Death Toll Mounts As War Heats Up
Saigon reports mounting casualties as fighting rages across South Vietnam for a third day. Military sources cite over 1,800 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed, more than 100 U.S. troops dead with hundreds wounded, and South Vietnamese losses of 373 killed, 748 wounded, 22 missing. Ten helicopters shot down in four days.
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Rioting Continues In Kuala Lumpur Amid Curfew
Violence between Chinese and Malay mobs persisted in Kuala Lumpur as a round the clock curfew remained in force. Official tolls ranged from 25 dead to over 100 killed with thousands seeking refuge. Troops and police searched streets as clashes shifted among ethnic groups and within political factions following election setbacks.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Kam- Pong Bahru
Wilson ousts Callaghan from inner Cabinet
London reports say Prime Minister Harold Wilson dismissed home secretary James Callaghan from his inner Cabinet on Tuesday. The move aims to shore up authority amid grim finance news including a widening April trade deficit of 141.6 million dollars and a stock market slide since devaluation. IMF loan talks and stringent conditions added political tension in Westminster.
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London
Harold Wilson
James Callaghan
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Financial District
Washington
International Monetary Fund
IMF
House’ of Commons
Safer birth pill claimed by doctors at Boston symposium
At Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Harvard Medical School doctors reported a new birth control pill CAP made from chlormadinone acetate may be more effective than intrauterine devices and lacks some side effects of current pills. Six-year trials with 4704 women showed 163 pregnancies, largely due to nonadherence. the pill is investigational and not licensed in the United States.
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Peter. Bent Brigham Hospital
Somers H. Sturgis
Harvard Medical School
Gerhard Boost
Syntex Institute of Clinical Medicine
United States
Invaders Leave Northeastern Student Center Sit-In
About 40 SDS protesters seized two rooms at Northeastern University’s Student Center, withdrew under 25 faculty protection after a sit-in became a siege. Police later warned of punishment for disrupting classes as 1,000 students jeered outside. The action sought abolition of ROTC programs with Knowles pledging discipline. Faculty vote favored ROTC abolition by 1978.
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Northeastern University
Students For
Northeastern
Asa S. Knowles
Committee On Regulations
SDS
Knowles
College of Liberal Arts
Division of Youth Service
Ady
Robert H. Quinn
John D. Coughlan
Quinn
Coughlan
Francis W. Sargent
Frank A. Maloney
Maloney
Boston College School of Social Work
Statehouse Reform Bill Faces Senate Death Blow
The Senate rejected Gov. Sargent's county government reform plan including civil service for about 5,000 county workers. Opposition from Senator Harmen and a hostile Counties Committee doomed reforms such as regionalization of county offices and the reform of deputy sheriffs’ cashing payments. The Massachusetts League of Women Voters backs broader regional reform.
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Sargent
Samuel Harmen
Committee On Public Service
County Houses of Correction
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Framingham
Massachusetts League of Women Voters
Auburn
League
AAA Protests Road Fund Plan In Constitutional Convention
The American Automobile Association formally protests a proposed constitutional convention amendment to divert highway funds to mass transit. Richard W. Hoover, AAA legislative counsel, urged Senate President Maurice A. Donahue to defeat the proposal and maintain the current ban on using highway funds for purposes other than roads and allied projects.
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American Automobile Association
Richard W. Hoover
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Maurice A. Donahue
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