House Votes to Halt SST Program Funding
The House voted 217 to 204 and 215 to 204 to suspend federal funding for U S supersonic transport development and prototypes, potentially ending the program. Senators from Washington weighed in while the White House eyed Senate action, warning of job losses and economic impact if funding fails.
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Washington
House
U.S
Nixon
Boeing Co
Senate
John A. Volpe
Congress
Jazz Great Louis Armstrong In Critical Condition
New York United Press International says Louis Armstrong was hospitalized with a heart ailment and placed in intensive care at Beth Israel in New York. Dr. Gary Zucker reports the 70 year old legend has not suffered a heart attack but remains in critical condition and is responding to treatment.
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New York
UPI
Louis “Satchmo
Armstrong
Gary Zucker
York
Beth Israel Hospital
Zucker
Waldorf Astoria
Manson's Family Seen As Monsters
Los Angeles AP report shows Deputy Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi calling Charles Manson and three female defendants human monsters. He urged the jurors in the Tate murder trial penalty phase to impose the death penalty, citing seven savage murders and lack of extenuating circumstances.
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Los Angeles
Sharon Tate
Charles Manson
Vincent Bugliosi
Fleeing South Viet Nam Forces Call In Air Support
South Vietnamese units pulling back toward the border in Laos faced heavy North Vietnamese attacks and requested B52 bomber support. Saigon reported high Vietnamese casualties while U S forces suffered several deaths and injuries from attacks near the Khe Sanh area and the Sepon plateau.
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Saigon
Laos
America
Ham Nghi
Ho Chi Minh
U.S
Tran van An
Sepone
Hanoi sees no military victory for either side
North Vietnamese authorities tell foreign diplomats in Hanoi that neither side can win the Indochina war by force. Hanoi now doubts a decisive military victory and suspects the US seeks an imposed settlement, relying on international opinion to alter U.S. policy.
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Hanoi
London
Ho Chi Minh
Cambodia
Laos
Vietnam
Peking
Tably
North Vietnam
United States
U.S
Paris
Calley Jury Seeks Early My Lai Testimony Deliberations Slow
The six man Calley jury at Fort Benning asked to review early testimony from six witnesses about the 1968 My Lai killings. They indicated a verdict may be distant while they also viewed color slides of My Lai 20 months after the massacre.
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FT. Benning, Ga
William Calley Jr
My Lai
Calley
Col
Reid Kennedy
South China Sea
George Latimer
Westmoreland backs demotion for Koster and Young
Gen. Westmoreland has urged Army Chief Stanley Resor to demote Maj. Gen. Samuel W. Koster to brigadier general and Brig. Gen. George H. Young Jr. to colonel. The two were involved with the My Lai unit in 1968. Koster faced charges later dismissed, with a censure for failing to report civilian casualties.
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Washington
William C. Westmoreland
Samuel W. Koster
Army
My Lai
Pentagon
Koster
George H. Young Jr
Westmoreland
Young
Stanley R. Resor
Americal Division
West Point
Eban denounces outside pressure on Middle East talks
Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban criticized the glare of publicity and outside pressure surrounding Arab-Israeli peace talks in New York. He pressed U N envoy Gunnar Jarring to shield negotiations from international influence and to resist talks with outside powers over free negotiations. Eban, who met U Thant and planned talks with Secretary Rogers, warned that external factors complicate progress.
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United Nations, N.Y
Abba Eban
U.N
Gunnar Jarring
Eban
Jarring
New York
Egypt
Israel
Big Four
U.S
Donald Bergus
Cairo
William Rogers
Middle East
U Thant
Washington
Rogers
Ers
Reds Boycott Talks at Paris Peace Conference
The chief Communist delegates boycott the weekly session of the Vietnam peace talks for the third week, protesting U S plans for an invasion of North Vietnam. U S Ambassador David K Bruce indicated no plan to miss future sessions.
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Paris
Vietnam
U. S
North Vietnam
U.S
David K. E. Bruce
Lost 270 Penn Central rail cars traced to Illinois line
U.S. Attorney Louis Bechtle said more than 270 Penn Central freight cars worth about 4 000 dollars each disappeared from the railroad’s possession in the past year and later appeared repainted on the LaSalle & Bureau Railroad tracks in northern Illinois. FBI agents seized LaSalle records as part of a larger probe into possible organized crime links. A federal grand jury will review the matter next week with no arrests yet reported.
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Penn Central Railroad
Illinois
U.S
Louis C. Bechtle
Bechtle
FBI
LaSalle & Bureau Railroad
LaSalle
Ill
Federal Task Force On Organized Crime
Penn Central
America
Ladd
Chicago
Richard Spriggs
Federal Task Force Office
Philadel
Phia
Spriggs
Split on SST funding divides Troy area reps
In Congress, Rep Carlton J. King of Saratoga Springs voted to halt SST funds while Rep Samuel S. Stratton of Amsterdam opposed the bill to end funding, showing a split among Greater Troy Area representatives.
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Greater
Troy Area
Congress
Carlton J. King
Saratoga Springs
Samuel S. Stratton
Damsterdam
Lawmakers Battle Over SST Funding Restart
In a tense confrontation supporters urge reviving the SST program despite vociferous opposition. They warn that halting now would waste $864 million already invested and risk 13,000 jobs, while backers argue the government would lose a critical aerospace bid.
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Yates
Senate
Area Leaders Protest Auto Permit Fee Hikes
A Troy Automobile Club delegation met state legislators with 10 569 protest signatures against Rockefeller auto taxes. They urged against tripling license fees and warned the plan would raise state highway taxes to near the national high, with 6 417 signatures from Rensselaer County and 2 512 from Albany County.
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Rockefeller
Troy Automobile Club
New York
John E. Lyndh
Troy Club
Troy Motoring Organization
Rensselaer
Albany
Saratoga
Rensselaer County
Albany County
Saratoga County
Lynch
James M.brahan
Allan
Francis Miner
Charles S. Ehrlich
Watchdog Office Proposed to Curb Welfare Abuse
State legislators plan a watchdog office to validate welfare recipients and sample check applications to run welfare and Medicaid more like a business. They seek unified Medicaid control, and criticize New York City operations amid fraud concerns and a $125 million loss cited by HEW.
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State Social Services Dept
Social Services
Board of Social Services
William T. Smith
Big Flats
Lawrence E. Corbett
Fort Edward
New York City
Depts. of Social Services and Health
James L. Emery
Geneseo
Emery
Federal
Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Hope shrugs off loss of award for war stance
Hollywood AP reports Bob Hope reacted to the New York City Council of Churches canceling its 1971 Family of Man Award after protests over his support for the military establishment and the Vietnam War. Hope, 67, defended his views, recalling his 30 years entertaining troops and noting dissidents exist, including when awards were given to Johnson Nixon and Hayakawa. Dr. S I Hayakawa is president of San Francisco State College.
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Hollywood
Bob Hope
Chuch Council
Vietnam
New York City Council of Churches
Family of Man
Whitney Young Jr
National Urban League
Hope
Johnson
Nixon
Hayakawa
John Wayne
S.I. Hayakawa
San Francisco State College
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