Gay sergeant discharged from Air Force at Langley
Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a gay service member, was honorably discharged from the U S Air Force yesterday at Langley Air Force Base Virginia after exhausting legal avenues to stay in the service.
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1975
Page
3
Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a gay service member, was honorably discharged from the U S Air Force yesterday at Langley Air Force Base Virginia after exhausting legal avenues to stay in the service.
Washington reports tighter enforcement of the nationwide 55 mph limit may have reversed a rise in highway deaths. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration notes 4 134 traffic fatalities in September, about 3 percent below last year and 16 percent under 1973 levels, with August also down. A spokesman cautioned the link is not definitively proven but credited crackdown on speeders for a definite effect.
West German Federal Railways now offers two bed cabins in the 2nd class of new sleeping cars. Previously sleepers had three bed cabins in tourist class. Plans call for 16 of the 34 bed cars to run by year end on Trans European express trains.
Kissinger wraps up a five day China bid in Peking after a chilly farewell. A senior US official says Chinese leaders question US clout and fear a 1976 shift in policy. Kissinger then briefed Japanese leaders in Tokyo en route home and expected to return to Washington tonight.
Washington AP Ford urged to limit domestic trips to focus on White House incumbency. Advisory panel, meeting after Ford declared candidacy in July, says the president should stay in Washington to confront Congress in the home stretch rather than travel with the campaign.
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