Americans Capture Hamburger Hill After 10 Days of Battle
U S paratroopers of the 101st Airborne seized Hamburger Hill in the A Shau Valley near Laos after a 10 day fight in which 58 Americans were killed and nearly 300 wounded. They found radios and unexploded bombs in the cleared bunkers. North Vietnamese losses exceeded 400 dead with 63 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese killed in DMZ clashes. Rocket and artillery attacks hit Tam Ky and border camps, with civilians killed and wounded.
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Tear Gas At Berkeley Protests Sparks Campus Evacuations
United Press International reports a National Guard helicopter released tear gas at the University of California Berkeley protests, driving evacuations as 3,000 rallied over a man wounded in prior clashes. Gas reached the Union Building and hospital, with onlookers affected and patients displaced.
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