South Vietnamese Seize Sepone Supply Depot in Laos
South Vietnamese forces pushed 25 miles into southern Laos and seized Sepone, a major enemy supply center on the Ho Chi Minh trail, with little resistance. They also blew up two large ammunition depots and began rebuilding Sepone’s abandoned dirt airstrip as the three day offensive continued.
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Saigon
Laos
Sepone
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Nguyen Cao Ky
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Legislative pay and pension bills win Senate approval
Legislative pay and pension bills carrying out compensation commission recommendations receive Senate approval. Tazewell, Va. seeks municipal water supply via Lincolnshire Branch watershed project. Bluefield leaders back President Nix on revenue sharing plan as a good idea. South Vietnam airstrip rebuild enables supplies. two ground clashes in Laos. casualties total 55 NVA killed, 18 US/SVN killed, 56 wounded. US air power supports drive toward Ho Chi Minh trail destruction along Laos border.
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Charleston
Legislative
Compensation Commission
Senate
Tazewell
Lincolnshire Branch
Laos
U.S
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Apollo 14 Trip Nears Samoa Airlift Home
Apollo 14 astronauts Alan B. Shepard Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa, described as medically perfect, travel toward Samoa for airlift home. They remain quarantined in an MQF van aboard the recovery ship after Kitty Hawk landing 897 miles south of Samoa.
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Uss
New Orleans
South Pacific
Samoa
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Edgar D. Mitchell
Stuart A. Roosa
Pago Pago
Houston
Space Agency
William R. Garner
William Carpentier
R. H. Culbertson
Carpentier
Kitty Hawk
American Samoa
Eban urges lifting UAR deadline and resuming talks
Foreign Minister Eban called to end the 30 day UAR deadline and urged re examination of Golda Meir Suez Canal proposals. He said Egypt could advance negotiations by naming Israel in peace plans and resuming canal talks with less military emphasis. Israel rejected Gaza oppression charges as groundless.
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Abba Eban
Egypt
Middle East
Golda Meir
Suez Canal
Eban
Anwar Sadat
Cairo
Mahmoud Hafez
Mrs. Meir
Sadat
Hafez
Israel
Raeli
U.N
Gunnar V. Jarring
New York
Jordan
Lebanon
U.N. Security Council
Charles W. Yost
United States
Gaza Strip
Virginia House Reveals Plan to Abolish Northern Virginia Floaters
The Virginia House approved a reapportionment plan that removes the Northern Virginia giant super floater district and adds a seventh seat to Norfolk. The measure keeps the southeastern floater and reallocates districts among Norfolk Chesapeake Portsmouth and Virginia Beach while facing court challenges over population disparities.
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Richmond
Virginia House
Northern
Virginia
Norfolk
James M. Thomson
Privileges and Elections Committee
Chesapeake
Portsmouth
Virginia Beach
del. Clive du Val
Fairfax
House
Arlington
DuVal
Thomson
Senate
P&e
Tazewell Deputy Killed While On Roanoke Drug Probe
Deputy George Mullens 22 of North Tazewell was found dead in Roanoke while officially assisting a drug investigation. Officials say no foul play is suspected and toxicology results are pending to determine cause. Mullens had been slated to travel to Norfolk to continue the case.
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Tazewell
Sheriff's Department
George Mullens
North Tazewell
Roanoke
William Osborne
Mullens
Osborne
Walter Gable
Norfolk
Senate OKs pay hike for West Virginia lawmakers
West Virginia Senate approved two bills to raise legislative salaries from 1500 to 3300 dollars a year and to modify the pension plan. The pay bill passed 32 to 0 and moves to the House. the pension bill cleared the Senate and goes to Governor Moore.
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House
Senate
Arch A. Moore Jr
Mario J. Palumbo
D-Kanawha
John T. Poffenbarger
R-Kanawha
Aftershock Devastation Tops Southern California
Los Angeles reports 46 deaths with 13 missing as aftershocks rattle the region. VA hospital in Sylmar bears the worst damage with 27 dead or trapped. evacuations exceed 80,000. Agnew tours quake zones with Reagan Yorty amid damages in the hundreds of millions.
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Los Angeles
California
Sylmar
Calif
Spiro T. Agnew
Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Sam Yorty
San Fernando Valley
San Gabriel Mountains
Trial Today in Area Drug Case
William J. Fulcher one of the first young adults indicted on dangerous drug charges in Mercer County is to appear in Intermediate Court today at 9 30 a m before Princeton attorney Owen Griffith. Fulcher, a Concord College student at arrest, faces narcotic selling charges with Troelstrup and prosecutor David Knight. Judge Howard M. Jarrett disqualified himself over drug issues. Griffith will preside.
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William J. Fulcher
Mercer County
Fulcher
Concord College
Princeton
Owen Griffith
John Troelstrup
David Knight
Griffith
Howard M. Jarrett
Jarrett
Bobby Gillespie
Genks Roberts
Atkins testifies she was threatened with gas chamber
Susan Atkins, who confessed to killing Sharon Tate, tells a jury she faced pressure from Deputy District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi to testify for the prosecution. She says he warned she would “get the gas chain” if she did not cooperate and offered immunity in exchange for grand jury testimony.
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Los Angeles
Susan Atkins
Sharon Tate
Miss Atkins
Charles Manson
Tate
Dist
Atty
Vincent Bugliosi
Vince
Bugliosi
Miss Tate
Manson
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Washington
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Vermont
Republican
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Asia
Congress
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Bluefield
C. Howard Leist
Edwin Elliott
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William C. Wampler
Watkins M. Abbitt
W. C. Daniel
Moore
Citizens Commission
William C. Campbell
Huntington
Agnew
Los Angeles County
California Division of Highways
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