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Washington
Kansas
Missouri
Agriculture Department
Department
USDA
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio
Kentucky
Report Released On Communism Report Released On Communism
A Senate subcommittee study estimates Chinese Communism cost 34 to 63 million lives in 50 years. Richard L. Walker of the University of South Carolina authored The Human Cost of Communism in China. Eastland says the work reveals the human cost behind Communist achievements, tracing from 1921 to Mao Zedong and Chou Enlai.
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Washington
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Richard L. Walker
Institute of International Studies
University of South Carolina
China
James O. Eastland
Dmiss
Subcommittee
Red China
Eastland
Walker
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
Chinese Communist Party
Mainland
Mao Tsetung
Chou Enlai
Hospital Won't Be Charged Over Kansas Abortions
Topeka AP: Decatur County Attorney says he will not prosecute Decatur County Hospital Oberlin for one illegal abortion. Three other county attorneys weigh prosecutions at four licensed but unaccredited hospitals after Kansas liberalized law took effect July 1 1970. Attorney General's office says prosecutions unlikely due to confusion over the new law.
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Topeka
Kan
Decatur
Decatur County
Oberlin
Kansas
Baby-Sitter to be Charged in Hartley Death
Juvenile officials plan to file charges against a 16-year-old babysitter in Pattonsburg Missouri tied to the July death of Lonnie Hartley two year old son of Dale and Mrs. Hartley. The Hartley child visiting grandparents died from fractured skull and neck injuries after initial reports of a bed fall. The body was exhumed and pathologist findings were presented to a Daviess County coroner's jury.
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Gallatin
Lonnie Hartley
Dale Hartley
Casper
Wyo
Pattonsburg
Daviess County
Lonnie
Sam Long
Chillicothe
Hartley
Justice Dept drops Wallace grand jury probe
The Justice Department links its Alabama state administration corruption inquiry to a report finding insufficient evidence for prosecution. A Sept. 7 Montgomery grand jury may return tax indictments tied to Seymore Trammell and a $5,000 pool. $25,000 in declared school firm donations. broader probes into asphalt kickbacks and bank favors found no federal violation.
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Washington
Justice Department
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Wallace
Seymore Trammell
Birmingham
Kansas colleges face enrollment decline by 1987
A State Master Planning Commission report warns Kansas will see college enrollments shrink late in the 1970s and into 1987 as high school seniors fall from a peak of 35,765 in 1975 to 26,339 by 1987. Dr Kenneth Anderson notes uncertainty over where students will come from to fill the campuses.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
State Master Planning Commission
Kenneth Anderson
Commission
Anderson
Trial resumes in federal suit over festival incident
In Kansas City AP reporting, testimony continues in the Joe Patton versus two southwest Missouri sheriffs lawsuit. Patton, 24, of Springfield claims Sheriff L E Lamb assaulted him with a night stick near the Finley River Rock Festival in Green County last September and also sues Green County Sheriff Mickey Owen. Deputy James Shaw testified Patton threatened to shoot Lamb, while another deputy described Patton’s evasive driving. Patton’s attorney noted inconsistencies between Shaw’s statements and a sworn recollection. Owen testified about hearing of the threat and that Lamb was en route to the crowd.
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Kansas City
Joe Patton
Springfield
Southwest Missouri
Green County
Patton
L. £. Lamb
Christian County
Lamb
Finley
James Shaw
Shaw
Gerald Shelton
Owen
Greene County
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Metro Goldwyn-Mayer
James Aubrey Jr
Louis E. Fischer
Levitt and Sons
MGM
Levitt
Gov. Wallace
White House
Grand Jury
Tration
Will R. Wilson
Trammell
Wilbur T. Billington
Mission
E. Wilson
Ottawa
Princeton
John Brown
Dodge
Lister
Louise R. Welch
J. B. Domnanish
Gene Domnanish
E. J. Domnanish
Power of Attorney
Printy and Son
Jean Printy
Mary
Mane
S. Main
Anchor Savings Association
Xahsas Ct1
Serve You Or Savings Association
INA
Ottawa Pta Council
Plaza Theatre
Ottawa Merchants
Reed
Lee Shelden
Ottawa Herald
Peoples National Bank
Charlie
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