Calley Clemmency Board Visits My Lai Soldier
Three Army clemency and parole officers spent nearly two hours with Lt. William L. Calley Jr at his Ft. Benning apartment as a closed hearing pursued parole considerations. Calley, 29, is serving 20 years for the My Lai civilian deaths after a life sentence was reduced.
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FT. Benning
William L. Calley Jr
My Lai
Calley
George W. Latimer
Salt Lake City
Latimer
Ft. Leavenworth
Kan
Army
Harvey C. Johnson
James E. Brawner
Ray V. Smith
Clemency Board
U.S. Court of Military Review
Falls Church
Court of Military Review
Showdown With South Possible Kissinger Nixon To Meet Today
President Nixon planned a third meeting with Henry Kissinger at Camp David as a potential prelude to a showdown with South Vietnam over proposed ceasefire terms. Nixon flew to Maryland after a weekend in New York and scheduled an afternoon session with Kissinger, his lead negotiator in Paris.
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Paris
Richard Nixon
Henry Kissinger
North Vietnam
le Duc Tho
Kissinger
Camp David
Nixon
Henry A. Kissinger
Vietnam
Maryland
New York City
United States
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Tokyo
Vietnam News Agency
Nhan Dan
Washington
Saigon
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Thieu
Bunker
Nguyen Phu Duc
White House
Duc
New York
Hanoi
Thco
Atty
Richard G. Kleindienst
Kleindienst
Justice Department
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Pomona Youth Wins National 4-H Honors
A 15 year old Pomona youth, Alan Duffle, won a national 4-H beef award among six recipients. His prize includes a fully paid trip to the 51st National 4-H Congress in Chicago and a $700 scholarship funded by Celanese Chemical Company. Alan has a long record in beef showing, with 62 steers fed and 16 registered Hereford cows, plus multiple grand and reserve titles at Franklin County Fair and other fairs. He will be featured on WIBW TV Tuesday noon edition.
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Joanistas
Pomona
Alan Duffle
Chicago
Celanese Chemical Company
Alan
WIBW
Franklin County
4-H
Dave Smith
Smith
Johnson County Fair
Topeka
Wichita
Kansas City
Franklin County Fair
Bhutto Frees 617 Indian POWs at Lyallpur Camp
President Bhutto released 617 Indian prisoners of war at Lyallpur to win foreign pressure for freeing about 84,000 Pakistanis held by India. He urged India to reciprocate, saying Pakistan will wait if needed, and stressed desire for better ties while warning against another war. No immediate Indian response yet.
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Lyallpur
Pakistan
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
India
Rawalpindi
Bangladesh
Foreign Office
Bhutto
West
George Romney to resign as HUD head after successor named
Secretary George Romney announced he will leave the Department of Housing and Urban Development once a successor is confirmed by Congress. The move marks the end of Romney’s tenure at HUD amid a broader shift in housing policy and administration.
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Washington
George Romney
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Congress
Romney
HUD
Weather and political notes from Romney resignation
Partly cloudy to cloudy with northerly winds 10 to 20 mph tonight and Tuesday. Colder Tuesday with a low in the 20s to low 30s and a high near 40. Probabilities: 20 percent tonight, 10 percent Tuesday. Romney says he will form a coalition to tackle life and death issues and has submitted his resignation letter to President Nixon, who responds with a Dear George letter praising his service.
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Romney
Nixon
White House
Miller to aid bingo amendment drafting in 1973 Kansas
Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller said he will help draft a constitutional amendment to legalize only bingo, not campaign for it, as the 1973 legislature considers removing the lottery ban or limiting legalization. He will study past Ball proposals and may assist lawmakers without leading raids on bingo games.
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Topeka
Kan
Vern Miller
Miller
State Supreme Court
Itchison
Ball
Richard E. Taylor Jr
Kansas United Dty Forces
Kansas
Six Die In Kansas Traffic Over Thanksgiving Weekend
The Associated Press reports six people died in Kansas during the Thanksgiving holiday period. Wilfred L. Melton, 59, of Pittsburg, was killed when his pickup hit a Frisco Railroad freight train near Cherokee. Bernice Stilts, 38, and her daughter Beth, 2, from Wichita, died in a crash on U.S. 56 east of Great Bend. John Hannah, 77, Lula Hannah, 68, of Iola, and Barbara Mifflan, 34, of Olathe, perished in a two car collision on U.S. 54 west of Yates Center. Nationwide, 651 people died in traffic accidents over the four-day weekend. The holiday period was defined from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday local time. The 1972 toll rose slightly from 1971 and fell short of 1968. Weather across the country brought hazards with rain, snow, fog, and winds. up to 3 inches of snow snarled the Great Lakes region and winds swept from Massachusetts to Maine.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Wilfred L. Melton
Pittsburg
Kan
Kansas 7
Cherokee
Bernice A. Stilts
Beth
Wichita
U.S
Great Bend
John Hannah
Lula
Iola
Barbara Mifflan
Olathe
U.S. 54
Yates Center
National Safety Council
Great Lakes
Massachusetts
Maine
Alan Duffle: farming youth earns national fame on Farm Journal cover
Alan Duffle, prize winning cattle exhibitor, gained nationwide attention after Farm Journal featured him and his animal on its August 1970 cover. A 4-H junior leader, he has led beef demonstration talks, taught new members, and served as club officer and school president. He aims for a livestock career amid Kansas Senate page experience. Also noted is a Juneau Alaska prediction of a presumptive death hearing for Hale Boggs and Nick Begich on December 11-12.
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Alan
Farm Journal
Andrew Duffle
Kansas State Senate
Juneau
Alaska
House
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
Nick Begich
Juneau District Court
Kissinger and Tho Banter On Teaching At Harvard
Viet Nam peace negotiators Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho exchanged light banter about teaching during the early peace talks. Time magazine reports Tho asked for a visiting professorship at Harvard after talks end, and Kissinger replied he would enjoy teaching in Hanoi, linking academia to diplomacy.
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New York
Vietnam
Henry A. Kissinger
le Duc Tho
North Vietnam
Time Magazine
Kissinger
Harvard
Tho
Henry
Time
Hanoi
Kidnap Ends In Citrus Grove
Corona firefighters and police cornered a gunman in a citrus grove after a seven hour pursuit ending when an LA County sheriff's officer shot the suspect. Debra Brazil, 16, was unharmed though shaken as the car was halted and tires were slashed during the siege.
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Corona
Calif
California
Richard Lee Driskill
Debra Brazil
Hughson
Here
Driskill
Brazil
Angela Brazil
Bakersfield
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Sheriff's
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American Hereford Association
George
Bam Es Rma
Harometer
Vern
Ments
Steadman Ball
United Dty Forces
Boggs
Citrus Grove
Richard Godfrey
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