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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1973
Page
4
Air Force Captain William W. Butler of Santa Rafael praised as POWs begin moving from California to Maryland and other military installations. Wordy exclamations mark the welcome as more prisoners of war are on the way back to the United States.
Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on L. Patrick Gray II’s FBI director nomination touch on executive privilege and possible White House aide arrests for refusing to testify. Sen. Sam Ervin suggested sending a sergeant at arms to arrest noncooperating witnesses, while Nixon asserts privilege for John Dean EL. The report notes GraysInfo to the President and the broader Watergate investigation.
The Nixon administration urged Congress to approve a radical special revenue sharing plan replacing numerous specific education programs. HEW Secretary Caspar Weinberger defended the plan, arguing it reduces wasteful paperwork and lets funds follow students, while critics warned it could shift funds away from disadvantaged areas and states.
An article notes medium family of four could live on 10085 a year and San Francisco on 11083, with observers saying the relative gap remains similar. A reader reports coin order issues with Superior Coin Co and a delayed refund, later said to have been resolved after ACTION-LINE inquiry.
A reader expresses gratitude after a funeral song titled The Man was shared through an ACTION LINK item. The composer thanks everyone who requested the piece at the funerals for Los Angeles County deputies Carl Wilson and Dan Schneider and urges public respect and prayers for law enforcement.
The Central and Supervisory mission fails to probe alleged cease-fire breaches as South Vietnamese forces siege bases 25 and 63 miles north of Saigon. Canadian Foreign Secretary Mitchell Sharp returns to Ottawa after a week visiting Saigon Mano i and Vientiane and says Canada will decide quickly whether to quit the International Commission of Control and Supervision due to ineffectiveness.
Police report all 62 aboard the Air Vietnam DC 6 perished when the four engine plane disintegrated in midflight near Phuoc Long Ban Me Thuot area amid very bad weather. The carrier carried two Americans at the controls and may have carried Japanese passengers and foreigners. No survivors were found in the rugged jungle crash site about 142 miles northeast of Saigon.
In Bouquet Canyon a father and his two sons survived a Cherokee 140 belly landing in cloud shrouded Angeles National Forest. Richard 14 and William 13 carried 43 year old Eric Simpson from wrecked craft through rugged terrain to reach help at a remote house after their plane failed to clear the mountains.
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