Repulsed At Long Cheng Battle Report
UPI sources report three North Vietnamese battalions attacked north of the USS Snepport base at Long Cheng. Government forces repelled the assault with light losses as air strikes and artillery aided defense. Two other Monday and Tuesday attacks yielded unclear casualty notes. Monsoon rain hindered air support for Laotian and American forces. Prince Souphanouvong urged an immediate halt to bombing in a public letter, amid diplomatic views that little new for peace efforts emerged.
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UPI
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Prince Souphanouvong
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U S Envoy Held Hostage For Political Prisoners
In Santo Domingo kidnappers holding Lt. Col. Donald J. Crowley demand 25 prisoners released by 10 a.m. EST to save his life. Five gunmen abducted Crowley as he arrived at the Em bassador hotel. The note warns of his death if demands are not met. Crowley is an air attache at the U.S. Embassy. his wife Nancy and four children reside in Santo Domingo.
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Latin America
el Paso
Tex
Pentagon
Nancy
Santo Domingo
Marijuana use by GIs linked to My Lai killings testimony
Dr. James W Teague a former Army psychiatrist testified that Vietnamese marijuana was potent enough to drive a GI to kill a comrade who he believed was Ho Chi Minh He described a guard duty incident in which a spark of paranoia followed by firing near civilians preceded the My Lai massacre account The witnesses included Ronald Ridenhour and former Sgt Charles West who recalled marijuana use among troops amid the My Lai village sweep.
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UPI
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Ronald Ridenhour
My Lai
Charles West
Chicago
West
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United States
Army Chemical Laboratory
Jsoen
Priests to reaffirm celibacy at Maundy Thursday services
Roman Catholic archdioceses in Baltimore St Louis Dubuque Iowa and Los Angeles plan non compulsory Maundy Thursday reaffirmations of priestly celibacy following Vatican guidance. The UPI report notes the renewal will be public but voluntary and linked to the Holy Thursday Mass marking priesthood's institution.
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Iowa
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Diplomat Kidnapped in Buenos Aires Amid Stroessner Visit
Paraguayan consul Waldmar Sanchez was seized in downtown Buenos Aires by the Argentine Liberation Front Command demanding the release of two FAL members Carlos Dellanave and Alejandro Baldo. Leaflets warned of Sanchez’s death unless their demands were met, setting a 10 p.m. deadline. Sanchez, 56, was taken after a chauffeur overpowered him during a car sale arrangement. the driver escaped after about 40 minutes, assisting police.
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Alfredo Stroessner
Waldmar Sanchez
Ituzaingo
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FAL
Carlos Dellanave
Alejandro Rodolfo Baldo
Sanchez
Central Intelligence Agency
Stroessner
Dellawave
Baldu
Viet Killings Blamed On Body Count Policy
In LONG BINH Vietnam two young American infantry officers testified in an Army court they faced pressure from commanders to report high enemy deaths. Lt James B Duffy 22 from Claremont Calif is accused of ordering the execution of a Vietnamese man seized by his platoon in September near Saigon. Fellow officers Lt John D Kruger 23 of New Orleans and Lt Ralph C Kreuger Jr 25 of Wilmington Del said body counts determined promotions and OERs and pressure came from higher levels outside the company.
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UPI
James B. Duffy
Claremont
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Saigon
Duffy
da van Man
Henry Rothblatt
New York
John D. Kruger
New Orleans
Ralph C. Kreuger, Jr
Wilmington
Del
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Krueger
Delaware
Israel claims victory in dog fight over canal
Israel said a fleet of its war planes shot down four Egyptian MIG21 interceptors in a dogfight up to 20 000 feet over the Suez Canal. The Tel Aviv announcement said all Israeli planes returned safely from the 10 45 a m encounter, the biggest Middle East air battle this year. Israel reported downing four Egyptian aircraft as pilots bailed out two aviators.
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Suez Canal
Tel Aviv
Middle East
Canal
Nixon Holds De Facto Segregation Not Illegal
President Nixon argued that widespread de facto school segregation in northern and western ghettoes is not illegal unless it harms education. He urged local determination to reduce racial separation, targeting deliberate teacher segregation and unequal facilities, while abandoning federal push for immediate desegregation.
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Nixon
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Supreme Court
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Robert H. Finch
Health, Education and Welfare
Johnson
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Justice Department
Finch
Mississippi
Odorous Birds Overload Scotland Neck North Carolina
Scotland Neck faces a deodorant crisis as four to six million blackbirds roost over a 40 acre pine forest. The birds contaminate streams with droppings and threaten the forest while possibly spreading histoplasmosis. Mayor Ford Harrison warns the flock could reach six to ten million next year if unchecked.
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N.C
UPI
Ford Harrison
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