Wife gets news from Vietnamese
PARIS (UPI) — North Vietnamese officials in Paris Thursday broke a six-month silence on the fate of missing Americans in Vietnam by telling an American Air Force wife that her husband is not a prisoner in North Vietnam.
The diplomats gave the news to Mrs. Diana O'Grady of Las Vegas, Nev., and her seven children. The probable conclusion was that her husband was dead. It was the first time since wives and relatives of U.S. servicemen missing in Vietnam started coming to Paris six months ago that Hanoi representatives have given an immediate response to a query.
"Thank God I've got an answer, Thank God I've got an answer," Mrs. O'Grady said, choking back sobs and walking away from newsmen after emerging from the North Vietnamese permanent diplomatic mission sited in a Paris Left Bank district.
The frail blonde housewife, accompanied by her children, ranging in age from 5 to 17, said the Hanoi officials were "very polite and nice."
"They told me my husband is not a prisoner in their camps in North Vietnam. He is not a prisoner at all and they feel like now it's up to my government to say he's dead," Mrs. O'Grady said, her voice shaking with emotion.
"It hurts a lot," she said but explained it helped to know something after three years of waiting.
House tentatively approves motor fuel tax distribution
TOPEKA (UPI) — A bill tentatively approved Thursday by the Kansas House of Representatives would overhaul the current formula for distribution of motor fuel tax revenue.
A final roll call vote probably will be taken Friday on the controversial measure which has pitted rural members against urban members. It was tentatively approved on a vote of 56-44, but 63 votes will be needed for final passage.
A major amendment proposed by Rep. Jack Turner, R-Wichita, was adopted. It restores the formula originally proposed in the bill introduced by 67 urban law-makers.
It would distribute 43 per cent of the nearly $90 million collected
Philippine students riot at U.S. Embassy
each year to cities on a basis of population, and the remainder to the counties on a proportional formula based on dollar amount of motor vehicle registrations and average daily miles driven. Each county would also be guaranteed at least $20,000 a year.
MANILA (UPI) — Students hurling Molotov cocktails clashed with riot police in front of the U.S. Embassy Thursday night, then scattered throughout the city's bay area smashing windows of cars and shops in a demonstration that continued until daybreak.
About 100 police guarding the embassy used tear gas and bamboo truncheons to drive back an estimated 1,000 persons who marched on the compound after
Manila hospitals reported 25 persons were treated for injuries. Three were policemen, nine bystanders and the remainder student demonstrators. There were no serious injuries.
the government denied a demonstration permit to the Nationalist Movement for a Democratic Philippines.
The demonstrators hurled four firebombs at the embassy without causing damage. Last week they smashed through the embassy gates and broke 100 windows in the compound before police arrived.
The riot followed the disclosure that a U.S. Air Force sergeant, Raymond L. Minor, 35, of Pedricktown, N.J., shot and killed a suspected Filipino burglar at Clark Air Force Base north of here.
Committee approves modified bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate Appropriations Committee, seeking to avert a second veto, Thursday approved a $19.4 billion labor-health-education money bill with a provision allowing President Nixon to trim it by 2 per cent.
The committee also accepted language in the House-passed measure legalizing "freedom of choice" school assignments and prohibiting the federal government from requiring busing as part of school desegregation plans.
The measure was sent to the Senate, where it faces certain challenges on giving Nixon discretionary authority to cut the bill and on the school desegregation riders. It will probably come up for Senate action Monday.
In January, Nixon vetoeed the first appropriations bill Congress approved to finance the Labor Department, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), and the Office of Economic Opportunity in fiscal 1970, which began last July 1. He called the $19.7 billion level too costly and inflationary.
In passing a second bill, the House trimmed the total to $19.4 billion—about $320 million more than Nixon requested—and administration officials indicated it would also be vetoed.
who have not yet received information about their menfolk.
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Turner's amendment goes further, however, and guarantees no county would receive less than it did this year. The money to do this would be raised by reducing the so-called "shrinkage allowence" from 3 per cent to $1\frac{1}{2}$ per cent and using part of the expected growth in the state highway fund.
Only about 170 of the estimated 400 to 600 men believed to be in prisoner of war camps have been able to confirm they were alive by writing to their families.
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The shrinkage allowance is granted to motor fuel distributors in rebating the taxes for losses due to evaporation or other reasons.
The urban representatives originally introduced the measure to revise the 1936 formula because they felt it was favoring the rural counties. It was extensively amended in committee and again Thursday on the floor.
Her husband, Lt. Col. John O'Grady, was shot down over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in April, 1967.
Mrs. O'Grady said she made a plea for other relatives of aproximately 1,400 U.S. servicemen missing in Southeast Asia
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