Tank Battle Erupts Near Quang Tri Amid Vietnamese Drive
Allied officers claim victory in a renewed North Vietnamese assault on Quang Tri, with 10 enemy tanks destroyed and heavy casualties reported by both sides. The fighting, 19 miles south of the DMZ, broke a lull as North Vietnamese forces pressed toward the provincial capital.
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Saigon
Quang Tri
Demilitarized Zone
Associated Press
Lynn C. Newland
South
An Loc
Sai
Ben Het
An Khe
Highlands
Ent
Peter Arnett
Body Found In Ohio River Identified As David Childs
A body found in the Ohio River near Tell City Indiana has been identified as David Childs 39 of Frankfort Kentucky director of the division of boating for the Kentucky Department of Public Safety. Childs and Kentucky State Trooper James McNeely disappeared April 8 when their boat was swept over a dam. McNeely remains missing. Coroner Ed Gillick said Childs died of drowning.
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Tell City
Ind
Ohio River
Here
David Childs
Frankfort
Division of
Kentucky Department of Public Safety
Childs
James McNeely
Kentucky
McNeely
Perry County
Ed Gillick
Wooden Pig Traffic Stopper in Bloomington
A 300-pound hand carved wooden pig blocked Kinser Pike in Bloomington prompting two Monroe County sheriff's deputies and onlookers to remove it. The pig had been kept at the county jail for its owner to claim. In Vietnam, Bon Son district was hit by mortar and rocket attack as fighting in Binh Dinh Province intensified. Allied casualty tallies updated with American and Vietnamese losses and nonhostile deaths.
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Bloomington
Ind
Kinser Pike
Monroe County Sheriff's Deputies
Binh Dinh
Central Highlands
South Vietnam
Bon Son
U.S
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Merson
North Vietnam
Hanoi
North
Gulf of Tonkin
Far North
KEEP
America
Goodwill
Salvation Army
Baxter Contro
Bulletin-Herald
West Side
Raible Ave
DIAG
Diac
Perma Pon
AG Wat
B.T.U
GMAC
Motorola
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