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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1970
Page
1
Postmaster General Winton Blount is scheduled to speak at the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association conference in Boca Raton where about 100 executives from 14 states gather for the quo vadis symposium.
A jury in the William L. Calley Jr. court martial was to be completed today, enabling the premeditated murder trial for 102 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai to start Tuesday. At West Point, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky addressed cadets on the first full day of his 17 day U.S. visit.
Viet Cong mines killed nine Americans over the weekend raising US battlefield deaths in Vietnam to 44 003 since January 1961. Cambodian units bore the brunt as North Vietnamese forces attacked sweeping detachments north of Phnom Penh with 13 Cambodian soldiers killed and 49 wounded.
Officials fear up to 300000 people killed by last Friday’s cyclone and tidal waves in East Pakistan. Four islands near Dacca in the Ganges delta bore the worst winds up to 150 mph and 20 foot waves from the Bay of Bengal. The disaster alarm grows as authorities assess the scale.
Washington announces new GI home loan law restoring loan guarantees to 8.5 million World War II and Korea veterans and opening a mobile home program. The act, signed Oct 26, removes all expiration dates for loan applications and allows refinancing of current mortgages, with mobile home eligibility expanding to more veterans though high rates may dampen impact.
Federal investigators found no evidence of a mechanical problem or pilot error in the Southern Airways DC 9 crash that killed 75 aboard including Marshall University football players and coaches. The NTSB pledged to continue the probe over several months as mourning spreads through Huntington and Marshall. A FBI team began identifying remains in a makeshift airport morgue while services and offices closed.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield sharply criticizes GOP tactics and calls the upcoming lame duck session a potential unending Congress. The piece outlines the 91st Senate’s makeup, possible adjournment timelines, and major spending and policy debates ahead, including Social Security, defense funding, and constitutional amendments.
Fair conditions continue through Tuesday with a mild night around 28 to 40. Temperatures turn cooler late Tuesday with daytime highs in the 65 to 78 range across most sections.
A man is held for questioning in the weekend shotgun slayings of a Sunburg, Minnesota farm couple and their three children. authorities planned to convene a grand jury, with sheriff Spaulding calling the case a mystery and noting no motive yet established.
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