Governors Press for Federal Aid as Reagan Urges Action
California Governor Ronald Reagan and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller urged colleagues at the National Governors Conference to back Nixon's proposal for a $5 billion unfettered federal aid program for states and cities. Reagan warned Congress they could “drop a little bomb” to gain support.
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Washington
California
Ronald Reagan
Congress
Reagan
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
Panel Goes Public
The House Appropriations Committee opened its session to TV cameras in a 2 1/2 hour hearing. Members exchanged witticisms and philosophy with administration fiscal chiefs as lights shone and the cameras whirred, drawing mixed reaction.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Defense chiefs allow reporters on Vietnamese helicopters to Laos
Defense Secretary Laird says news correspondents in South Vietnam may cover operations in Laos aboard four designated helicopters. Reporters had been barred from American helicopters since the February Laotian offensive began. About sixty newsmen are at the front as South Vietnamese offer rides, though few Vietnamese choppers are available.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
South Vietnam
Laos
Tower says NATO flank focus risks Atlantic security
Sen John G Tower said Britain’s new emphasis on protecting the Mediterranean and North Sea flanks strengthens NATO defense. He noted Western strategists focus on Soviet armor toward Central Europe and warned the main danger now lies on the NATO flanks rather than in Central Europe.
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London
John G. Tower
Mediterranean
North Seas
Texas Republican
Central Europe
Weather Blues Across Nation Hit Northwest With Storms
The Associated Press reports cold rain and snow chilled the Pacific Northwest while high winds affected the northern Rockies and eastern plains. Gale warnings were issued along the Northwest coast and high wind advisories covered Wyoming Colorado Nebraska.
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Associated Press
Pacific Northwest
Rockies
Plains
Wyoming
Colorado
Nebraska
Kasabian Testimony Faces Tate Murder Trial Again
Mrs Kasabian Linda Kasabian testified amid shouting from defendants Susan Atkins Patricia Krenwinkel and Linda Kasabian accused her of shifts in the Tate murder plots. She denied delaying to shift blame to Manson and maintained she had testified previously. The three women, confessing at the penalty phase, claimed Kasabian aided two murder missions.
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Los Angeles
Linda Kasapian
Charles Manson
Sharon Tate
Manson
Susan Atkins
Mrs. Kasabian
Four Cuban Boats Seized Near Dry Tortugas
Four Cuban 50-foot fishing boats seized by federal and Florida authorities steamed toward a Key West court today under Coast Guard escort. The vessels were seized Wednesday for allegedly fishing within U S territorial waters off the Dry Tortugas, about 80 miles west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Key West
Fla
Florida
Coast Guard
York
U.S
Gulf of Mexico
Conte Leads Drive to End Oil Import Quotas
Rep. Silvio Conte announces new campaign to end oil import quotas which he says cost consumers over 5 billion dollars yearly. He plans two bills to end quotas and federal sanctions on oil production in Texas and Louisiana with growing support from lawmakers across states.
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Washington
Silvio
Conte
Texas
Louisiana
R-Mass
Small Business Committee
Nixon accuses Hanoi of widening Vietnam war into Indochina conflict
President Nixon charges Hanoi with broadening the war into Indochina and says the United States and its allies will have more to do. He warns of greater actions and demands restraint as the crisis deepens.
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Washington
Nixon
Hanoi
United States
59 Gls Die In Week In Vietnam War Toll
The U S Command reported the highest weekly American death toll in five and a half months 59 killed in action and 42 non hostile deaths including helicopter accidents 101 Americans dead the largest since late Aug. South Vietnamese losses rose to 432 killed and 1 446 wounded while allied forces claimed 2 260 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in South Vietnam Cambodia and Laos. The report notes no American ground troops in Laos yet a 9 000 strong blocking force and about 500 U S helicopters providing air support. The Nixon administration released a wide foreign policy review stressing continued withdrawal but expanded Indochina air and ground support and warned of possible new enemy moves.
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Saigon
U.S. Command
Vietnam
Sp Kesman
Laos
Ho Chi Minh Trail
U. S
South Vietnam
Cambodia
U.S
Congress
Nixon
Indochina
United States
White House
David Bruce
Hanoi
Paris
Southeast Asia
North Vietnam
Divided World Congress over Kahane Expulsion
The Belgian ouster of Rabbi Meir Kahane from Brussels sparked a heated confrontation at the World Congress on the Plight of Soviet Jewry. Menahem Bergin oppose condemning the Jewish Defense League while many delegates criticized Kahane's tactics. Kahane was expelled to London and then flew to New York amid protests and applause. Otto Preminger condemned the treatment as contemptible and comparable to Nazi and Soviet repression.
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Brussels
Menachem Bergin
World Congress
Meir Kahane
Jewish Defense League
Kahane
Belgium
United States
Congress
Bergin
Belgin
Rabbi Kahane
New York
London
Otto Preminger
Nixon Backs Federal Public Service Jobs Plan
President Nixon shifts to support an $800 million yearly program creating 200,000 public service jobs in state and local government. The move follows pressure from Democrats and black representatives urging emergency action to curb unemployment.
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Washington
Nixon
Congressional Committees
Sens
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
House
Congress
Calley Faces Two Key My Lai Questions In Trial
Lt. William L. Calley Jr testifies about My Lai killings, saying he acted under orders from Capt. Ernest Medina. He admits participating in a mass shooting and cites a radioed directive to "finish these people off." Prosecutors plan rebuttal with Army psychiatrists who examined him at Walter Reed.
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Ft, Benning, Ga
William L. Calley Jr
My Lai
Calley
Walter Reed Medical Center
Washington
Ernest Medina
Cal
Ley
Medina
Charlie Company
Medina Tell
Shell Oil fined for Gulf well safety violations
In New Orleans AP report Judge Fred J Cassidy fined Shell Oil Co 340000 dollars for failing to install safety devices on Gulf of Mexico wells. In Saigon AP dispatch eight North Vietnamese tanks attacked a South Vietnamese base in Laos but defenders destroyed five and repelled the assault. the Laos drive made no forward progress.
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New Orleans
U.S
Fred J. Cassidy
Shell Oil Co
Gulf of Mexico
Saigon
Laos
Thousands of Viet Troops May Be Sent Into Laos
Pentagon sources say additional thousands of South Vietnamese forces could enter Laos in coming weeks to press the drive against enemy supply routes. As of early February 22,000 troops were moved into position, with 10,200 used so far and the rest held in South Vietnam.
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Washington
Laos
Pentagon
U.S
South Vietnam
Melvin R. Laird
Saigon
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