Chaplain testifies at Calley court martial on My Lai plan
Episcopal chaplain Rev. Carl Edward Creswell described a pre assault conversation with Lt. William L. Calley's superior officers. He testified that one officer said they would level My Lai if fired upon and Creswell protested that war should not be fought that way. The exchange occurred the night before Calley's platoon swept through the village.
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Ft, Benning
William L. Calley
My Lai
Carl Edward Creswell
Calley
EEOC Charges AT&T Discrimination seeks FCC rejection
The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission alleges AT&T shows widespread bias in hiring and promotion across its 24 operating companies. It cites near exclusion of Black and Spanish American workers and relegation of women to low paying roles with some wages below those of men in similar jobs, asking the FCC to reject AT&T rate increase.
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Washington
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Federal Communications Commission
Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
At&t
EEOC
Supersonic Transport Wins Funds but Faces Winter Fight
SST gains 210 million and a path to survival after a House Senate conference. Opponents vow to talk all winter, arguing the project harms the environment. An agreement could allow spending Nixon's 290 million request to develop two prototypes of the 1800 mph plane.
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Washington
Nixon
Laird to Testify on Vietnam Policy Before Senate
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird was summoned to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to explain Nixon's broadened North Vietnam bombing policy and Cambodia aid requests. Senator Stuart Symington signaled he would question Laird on the policy outlined in Nixon's news conference.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nixon
North Vietnam
Cambodia
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Air Force
Laird
Federal survey to measure money tightness on business investment
The government will survey over 8,000 firms next year to gauge the impact of tight money on new plant and equipment investment. Prompted by a privately financed business advisory panel, three new questions will be added to a form similar to the 1967 data-gathering project.
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Washington
Two Tug Barges Collide in Atchafalaya Basin
Morgan City La. two tug barge combos collided in the Atchafalaya Basin north of town. Five men were burned when an oil carrier barge caught fire. Coast Guard said they were still fighting the blaze Thursday night. Flames stemmed from oil leaking from a hole in the barge. Water pollution not significant, spokesman said.
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Morgan City
Atchafalaya
Here
Coast Guard
Bubble Bath Makers Agree to Reformulate Toxins
FDA officials say Purex and Gold Seal will reformulate their bubble baths after complaints of irritation and urinary tract infections. Regulators say the firms will remove an industrial-strength detergent from their products to reduce harm to children.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Purex
Midwest Snowstorm Slams Wisconsin and Plains
The Associated Press reports heavy snow in the northern Midwest with at least a foot across south central Wisconsin and fourteen inches in Madison. Freezing rain south of the belt slickened highways from the central Plains toward the Great Lakes as Dane County roads were called one massive traffic jam. The snow fell at about an inch per hour at one point Thursday night.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Wisconsin
Wool Campaign Extended in 1970 Agriculture Act
The 1970 Agriculture Act extends a 16 year effort to boost U.S. wool production under the Wool Act of 1954. It maintains incentive payments to farmers to raise output over the next three years.
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Washington
U.S
Congress
Texas Soldier Charged In Viet Youths Death
The U S Army charged Pfc Matias Yzaguirre Jr 22 of Brownsville Texas with negligent homicide in the shooting of 13 year old Nguyen Van Minh in Qui Nhon Vietnam The incident sparked two days of anti American rioting as witnesses gave varying accounts of the shooting and the Army investigated whether to try him in a military court Minh was sitting on a school fence when he was shot after a supply truck incident and the Army later said a rifle shot from a soldier caused the death while some officials noted a supposed theft of a fire extinguisher.
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Vietnam
U. S. Army
Brownsville
Tex
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da Nang
Nguyen van Minh
Nguyen Dau
Minh
le Minh Duc
U.S
Mayors Welcome Federalism Push Yet Seek More Aid
A survey of 10 major city mayors finds most rate Nixon's performance for cities as below par though they approve his revenue sharing and welfare reform proposals. They back the new federalism plan but fault the lack of supporting legislation and funding. The interviews occurred during the 47th annual National League of Cities congress.
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Atlanta
Nixon
Associated Press
National League of Cities
Trains Return to Rails After 24 Hour Nationwide Strike
After Congress and federal courts ordered an end to a 24 hour rail strike, C L Dennis urged workers to resume duties. Negotiations continue as payrolls prepare to implement a 13.5 percent immediate wage increase for nearly 500 000 rail workers under a federal strike ban through March 1.
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Congress
C.L. Dennis
White House
John P. Hiltz
Hiltz
Dennis
Aflcio Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Four family members slain in New Canaan murder scene
Police searched for John Rice Jr. after the deaths of his mother-in-law Edith Fitzpatrick and his wife Janet plus children Nancy Stephen in a New Canaan home. Investigators described multiple weapons used including an ax knife and hammer and found a missing .22 pistol.
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New Canaan
Mrs. Rice
Nancy
Stephen
Mrs. Fitzpatrick
Nixon expands bombing policy and defends Vietnam stance
President Nixon says U S planes will strike military targets in North Vietnam if North Vietnamese infiltration threatens U S forces in the South. He warns Hanoi during a 19 week late news conference that bombing could widen to North Vietnam if combat escalates as troops withdraw.
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Washington
Nixon
North Vietnam
South
Hanoi
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South Vietnam
United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
Vietnam
Cambodia
Paris
Berlin
Mideast
China
Johnson
Clark Clifford
Cyrus Vance
Weather West of the Pecos Fair and cool tonight and Saturday
Forecast for West of the Pecos calls for fair and cool conditions tonight and Saturday. Low temperatures dip to 23 to 35 degrees with daytime highs between 53 and 65 degrees.
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The
Pecos
Cambodian Troops Advance Amid Low Allied Fatalities
AP reports no U S fatalities on Thursday marking the ninth day this year with zero combat deaths. South Vietnamese forces claimed 81 North Vietnamese killed in the Mekong Delta while U Minh forest operations yielded 30 enemy deaths with helicopter support. Cambodian and South Vietnamese units pressed offensives near Krek and Phnom Penh Highway 4 as shortages grow in Phnom Penh. Saigon weighs a new unilateral release of disabled North Vietnamese prisoners amid Paris peace talks.
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Associated Press
Saigon
Indochina
U.S. Command
U.S
Mekong
U Minh Forest
Delta
Krek
7Th Division
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Defense Ministry
Tran van Lam
Hanoi
Paris
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