Heated dispute over My Lai massacre testimony at hearings
Congressmen clashed as pilot Hugh Thompson Jr. testified he did not see a massacre at My Lai. Captain Ernest Medina said he did not order or witness a slaughter, though warned it could have happened. Rivers defended his summary, while others faulted the closed session rules.
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Washington
API
My Lai
L. Mendel Rivers
D. S.C
House Armed Services Committee
CWO
Hugh Thompson Jr
Ernest L. Medina
Medina
Pentagon
New York Times
Thompson
Decatur
UPI
Rivers
Bishop halts national church funds over Alianza grant
The Episcopal bishop of New Mexico and southwest Texas stopped the churchs 40 000 grant to the Alianza and will withhold 82 365 in missionary quota next year plus nearly 5 000 this year. Tijerina, jailed on Forest Service assault convictions, led the land claim group once based in New Mexico. The bishop cites violence linked to Alianza and questions church support.
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Santa FE
N.M
New Mexico
Texas
National Church
Alianza
Hretes
Tijerina
Grammed Syrco
Greenwich
Conn
C. J. Kinsolving II
Alianza Centers
Albuquerque
Tierra Amarilla
Mississippi plans counteroffensive on desegregation orders
Gov. John Bell Williams outlined a nationwide legal drive to enforce school desegregation, leading a Mississippi task force of lawyers to challenge de facto segregation in northern eastern and western states. Attorneys General from Alabama and Georgia supported broader equal treatment under federal orders.
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Jackson, Miss
UPI
John Bell Williams
Mississippi
Williams
United States
A. F. Summer
Summer
Alabama
MacDonald Gallion
Early Libyan Coup Plot Leaders Face Soon Trial
Libyan Revolutionary Council accuses Defense Minister Adam al Hawaz and Interior Minister Moussa Ahmed of heading an army plot to topple Col. Moammer el-Kadhafi's three month old government. A Libyan Radio report says they will be tried soon by a military court.
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United Press International
Libyan Revolutionary Council
Beirut
Moammer el-Kadhafi
Adam al-Hawaz
Moussa Ahmed
Ahmed
Revolutionary Command
al- Hawaz
Idriss II
Dahomey
Emile. Zinsou
Revolutionary Committee
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Plaza West
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