Two U.S. Flyers Missing Over Laos
U S Command reports the loss of two American warplanes over Laos with two crewmen missing amid newly disclosed Laotian air war casualties. Guerrilla ground fire also brought down four U S helicopters in Vietnam killing three Americans and wounding two. Civilian toll rose with 18 Vietnamese killed and 40 wounded in a pagoda bombing near Saigon.
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Frightful Start Deters Vaudeville Show Mishap
Alfred Reynolds dressed in women's clothes for an amateur vaudeville act fell and dislocated his elbow. In hospital he found himself in the women's ward due to no men's ward space, then learned it was temporary mix up. Eleven civilians wounded in shelling at Tri Ton district town as militiamen fired 82mm rounds. Police station attacked near Xuan Loc wounding one officer and 12 inmates. U S troops claim Viet Cong and North Vietnamese casualties near Saigon and Cambodian border. One American soldier killed. B52s bomb guerrilla camps in Seven Sisters Mountains area.
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England
UPI
Alfred Reynolds
Tri Ton
Siagon
Xuan Loc
Saigon
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
1St Cav
Air Force
Seven Sisters Mountains
Cambodia asks reactivation of the 1954 Geneva Convention
Gen Lon Nol in Phnom Penh asks Britain and the Soviet Union to reactivate the ICC to force withdrawal of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops from Cambodia. He seeks consultations with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese diplomats and orders removal of Sihanouk era influences.
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Laos
Britain
Vietnam
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India
Poland
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London
Tain
Geneva
Peking
Foreign Airlines
Volpe predicts big drop in U S road deaths with airbags
Transportation Secretary Volpe predicts the U S highway death toll will fall about 10 000 in the next two years despite rising travel as auto safety standards and new features like dashboard airbags take effect He notes air bags ordered for cars after 1972 and a future rail plan to aid passenger service.
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Washington
UPI
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John A. Volpe
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Communications Satellite Corp
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Laos Leaders Warn of Wider War as North Vietnamese Escalate
VIENTIANE UPI Prince Souvanna Phouma marked the 20th anniversary of Laos army day with warning that recent setbacks signal a broader North Vietnamese escalation. He cited 13,000 extra troops and a five point plan from Pathet Lao for a ceasefire and end to U S bombing, while North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao members boycotted the ceremony. Hanoi Radio accused the United States of trampling the Geneva Accords and urged an end to U S involvement in Laos.
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UPI
Souvanna Phouma
Pathet Lao
Laos
Souvanna
Soviet Union
U.S
Hanoi Radio
United States Today
Washington
Banner
Bennington
Banner Public Corporation
United International
Vermont
Senate Eyes Resolution For Nuclear Arms Freeze
The Senate plans to rush a sweeping resolution backing an immediate U S Soviet freeze on deploying all offensive and defensive nuclear weapons. It seeks suspension and verification measures ahead of SALT talks in Vienna. Nixon calls the measure an oversimplification but some Republicans back it to bolster his negotiating position.
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UPI
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Vienna
Nixon
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
U.S.S.R
Soviet Union
Edward W. Brooke
R-Masgr
Zionism Attacked In Soviet Novel
A Moscow best seller portrays Magen Picasso as a pornographer and Leon Trotsky as a Zionist agent in Ivan Shevtsov’s novel In the Name. The provocative themes have sparked widespread discussion and debate among readers.
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Moscow
UPI
Magen Picasso
Leon Trotsky
Ivan Shevtsov
Communist Party
Judas Trotsky
Bronstein
Trotsky
International Provocateur No. 1
Picasso
Boston Teachers Vote for One Day Strike
Boston teachers plan a one day strike Tuesday to press for higher pay and better working conditions. The Boston Teachers Union, representing 3500 of 4500 educators, voted to boycott classes after rejecting the School Committee’s latest contract offer.
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UPS
Boston Teachers Union
William H. Ohrenberger
Edward Connolly
Newton
Massachusetts Teachers Association
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American Federation of Teachers
Riley
Bombs, clashes mark tense Northern Ireland day
In Belfast a bomb exploded near an army post and in Londonderry police and Catholic youths clashed after a ceremony dissolving an all-Protestant B special force. No serious injuries and one arrest reported amid street looting and rioting by teens.
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Northern Ireland
UPI
Londonderry
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