Former Air Force major testifies to falsified bombing records
Hal M. Knight told the Senate Armed Services Committee he helped submit falsified bombing reports in 1970 to conceal B 52 raids in Cambodia during the Vietnam war. He said the practice began after arriving in South Vietnam in February 1970 and involved other officers in the strategic air command.
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Washington
Senate Armed Services Committee
United States
Cambodia
Senate
Hal M. Knight
Memphis
John D. Lavelle
Seventh Air Force
Lavelle
North Vietnam
Knight
Norodom Sihanouk
Harold E. Hughes
Hughes
George S. Brown
Nixon
Air Force
Brown
Southeast Asia
South Vietnam
Strategic Air Command
Fish Hook
South Vitnamese
Fulbright
Senate approves 1.2 billion export subsidy foreign aid bill
Senate Foreign Relations Committee backs a 1.2 billion foreign economic aid bill that would subsidize exports to developing nations with 30 year loans at 3 percent. Critics say the measure is cosmetic while supporters call it a fundamental shift from prior aid policies.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Dminn
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Mansfield
Fulbright
Laos
Cambodia
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Nixon's health shows slight improvement amid pneumonia
President Nixon remains at Bethesda Naval Hospital with viral pneumonia spreading to the left lung and doctors estimating three weeks of hospital care and rest. White House assistant Dr. Walter Tkach reports some chest clearing and reduced pain as Nixon works from bed and still makes major decisions via phone and briefings.
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Nixon
Tkach
Camp David
Maryland
Ziegler
White House
Tiech
Cox expands investigation into 1972 dirty tricks and plumbers
Special counsel Archibald Cox expanded the Watergate inquiry by naming William H. Merrill to head the plumbers probe and Richard Davis to run a task force on alleged dirty tricks and espionage during the 1972 campaign. The Senate committee pressed Nixon for White House documents tied to the June 1972 break‑in.
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Washington
UPI
Archibald Cox
White House
Plumbers
Cox
Senate Watergate Committee
Nixon
John W. Dean III
Senate
Hugh Scott
Scott
John Dean
Richard A. Moore
Dean
William H. Merrill
Richard Davis
Merrill
U.S
Detroit
Congress
Davis
New York City
New York
Phase IV planning resumes in hospital
President Nixon’s final Phase IV decisions on the economic program were discussed at Bethesda Naval Medical Center during a 40 minute meeting with Gen. Haig. Officials expect an announcement next midweek after Nixon’s hospital release and receipt of Phase IV recommendations from advisers.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Alexander M. Haig, Jr
Bethesda Naval Medical Center
Inequalities probed as Congress probes sex bias
Washington AP reports Congress first investigates women’s economic problems finding government slow to combat sex discrimination. Testimony cites 60,000 EEOC bias cases backlog, slow HEW college complaints, VA mortgage credit gaps, and little data by sex of race.
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Washington
Congress
Joint Economic Committee
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Council of Economic Advisers
Martha Griffiths
D-Midh
Herbert Stein
Justice Department
Stein
Council
Rep
Griffiths
Elizabeth Koontz
Labor Department
Women’s Bureau
Census Bureau
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Billboard ad for bowling insult sparks protest in Detroit
In Detroit the Bowling Proprietors Association sign promoting family bowling drew backlash from women's groups. The sign was vandalized with the word obscene painted over and the word wire removed. Cass Sicilia reported threats and repeated calls about the sign including a caller who opposed the campaign for beating one's wife.
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Detroit
Mich
UPI
Cass Sicilia
Bowling Proprietors Association of Detroit
Sicilia
John Lodge
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York Times News Service
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Henry A. Kissinger
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