City Clerk Calls DeSantis Dictator at Troy Hearing
City Clerk Thomas H. Brown testified at a PERB hearing that April 8 events conflicted with eye witness accounts and exposed deep city official discord. He branded City Manager Ralph A. DeSantis as a dictator and clashed with Deputy Corporation Counsel Ed Spain. Uniformed Firemen's Association president Charles Doyle named Councilman W. Brian Sullivan as leading a belief the council would discuss the contract with firemen. Brown offered a sharp, partial recount of the day, suggesting charter conflicts with local law.
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Troy City Council
Thomas H. Brown
Ralph A. DeSantis
Edward Spain
Uniformed Firemen’s Association
Charles Doyle
W. Brian Sullivan
D-4
Council
Sullivan
Brown
Harvey Milowe
DeSantis
Spain
Frank Magnetto
Magnetto
Doyle
UFA
DeSantis Firemen Talk Terms In City Negotiations
A Wednesday night session brought Troy City officials and the Uniformed Firemen’s Association to discuss a long contract dispute. Negotiating teams plan a final 11 a.m. meeting today in the Corporation Counsel’s Office to push a resolution.
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DeSantis
Franklyn Hyde
UFA
Consid
War Protesters Trade Insults With Senators
Protesters and members of the Senate Foreign Relations committee clashed for two hours during a hearing on funding and war strategy. Youths accused lawmakers of prolonging the war while hawks and doves faced insults, with witnesses including Chip Marshall, John Scagliotti, Jay Craven, and Susan Gregory.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Ed Chip Marshall
Cornell
Seattle
John Scagliotti
Jay Craven
Boston University
Susan Gregory
Paris
Witness recalls massacre a year after My Lai
Danny S. Notley, 23, ex Americal Division 11th Brigade, testified before a self constituting congressional committee that his squad killed about 30 Vietnamese villagers including women and children in Truong Khanh II, Quang Ngai, around April 18, 1969, after a unit member was killed by a land mine. The panel hears eye witness accounts of war crimes with no subpoena power.
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Washington
William Calley
My Lai
Danny S. Notley
Vietnam
Americal Division
11Th Brigade
Notley
Congress
Ronald V. Dellums
D-Calif
Dellums
Truong Khanh II
Quang Ngai
Capitol Bombing Witness Nabbed in Washington Arrest
A 19 year old peace worker identified as Leslie Bacon was arrested on a Washington rooftop by FBI agents and held on 100000 bond as a material witness in the March 1 Capitol bombing. Authorities say she is under Seattle grand jury investigation in national security matters. a federal judge refused to modify the bond or quash the Seattle warrant. The defendant's mother called it a big mistake in Atherton California.
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Washington
FBI
U.S
Leslie Bacon
Seattle
Wash
Atherton
Calif
John Bacon
Grand Jury
Bacon
U.S. District Court
First Arrest in Dividend Case Shocks Atherton Family
Mrs. Bacon says she believes the girl has done nothing as authorities arrest the first person in the dividend case. Attorneys failed to obtain bond reduction and seek a writ of habeas corpus to block transfer to Seattle pending Thursday hearing. The detained girl, Miss Bacon, is the eldest of eight children of an Atherton lumber dealer and is not charged with direct participation in the case.
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U.S. Court of Appeals
Seattle
Miss Bacon
Atherton
Rogers Says U S Seeks No Red Feud
Secretary of State William P. Rogers said the United States aims to avoid friction between Moscow and Peking though incidental tension may occur. He called China’s invitation to Americans a small but significant step and said Nixon trip plans are unlikely. Rogers stressed improving relations with both the Soviet Union and Communist China while denying a policy to widen their feud.
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London
William P. Rogers
U.S
China
Moscow
Peking
United States
Nixon
Rogers
Washington
Russia
Soviet Union
Kotouc Testifies Finger Cut-Off An Accident in My Lai Case
Capt Eugene M Kotouc testified he accidental ly cut off the tip of a Viet Cong suspect s finger during an interrogation near My Lai. He faces maiming charges and argued the act served a psychological purpose to obtain weapons cache details for safety of U S troops.
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U.S
My Lai
Kotouc
Madison Wright
Vietnam
Welfare checks shrink in New York City this Saturday
About 1.2 million New York City residents and a few counties will receive smaller welfare payments starting Saturday as the State Dept of Social Welfare reduces benefits to 80 percent of prior aid. The change, ordered by court and lawmakers, lowers payments for dependent children and relief cases while some upstate areas see slight increases.
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State Dept. of Social Welfare
Dept. of Civil Service
Assembly
Thomas W. Brown
Upstate
Rensselaer, Albany
Saratoga
Schenectady
Warren
Washington
Duchess
Greene
Monroe
Nassau
Suffolk
Ulster
Westchester
Governor Publishes 35 Million Consultant List
Governor Rockefeller’s office released a list showing 36 million dollars in consultant contracts for this fiscal year. The roster includes educators, engineers, and state department specialists, with many firms from colleges and universities, while critics say regular state employees could handle the work. Local examples include RPI planning contracts in Troy and Cohoes, plus SUNYA and Maria College training programs.
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Rockefeller
Executive Department
State Dept. of Transportation
Civil Service
RPI
Troy
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Hyde
Edward J. Connally
Vandenburgh Avenue
St. Nicholas’ Cemetery
Clarence Simmons
St. Nicholas
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Vandenburgh and
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Richard Y. Bayly
Francis Morone
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Gislang
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Grafton
SUNYA
Crandall Associates
Halfmoon
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Robert Wands
R. Stewart Kilborne
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