U S Jets Batter Hill 875 in Dak To Battle
U S jets bomb Hill 875 as paratroopers of the 178th Airborne Brigade call in nearly 100 air strikes on stubborn North Vietnamese defenders. The Dak To fight, near Laos and Cambodia, leaves American casualties mounting and tempers the optimism of military leaders.
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Cambodia
Saigon
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Demilitarized Zone
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Westmoreland says foes being dealt great defeat in Dak To push
Gen. William C. Westmoreland told reporters at the Pentagon that U.S. forces are near a major setback for North Vietnamese aims in South Vietnam after the Dak To offensive. He cited enemy losses and a favorable briefing from Gen. Creighton Abrams as evidence of momentum, while Sen. Hartke criticized Washington’s handling of the war. Komer forecast a 1968 speedup in securing hamlets and villages to win Vietnamese trust.
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178Rd Airborne Brigade
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Pentagon
Washington
Westmoreland
Creighton W. Abrams Jr
Saigon
Abrams
Wiliam C. Westmoreland
South Vietnam
Craighton W. Abrams
Senate
Vance Hartke
Indiana
Hartke
Congress
Saigor
Robert W. Komer
Ble
Komer
North Vietnam
Wilson Announces Defense Cutbacks
Britain will cancel US military orders as part of a defense spending reduction to aid devaluation and solvency. Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced cuts in the House of Commons, backed by Labour MPs and most unions, with 15 CH47 helicopter orders canceled and Buccaneer jets reduced, plus large army cuts and a halt to a US joint Aldabra Island staging base project. Hospitals funding remains intact.
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Britain
United States
Harold Wilson
House of Commons
Trades Union Congress
U.S
Wilson
Navy
Aldabra Island
Indian Ocean
Thanksgiving Portrait of Spears Family in a Shack
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Spears live with nine children near Little Greens Run in Athens County. Welfare holidays feel ordinary to them as they focus on the children’s happiness.
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James A. Spears
Little Greens Run
Athens County
Senate OKs Social Security Increase Leaders clash on cost and limits
The Senate approved a larger Social Security bill than the House and sent it to conference to resolve higher payments and costs. Expect tough bargaining over cash benefits tax provisions and welfare restrictions. Over 22 million beneficiaries likely to see higher payments by next April with higher taxes for workers.
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House
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Ways and Means Committee
D-Fla
John Stennis
D-Miss
Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
John J. Williams
Del
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