Air Force officer relieved after urging draftees to join
Lt Col A Y Taber of the 106th Detachment in New Haven says an Air Force recruiting letter by Sgt Robert W Knapp urged young men to join to avoid being cannon fodder in the Army. The mail was deemed most regrettable and an investigation will occur.
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Athursday
A. Y. Taber
106Th
New Haven
Conn
Robert W. Knapp
U.S
Southeast Asia
Taber
Teller
Hope Leads Honor America Day Rally and Vietnam Stand
Bob Hope and Rev. Billy Graham urged an Independence Day celebration in Washington to unite the nation under a patriotic banner. The all day event on the Washington Monument grounds could attract 600,000, with possible guest Nixon and stars like Glenn Campbell and Johnny Cash. In Camden, Violet Wheeler is charged with fraud for years of Social Security benefits claimed for a dead mother, facing up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox picketed the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in defense of press freedom, vowing more rounds of protest.
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Billy Graham
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Vietnam
America
Hope
Washington Monument
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White House
Glenn Campbell
Johnny Cash
Woodbury
N.J
U.S. District Court
Camden
Violet P. Wheeler
U.S
James Finnegan
Georgia
Lester Maddox
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Maddox
Cambodian capital threatened as guerrillas push toward Phnom Penh
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops tighten grip on Set Bo near Phnom Penh in a drive to seize the capital. Cambodian forces bolster with paratroops and armor while government planes bomb the guerrillas. Kompong Thom also sees heavy fighting as border tensions rise with Thailand and U.S. reporting light resistance but casualties on both sides.
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UPI
Set Bo
Yoishi Sawada
Um Prasith
Um Prasifh
Bassae
Mekong River
Kompong Thom
Laos
Cambodia
Angkor Wat
Nixon OKs Byrd Amendment to Cambodia bill
President Nixon backed Senator Byrd's amendment in a letter to Senate Leader Scott. The Byrd move would reaffirm presidential command decisions to protect U.S. forces, potentially easing Nixon's opposition to the Cooper Church plan to halt funds for Cambodia after June 30. The vote on the Byrd amendment looms in the Senate in the fourth week of the Cambodia debate.
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Nixon
Senate
Frank Church
U.S
Cambodia
Robert C. Byrd
D-W. Va
Hugh Scott
United States
Scott
White House
Sens. Church
John Sherman Cooper
H Ky
Byrd
Viet- Rath
White House delegation tours Saigon briefings on Vietnamization progress
A White House factfinding group of Governors, lawmakers and aides spent the day in closed military and economic briefings in Saigon. They then moved to the U S Embassy for political talks while planning visits to the Mekong Delta and Cambodian border regions to assess the war and Vietnamization efforts. They arrived late Thursday night and planned to tour Can Tho and border areas, with departure set for Monday.
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UPI
White House
Mekong Delta
Congress
U.S
South Vietnam
United States
Salton Sea Land Fraud Charged by U S Justice Officials
A San Diego based land buying firm Imperial County Land Co and two executives Leonard R. Shewfelt and Henry H. Hoffman are charged in a 15 count federal indictment with mail fraud over a land deal near the Salton Sea. The case covers 1967 to present with alleged victims including seven San Diego County residents and hundreds overall.
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SAN Diego Im
Los Angeles
Salton Sea
Leonard R. Shewfelt
Palos Verdes Estates
Henry H. Hoffman
South Pasadena
Imperial County Land Co
San Diego County
U. S. Atty
Charles J. Fanning
Navy
Chocolate Mountain
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