JFK Plans To Halt Vietnam Peace Effort Revealed
The Chicago Sun-Times publishes excerpts from a Pentagon study and a 1963 State Department memo on Diem. The memos show a clash between the State Department urging Diem’s ouster if talks with North Vietnam occur and the Pentagon pressing to stay with him. Federal courts restrain Times, Post, and Globe from further printing. Government reviews declassification, with Defense Secretary Laird pressing rapid action.
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Associated Press
Chicago Sun-Times Today
New York Times
Washington Post
Boston Globe
Sun-Times
State Department
Ngo Dinh Diem
North Vietnam
Roger Hilsman
Dean Rusk
Pentagon
Diem
United States
Sun- Times
New York City
Washington
U.S. District Court
The
Times and
the Post
Post Car
Suit Set To Open War File
Two congressmen prepared to sue Defense Secretary Laird to publicly release all 47 volumes of the Pentagon papers on the Vietnam war. Rep McCloskey said FBI visited to learn how he obtained papers from Ellsberg, who he says supplied them. others plan to sue under FOIA despite Laird’s declassification study.
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Washington
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Pentagon
Paul N. McCloskey Jr
R-Calif
FBI
John E. Moss
D-Calif
Ogden Reid
R-N.y
Laird
U.S
Vietnam
McCloskey
Daniel Elisberg
Ellsberg
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton
Common Market OKs England Admission
Britain wins formal agreement to join the European Economic Community after all-night talks led by Geoffrey Rippon. Heath must now persuade Parliament as public opinion stays split and the 1973 target looms amid budget and fishing concessions.
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Luxembourg
Britain
European Economic Community
Edward Heath
Europe
Geoffrey Rippon
Norway
Denmark
Ireland
France
Italy
West Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
New Zealand
Heath
London
Farm workers seek easing of restraining order in Yuma picket action
AP dispatch reports United Farm Workers Organizing Committee asking a Superior Court to ease a restraining order limiting picketing at canta loupe fields near Yuma. The item blends with other AP briefs from Washington and Austin on violent crime and capital punishment developments.
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Yuma
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Washington, Pa
Claude E. Vealey
United Mine Workers
Joseph A
Jock” Yablonski
Washington County
House Approves Welfare Reform Plan With Broad Changes
The House passed a sweeping welfare reform package and related Social Security changes, sending the measure to the Senate. It provides a federally guaranteed minimum income of 2400 dollars for a family of four, expands benefits for retirees and disabled, raises payroll taxes, and allows states to supplement federal payments. The bill also broadens Medicare eligibility and alters retirement rules, with costs estimated at 5.5 billion dollars and state savings of 1.6 billion under current support.
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Washington (P
House
Senate
Nixon
Probe Begins On Document System
Washington lawmakers opened a hearing on the government document classification system. Rep. William Moorehead led the inquiry into constitutional questions around the secret Pentagon Vietnam study and the Nixon era effort to suppress it. Officials described Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential labels and noted many WWII documents remain classified with varying declassification timelines. A Pentagon official called the answer to further restrictions simply classified.
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Washington
APA House
William Moorehead
D- Pa
Pentagon
Executive Branch
United States
Defense Department
House committee approves equal rights amendment amid exemptions
The House Judiciary Committee backed a proposed constitutional equal rights amendment 32 to 3, but added a 19 to 16 provision shielding women from the draft and allowing gender based laws to persist. Rep. Martha Griffiths condemned the move while promising a fight to strike the new clause on the floor.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Martha W. Griffiths
Dmich
Charles E. Wiggins
Calif
Griffiths
Wiggins
House
Industry Rules Out Oil Import Increase
The Interstate Oil Compact Commission delegates from 33 states end a two day meeting in Bismarck calling for federal policies to boost domestic petroleum production and avoid higher imports from unstable regions. North Dakota Governor Guy urges cautious resource development with conservation and ecology.
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Bismarck
N.D
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
U.S
North Dakota
William L. Guy
Mansfield amendment pushes nine month troop pullout demand
The Senate approved a non binding Mansfield pullout plan by 57 to 42 urging immediate ceasefire talks, staged troop withdrawals, and prisoner releases within nine months from enactment. White House dismissed it as not representing Congress, while House leaders signaled no end war provisions on the draft bill. París peace talks offered no immediate comment.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Indochina
White House
House Armed Services Committee
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
North Vietnam
Ronald L. Ziegler
Congress
Hebert
House
Paris
United States
Sena
Sens
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Alan Cranston
Calif
Gulf of Tonkin
Nixon Plans Midwest Trip To Boost Non political Image
President Nixon heads to Indiana and Illinois for appearances amid non political rhetoric. He spoke in Atlantic City at the American Medical Association and promoted health care plans while predicting Kennedy backed plans would cost the taxpayers 77 billion dollars in three years. He will also visit Vernon Indiana to unveil his mother Hannah Milhous Nixon's birthplace plaque and attend a Purdue University retirement dinner in Indianapolis. He is set for a Chicago conference with retired teachers and retirees.
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Washington
Nixon
Midwest
New York
New Jersey
Florida
Indiana
Illinois
Atlantic City
N.J
American Medical Association
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Vernon
Ind
Hannah Milhous Nixon
California
Indianapolis
Frederick Howdey
Purdue University
Chicago
National Retired Teachers Association
American Association of Retired Persons
Battle reports evolve around Viet Nam Cambodian firefight near Phnom Penh
Cambodian officials describe heavy fighting in the Vihear Suor marshes east of Phnom Penh with about 20 Cambodian soldiers wounded and 33 enemy bodies on the field. North Vietnamese forces engage in hand to hand combat as a 5000 man push stalls amid air and artillery exchanges near the DMZ and Fire Base Fuller.
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Saigon
Vihear Suor
Phnom Penh
U.S. Command
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Quang Tri
Fuller
Dmz
Guatemalan President Marks One-Year in Office
President Carlos Arana Osorio marks his first anniversary in office on July 1 amid claims of progress toward pacifying Guatemala. He says guerrillas are doomed, cites over 1,000 urban terror deaths, and notes a six month state of siege. He praises a national development plan advancing social economic growth and private sector diversification.
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Guatemala
Carlos Arana Osorio
Arana Osorio
Osorio
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