Army discredits vet's brutalities claim and pay cases
In Paris, a Vietnam veteran, David B. Johnson of Tacoma, claims U.S. soldiers brutalized civilians and deserted to Canada. The Army confirms Johnson’s service, multiple court outcomes, and that medals awarded do not include valor honors. Separate notes report a stalled Pay Board vote on a 12 percent aerospace raise and a Delta Air Lines isotope shipment no contamination finding.
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Washington
Paris
United States
David B. Johnson
Tacoma
Wash
Vietnam
Ft. Leavenworth
Kan
Johnson
Leavenworth
Army
Martin Army Hospital
Ft. Benning
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
Floyd E. Smith
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
Woodcock
Smith
William G. Caples
Kenyon College
Ohio
Caples
Virgil Day
General Electric Co
Houston
Delta Air Lines
Delta
Benton G. Wells
Delta Here
M.D. Anderson Hospital & Tumor Institute
Atomic Energy Commission
New York
Holiday visitors fill Barstow area homes for Christmas
Decembers and New Year gatherings bring numerous relatives to Pecos Barstow Odessa and nearby towns. Families from Rockwood Mooresville Fredericksburg Midland Edmonton Lubbock and Calgary share meals parties and school events while others travel from Houston Dallas New Iberia and Pasadena.
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Bennie D. Longbine
Cinnamon
Jake Longbine
Estelline
Danny Longbine
Lubbock
Longbines
Barstow
Charles Waight
Pecos
J. E. Echols
Midland
Laddie Long
Stephen
Michael
David
Scott
Jim Trott
Jim
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
John Mitchell
Johnny
Renel
Fort Benning
Georgia
Jerry Anderson
Echols
Jenelle
Tinka
Woodrow Echols
Grants Pass
Oregon
Record price for 1869 inverted center stamp set in NYC
The highest price ever paid for an American stamp reached 35000 dollars for an 1869 issue with an inverted center purchased at a New York City auction on February 2, 1967.
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New York City
Adoption agency pinch worldwide as fewer babies available
A three part series notes a global shortage of adoptable babies due to mixed race and birth defects but also shifting attitudes toward illegitimacy. Experts from Montreal Vienna Tokyo and Paris describe rising unwed motherhood and policy changes reducing available infants, with a growing gray market and calls for tighter licensing.
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Copley News Service
Vienna
Austria
Montreal
Quebec
Tokyo
Japan
United States
Margaret Edwards
University of California At Berkeley
California
Canada
Catholic Family and Children’s Service
Die Presse
France
Germany
Denmark
Britain
Philip Ham
Ham
Mrs. Edwards
Miriam Rappe
Children’s Home Society Adoption Agency
Mary
Mail chauvinism fades as women guard postal mail
The Postal Service adds women to security ranks as guards and inspectors. Nationwide 52 women among 1,300 guards. Los Angeles area has nine and plans more. First female inspectors sworn in December 1970. Guards frisk suspects and access women’s rest rooms. training at University of Oklahoma, equal pay and blue uniforms.
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Los Angeles
Postal Service
Kathryn Prime
Philadelphia
Washington
University of Oklahoma
Terfly
Darlene Willoughby
San Francisco-Oakland
Guns to be taken off helicopters in Vietnam
The U S Army will remove guns from all medical evacuation helicopters in Vietnam by Friday. Most helicopters will be painted white with millions of leaflets and posters urging Viet Cong and North Vietnamese to spare them. Only the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Air Cavalry still has some guns, to be disarmed by Friday.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
1St Air Cavalry Division
Army
Medical Command
U.S. Command
101St Airborne Division
China trip may ease tensions
AP correspondent William L. Ryan notes Beijing blends propaganda and policy as it views Soviet moves in Asia as a major danger. He suggests Nixon's hoped for normalization with mainland China could gain leverage if communication with the United States improves, offsetting Soviet influence in the Indian Ocean region.
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William L. Ryan
Peking
China
Nixon
Asia
Africa
Red
Asian Subcontinent
Mediterranean
Black Seas
Red Sea
Arabian Sea
Indian Ocean
Bay of Bengal
Southeast Asia
Sea of Japan
Red Chinese
Moscow
India
Russia
United States
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Justice
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Roy Williams
Jack Moe Swane
Stanley
Rockwood
Alabama
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Mooresville
Odessa
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Carl Willman
Bill
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Bill Burkholder
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Fredericksburg
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Karo
Barstow Elementary
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Donald Morton
Joyce
Barstow Eleementary
Mr. Morton
Intex Gas Co
Yale
George E. Briggs
George E. Briggs Jr
Jack Donnell
Pasadena
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Jerry and
Vernon
Dallas
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