Viet Cong destroy fifteen US helicopters at Can Tho airfield
Viet Cong attacked Can Tho, the Mekong Delta airfield near Saigon, blasting 15 U.S. helicopters worth about 5 million dollars and damaging six more during a mortar barrage. The strike, described as the start of a broader offensive, targeted the 164th Aviation Group and its base defenses before troops were repelled. Field reports note simultaneous assaults on a barracks area as sappers penetrated defenses under heavy fire.
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Saigon
U.S
Mekong
U.S. 9Th Infantry Division
Can Tho
U.S. Army
164Th Aviation Group
DeltaJet hijack attempt foiled by stewardess in Miami
An airborne hijack attempt was stopped when a Delta stewardess ignored a shotgun wielding passenger and slammed the cockpit door. The would be hijacker, identified as Kenneth Barce McPeek, carried a shotgun in a bag and aimed for Havana. police said the incident followed two other hijackings over the weekend as planes returned to Miami with passengers and crew shaken but safe.
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Miami
Delta Airlines
Detroit
Cuba
Dade County Sheriff's Department
Kenneth Barce Peek
Orchard Lake
Mich
Miami International Air
Kers
Eee
Lynne Sargeant
Miami Springs
Fla
Havana
Fidel Red
Convair
APSA
Eric Schrieber
Pocupert
Tesum Amaya
Schrieber
George Wagner
Pompano Beach
Maria Eugenia Gonsebatt
Entre Rios
Argentina
Trude Holler
Buenos Aires
University of Havana
New York Survived Year Through Strikes And Strife
AP Newsfeatures recalls New York City in 1968 facing trash strikes fire slowdowns police flu and hospital staff walkouts. It notes teachers opposing school decentralization and widespread labor unrest affecting seven major city services. The piece frames a resilient yet unsettled city enduring upheaval and chaotic growth.
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New York
Mith Ill
Lion
New York City
John V. Lindsay
Big Future Seen For Reanimation
FLORENCE Italy AP Soviet expert V A Negovsky director of Moscow Academy of Sciences Reanimation Institute predicts reanimation will be the leading branch of medicine. He notes brain death is not immediate and a half hour after life functions halt can save a person. Weather and heart cases dominate reanimation focus. experts cite nocturnal inner death risks.
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Florence
Italy
V. A. Negovsky
Moscow Academy of Sciences
Negovsky
Congress
E. Ganelina
Pavlov Institute
Leningrad
V. Lehrke
South Africa
Cape Town
Groote Schuur Hospital
Sardinian Bandit Nabbed in Rome Bar Trap
Police in Rome and Cagliari captured Gesuino Casula, 29, in a bar near the University of Rome after female agents surveilled his Roman girlfriend Nunzia Speculatore. Casula, already wanted for carrying warlike weapons and linked to Sardinian kidnappings, may have been tasked to collect ransom on the mainland. Nuoro’s 1968 balance sheet noted 15 homicides in the ongoing conflict between bandits and police.
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Rome
Cagliari
Sardinia
Gesuino Casula
University of Rome
Casula
Genoa
Nunzia Speculatore
Luigi Moralis
Vince of
Nuoro
New Biddeford Saco Directory Released By H A Manning Co
The Biddeford Saco Directory lists 10 336 changes since 1967 with 2450 new names in Biddeford and 1358 in Saco. 2102 Biddeford and 1055 Saco removals. It covers addresses occupations wives names and all adults over 18 plus a buyers guide and government data.
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Biddeford-Saco
H. A. Manning Co
Biddeford
Saco
Wuesthoff Joins Pine Tree Legal Aid In Saco Office
Raphael John Wuesthoff 30 new attorney for Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc in York County opens an office above the Plaza Restaurant in Saco. The free service aids the poor with landlord tenant, family problems, contracts and debt cases. Wuesthoff, a Boston University graduate, spent two Peace Corps years in West Africa and plans future Sanford and Kittery outreach.
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Raphael John Wuesthoff
Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc
York County
Plaza
Saco
Wuesthoff
Main Street
Hadiars Brothers
Rions
Pine Tree
Security Wuesthoff
Africa
Peace Corps
Boston University
Sanford
Kittery
Hickel faces grilling on public lands policy in Washington
In Washington, Nixon’s cabinet contenders face eager Senate scrutiny. Alaska Governor Walter Hickel, named interior secretary, draws sharp questions from conservationists who fear his push for rapid industrialization. Bedeviling issues include public lands, federal ownership, and balancing development with conservation as Johnson’s transition and budget plans unfold.
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M. Nixon
Capital Hill
Walter J. Hickel
Hickel
Senate
Alaska
John F. Kennedy
Robert
Johnon
State of the Union
Congress
Johnson
Hicke
Washington
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Peter L. Gerety
Portland
Center
Valmont Gilbert
St. Joseph's
Clarence Laplante
OFM
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Christ
Saco Lodge
A. M
Saco Masonic Hall
Gordon Flood
William Kimball
John Anagnostis
Edgar Pellerin
Frederick Elwell
Arion Lodge
Goodwins Mills
Lyman
Gordon Maddix
Same Lodge
Robert Tarbox
Harry Nielson
Lee Ellis
Lawrence Jordan
Benjamin Hall Tyler
Harry Elisberg
Richard Duross
Everett Huston
Harold Nutter
Romanow
Forest Ave
Paul E. Benoit
ST. Louis
St. Louis High School
Main ST
Vic’s Appliance Center
Frigidaire
Legal Assistance Office
Sage
Nixon
House
Mike Mansfield
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