Calley Pleads For Gls' Honor Verdict Sparks Clemency Pleas
Across the nation the Calley murder conviction triggers clemency pleas and protests. In Georgia five members of the Athens draft board resign their posts, citing the verdict as unacceptable. Nixon pardon calls appear in Congress and state legislatures while Fort Benning seeks funds and signatures for appeals and protests.
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Georgia
Selective Service System
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Hijacked Philippine jet reaches Hong Kong with most aboard
A Philippine Airlines jet hijacked from Manila landed in Hong Kong with 45 passengers and 5 crew aboard and four Americans among the passengers. Hijackers released 20 passengers at Hong Kong before flying to Canton where they remained in custody.
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China
Philippine Airlines
Philippines
Canton
Antonio Misa
Misa
U S air strikes hit north Vietnam artillery positions near DMZ
American fighter bombers attacked artillery positions in the northern half of the DMZ in response to increased enemy fire on military and civilian sites. Four planes returned safely, with no confirmed hits.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Quang Tri Province
Bank Social Services Unit Honored by United Fund
Marine Midland Bank East for highest per capita giving at the 11th United Fund awards in Colonie. Social Services Dept accepted by Commissioner John R. Beaudoin with Richard L. Thomas presenting. Niagara Mohawk and New York Telephone among top recipients. 300 guests attended the dinner honoring multi year donors and labor groups.
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John Beaudoin
Social Services
Rensselaer County
United Fund
Dan Martin
WTRY
Robert I. Wiley
Bendix Corp
Jack Short
Rensselaer County Dept
Colonie Elks Club Social Services
Marine Midland Bank
East
John R. Beaudoin
Richard L. Thomas
Vanderheyden Hall
Marine Midland
Niagara Mohawk
New York Telephone Co
Tek Hughes
Organized Labor
Guerrillas Seize Uruguay Executive From Dentist Chair
Tupamaro guerrillas abducted Ulyses Pereira Reverbel the director of the state telecom from a Montevideo dentist’s chair saying he will be judged by the people’s court. He resisted with a gun and was carried away unconscious wrapped in a blanket from the seventh floor.
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People’s Court
Ulyses Pereira
Reverbel
Pereira
Tupamaro
Jorge Pacheco Areco
Justo Rodriguez Moroy
GOP Chiefs Propose Budget Plan to Save 713 Million
New York GOP leaders outline a budget cutting welfare by 25 million and arts by 5 million to save 713 million. They plan closed conferences Wednesday to seek consensus before a full legislature vote. A beer tax may rise 15 cents per gallon as part of proposed tax hikes.
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GOP Chiefs
Albany
N.Y
Assembly
Republican Leaders Press for Budget Cuts and GOP Unity
GOP leaders urged county chairmen to sway recalcitrant legislators to pass a revamped state budget before midnight. Gov Rockefeller and State Chairman Charles Lanigan faced sharp criticism from Raymond Siek of Rensselaer County over Education State University Social Services Mental Hygiene and Health funding. Siek urged immediate department savings or firings as a meeting with Lanigan and the governor revealed the potential $400 million rise in appropriations if Democratic votes were needed.
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Rockefeller
Charles T. Lanigan
State Department
Rensselaer County
GOP
Raymond H. Siek
Siek
Dept. of Education
State University, Social Services, Mental Hygiene and Health
Lanigan
Rockefeller Proposes Emergency Plan For City Budgets
Gov. Rockefeller after a 90 minute meeting with the Big Six mayors proposed an emergency plan to ease city budget deficits by advancing state aid payments. He also urged a federal revenue sharing fund to distribute new federal money and offset anticipated state revenue cuts.
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Albany
N.Y
Rockefeller
Ronald Majorana
Congress
Budget plan faces $10 million cut and GOP action
Brydges said on Tuesday he was confident of enough Republican votes in the House to pass a budget plan on Wednesday and was awaiting a signal from the Assembly to set the machinery in motion. The budget had been printed except for a few pages and was ready to be prepped for GOP chiefs.
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Brydges
Assembly
Muskie regrets not opposing Vietnam war sooner
Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine expressed regret over not voicing doubts about U.S. involvement in South Vietnam years earlier. He noted the obsession with body counts led to indiscriminate bombing and ecological damage, while Republican Hugh Scott criticized the charge.
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Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
South Vietnam
Muskie
Senate
Musker
U.S
Southeast Asia
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Congressional Record
Indochina
Commando Raid Reported on Ho Chi Minh Trail Base Area 611
President Thieu announced a South Vietnamese commando raid on a North Vietnamese base area 611 along the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. Allied officers said 200 to 300 troops were inserted by U S helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division.
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Dmz
Laos
Saigon
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Nguyen van Thieu
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
Thieu
North Vietnamese shelling hits Dong Ha as DMZ fire escalates
North Vietnamese 122mm artillery struck Dong Ha near the DMZ wounding and killing soldiers. The U.S. called air strikes in the DMZ a protective reaction to defend American lives. Fighting continued in the north with an ambush near Emerald City injuring several and a clash near Khe Sanh leaving one American dead and seven wounded. The 101st Airborne reported 15 wounded in two northern ground engagements.
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Khe Sanh
U.S
Emerald City
A. U.S. Command
101St Airborne Division
Calley appeals for honor as jury weighs Vietnam mass murder sentence
Lt. William L. Calley Jr pleads with a six man court martial not to dishonor future soldiers after being convicted of mass murder at My Lai. The panel weighs a death or life sentence for at least 22 Vietnamese killed in 1968.
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FT. Benning
William L. Calley Jr
My Lai
Calley
Los Angeles
Sharon Tate
Charles Manson
Paul Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Manson
Susan Atkins
Patricia Krenwinkel
Leslie van Houten
California
Miss Tate
Supreme Court
Maxwell Keith
Miss van Houten
Kennedy
Lt. Calley
Southeast Asia
United States
Vietnam
Brezhnev proposes five power disarmament talks addition
Brezhnev suggested adding Red China and France to a five power nuclear disarmament conference and backed a world conference on disarmament. He urged negotiations with the United States Britain and others to curb military spending and prevent accidental or deliberate armed incidents. The speech to the Soviet party congress also pressed for environmental cooperation and higher living standards.
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Leonid I. Brezhnev
Red China
France
Communist Party
Soviet Communist Party
United States
Brezhnev
Kremlin
Soviet Union
Britain
Railroads Urged to Seek $36 Billion Rescue Plan
Washington AP report says Industry spokesman urges Congress to back a $36 billion program of federal loan guarantees grants tax breaks and regulatory reform to save the rail network. Smathers of the Association of American Railroads warns four lines serving half the population are in reorganization and 18 more in trouble. He cautions collapse would cripple the economy and notes takeover is possible without action. The Senate panel hears the ASTRO study backing the plan for upgrades over 11 years.
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Congress
George Smathers
Association of American Railroads
Smathers
Senate
America
Sound Transportation Review Organization
ASTRO
Florida
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