Nixon U S Withdrawals Up Pace But No End Date Set
President Nixon raised the pace of Vietnam troop withdrawals by adding about 100000 to come home by December 11, bringing total U S troops to roughly 134000. He rejected calls for a fixed end date, warning such a pledge could undermine leverage and aid enemy offensives. Critics doubt Saigon’s fighting ability and future progress toward disengagement remains uncertain as November 1972 approaches.
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GIs Respond Differently to Nixon Speech on Vietnam
In Saigon and Quang Tri GIs largely dismiss Nixon's plan to withdraw 100000 troops as news lacking. Some urge immediate pullout while others fear South Vietnamese capability without U S support. A veteran sergeant supports leaving but declines to speak.
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Eighty Eight U.S. Casualties in Vietnam Week
U S military data show 88 Americans killed and 347 wounded in the last week, the highest toll in nine months, with 33 dead and 76 wounded in the Fire Base Mary Ann attack on March 28. The quarterly totals for 1971 are 580 killed and 3,687 wounded. South Vietnamese losses fell as troops withdrew from Laos.
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House Defeats Education Spending Hike In Budget Vote
The House narrowly rejected a plan to boost federal education aid beyond Nixon’s request, approving 4.8 billion for the Office of Education. A Hathaway amendment to add 728 million failed 191 to 187, while the bill moves to the Senate with gains above the president’s request and concerns over a looming deficit.
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Education chief reshuffles Right to Read program
Education Commissioner Sidney P. Marland Jr. criticizes the federal Right to Read effort as lacking action and replaces director Louis G. Mendez with Dr. Ruth Love Holloway, ordering concrete results from the 18 month old White House endorsed program.
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California Education Targets Reading Reform with New Director
The commissioner announced operations will shift to an office based program as the new director leads the Bureau of Compensatory Education Development in the state education department. Marland pledged up to 10 million in contingency funds for Right-to-Read to cut illiteracy by 1980, while a nationwide reading effort expands with a 1 million contracts research program and eight city seminars.
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Berkeley radicals win three city council seats in shift
Leftist coalition in Berkeley wins three of four council seats and plans a city charter rewrite, abolish the city manager form, tax changes, and a police purge while pushing neighborhood control. Mayor-elect Widener says police restructuring will proceed despite the results.
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Monitoring System Plans Globally for Clean Air Stations
Washington AP reports the federal government will establish five more international clean air monitoring stations in isolated sites including Alaska and the South Pole to track carbon dioxide levels and other atmospheric factors. NOAA notes the Mauna Loa data show rapid CO2 growth and aims to determine global patterns and potential cooling effects from pollution particles.
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Texas Winds Remain Favorable with Dusty Panhandle Skies
Moderate to strong south winds swept across most of Texas with clear skies. Only the far West Texas region west of the Pecos saw a weak cold front bringing a mild north wind at El Paso. Dust-raising gusts over the Panhandle and South Plains signaled the day norther's approach.
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Congress May Liberalize Farm Credit Programs
Farm Credit Administration officials anticipate Congress will overhaul and liberalize the system. Bills by Rep. John L. McMillan and Sen. Herman E. Talmadge seek to expand and modernize the Farm Credit System including land banks and production credit associations. Critics warn of reduced competition from banks and insurers.
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Judge orders release of elderly man in rape case
Federal judge Alexander Harvey II freed 85-year-old Winfield S. Waters who was sentenced five years to life for attempted rape of a schoolteacher after state courts would not reconsider. Waters, nearly blind with crippled legs and age, left prison saying he hoped for a good strawberry season at his sister’s five-acre farm.
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Vietnam War Victory Delusion Denied by Nixon Aide
A North Vietnamese spokesman at Paris peace talks said President Nixon clings to the illusion of victory in Vietnam. The remark comes amid ongoing bargaining and regional tensions in the war debate.
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