Viet Cong assault repelled at U S patrol base near Saigon
The Viet Cong attacked a U S 9th Infantry patrol base 42 miles southwest of Saigon. U S forces and air support repelled the assault with 94 Viet Cong killed and 20 Americans fatally hurt. 11 American armored personnel carriers were destroyed. President Thieu and other officials visited Hue in a show of post battle calm.
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Saigon
U.S
Mekong
Enterprise
Haiphong
Hue
U.S. Command
U.S. 9Th Infantry Division
Stanley B. Nowach
St. Louis
Imperial Citadel
Nguyen van Thieu
Nguyen van Loc
Imperial Palace
Japanese Ore Carrier Shozan Maru Strikes Canal Bank
The 746 foot Shozan Maru carrying 51 806 tons of iron ore struck Gaillard Cut in the Panama Canal and took on water. Traffic halted as canal authorities began efforts to refloat the vessel near Gamboa with no ETA.
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Panama
Gaillard Cut
Panama Canal
Peru
Dunkerque
France
Georgian Dies In Old Dominion Slaughter On Roads Continues
A Georgia man Homer Hileman Plecker 25 died from injuries after his car left Virginia 3 near Locust Grove Orange County struck a bridge slid into a creek He died Saturday in Fredericksburg hospital. Other drivers died in separate Virginia crashes including Robert Lee Mills 43 Keswick and James Richard Bozeman 54 Bedford. Renzellus West Bey 29 Prince George County died after being struck on Virginia 156 while Willie Cox 60 South Hill perished in a non collision crash on Virginia 621 near La Crosse Mecklenburg County.
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Homer Hileman Plecker
Ailery
Georgia
Fredericksburg
Charlottesville
Robert Lee Mills
Keswick
U.S. 250
Albemarle County
Vinton
James Richard Bozeman
Bedford
Virginia
Bedford County
Prince George County
Renzellus West Bey
LA Crosse
Willie Cox
South Hill
Mecklenburg County
Nixon Calm About Polls in New Hampshire Primary
Nixon said he is not discouraged by a Gallup Poll showing him and Johnson tied at 42 percent with 16 percent undecided. He campaigned in New Hampshire for the March 12 presidential primary and noted polls won’t decide the GOP nominee. Rockefeller’s draft remarks could boost write-in support in New Hampshire, where supporters plan a write-in campaign.
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Whitefield
N.H
Richard M. Nixon
Gallup
Johnson
Nixon
New Hampshire
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
GOP
Rockefeller
Detroit
Fire Kills 20 at Shelton Mental Hospital Women’s Wing
Fire swept the women’s wing of Shelton Mental Hospital in Shrewsbury early Monday killing about 20 patients and injuring about 17. The blaze damaged half of a 300 foot wing as twelve fire companies responded and ambulances evacuated injured to two nearby hospitals.
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Shrewsbury
England
Shelton Mental Hospital
Shelton Hospital
State Trooper Wounded in Virginia Shooting
A Virginia State Trooper C C Moss Jr of Orange County was wounded by a shotgun blast on Virginia 20 while exiting a patrol car about 9 40 p m. Moss was treated at University of Virginia Hospital and listed in satisfactory condition. Suspect Robert Eugene Smith 28 of Alexandria was arrested and charged with malicious wounding with intent to murder a police officer, jailed on 10000 bond.
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Orange
Virginia
Here
J. M. Nichols
C. C. Moss Jr
Orange County
Moss
University of Virginia Hospital
Charlottesville
Robert Eugene Smith
Alexandria
Power Of Prayer Scares Off Reading Thief
A ski masked robber enters a Reading bookstore and is repelled when an elderly woman clerk prays aloud, clutching a religious medal. The would-be thief flees empty handed, police say, underscoring the power of prayer.
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Reading
Reading Police
Space Alien Tale A Wild Texas Hoax
Carroll Wayne Watts a 29 year old farmer from Loco Texas admitted his UFO story and photos were a hoax. He said hypnosis sessions with a Panhandle artist produced the Mars contact tale and the photograph. Watts flunked a polygraph test by L R Wynne of Amarillo Security Control Co and gave a final, puzzled statement.
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Amarillo
Tex
Carroll Wayne Watts
Associated Press
Mars
Panhandle
Loco, Tex
Watts
The
Houston Post
L. R. Wynne
Amarillo Security Control Co
State Board
Four Killed In Indiana Bus Crash After Smoke Scene
In South Bend an Indiana Toll Road collision involving two chartered buses injured 29. A car entering the scene hit a semitrailer, bursting into flames and killing four people, including three from Cleveland and Youngstown. The third bus had no injuries.
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Indiana
South Bend, Ind
Indiana Toll Road
Here
South Bend
Cleveland
Youngstown
Ohio
Chicago
Julius X. Jackson
Foster Dawson
Arnold Wallace
Badley Allen Nofziger
Archibald Ohio
Makarios Likely Re-elected In Cypriot Presidential Vote
Greek Cypriots voted on Sunday with forecasts showing Makarios exceeding 90 percent of ballots as around 225000 of 250000 electors cast their lines. The president seeks a compromise on Cyprus long division with Turkish Cypriots voting separately for vice president and Turkish Cypriots largely absent from the balloting.
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Nicosia, Cyprus
Makarios
Takis Evdokas
Evdokas
Enosis Front
Greece
Eudokas
Cyprus
Britain
Tonkin Gulf Confusion Lingers After Aug 4 Events
Washington reports after 72 hours of Defense Secretary McNamara testimony senators questioned the Tonkin Gulf incident details. McNamara defended the second attack claim as trusted by those without retaliation responsibility, amid ongoing debate over naval patrol legitimacy and 34A cable implications.
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Washington
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Tonkin Gulf
Sen. Albert
D-Tenn
Vietnam
U.S
MccNamara
McNamara
Senate
Congress
Johnson
Gore
Senator Gore
Department
Maddox
Wayne Morse
D-Ove
London cash raid by six man gang shocks city streets
Detectives hunt a six man gang after a Saturday night raid on a London postal sorting office. About 336 000 dollars in used banknotes stolen, only a quarter recovered. Inside help suspected as four attackers wore stocking masks and a fifth donned a postman’s uniform. Two staff injured.
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London
Britain
Paddington
Narrows Man Found Dead. Autopsy Planned
A 26 year old Narrows Virginia man, Clayton Jack Gautier, was found noon Sunday by a nine year old boy near Mill Creek in Giles County. Authorities suspect no foul play though the cause of death is under investigation and an autopsy will be conducted. The death time is placed during the night. a head injury and possible night frost are considered by the sheriff's department.
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Narrows
Mill Creek
Giles County
Giles Sheriff's Department
Frank Hardin
Clayton Jack Gautier
Edna Stewart
Sheriff's Department
Randy McKinney
Monte Vista
Floyd McKinney
M. C. Newston
Bill Stables
Two Buildings Burn In Springville Area
A fire of undetermined origin destroyed two frame buildings near Bluefield Virginia Sunday night. One housed shooting matches and the other stored coal near the old Springville School. Firefighters prevented spread to the school. damage estimates were not made.
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Springville
Bluefield
Henry Burton
Virginia Side Fire Department
Richlands Man Arrested In Drive-In Shooting
Joe Short of Richlands Va was arrested on malicious wounding charges after a Saturday night shooting that injured Willie Edward Smith of Jewell Ridge Va The drive in operator was jailed on five thousand dollar bond pending a preliminary hearing Smith remained hospitalized in critical condition at Clinch Valley Clinic with a arm wound from a fight at the Jewell Ridge Drive in between Jewell Ridge and Richlands Virginia 67.
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Tazewell County
Joe Short
Richlands
Jewell Ridge
William E. Osborne
Short
Willie Edward Smith
Smith
Treat
Ment
Clinch Valley
Jewell Ridge Drive-in
Virginia 67
Osborne
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Locust Grove
Texas
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Turkey
Tonkin
North Vietnam
C. Turner
Senator Morse
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