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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1970
Page
2
Dean Martin signs a long term contract to host and star NBCs Dean Martin Show. NBC President Don Durgin announced the show will resume next fall at 10 p.m. Thursday marking Martins sixth television season.
Los Angeles AP reports threats alleged against Linda Kasabian the prosecution main witness in the Sharon Tate murder trial. Attorney Gary Fleischman says letters from Charles Manson followers urged her not to testify and warned of no real immunity. Jury selection proceeds as delays and alterations to the courtroom infrastructure loom for the lengthy trial.
House leaders blast Nixon address as contrived and tepid. Carl Albert calls it an administration public relations effort while Henry Reuss demands wage price standards and a temporary freeze. Wright Patman likens it to Hoover era rhetoric and urges real action to cut interest rates, lower prices, and curb unemployment.
The week’s tally shows 130 Americans killed and 1,664 wounded in Vietnam, with 476 South Vietnamese troops killed. Allied forces report 2,051 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese killed and 340 captured. Lt. Gen. James W. Sutherland Jr. succeeds Lt. Gen. Melvin Zais as commander in the five northern provinces, with Zais becoming director of operations at the Pentagon.
News reports say Hussein fired two top commanders after guerrilla demands as about 1000 were killed or wounded in the fighting. Hussein vowed to destroy left wing groups while planning a visit to Nasser. Nasser may travel to the Soviet Union later, and Moro mediated between Egypt and Israel. In Jerusalem, Israel’s Supreme Rabbinate rejected Helen Seidman’s Orthodox conversion, risking a cabinet dispute that National Religious party would ignore.
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