Senate to Hold Public Hearings on Vietnam War Secrets
Senate leaders pledge hearings to disclose the Pentagon study behind Vietnam involvement. The move comes as the FBI probes possible criminal violations tied to The New York Times publication of the classified report. State and defense officials warn the disclosures may strain foreign relations.
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Washington
New York Times
Vietnam
Mike Mansfield
Senate
U.S
Montana Democrat
New York
Times
Henry M. Jackson
Senate Armed Services Committee
Foreign Relations Committee
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pentagon
Justice Department
FBI
The
State Department
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Indochina
Truman
William P. Rogers
the Times
Mansfield
Congress
Johnson
Oldest passenger airline roots traced to early aviation
Aviation historians note KLM the Royal Dutch Airlines as the oldest operating carrier dating to 1919 with regular Amsterdam to London service. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin organized an early air line in 1940 using lighter-than-air craft which carried 35 000 passengers in its first three years. The first scheduled passenger line is cited as the St Petersburg to Tampa Airboat Line beginning January 1, 1914, with services lasting three months.
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B.B
Long Beach
KLM
Royal Dutch Airlines
Amsterdam
London
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Germany
St. Petersburg
Tampa
Petersburg
Fla
Howe
Silence by priests censures Cardinal Cody in Chicago
A Chicago priests group voted 144 to 126 to censure Cardinal Cody and five auxiliary bishops for their silence at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Detroit in April. Association of Chicago Priests represents 900 of 2,400 local priests and calls this a historic public stand against church hierarchy.
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Chicago
John Cardinal Cody
Association of Chicago
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Detroi
Cardinal Ceely
U.S
Rome
Cardinal Cody
ACP
Carl Lezak
U.S. Censorship Accusations over Viet expose spark Senate clash
U S officials face charges of press censorship after the New York Times published a secret Pentagon report on Vietnam origins and escalation. Sen McGovern and Sen Church condemn the move as masking government deception, while Sen Scntt calls it an injury to government integrity. Bishops split over openness and the church uneasy about priest representation at a Rome synod.
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Washington
Sen
Frank Church
Itaho
Acon
New York Times Ptbileatian
Pentagon
George McGovern
D-S.d
Church
McGovern
Senate
Hugh Scntt
Mother leaves baby on bridge then leaps to death
A 21 year old Los Angeles mother parked on the Henry Ford Bridge, left her infant son asleep in the car, and jumped into the Cerritos Channel. Lifeguards and officers recovered the body. The baby was found sheltered in the front seat and taken to the juvenile bureau. believed to be with grandmother Mrs. Earlene Latham. No suicide note was found.
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Los Angeles
Henry Ford Bridge
Long Beach
Nancy F. Massey
Vallejo
Hearby
Nevada nuclear test ends long halt Embudo device detonated
After nearly a decade of pause the Atomic Energy Commission detonated a low yield nuclear device codenamed Embudo in Nevada at 7 00 a m The test marked the first U S atomic shot since last December with no radiation released according to an AEC spokesman
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U.S
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada Desert
AEC
Convict details crime life to rackets probe
Robert Cudak testified before the Senate Permanent Investigations subcommittee about a lifetime of thefts tied to organized crime. He claimed his gang and fences netted about 100 million in stocks bonds jewelry cash and furs, and he described flights across major airports stealing registered and mail parcels. He said his partnership split about 1 million, and he revealed locations from John F Kennedy and LaGuardia to O Hare Newark and Miami airports where thefts occurred. He testified under immunity granted by a federal court and faced security details during the hearing.
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Washington UI
Senate
Robert Cudale
Cudake
John McClellan
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
McClellean
Cudak
McClellan
US District Court For
District of Columbia
Chlak
Cidak
Abant Aly
Newark
New Jersey
O'Hare International
Chicago
Cleveland-Hopkins
Cleveland
Ohio
Greater
Pittsburgh
Miami International
FE. Lauderdale-Hollywood
Florida
Tampa International
International Airport
West Palm Beach
Fla
Atlanta
McCarran
Las Vegas
Nev
Los Angeles International
Newsmen to Meet with Nixon in Rochester
President Nixon will meet newspaper editors and publishers from Northeastern states in Rochester New York on Friday to discuss his domestic program and policies. Attending are Connally Veneman Romney Ehrlichman along with regional representatives from New York Connecticut Rhode Island Vermont Maine West Virginia New Jersey Pennsylvania New Hampshire Maryland Massachusetts and Delaware. The session will cover revenue sharing welfare reform and government reorganization.
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Washington
Nixon
Rochester
N.Y
District of Columbia
New York
Connecticual
Rhodesland
Vermont
Maine
West Virginia
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
Maryland
Massachusetts
Delaware
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Health, Education and Welfare
John G. Venemat
Housing and Urban Development
George Romney
John PD. Ehrlichman
Ronald L. Ziegler
Dense fog halts ships in LA and LA harbor areas
Dense coastal fog blanketed the Southland overnight into midmorning closing Orange County and Long Beach airports while allowing instrument landings in Long Beach. LAX saw patchy fog with limited shutdowns and a cooling trend was forecast by forecasters for late today and Thursday.
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L.A
Southland
Orange County
Santa Ana Long Beach
Los Angeles International Airport
Imperial
Blythe
el Centro
TNE
Long Beach
Los Angeles Civic Center
Los Angeles Basin
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Detroit
Laurance Maddock
Grandma
Bridge Leaper
Earlene Latham
Kristian Massey
Chuck Sundquist
L.B. Span
Steed
Timothy Leary
Cassie
Jeane Dixon
L.A.C
Robeson
Eporis—Cl Lo
Earl Wilson
LaGuardia
Palm Springs
San Gabriel Valley
Riverside
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