Nixon Thieu meeting ends as heavy fighting fades
After three days of intense fighting across South Vietnam, enemy attacks dropped sharply Sunday night. U S officials cite heavy enemy losses, estimate about 2 500 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese killed, with more than 150 American deaths.
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Creighton W. Abrams
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Edward M. Kennedy
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Oilmen Recall Biafra Massacre After Release in Rome
In Rome, 18 freed oilmen recount the Biafran attack near Kwale, Nigeria, detailing killings of 11 of 28 captives and a three day confinement. They describe a treacherous lapse of hope before pardon by Lt Gen Odumegu Ojukwu and intervention by France Portugal and Pope Paul VI.
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Portugal
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Ceauescue Criticizes Moscow Over China Attacks
Romanian Communist Party chief Nicolae Ceausescu condemned Soviet attacks on China and warned they threaten the Soviet organized unity conference. He stressed Romania's neutrality in Moscow Beijing rivalries and said he would still participate to express his position. The speech, read to delegates from 74 parties, praised China's revolution while denouncing Moscow's stance.
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Nicolae Ceausescu
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China
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Peking
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Prime Rate Increase Defended as Inflation Pressures Rise
In a telephone interview, Hagemann argued the rate hike may strengthen the economy rather than harm it, noting past increases rarely slowed inflation. A spokesman for First National Bank said the move was driven by tight money policy and higher bank funding costs, and it should not immediately affect already high mortgage rates.
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Spain seals off Gibraltar to 4600 workers
Spain closed the La Linea customs and police post at the base of the Rock of Gibraltar at midnight, locking out about 4,600 Spanish workers. The move under Gen. Francisco Franco aims to cripple the British territory economically and pressure Britain to return Gibraltar, a transfer opposed by the majority of Braltarians.
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Jailed Tartars Returned Home By Soviets
In Moscow six people arrested during a Friday protest over Crimean Tartar treatment were released. Five were freed Saturday and sent to Soviet Ukraine. one non-Tartar was released earlier. The demonstrators had unfurled banners accusing the government of persecuting Tartars evicted in 1945 for alleged Nazi collaboration. They were cleared in 1967 but barred from Crimea.
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Friends
Ukraine
Crimean
Crimea
Disunity Reported in China's Provincial Ranks
AP reports Mao Zedong faces opposition in Communist China as provincial administrative committees show disunity. A joint editorial by People's Daily Liberation Army Daily and Red Flag urged revolutionary committee leaders to unite. Broadcast via New China News Agency monitored in Tokyo.
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Peking People’s Daily
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Red Flag
New China News Agency
Berkshire Banks Hold Fire as Prime Rate Hits Record
Berkshire County commercial bankers said they would wait and see after New York and Boston lenders raised the prime rate for top customers to 14 percent. James R. Sloane of Berkshire Bank & Trust noted the move was not entirely unexpected and that demand for money remains strong. Banks will study the new rate before deciding on any changes, applying the prime rate to their best customers.
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Boston
James R. Sloane
Berkshire Bank & Trust Co
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25000 Homeless After Chilean Rains
A preliminary survey shows at least 25 000 people made homeless by torrential rains and floods across Chile in the past three days. The Mapocho River flood adds 10 000 homeless in Santiago. There were no reported casualties.
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Mapocho
Laird announces 25,000 U.S. troops to exit Vietnam
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird termed Nixon's 25,000 troop withdrawal a step toward peace. He said the move signals a shift to Vietnamization and a bigger South Vietnamese role, with a planning task force set to decide initial withdrawals in early July.
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Passaic
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Former Malcolm X Aide Shot in New York Street
Charles 37X Kenyatta, once a Malcolm X aide who spoke of freedom "with the barrel of a gun," is hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting in the Bronx. Witnesses report two of five shots fired from a passing car. he had been unloading a passenger when attacked. Police found a pistol under his car seat and charged him with unlawful weapons possession. Kenyatta has long courted white politicians and worked with city officials on urban issues.
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Kenyatta
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Charles Roberts
John V. Lindsay
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Lindsay
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Harlem
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