Czech Students Stage Sit-In To Protest Ouster of Dubcek
Prague crowds at Charles University protested the ouster of Dubcek as Husak took over leadership. Students planned an occupation strike amid police warnings, while Palach’s legacy drew mourners at his grave as Czechoslovakia faced tighter Soviet ties.
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Prague
UPI
Charles University
Gustav Husak
Husak
Liberal Arts
Alexander Dubcek
Communist Party Central Committee
Czechoslovakia
Jan Palach
Palach
Midwest Floods Threaten Cities Across the Midwest
Floods driven by the Mississippi and Mouse River crest threaten Wisconsin Iowa Illinois while Minot Nebraska officials report 12 000 residents evacuated. Dikes hold Winona La Crosse Prairie du Chien amid thousands displaced and rising costs. Total damage nears seventy million dollars with multiple deaths reported across six states.
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Wisconsin
Iowa
Illinois
Minot
N.D
Mississippi
la Crosse
Wis
Winona
Minn
Carroll Fry
Minnesota
Prairie du Chien
Upper Midwest
North Dakota
South Dakota
Violence surges in Northern Ireland as troops poised
In Belfast and Londonderry post offices burned as mobs attacked a police station. Britain announced troop dispatch after Ulster ministers met, as violence widens over Catholic civil rights. Protestants and Catholics clash over housing and voting rights amid 10,000 Catholics told to evacuate riot zones.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPD
Britain
Ulster
Londonderry
Bernadette Devlin
mid-Ulster
Robert
Porter
Defense Ministry
London
North Vietnamese attack captures part of U S Marine camp
North Vietnamese troops stormed a U S Marine outpost near the DMZ killing eight Leathernecks and wounding 25. The 9th Marines called in Spooky gunships and artillery to drive back the attackers. Thirty five Communist bodies found. The assault followed another Marine camp overrun four days earlier with 11 killed and 23 wounded. In the north, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces pull back from southern cities to regroup for a new offensive.
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Ups
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
9Th Marines
Dmz
North
South Vietnam
da Nang
Ca Mau
Trang Bang
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
U.S. 82Nd Airborne Division
Viet Cong
82Nd Rear Service Group
Cambodia
Tay Ninh
Patriot's Day Observed Twice In Bay State
Massachusetts marked Patriot's Day on the 21st under a new law linking holidays to the nearest Monday for a three day weekend. In Concord, Minute Men reenacted the dawn cannon volley and lantern signal at Old North Church, while Boston held the Paul Revere Ride.
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Boston
UPI
Massachusetts
Paul Revere
Concord
Old North Church
Adams arrested for drunken driving in Quincy
Quincy Illinois Donald Adams 37 chairman of the Kinois Liquor Control Commission was arrested Saturday night on a charge of drunken driving.
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Quincy, Ill
UPI
Donald Adams
The
Kinois Liquor Control Commission
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