Sixty More Freed POWs Return Home From Vietnam War
United Press International reports 60 additional released American prisoners of war arrived in the United States aboard three C141 hospital planes. Weather rerouted one flight to Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where 1,700 greeted the arrival. The group included Navy Lt. Cmdr. John S. McCain and was followed by other POWs heading to bases in Westover Massachusetts Boston Navy Hospital and St. Albans New York City.
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United States
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington
Scott Afb
Ill
Maxwell Afb
Alabama
March Afb
California
Scott
Marian Maloney
Air Force
Robert R. Craner
Craner
Cohoes
N.Y
Bobby Joe Reese
U. S
Clark
Andrews Afb
Westover Air Base
Chicopee
Mass
Boston Naval Hospital
St. Albans Naval Hospital
New York City
Andrews
Navy
Charles Gillespie
March
Cmdr
John S. McCain
McCain
Adm
John S. McCain Jr
The
Pacific Forces
Honolulu
Texas
Maryland
Illinois
Seven Foot Wall Of Water Destroys Homes In Berwind WV
Flooding south of the state tears through the Berwind area of McDowell County during a late Friday storm. A seven foot wall of water and debris knocked four homes off foundations, damaged vehicles, and sent residents fleeing as two people were treated for minor injuries at Welch hospital.
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West Virginia
Buffalo Creek
McDowell County
Berwind
Welch Hospital
State Department of Mines
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Welch Daily News
Marlo Thomas
George Charles
Doctor’s Memorial Hospital
Welch
Miners Eye McGraw Swing Shift Law in WV
West Virginia Senator Warren McGraw proposes a bill to bar underground miners from working swing shifts unless they consent. The move follows wildcat walkouts at Pineville and across the region, where rotating shifts idle 20 mines and 6,000 workers amid health and sleep disruption concerns.
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Charleston
W.va
UPI
West Virginia
Warren McGraw
U.S. Steel Corp
Democrats Plan Counter Budget for 1974 Spending
Senate Democratic leaders finalize a counter budget aiming to outpace President Nixon’s 268.7 billion proposal for fiscal year starting July 1. The plan keeps deficits near 12.7 billion, raises domestic spending, trims military aid, includes tax reform ideas, and leaves itemized allocations to congressional committees with broad categories like health and education.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Nixon
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Democratic Policy Committee
Democratic
White House
Charles L. Schultze
Retirees claim they were pawns in Yablonski plot
Four retired Tennessee coal miners testified at William Prater's Erie trial that they were used to funnel United Mine Workers money into the Yablonski murder scheme. They said Prater gave phony organizing expense checks totaling about 4000 dollars, which they cashed and returned.
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Erie, Pa
Tennessee
William Prater
United Mine Workers Union
Yablonski
Prater
LaFollette
Tenn
Erie County Court
David Rothman
UMW
Joseph
Jock’’ Yablonski
Pride of American Scholarship faces graduate education troubles
The 25 year boom in PhD programs and graduate schools has left the system overextended. A federally commissioned Newman Report urges shifting federal aid directly to students to preserve quality and align with societal needs, despite opposition from universities and the Nixon administration.
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New York
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Frank Newman
Stanford University
Nixon
Newman
Best offer delivered to Indians at Wounded Knee
A Justice Department negotiator carried a manila envelope with the government best offer to leaders of the armed AIM militants at Wounded Knee South Dakota. The offer was not an ultimatum and the militants could take time to consider it. Harlington Wood thanked Dennis Banks and AIM attorney Ramon Roubideaux as he delivered the proposal designed to end the 18 day occupation of the Massacre site.
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Wounded Knee
S. D
UPI
Justice Department
Manila
Dennis Banks
American Indian Movement
AIM
Wood
Banks
Ramon Roubideaux
Washington
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United Press International
Wanda Hackman
Mona Guth
Hellertown
UPI Telephoto
ARMY
Charles Tyler
McGraw
James M. Naughton
New York Times News Service
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