Allied Offensive Resumes After 24 Hour Cease Fire
Allied forces resumed operations across South Vietnam after a 24 hour Tet cease-fire marked by enemy violations. U S counts report over 100 enemy incidents, with 117 enemy deaths and allied losses including three Americans and four South Vietnamese killed. Large weapons caches found near War Zone D yielded Soviet designed rifles and munitions, four soldiers killed by a blast, and several wounded.
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Israeli Jets Sink Egyptian Warship in Suez Gulf Raid
Israeli jets sank a Soviet built minelayer near Hurgada after a two hour attack spanning the Suez Gulf ports. Cairo and Tel Aviv issued rival casualty and ship type claims amid retaliatory raids and additional air assaults on Asyut Tel el Kabir and other northern targets.
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Young girl becomes chimney sweep in Germany
Barbara Schild, 15, works as a chimney sweep in Darmstadt with her father and an assistant. She earns about $21.85 monthly cleaning four thousand five hundred six chimneys five times yearly as federal law requires. Her sister is ruled out for the trade due to dizziness at heights.
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Barbara Schild
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Wilhelm Schild
Schild
Darmsadt
Israeli Egyptian clash details near Suez Canal emerge
A six hour air strike sequence by Israel was followed by Egyptian jet attacks north of El Shaft Eyoun Mousa. Egyptian claims include hits on artillery and tanks near the canal and a failed assault on a U N post. In Eilat, frogmen reportedly swam to ships Beit Shafei and Beit Yam, sinking them. Israel says no casualties.
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Abortion Touts Exploit London Airport Arrivals
Report from London on a rising racket where about a dozen touts target women arriving for abortions. They steer unaccompanied travelers to booked clinics or later to alternative clinics for commissions, aided by a hire firm directing clients to a clinic desk for direct transport. In 1967 England and Wales saw 54 013 legal abortions, with around 4 000 from abroad. One tout claimed earnings of about 200 pounds weekly from commissions on each patient.
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London
Britain
England
Wales
Records Sought In Abortion Case In Springfield
A Flor ence, Ky., man is sought in connection with the disappearance of abortion records from a Springfield firm that offered to arrange abortions in England. Joseph Blaine is wanted. a historian says Stothert’s agency advertised trips and abortions for 1250, while state charges and a restraining order were issued.
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Mass
Florence
Springfield
England
Joseph Stothert
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Joseph Blaine
Stothert
London
Quaker Describes Cuba Gains Decade After Castro
Russell Johnson of AFSC shared his Cuba visit impressions at the Bennington Free Library. He noted vast social and economic gains, free medical care and education, housing projects, low housing costs, and a drop in illiteracy from 23 to 3 percent, while warning against underestimating Cuba's resolve and the embargo's rallying effect.
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Critics Challenge Judge Over Diaper Search Ruling
San Bernardino California AP reports Municipal Court Judge Ted Krumm refused to apologize for ruling that a police search of a 9 month old girl's diapers for heroin was unconstitutional because babies have the same rights as their parents. The decision drew more than 100 letters from across the country including threats and insults. The mother faced heroin possession charges as prosecutors pursued the case.
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