U S Planes and Artillery Hit 131 North Vietnamese
U S aircraft and artillery reported 131 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers killed in five attacks near the Cambodian border and Saigon with no U S casualties. South Vietnamese forces counted 70 enemy bodies after three assaults, while Da Nang and Mekong Delta clashes produced additional fatalities. Maj Gen Hollis urged troops to minimize civilian harm following My Lai reactions.
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Saigon
U.S
Cambodian
Cambodia
U.S. Ast Air Cavalry Division
Mekong
U Minh Forest
da Nang
My Lai
Harris W. Hollis
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
Hollis
Egypt Plans Million Man Army for Awaited Battle With Israel
A close confidant of President Nasser said Egypt has half a million troops and will expand to one million by the time of the awaited clash with Israel. Hashemin Heikal cited Israel’s growing air and tank power and warned that Arab gains would trigger wide repercussions. Britain rejected Israel’s bid to sell its Chieftain tank, citing balance concerns. Dayan blamed the Soviet Union for Middle East hostilities as the UN urged Israel to halt repressive policies in occupied lands.
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Israel
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Cairo
al Abram
Hasanein Heikal
London
Britain
Chieftain
Middle East
Moscow
Kremlin
U.S
Moshe Dayan
Union
Middle Fash
Dayan
United Nations General Assembly
Providence Schools End Strike With New Two Year Contract
Providence public schools reopen after a near three week teachers strike. The Providence Teachers Union accepts a two year contract funded partly by delaying a retroactive pay raise. Make up days span February to June, with additional weather days added in late June. Arbitration panel scale ranges from 4,850 to 10,600 first year and 7,000 to 11,200 second year.
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Providence
Providence Teachers Union
William P. Robinson
Teachers’ Union
House Civil Rights Bill Sparks Senate Tug of War
The Nixon administration proposes to suspend literacy tests nationwide through 1973 and dispatch federal examiners, while a House bill would drop preclearance for voting changes. The measure aims for uniform residency rules and shifts focus to the Deep South amid desegregation push by 1970.
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Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
North Carolina
South
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
House
Pittsfield
Silvia O. Conte
Justice Department
Nixon
Richard G. Kleindienst
Kleindienst
Jerris Leonard
U.S
Atlanta
Leonard
Nison
Supreme Court
Deep South
U.S. Court of Appeals
5Th Circuit
High Court
Cleaver Return Sought By Panthers Amid Violence Ties
The article surveys Panther attacks and arrests from multiple cities as police and Panthers clash. It notes declining membership, estimates by police and new Haven arrests over a May murder, and suggests Cleaver’s return could rally white radicals and aid the party’s survival.
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New Haven
Conn
Los Angeles
Chicago
New York
Kansas City
Denver
Seattle
Wash
Young Socialist Alliance
Trotskyist
Socialist Workers Party
Panthers
Sargent Names Peacemaker at SMU Board Amid Strike
Boston AP Governor Fran Sargent names William G. Saltonstall to SMU board as peacemaker to quell a two week class boycott over faculty treatment. Trustees may review petitions seeking President Driscoll's dismissal while sides urged to stop the strike and return to normal academic work.
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Boston
Francis W. Sargent
Southeastern Massachusetts’ University
William G. Saltonstall
Marion
State Board of Education
Phillips Exeter Academy
Sargent
Joseph L. Driscoll
Robert W. Nelson
Affleboro
Sattonstall
Pravda Says Anti Semitism Cannot Exist in USSR
Pravda claims anti-Semitism is alien to the Soviet people and punishable by law. It praises Soviet Jews for contributing to communism and argues Israeli Zionists and Soviet Jews have nothing in common. The article, by Grigory Plotkin, dismisses Western charges of persecution.
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Moscow
Pravda
Soviet Union
Grigory Plotkin
Plotkin
U S SALT Envoys Leave for Home
Two of the five U S representatives at SALT talks with the Soviet Union departed for home today. A U S spokesman said Llewellyn Thompson and Dr Harold Brown left for private reasons and their absence would not affect the wind up of the talks.
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Helsinki
U.S
Soviet Union
Llewellyn Thompson
Harold Brown
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