Soviets condemn U S Vietnam actions and call for non interference
The Soviet Union denounces U S bombings and navigation moves in Vietnam as piracy and violation of Geneva norms. It warns of consequences for escalating actions and urges letting Vietnamese people decide their fate without outside interference. The dispatch asserts Vietnamization as a failure and condemns American policies as destabilizing to international relations.
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Republic of Vietnam
United States
Vietnam
Soviet Union
U.S
Indochina
Laird says Soviet ships linger in Haiphong harbor
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird reports several Soviet bloc ships stayed in Haiphong harbor after U S mines activated. He says ships chose to remain and unload cargo and warns mines will explode if ships encounter them. Laird notes talks with Soviet naval personnel at the Pentagon on a sea incidents treaty. He confirms mines were within North Vietnam waters to limit direct high seas clashes. He repeats U S readiness to act to halt air supplies to North Vietnam.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Melvin Laird
Haiphong Harbor
U.S
Laird
Pentagon
North Vietnam
Nixon hosts Soviet aides in talk on language and trade
Two Soviet aides meet with President Nixon and economic adviser Peter Flanigan as reporters observe. They discuss Russian difficulties with a translator, Nixon noting Russian is easier than Oriental languages and Polish. In Davidson North Carolina, Dean Rusk is elected as an at-large trustee of Davidson College, a 1981 graduate now teaching at the University of Georgia.
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Nixon
Davidson
N.C
Dean Rusk
Davidson College
Rusk
University of Georgia
Babysitters jailed for death of 2-year-old in Sydney home
Two teenage babysitters Rhonda Hoffman 14 and Dessie Raymond 18 were sentenced to life for strangling two year old Daniel Hay during a babysitting shift while parents were at a party in Wyoming New South Wales. Police say the girls plotted during a TV program and attacked the child with a tubing card and a saucepan to ensure death. The jury urged leniency due to their youth.
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Sydney
Australia
Rhonda Carmel Hoffman
Dessie Pamela Raymond
Miss Hoffman
Wyoming
Daniel Stephen Hay
Raymond
Hoffman
Mrs De Gaulle Declines Queen Elizabeth Visit Request
Paris informants report Mrs Charles de Gaulle refused a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II during the royal visit to France. She sent thanks to the queen but chose to stay in retirement after her husband’s death, declining any exception to her rule.
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Paris
Elizabeth II
Charles de Gaulle
France
Aces of Vietnam War Down Three MiGs in Haiphong Skirmish
Navy pilots Cunningham and Driscoll, aboard an F4 Phantom from the USS Constellation, downed three MiGs near Haiphong and bailed out after their plane was hit. The mission followed reports of three U.S. planes shot down in North and South Vietnam as losses rose to 38 aircraft and 37 helicopters since the North Vietnamese offensive began.
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Navy
Randy Cunningham
Shelbina
Constellation
William Driscall
Framingham
Maus
Cunningham
Tonkin Gulf
U.S
North Vietnam
Air Force
Saigon
Sunshine Mine Disaster Death Toll Rises to 65
Rescue teams found 44 more bodies at the Sunshine Mine in Kellogg Idaho, raising the total dead to 65 with 26 still missing. Two survivors, Tom Wilkinson and Ron Flory, described limited training on respirator use and no drills for major fires. Rescue efforts continue down to the 4,000 foot levels as investigators assess breathing air and safety procedures.
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Kellogg
Idaho
UPI
Sunshine Mine
Marvin Chase
Gyo
Boise
Donald Knickrohm
Knickrehm
Chase
Tom Wilkinson
Ron Flory
Anaheim Toddler Drowns In River Catch Basin Incident
A one year old Anaheim boy named Richard Pelayos drowned Wednesday evening in a Santa Ana River catch basin near his home after the current swept him into a flood control pipe. Police and fire units recovered him. revival efforts failed. His brother Fernando, 14, and neighbor Carlos Ojedea were with him at the time.
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Anaheim
Santa Ana
Richard Pelacios
Addington Drive
Riverside
Fernando
Carlos Ojedea
War protesters storm Reagan office in Capitol
About 150 demonstrators returned to the Capitol after blocking a major rail line in Davis and lowered the American flag to half staff at the Federal Building. Police restored the flag as protesters carried signs decrying the war and urged political action at the local and state level.
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Reagan
Capitol
Federal Building
Vietnam
Davis
Bd Black
Parific
America
Alaska oil line approved by Morton in national interest
Morton said after months of deliberation that granting the Alaskan route for Prudhoe Bay oil is in the national interest. He acknowledged environmental costs and risks but emphasized the oil is vital for the United States and must reach the West Coast promptly and safely.
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Canada
Morton
Prudhoe Bay
United States
Chicago 7 contempt overturned on appeal
The appeals court voided multiple contempt findings from the 1969 trial of Abbie Hoffman David Dellinger Jerry Rubin Rennie Davis and others. Seale faced mistrial and three month contempt terms. four charges against Seale were dismissed as legally insufficient. Defendants received five year sentences and $5 000 fines for crossing state lines to incite rioting, with appeals pending.
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Seale
David Dellinger
Abbot “Abbie” Hoffman
Jerry C. Rubin
Thomas E. Hayden
Rennard
Rennie” Davis
William M. Kunstler
New York City
Leonard Weinglass
Newark
N.J
Investigations chief quits FBI
FBI acting director J Patrick Gray II says Alex Rosen 66 has resigned for personal reasons effective May 31 ending a 38 year career in investigations and the bureau.
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Washington
UPI
Alex Rosen
FBI
J. Patrick Gray II
Gray
Rosen
FBT
Construction strike ends as San Diego resumes work
The 10 day construction strike in San Diego County ended with agreements. Laborers International Union Local 89 and the Associated General Contractors reached a two year contract. A separate agreement with the Operating Engineers was also reached but details were not released.
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San Diego
UPI
Laborers International Union Local 89
The
Associat
Ed General Contractors
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