Saigon Torture Report: Study Team Alleges Repression
An eight member inquiry says the South Vietnamese government uses torture and brutality to suppress opposition. The group notes political prisoners are a major portion of inmates and that police state tactics hinder democratic development. The panel included church and academic leaders and visited Vietnam in early 1968.
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Washington
Apr
United Methodist
James’ Armstrong
John Conyers Jr
D. Mich
Saigon
South Vietnam
Peter W. Jen
Kins
Congregational Church
Wimbledon
England
U.S
Vietnam
Armstrong
Robert Drinan
Boston College Law School
John de J. Pemberton
Policeman Acquitted in Slaying of Negro Teen in 1967 Riot
Ronald August, a suspended white policeman, is found not guilty of first degree murder in the 19 year old Aubrey Pollard slaying during Detroit's 1967 racial riot. He faces a federal conspiracy charge in the Algiers Motel case. An all white jury reached the verdict after brief deliberation.
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Mason, Mich
Detroit
Algiers
William Beer
Beer
Ronald August
Aubrey Pollard
August
Tie
Ingham County
Pollard
Rebecca Pollard
Eight Columbia SDS Leaders Jailed for Defying Court Order
New York AP reports eight leaders of Columbia University’s Students for a Democratic Society chapter began 30 day terms in jail for criminal contempt after defying a court ban on campus disruptions. Justice Charles Marks imposed the maximum sentence and a $100 fine each. Failure to pay the fine adds ten days.
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New York
Columbia University
Students For A Democratic Society
Morningside
State Supreme Court
Charles Marks
Car or wife must go ad sparks offers for wife
Canterbury England UPI reports Ken Shaw who placed a newspaper ad offering car or wife for sale with prices for each item says he has received three offers for his wife but no inquiries about the car. He recalls one man asking the wife’s condition and if she was worth 50000 dollars while another tried to bargain the price saying she was too old.
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Canterbury
Ingland
UPI
Ken Shaw
Shaw
T Ried
Pilot qualified ten days before Evans collision
Cmdr. Albert S. McLemore testified that Lt. j.g Ronald G. Ramsey, 24, of Long Beach, California, on the Evans bridge for a SEATO exercise, had only ten days formal seagoing command qualification prior to the June 3 disaster that split the destroyer in two and killed 74 Americans. He described waking after the crash and recalling a bright explosion.
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Subic Bay
Philippines
UPS
U.S
Frank E. Evans
Melbourne
Evans
Cmdr
Albert S. McLemore
J.g Ronald G. Ramsey
Long Beach
Calif
McLemore
Ramsey
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
UPI
New Zealand
Blackpool
Vallejo
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Arnold 8
True
Columbia Sds
Dad
Remington
Sharge
Sperry Rand
E. Broadway
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