Colombo Shot At Unity Day Rally In New York
Joseph Colombo Sr lies in critical condition after a gunman killed by police shot him three times at an Italian-American Unity Day rally in Manhattan. Investigators questioned figures tied to Colombo in a possible gangland feud while four guns were seized at the scene.
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New York
Joseph A. Colombo Sr
Colombo
Albert Seedman
Jerome A. Johnson
New Brunswick
N.J
Colomb
Joseph
Albert Gallo
Cabo
Carlo Gambino
Gambino
Civil Rights League
League
Underworld
Cosa Nostra
Christopher Columbus
The
Columbo
James Delmonico
Colombo Fell
Gallos
Seedman
Anthony Colombo
Vietnamese general cites 10000 troops massing for northwest offensive
In Dong Ha Maj. Gen. Phan Van Phu said Hanoi has 10000 troops in 800 square miles of Quang Tri west of the provincial capital toward the Laotian border and north of Highway 9 to the DMZ. He reported 6000 infiltrated since May 1, with mortars rockets and antiaircraft guns but no heavy artillery.
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Saigon
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Phan van Phu
Dong Ha
Quang Tri Province
Phu
Dmz
Fuller
Laos
U.S
South China Sea
da Nang
Wall Street Firm Funds Dinner for Patman Hearing Push
A Sartorius & Co. NY firm paid 1500 to House Banking Chair Wright Patman for a private dinner with top customers and prospects. Patman said the fee funds books for Texas schools as he reiterated opposition to government guarantees and urged tighter banking regulation ahead of July hearings on the Lockheed loan proposal.
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Washington
Wall Street
Wright Patman
House Banking Committee
Patman
New York Stock Exchange
Sartorius & Co
New York
Ford Foundation
Texas
Senate Banking Committee
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Ing
Sparkman
Senate
House
Thomas C. Sorensen
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Pateman
Lockheed
Pentagon Papers Fallout and Indictment of Ellsberg
The Pentagon Papers case intensifies as Daniel Ellsberg faces indictment for theft and unauthorized possession of national defense documents. The Supreme Court weighs limits on publication while Congress receives sealed copies of the 47 volumes.
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Associated Press
Christian Science Monitor
Pentagon
Vietnam
Daniel Ellsberg
Washington
Supreme Court
New York Times
The
Washington Post
Congress
Capitol
Monitor
Boston
Kennedy
Johnson
United States
South Vietnam
U.S
Los Angeles
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Lyndon B. Johnson
Humphrey
Ellsberg
National Defense
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Justice Department
the Times
the Post
Boston Globe
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Congress Probes Government Secrecy Practices
Washington AP report on the House Government Operations Committee open inquiry into document classification. Witnesses from State Justice and Defense discuss the top secret Vietnam history, Tonkin Gulf study, and White House secrecy practices amid calls for full committee access to files and broader disclosure.
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Washington
Witneses
Elf
Pentagon
Capitol Hill
State, Justice and
Defense Department
House
Government Information Subcommittee
U.S
Vietnam
Senate
Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Gulf of Tonkin
David Wise
Old
New York Herald Tribune
Wise
James C. Hager
POW Visits To Continue In Vietnam Prison
The U S Embassy will maintain a twice monthly visit policy to 12 Americans held in a Vietnamese prison. Vice Consul Laurence E. Pope said they will try to improve their comfort but noted limited options to aid.
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Saigon
U. S
Laurence E. Pope
Teamsters convention to proceed with expanded rank voice
Federal judge refused to halt the Teamsters convention in Miami Beach but ordered steps to give rank and file a bigger voice in union affairs. Nixon will not seek tax cuts or speed federal spending and will veto a 5.6 billion public works bill. In Belfast a large arms cache was found in a warehouse, suggesting bomb making use.
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Washington
Teamsters
Miami Beach
White House
Nixon
False words infect the soul with evil, Socratic warning
A concise reflection cites Socrates condemning falsehoods as more than wrong words, warning that deceit corrupts inner virtue and harms character.
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Socrates
Nixon Considers Expansion Plan to Curb Unemployment
President Nixon met with his Cabinet to discuss the economy amid 6.2 percent unemployment in April and a 5 percent current inflation rate. Treasury Secretary Connally and Fed Chair Burns urged stronger intervention as Commerce reports show a modest May rise in leading indicators and a second straight May trade deficit.
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Nixon
Camp David
Treasury
John B. Connally
Federal Reserve Board
Arthur F. Burns
White House
Burns
Connally
Commerce Department
Department
United States
Federal Judge to Rule on Teamster Takeover Bid
A U S District Court judge promised a ruling today on a bid by Don Vestal and allies to block Frank Fitzsimmons’s July convention as a rival faction argues he has illegally led the union since Hoffa’s jail sentence. The case seeks a receiver or a delay to let members vote, with Hoffa’s supporters warning of a major power struggle in the 2 million member union.
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High Court
The
Times
the Post
Justice Department
Senate
House
Pentagon
Washington
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Union
James R. Hoffa
U.S
Fitzsimmons
Labor Movement
Gordon McKinley
Toledo
Vestal
Bob Vestal
Teamsters
Nashville
Theodore Daley
Yonkers
N.Y
Hoffa
Detroit
Federal Peniten
Lewisburg
Teamster
David Previant
Federal
Labor Law
Labor Department
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Dick Slack
Pecos
Secretary of the
House Armed Services Committee
Eisenhower
American Broadcasting Co
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R-Ariz
Benjamin C. Bradlee
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Hagerty
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Northern Ireland
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