U S Army probe finds GI thefts in Thailand black market
A House military operations subcommittee report outlines GI diversion of drugs and PX goods to Thailand's black market, with stories of falsified pay records and promotions. Investigators traced thefts to Bangkok and two bases, noting an enlisted ring at Korat and a $18,000 PX loss en route to Udorn.
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Washington
Army
Thailand
House
Bangkok
U.S
Associated Press
Korat Air Base
Thia
Udorn
United States
Polanski and Debra Keep Club It Up in London Nights
Polish director Roman Polanski, recovering from his wife Sharon Tate's murder, parties with Deborah Keep in London venues. Polanski visits Britain to direct a new Macbeth featuring nude witches. Jeannine Altmeyer, 22, wins Metropolitan Opera Council audition, gains contract and $2,000. Philip Booth, 24, earns $2,000 plus a contract for future season. Samuel Timberlake, 29, receives a $1,000 special award.
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Roman Polanski
Sharon Tate
California
London
Deborah Keep
Miss Keep
United States
Polanski
Britain
Jeannine Altmeyer
la Habra
Metropolitan Opera National Council
New York
Miss Altmeyer
Metropolitan Opera
Angaras
Manon Lescaut
der Freischutz
Philip Booth
Arlington
Kansas City Lyric Theater
Samuel Timberlake
Auburn
Ala
National Council
Nixon Dining With Pat on Sunset Strip Visit
President Nixon and Pat Nixon dined with Secretary Rogers and other guests at Scandia Restaurant on Sunset Strip Los Angeles after a Western White House flight from San Clemente. The outing drew little crowd amid hippie activity as the party traveled by helicopter to Santa Monica Airport and then in a moving limousine. They had earlier visited Cloisters hospital where Spiro Agnew greeted patients and staff.
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Pat
William P. Rogers
Los Angeles
Scandia
Sunset Strip
Jack Crown
Rolling Hills
C. J. “Behe Kebozo
Key Biscayne
Bla
White House
San Clemente
Santa Monica
Restaute
Lafolla
Spiro Agnew
Agnew
Spiro
Lady Bird Johnson criticizes press during LBJ era
Lady Bird Johnson told David Frost on his show that the press paid more attention to small bad things than to large constructive actions of Lyndon B. Johnson's administration. She said coverage was unfair and noted the focus on flaws rather than civil rights advances.
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Lady Bird Johnson
Johnson
David Frost
Lyndon J. Johnson
Dennis Hopper Weds Michele Phillips in Taos Home Ceremony
Dennis Hopper and Michele Phillips, once part of the Mamas and the Papas, wed in a weekend ceremony at Hopper's Taos New Mexico residence. The Rev Bruce Conner of the Universal Life Church officiated. It is the couple's second marriage for both.
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Dennis Hopper
Michele Phillips
Hopper
Taos
N.M
Bruce Conner
Universal Life Church
Miss Phillips
Rhodes calls Ohio grand jury kangaroo court in Kent State probe
Joseph Rhodes, 20 year old Harvard Law School fellow and member of the Presidential Commission on Campus Unrest, condemned the Ohio grand jury for Kent State disturbances as a kangaroo court and urged a federal grand jury investigation. He praised the New York Times MEP report blaming the Ohio National Guard for the four deaths. The remarks were made at the NAACP freedom fund dinner in Cincinnati.
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Joseph Rhodes
Presiential Commission
State
Ohio
Kent: State
Rhodes
Harvard Law School
New York Times
Ohio National Guard
Naacp Freedom Fund
Ginelon
Thoresen Trial Opens Over Husband's Death
In Fresno Mrs. Louise Thoresen, 34, pleads innocent as trials begin for the death of her gun-collecting husband William Thoresen II, found shot dead in their Fresno home last June. The husband, 32, once heir to a Chicago steel fortune, faced prior convictions on weapons charges, with a federal appeal ordered for a related San Francisco case.
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Fresno
Dpi
William Thoresen II
Louise ‘Thoreser
Thoresen
Chicago
Frasno
San Francisco
Bay Area
Viet Rebels Shell Saigon as U.S. Senate Charges Rise
South Vietnamese forces push into southeast Cambodia to block routes toward Saigon while Viet Cong shelling hits the capital for the first time in months. Renewed fighting yields dozens of civilian deaths, multiple soldiers killed, and captures. U.S. troop withdrawals continue toward the Nixon target, with several units deactivated and redeployed.
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Saigon
Cambodia
Smuol
II Phnom Penh
Kompong Thom
Phnom Penh
Tak
Vietnam
Nixon
25Th Division
Hawaii
34Th Armored
4Th Infantry
Hunt Clues in Fresno Bombings
Police seek clues and motive after dynamite exploded on a Saturday night at 11755 p.m. harming two buildings, including the Fresno Guide office. No injuries reported as debris and shattered windows affected both the Selective Service induction center and a newspaper office. The event followed a period of crowded political notices and campaign concerns across the region.
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Fresno
Selective Service
Fresno Guide
Unclear wartime demand on Israeli action and Geneva rights
Fragmented text calls for unconditional return of displaced persons and cessation of collective punishment including property destruction harsh curfews and mass arrests. Seeks full compensation for destroyed property and restitution of confiscated items under Geneva conventions in occupied territories.
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Isreali
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