Calley Case Defense Rests At Court Martial
The government and defense rested their testimony in Lt. William Calley Jr.'s court martial. Judge Col. Reid Kennedy refused a juror request to visit My Lai, noting the village overgrown. The panel will hear three more witnesses as Medina and Henderson face their own trials.
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Kennedy
My Lai
Col
Oran Henderson
Ernest Medina
Calley
Charile Company
David Mitchell
Henderson
Medina
Mitchell
Ft. Hood
Tex
South China Sea
Roger Murray
Company
Freedom
Murray
Waukegan
Charlie Company
Israel says rebels fire rockets near Jordan border
Israel protested to Jordan after Arab guerrillas fired rockets at the Tirat Zvi settlement on the Jordan River, ending a four month cease fire. An Israeli patrol killed an infiltrating guerrilla on the Lebanese border, and a soldier was wounded in the Golan Heights. Egyptian jets over Suez were unshot at. US Secretary Rogers warned the cease-fire lapse raises war risk.
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Israel
Jordan
Lebanon
Syria
Tirat Zvi
Jordan River
U.S
Golan Heights
Suez
Suez Canal
William P. Rogers
Washington
Middle East
Trial Tells Manson Sought More Deaths Next Door Killings
UPI reports Charles Manson directed killers not only at Sharon Tate but also to slay the next door neighbors. Attorney Richard Caballero said Susan Atkins claimed Manson sought fear in Terry Melcher and commanded the additional killings, though Atkins later denied Manson’s role in the seven slayings.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Charles Manson
Sharon Tate
Tate-LaBianca
Richard Caballero
Susan Atkins
Manson
Vincent Bugliosi
Caballero
Miss Atkins
Tate
Terry Melcher
Doris Day
Melcher
Bugliosi
Charley
Laird Sees Rising Mideast War Risk Over No Cease Fire
Secretary of State William P. Rogers warned that the absence of a formal Mideast cease-fire increases the risk of war due to miscalculation. He downplayed implications of Chou En-lai’s visit to Hanoi and said the United States is withdrawing from Vietnam while seeking better relations with China.
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Washington
William P. Rogers
Mideast
Rogers
Chou En-Lai
North Vietnam
Red China
Hanoi
Laos
Chou
Peking
China
United States
Public Broadcasting Service
Vietnam
United Nations
Australia Leader Loses Party Helm
Canberra reports Prime Minister John G. Gorton was stripped of Liberal leadership and replaced by Foreign Minister William McMahon, who is to be sworn in soon. The move followed a motion of censure against Gorton amid Vietnam war policy tensions.
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William Proxmire
Dwis
Senate
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Proxmire
Casey
Harrison Williams
Dn.j
Adlai Stevenson III
D-Ill
Friendly Quiz
Canberra
Australia
API
John G. Gorton
Liberal Party
William McMahon
McMahon
Gorton
Nixon Eyes Alliance For Peace
President Nixon outlined a strategy named Realistic Deterrence aiming to build sustained peace through strengthening free world alliances and negotiating from strength. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird described it as expanding nuclear deterrence to deter theater and local wars while avoiding isolationism or world policing.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
America
U.S
Europe
Asia
Indochina
Laird
Armed Services Committee
New Plan Aims to Ship Welfare Applicants Home
Governor Rockefeller considers shipping some welfare applicants to their home communities and strengthens rules requiring able bodied recipients to seek work. A residency approach would exclude outsiders if local housing is inadequate, a plan aides say would meet constitutional standards.
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Rockefeller
Tthat
New York City
Social Service Dept. i
New York State
Department of Labor
John V. Lindsay
Laos Drive Breathes Fire On Red Tanks In Laos Campaign
U S forces report destruction of 100 North Vietnamese tanks in the Laos push including 92 amphibious 15 ton models and 8 heavier vehicles. Air strikes near Sepone and Lepone caused major destruction of enemy supplies as Hanoi masses T34 and T54 tanks.
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Saigon
Laos
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
U.S
Lepone
Saratoga Man Indicted In Motorcycle Murders
A Saratoga County man Richard O. McChesney 24 of Galway wounded in a Cleveland motorcycle gang brawl that killed five and wounded 22 was among 56 charged with first degree murder. The case involves Hell's Angels Breed gang clashes during a show at Polish Women's Hall.
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Saratoga County
Cleveland
Richard O. McChesney
Galway
Akron Breed
Lloyd Brown
Fred Radatz
Hell's Angels
Hells Angels
Breed
Hell’s Angels
Ohio
Vores
Administration backs cancer fight plan without new agency
The Nixon administration urged funding a cancer cure program with NIH leadership and a new management group and advisory panel, opposing a separate National Cancer Authority. Senators debated a proposal to spend over 332 million dollars next year while keeping cancer research under NIH and HEW.
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Washington
Nixon
Health In
National Institutes of Health
Department of
NIH
Steinfeld
Senate Labor and Welfare Committee
Subcommittee On Health
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
Independ
Ent
National Panel of Consultants
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Texas
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Memphis
Sandy Kaye Brock
South Vietnam
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nixon Eyes
Alliance For Peace
Regina Hostick
Michael J. Bakalis
Illinois
Springfield
Ill
Regina
Alfred Hostick Jr
Social Services
George K. Wyman
Saratoga
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