Helicopters Pull From Khe Sanh Amid Laos Border Assault
AP reports U S helicopter units began leaving Khe Sanh for Chu Lai and Phu Bai as North Vietnamese gunners zeroed in the base near the Laos border. Tanks and AP reported paratroopers clinging to vehicles crossed into Laos while U S forces blocked Highway 9 and fought near the border. Casualties were unavailable and border troop numbers remained uncertain.
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Laos
U.S
Khe Sanh
Chu Lai
Phu Bai
Nixon uses personal appeals to sway SST funding vote
President Nixon presses undecided senators by phone as Senate plans a vote on funding the supersonic transport. Senator Buckley met with the President and pledged to vote for funding after assurances that commercial SSTs would not operate until all objections are resolved. Senator Prouty reportedly had a possible meeting with Nixon but confirmation was unclear.
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Ronald L. Ziegler
Nixon
Senate
Buckley
Winston Prouty
R-Vt
Senate Republican
U.S
Congress
Japan
Scott
Len Gordon Allott
R-Corp
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Arturo Illia
Juan D. Peron
Alejandro Lanusse
Roberto M. Levingston
Lanusse
Juan Ongania
Levingston
United States
Peron
Spain
Mixed signals as commerce forecast cites rosy decade
A Commerce Department study finds overall long term business prospects bright, despite declines in aerospace and textile sectors. It forecasts 1.75 million housing starts in 1971, while the Council of Economic Advisers projects 2 million this year, prompting disagreement and debate at the White House.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Nixon
Council of Economic Advisers
Council
Department
Paul McCracken
McCracken
States Must Ratify 18 Year Old Vote Passed Argentina Under Rule
The House approved a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to 18 400 to 19 and sent it to the states for ratification. Minnesota Delaware Tennessee Connecticut and Washington rushed to be first to ratify as 38 states are needed for impact in 1972.
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House
Minnesota
Delaware
Tennessee
Connecticut
Act of Congress
Supreme Court
Congress
Richard H. Poff
R-Va
Charles E. Wiggins
Calif
Wiggins
Georgia
Kentucky
Alaska
Hawaii
Maine
Nebraska
Massachusetts
Montana
San Francisco Mayor Indicted In Bribery Case
A federal grand jury indicted San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto and three former Washington officials in a bribery conspiracy tied to 2.3 million in legal fees from antitrust lawsuits against electrical equipment makers. The case alleges removal of a 1 million fee cap in exchange for kickbacks.
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Seattle
San Francisco
Joseph Alioto
Washington State
Alioto
Atty
John J. O’connell
Asst. Atty
George K. Faler
John G. McCutcheon
Pierce County
Wash
O’connell
Faler
O'Connell
18 Point Program Urged To Reform New York Courts
State Senator John Hughes unveiled an 18 point program to take court administration from judges and create a Dept of Judicial Administration with trained managers. The plan includes Civil Service assistant district attorneys, preventive detention of dangerous criminals and stiffer sentences for organized crime.
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John H. Hughes
Syracuse
Abraham Bernstein
Bronx
Crime Study Commission
Albany
Hughes
Joint Legislative Committee On Crime
Dept. of Judicial Administration
People Sound Off On Legislation At Albany Capitol
Citizens filled the Albany Capitol to push for more state aid as the legislature and Gov. Rockefeller seek to trim expenditures for the next fiscal year. Mitchell-Lama tenants from New York City arrived in busloads wearing yellow sashes to urge rent relief, joining hundreds of Bishop Ludden High School pupils from Syracuse supporting the Spence-Ler measures.
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Albany, N. Y
Capitol
Rockefeller
Mitchell-Lama
New York City
Bishop
Urban Renewal Agency Halves Director Dinans Proposed Raises
The Troy Urban Renewal Agency overrode ED Edward P. Dinan and cut his recommended 15 percent pay raises to seven percent. Two board members believed even seven percent was too high, with the board meeting in a secret session for an hour.
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Troy Urban Renewal Agency
Edward P. Dinan
Dinan
Corp
Carl A. Engstrom
Ralph DeSantis
Engstrom
DeSantis
Edward Connally
Connally
Nathan Werlin
John Riely
John Sarkis
Raymond Quinn
Quinn
Record
Fifth Avenue
Troy Parking Authority
TPA
Widow Sets Fire Before Trip Abroad
Irene G. Reed, 33, pleaded guilty to arson after admitting she started a fire in her 11 rooming house to prevent things from going back to Portugal. Prosecutors say she believed burning her own property was not a crime.
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Sacramento
Calif
UPI
Irene G. Reed
Portugal
Vernon V. Ferguson
Withdrawal Uncertain As Saigon Forces Exit Laos
A Defense Department spokesman stated South Vietnamese troops might have stayed in Laos if enemy resistance had been lighter. Jerry W. Friedheim noted plans depend on evolving realities and asked if the operation was shortened due to the North Vietnamese counterattack.
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Laos
Saigon
Laos Panhandle
Quang Tri
le Trung Hien
Washington
Defense Department
Jerry W. Friedheim
Friedheim
Rockefeller seeks $2.5 billion transportation bond
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller asks New York lawmakers and voters to authorize a $2.5 billion transportation bond, to fund highway and mass transit programs after the prior $2.0 billion issue nearly exhausted. He warns without new bonds, mass transport and roads halt next year and federal matching funds totaling about $3.5 billion could be lost over four years.
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Albany
N. Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Sierra Leone Army Leader's Coup Fails
In Freetown senior army officers arrested their commander Brig. John Bangurah after he announced seizing power from Prime Minister Siaka Stevens. Lt. Col. Sam King repudiated Bangurah on air while Stevens remained missing or in protective custody as unrest followed.
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Freetown
Sierra Leone
Siaka P. Stevens
Stevens
John Bangurah
Sam King
Bangurah
Royal Sierra
King
Siaka Stevens
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