SIU weighs moving VTI to Carbondale campus
Illinois Board of Higher Education approves study and relocation plan linking the VTI to SIU Carbondale. Gov. Ogilvie funds 2.5 million with a 227784 federal grant as SIU negotiates costs and power plant needs.
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SIU
Carbondale
Ben Gelman
Southern Ilinoisan
Southern Illinois University
Vocational-Technical Institute
Carterville
SIU Carbondale
VTI
Illinois Board of Higher Education
IBHE
Southern Acres
SIU Board of Trustees
Ing
Richard B. Ogilvie
Illinois Building Authority
SIU Board
IBA
Carney General Contractors
Highland Park
IHBE
Allied Health
James Brown
Willis Malone
Malone
General charged in Viet slayings
General charged in Viet slayings. Storm tonight with possible thunderstorms and warm weather into Thursday. Weather outlook shows low 62 to 68 and highs in the mid 80s. Airlines, politics, and local briefs appear on unrelated page sections.
Army charges Gen Donaldson in Vietnam civilian killings
Brig. Gen. John D. Donaldson, a top Joint Chiefs planner, faces murder and assault charges in eight Vietnamese civilians killed or harmed in quang ngai province between November 1968 and January 1969. Lt. Col. William J. McCloskey also faces murder charges in a separate case.
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Ft. Meade, Md
Army
John D. Donaldson
Donaldson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
William J. McCloskey
Vietnam
McCloskey
Quang Ngai
My Lai
11Th Infantry Brigade
William L. Calley
Calley
11Th Brigade
Claire Hutchin
1St Army
Ft. Meade
Hutchin
Roger Ranck
Ft. Oglethorpe
West Point
Normandy
42Nd
France
Germany
Korea
Washington
Pentagon
Joint Chiefs
Jacob H. Smith
Philippines
Smith
Theodore Roosevelt
Samuel W. Koster
Americal
Koster
Stanley Resor
Mitchell to quit cabinet amid Nixon re election plans
A high administration source says Attorney General John N. Mitchell will resign to lead Nixon's re election bid. Presidential Counselor Robert H. Finch rules out Ehrlichman as successor, signaling Richard G. Kleindienst may take the post by 1972, with Jerris Leonard also mentioned. Finch calls Ehrlichman not the attorney general.
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Paul Hope
Washington Star
Washington
John N. Mitchell
Nixon
Robert H. Finch
White House
John D. Erlichman
Mitchell
Richard G. Kleindienst
Justice Department
Finch
Ehrlichman
Kleindienst
Jerris Leonard
Law Enforcement Administration
Maries
Seventeen Charged in St. Clair Gambling Raid
State and city authorities arrested 17 St. Clair County residents in East St. Louis and Brooklyn on gambling conspiracy charges. Police confiscated gambling equipment including policy slips records and receipts. Herbert D. Brown of the Illinois Department of Law Enforcement commented on the raid.
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East
East St. Loui
Loveto
Brooklyn
Herbert D. Brown
Illinois Department of Law Enforcement
Hoffman pleads not guilty to crossing state lines
Abbie Hoffman, battered and appearing in court, pleads not guilty to federal charges of crossing state lines to riot. He faces counts of organizing and participating in a riot and impeding arresters. bond of 20000 dollars remains posted in New York after May 5 arrest.
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Washington Star
Washington
Abbie Hoffman
District of Columbia
Hoffman
U.S. District Court
John Lewis Smith Jr
Smith
New York
Army probes massacre report on Vietnamese beach killings
An Army inquiry is opened into claims that airborne U.S. troops killed 24 to 40 Vietnamese civilians on a Bong Son beach in September 1968. Investigator William Marhoun, citing a Santa City hearing, alleges the Army repeatedly killed noncombatants. the Army says the allegations are being investigated and cannot be detailed.
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Washington
AIP
U.S. Airborne
Bong Son
William E. Marhoun
St. Paul
Minn
Chicago Sun Times
Minneapolis
The
Citizens Com
U.S
Marhoun
Vietnam
Army
Treasury secretary presses case in heated Mills Connally clash
Treasury Secretary John B Connally and Representative Wilbur Mills, two top Washington figures, clashed as Congress opened debate on President Nixon's revenue sharing proposal highlighting sharp policy disagreements and partisan tensions.
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Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
House
Ways and Means Committee
Nixon
Congress
Mills
Connally
Treasury
John B Connally
Wilbur D. Mills
Washington
North Vietnam calls POW release offer sham in bitter protest
Paris dispatch reports North Vietnam denounces South Vietnam's sick and wounded POW repatriation proposal as a sham. A government spokesman said Saigon and Washington pretended only 13 of 647 prisoners wished to return, calling the move vile and cynical and an affront to public opinion.
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North Vietnam
South Vietnam
United States
North
Nguyen Thanh le
Saigon
Washington
U.S
Innocent Plea Entered in Corona Murder Case
Juan Corona pleaded innocent in Yuba City to charges he killed 10 of 23 migrant workers found buried in orchard graves near here. A closed arraignment in Sutter County sealed the court as District Attorney Teja planned to charge Corona further when evidence permits. A preliminary hearing was set for June 16 to determine trial eligibility.
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Yuba City
Calif
Aip
Juan Corona
Sutter County
Corona
Dist
Atty. G
Dave Teja
Roy van den Heuvel
J. J. Hawkins
van den Heuvel
HEW Could Lose Control Of Juvenile Delinquency Program
Senate Republicans and Democrat Birch Bayh propose shifting the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Crime Control Act of 1968 from HEW to the Justice Department. Bayh says HEW underperforms and that half of serious arrests involve people under 18, urging co sponsors to redirect federal effort.
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Washington
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Senate
Justice Department
Charles Mathias
Maryland
Marlow W. Cook
Kentucky
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Bayh
Associated Press
Federa
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