Aerial and Naval Battles Pivot in Vietnam Front
U S 7th Fleet ships fought MIGs torpedo boats and shore batteries as An Loc endured a 1600 round artillery bombardment. Destructive action left the Higbee and Oklahoma City damaged and four Americans wounded. North Vietnamese losses included tanks and boats, with heavy casualties reported on both sides near An Loc and Dong Ha.
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Saigon
An Loc
U.S
7Th Fleet
Higbee
Oklahoma City
Dong Ha
Les
Demilitarized Zone
Bastogne
Hue
U.S. Command
Qui Nhon
Highlands
Hamner
New England College Students Plan Widespread Strike
Thousands of students across New England planned pickets and fasts in protest of America's war in Vietnam. About 1,600 students at Mount Holyoke Smith and Hampshire voted to strike, with Amherst pledging five day food fasts for charity. MIT Tufts and Ivy League schools joined coordinated actions and a joint presidents' statement condemned coercion while denouncing North Vietnam bombing.
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Associated Press
New England
America
North Vietnam
Massachusetts
Mount Holyoke
Smith and
Hampshire
Amherst College
Amherst
University of Massachusetts
Massachuset
Westover
St. Francis ‘College
Boston
David DeTurk
Boston College
Clark University
Brown University
Harvard Medical School
Harvard
Dartmouth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tufts
Holy Cross
University of Rhode Island
New York City
Ivy League
MIT
John Kemeny
Robert Goheen
Princeton
Derek Bok
Donald Hornig
Brown
William McGill
Columbia
Dale Carson
Cornell
Martin Meyerson
Pennsylvania
Kingman Brewster Jr
Yale
Jerome Weisner
City Hall
Portland
Maine
University of Vermont
Apollo 16 men ready descent to lunar Descartes ring
Orion 40 minutes early crew transfer to lunar ship for Descartes Mountains ascent. John Young and Charles Duke prepare for 73 hour surface stay to seek ancient volcanic activity with lunar rover missions. Mission Control notes low potassium, urges orange juice and food.
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Space Center
Houston
Orion
John W. Young
Charles M. Duke Jr
Mission Control
Don Peterson
Descartes Mountains
Thomas KX. Mattingly II
Young
Duke
Descartes
Earth
Descartes Plateau
Mattingly
Casper
House Democrats press to condemn bombing and set pullout timeline
House Democrats approved a resolution condemning North Vietnam's bombings as a dangerous Indochina escalation and urged a date to terminate all military involvement. The caucus also voted on adding condemnation of Hanoi's invasion, while the White House promised a May 1 troop withdrawal announcement. Senate opened the year with a war debate as Goldwater sought an immediate vote backing the bombing decision.
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Washington
House
U.S. Haiphong Hanoi
U.S
House Democratic
Sam Gibbons
D-Fla
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Gibbon
Indochina
House Foreign Affairs Committee
North Vietnam
White House
Nixon
William P. Rogers
Namese
Moscow
Senate
Barry M. Goldwater
Blacks Take Over Harvard Administration Building
A group of black youths occupied Harvard’s administration building in Cambridge demanding Gulf Oil divestment and reinvestment in the Cambridge community. Police considered action as 100 inside faced external support, with 150 outside forming a moving picket line and chants against Gulf and U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Gulf Oil Corp
Afro Strategy Committee
Harvard
Harvard Yard
U.S
Southeast Asia
Gulf
Derek Bell
Harvard Law
Lib
Derek Bok
Kinco
University Hall
The Cost of Living Pushes Bargains Upward
A humorous note reports merchants raising bargain basement prices by moving sales to the third floor as the cost of living climbs.
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Route 13
North
N.E. College
Main Street
Biddeford
Whirlpool
Leonard Gailloux
North Saco
Saco Board OF Insurance Agents
Green’s Shoe Store
Green’s Bargain Annex
Atkinsons
Saco
Thurs, & Fri
A&w
Elm St
Norwood
Camp Ellis Beach
Thurs
Sun
Green St
FISH
Ray Gagne
Marcel Ave
Huot
Camp Ellis
Dennis Madore
Edwards Ave
Call
V. Gal
ELM Street
Linoleum & Carpet CO
Howdy
Westland Shoe Corp
Morningstar Corp. OF
Turnpike
Kennebunk
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