Phnom Penh Hit in Three-Pronged Attack Over Capital War
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces bombarded Phnom Penh wounding hundreds as 95 percent of the Cambodian air force’s planes were wiped out. Fire raged at Pochentong Airport while Lon Nol visited the damaged airfield and officials organized defense squads.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
UPI
Saigon
U.S
Pochentong
Lon Nol
High Command
United States
France
Soviet Union
Am Rong
Richard Russell dies after 37 years in Congress
Senator Richard Brevard Russell, dean of the Senate and a leader of the southern conservative coalition, died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from a respiratory infection with emphysema. His death triggers a succession plan in Georgia with funeral logistics in Atlanta and Winder, while Governor Carter weighs an appointment likely to go to Ernest Vandiver.
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Sen
Richard Russell
Congress
Washington
UPI
Richard Brevard Russell
Georgia
Russell
Senate
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Andrews Afb
Atlanta
Nixon
Air Force One
Winder
Russell Memorial Park
Thornwell
Clinton
S.C
Howard Johnson’s
Jimmy Carter
Ernest Vandiver
Carter
Campaign reform bill targets candidate spending limits
Washington sneak: reform senators Pearson and Gravel draft a bill to cap personal spending at 25000 and ceiling political advertising at 10 cents per voter. Other reforms push strict contribution disclosure, an independent policing agency, and potential government subsidies for federal campaigns.
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Pearson and Gravel
Radiation link sought as 1250 Utah sheep die in desert
Investigators from the Atomic Energy Commission join state authorities to probe the deaths of more than 1,250 sheep in a desert near the Utah Nevada border. Officials say radiation is possible but not proven. traces found in melted snow and air samples. The deaths follow nearby underground nuclear tests and earlier Dugway incidents.
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Dino
Manchester
Eugenie
Harte Theatre
Londonderry
Derry
Robert Goulet
New York
Harte
Antelope Valley, Utah
UPI
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Utah-Nevada Border
Nevada
AEC
Canadian
James F. Schoenfeld
Calvin L. Rampton
Dugway Proving Ground Area
Pentagon
Washington
Army
Dugway
Congress
Las Vegas
Rampton
Antelope Valley
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EL Rata Lis
Heidelberg Beer
New England
Carline Brewina Company
Natick, Mass
York
Winthrop
Arkansas
Buckley
James L. Buckley
Richard L. Ottinger
D-N.y
James B. Pearson
Kan
Mike Gravel
Alaska
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Williamstown
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IAL
USA
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Marie Liljedahl
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