Senate presses nine month pullout if POWs freed
The Senate voted 57 to 42 for a non binding Mansfield amendment urging the President to begin ceasefire talks and staged troop withdrawals over nine months once all American prisoners are released. The White House said the vote does not bind policy and House leaders indicated the measure would die in conference.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Indochina
White House
House Armed Services Committee
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
North Vietnam
Ronald L. Ziegler
Congress
Hebert
House
Paris
United States
Sens
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Alan Cranston
Calif
Gulf of Tonkin
Nixon to release Pentagon Vietnam study to Congress
Congressional sources say President Nixon will make the 47 volume Pentagon papers study available to House and Senate committees. Reps Moss and Reid plan to sue Defense Secretary Laird under the FOIA for withholding information. McCloskey aims to publicize a summary despite FBI visit to his office.
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Washington
Congressional
Nixon
Pentagon
Congress
House
Senate
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Paul N. McCloskey Jr
Calif
FBI
John E. Moss
D-Calif
Ogden Reid
R-N.y
Laird
U.S
Vietnam
McCloskey
Yablonski Slayings Admitted in Guilty Plea
Claude Vealey, co-defendant in the Yablonski family murders, pleads guilty and says a man named Tony paid for the killings. Vealey describes a July 1969 plot, breaking into the home on December 31, 1969, and shooting Joseph A. Yablonski, his wife, and daughter. Accomplices Aubran W. Martin and Paul Gilly are named. Tony remains unidentified.
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Washington, Pa
Claude E. Vealey
United Mine Workers
Joseph A
Jock” Yablonski
Tony
Vealey
Yablonski
Yablonskis
UMW
W. A
Tony’’ Boyle
Boyle
Brother Yablonski
FBI
Joseph Masterson
Cleveland
Aubran W. Buddy” Martin
Paul Gilly
Gilly
Grand Jury Gets Nicholson Case
Jordan Nicholson, 57, is ordered held for action by a Winchester Corporation Court grand jury on police charges of murder in the gunshot slayings of his wife Virginia and John Henry Benson at 224 Kern Street. Three witnesses testified at a preliminary hearing before Judge John W. Rice.
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Jordan Nicholson
Winchester Corporation Court
Virginia
John Henry Benson
Nicholson
Kern St
John W. Rice
Winchester Municipal Court
Winchester
Carroll K. Mauck
Jon Brooks Mossholder
Raymond L- Santmier
Mossholder
McFarland
Police Department
Carper Denies Rights Violation in Shenandoah Arrest
Virginia AFL-CIO president Julian F. Carper says his civil and constitutional rights were denied after he was arrested while picketing at Alliance Manufacturing Co. in Shenandoah. He joined IUE members on the line during a strike at the plant.
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Carper
Richmond
Virginia State
Afl-Cio
Julian F. Carper
Alliance Manufacturing Co
Shenandoah
International Union of Electrical Workers
Alliance
House Approves Far Reaching Welfare and Social Security Bill
The House passed a sweeping welfare reform package creating a federally administered plan with a 2400 dollar minimum annual income for a family of four. The bill expands Social Security benefits for over 27 million recipients and raises payroll taxes while extending Medicare to disabled retirees.
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Washington
House
Senate
Nixon
Memos Suggest Coup Plan Contingent on Diem Talks
Chicago Sun Times reports that a State Department memo from August 1963 urged overthrow if Ngo Dinh Diem pursued negotiations with North Vietnam. Roger Hilsman confirmed authorship but said memos were contingency plans and taken out of context.
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Chicago
State Department
Ngo Dinh Diem
North Vietnam
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Hilsman
Dean Rusk
Associated Press
New York
Columbia University
School of International Affairs
Hilsman
Sun-Times
New York Times
Far East
Lyndon B. Johnson
Pentagon
House Opens Document Classification Study
A House subcommittee began examination of the government document classification system led by Rep. William Moorehead. It reviewed constitutional questions around publishing the secret Pentagon Vietnam study and the Nixon administration's bid to suppress it, signaling possible changes to the secrecy framework.
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House
Pentagon
Washington
William Moorehead
D-Pa
Executive Branch
United States
Shafran Announces Republican Race for Lt Governor
Del. George P. Shafran of Arlington announces he will seek the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor to back Gov. Linwood Holton and the Holton-Nixon programs. He says a GOP nominee should unite the party and aid legislative races.
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Richmond
George P. Shafran
Northern Virginia
Shafran
House of Delegates
Arlington
H.D. Dawbarn
Waynesboro
Holton
Nixon
Virginia
America
Winchester Officials Visit Ahead of Apple Blossom Week
Deputy mayor Stanley G. Steel and Mrs Steel arrive in Winchester for a visit lasting through Sunday. They will be greeted in Alexandria by Mayor and Mrs William M Battaile and Nade Ferguson with Mrs Ferguson, then travel to Winchester arriving at the George Washington Hotel about 4 pm. Ben Duton Jr and Mrs Duton and Winchester Historical Society president Ben Belchie plan a dinner at the Wayside Inn in Middletown and a theater outing at Wayside Theatre to follow Play It Again Sam.
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Stanley G. Steel
Ormer
Winchester
England
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival
Ben B. Dutton, Jr
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Ngo Dinh Nhu
J. Sargeant Reynolds
State Capitol
Linwood Holton
Sargeant Reynolds
Cail
Powhatan Shop
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