Witness calls Helms fall guy in Watergate plot
McCord testified that a CIA chief replacement would back a White House plan to blame Watergate on the CIA. He said he wrote Caulfield warning that blaming the agency would trigger a scorched forest collapse and loss of trust. He recounted White House pressure to plead guilty and stay quiet.
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James RR. Schlesinger
Hens
CIA
White House
Watergate
Caulfield
Jack
Helms
Fred I. Fielding
Alch
Mutineers Clash With Army in Uttar Pradesh
In Uttar Pradesh, units of the Provincial Armed Constabulary mutinied and fought army troops in Kanpur and near Benares. Fifteen people were killed and 35 wounded in Kanpur during a two hour battle. A separate clash near Benares ended after airborne reinforcements arrived.
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New Delhi
UPI
Indira Gandhi
Uttar Pradesh
Kanpur
Here
Benares
India
Rogers visits Brazil to begin talks with Brazil’s foreign minister
Secretary of State William P. Rogers arrives in Brasilia after a Rio de Janeiro weekend, meets Brazilian Foreign Minister Mario Barboza at Itamaraty Palace to start formal discussions. In Belfast, a major bomb blast on Adelaide Street causes evacuations but no injuries.
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UPI
William P. Rogers
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Rogers
Tals
Mario Barboza
Itamaraty Palace
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Adelaide Street
Brezhnev and Brandt Sign Pact For European Coexistence
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev completed West Germany first official visit after signing a 14 page common declaration with Chancellor Willy Brandt pledging productive coexistence. The pact aims to ease tensions and foster a more relaxed European atmosphere between former enemies.
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Bonn
UPI
Leonid I. Brezhnev
West Germany
Willy Brandt
Brandt
Army searches for MIA remains at crash sites in Viet Cong territory
The army plans investigations at crash sites in Viet Cong areas with readiness to confront North Vietnamese and Viet Cong representatives. Searches in Laos will start after a new government forms. no Cambodia plans. Missing persons records are in Thailand, remains to Utapao for mortuary processing. News to next of kin will come only through military channels.
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Laos
Cambodia
Thailand
Utapao
Kingston
Memphis Gunman Laughing Kills Six Before Death
David Sanders thirty aged gunman opened fire on a Memphis street killing five and wounding four before dying in a gun battle with police. Patrolman David Clark was among the dead as officers using riot guns and teargas finally forced Sanders from a house after a half hour of exchange. Sanders had a prior record of arrests and prison time.
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Tenn
Upl
David Sanders
Brown McKay
Sanders
Kansas Street
McKay
David Clark
Bill Price
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