Enemy Base Captured By GIs Near Da Nang
U S Marines from Operation Oklahoma Hills overran a Communist base camp near Da Nang killing 35 defenders. The campaign aims to block infiltration from Laos along the Ho Chi Minh Trail with more than 10 000 Leathernecks involved. In other actions across the region, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces suffered heavy casualties while U S artillery hit targets in the DMZ and near Con Thien. Three U S soldiers were killed and seven wounded in Saigon area fighting.
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Laos
da Nang
Oklahoma Hills
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
Mekong Delta
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Con Thien
Artificial Heart Replaced By Transplanted Human
HOUSTON AP Haskell Earp a 47 year old Skokie Ill salesman sought life not a vegetable He gambled on a healthy heart of a Massachusetts widow and won Dr Denton A Cooley transplanted the heart of Mrs Barbara Ewan 40 of Lawrence Mass into Karp s chest and removed the artificial heart that had kept him alive 63 hours Cooley said optimistic about the outcome The donor Mrs Ewan died of brain damage from undisclosed medical treatment She was flown to Houston Monday Cooley placed a plastic and dacron heart developed by Dr Domingo Liotta inside Karp s chest The operation marked the first time a man made device took over pumping blood Karp sat up four hours later and spoke to his wife with blood pressure within normal limits and cardiac output satisfactory.
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API
Haskell Earp
Skokie, Ill
Massachusetts
Denton A. Cooley
Barbara Ewan
Lawrence
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Karp
Shirley Karp
Cooley
Ewan
Strategic Air Command
Shreveport
Domingo Liotta
Argentina
Soviet Romania talks aim to bridge broad differences
Soviet and Romanian foreign ministers Corneliu Manescu and Andrei Gromyko met in Moscow in a friendly atmosphere to discuss bilateral ties and European security. Western diplomats noted deep-seated disputes remain over the Kremlin's control of Communist parties, China policy, West Germany ties, Eastern Europe economic integration, and Warsaw Pact command.
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Andrei Gromyko
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Eastern
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Coast Guard Seeks Bodies of Sunken Freighter’s Crew
Coast Guard searchers scoured 90 miles of the Mississippi River below New Orleans for 25 missing crewmen after the Union Faith freighter sank following a collision with an oil barge. Twenty six crewmen survived by jumping or boarding tugs while authorities stated the wreck lies in 110 to 120 feet of water. A four man marine board will meet on Thursday to determine the accident’s cause.
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Warren Doucet
Marine Board of Investigation
Hanoi reports U S Marine Private defects to communists
Hanoi said a U S Marine private first class from Brooklyn New York identified as John F Lowney 19 of the 3rd Battalion 9th Regiment U S 3rd Marine Division defected to the Communist side on February 22 after arriving in South Vietnam He said he opposed the war calling it the dirtiest war in U S history and likening U S troops to Nazi soldiers The broadcast noted he was upset with Washington and the Pentagon but did not state his current location or where he defected to.
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Lowney
South Vietnam
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Prosecution Won’t Seek Death Penalty for Sirhan Kennedy Slaying
In Los Angeles, prosecutors said they will not seek the death penalty for Sirhan B. Sirhan in the RFK assassination trial. Deputy DA Lynn B. Compton announced the jury may impose either life or death, with the jury deciding the penalty. The trial nears its end as psychologist Dr. Bernard Olinger testifies, contrasting defense opinions on Sirhan’s mental state.
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Robert F. Kennedy
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Bernard Olinger
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