U S Bombers Strike North Vietnam Base After Recon Plane Shot Down
U S fighter bombers attacked an anti aircraft site near Dong Hoi in North Vietnam after a reconnaissance plane was hit. Two airmen parachuted to safety near the Gulf of Tonkin and were rescued. Five U S planes have been shot down since the bombing pause with six missing.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin
United States
U.S. Command
Air Force
Dong Hoi
Viettnams
Gulf
U.S
Nixon
Nguyen van Thieu
Midway Island
Better Benefits For War Veterans Eyed
President Nixon ordered a study of ways to improve benefits for Vietnam veterans as he prepared for a Sunday U S Vietnam summit. He named Donald F Johnson to head the Veterans Administration and announced a summer White House villa at Newport Beach for August. Ziegler avoided crit ics and noted troop levels would be discussed at Midway Island with Thieu. reports of a 50,000 troop withdrawal were not confirmed or denied.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Veterans Administration
Donald F. Johnson
West Branch
Iowa
Senate
White House
California
Newport Beach
Midway Island
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
Midway
Ziegler
Vietnam
Communists Seek Unity In Long Planned Meet
In Moscow the Soviet Union opened its long planned conference with Leonid Brezhnev welcoming delegates from 75 Communist parties. He urged unity as a major step against imperialism while omitting China’s boycott and recent splits. The event faced calls to air differences and prevent disputes from breaking harmony in the movement.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Kremlin
St. George Hall
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Brezhnev
China
Czechoslovakia
Mer
Effort to Boost U S Child Growth Cited
The article urges a nationwide crash program to accelerate child growth in response to observed increases in height and predicts the Japanese may outgrow Americans. It emphasizes significant costs to push faster development.
Parachutists Find Crash Site Area Wide in Mexico
Four skydivers landed near the cloud shrouded mountainside where a Mexican jetliner with 79 aboard crashed. U.S. citizens among the victims include James M. Hanson of Caterpillar in Peoria, Charles Bernard of B F Goodrich, and Ross Plumb, with Edward A. Jamison heading the Monterrey consulate confirming identities and nationalities.
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Monterrey
Mexico
U.S
Edward A. Jamison
James M. Hanson
Caterpillar Tractor Co
Peoria, Ill
Charles Bernard
B. F. Goodrich Co
Ross Plumb
Sharecropper's Son To Receive Doctorate
Alexander P. Chandler of Aberdeen Mississippi a Negro sharecropper will see his son Cleveland receive a doctorate in economics on Saturday. Cleveland is among nine children all of whom finished college. He praises his parents for their perseverance and frugal yet focused support.
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College Park, Md
Alexander P. Chandler
Aberdeen
Miss
Cleveland
Corporation Urged To Let Postal Service Run Freely
Frederick R. Kappel told the House Post Office Committee that Congress should permit a government owned corporation to operate the postal service. He urged letting management use its judgment and discard the rule book, saying performance must be demanded but directions limited.
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Washington
Frederick R. Kappel
Congress
House Post Office Committee
Suit Forcing Arrow Run Is Dismissed
US District Judge Merhige dismissed a suit to compel Norfolk and Western to restore the Powhatan Arrow train service between Norfolk and Cincinnati. He ruled the court lacked jurisdiction to grant a temporary injunction during an ICC investigation into the line's discontinuance. Howell and two other plaintiffs filed for reinstatement during the inquiry.
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Richmond
Robert R. Merhige Jr
Norfolk & Western Railway Co
Norfolk
Cincinnati
Merhige
Interstate Commerce Commission
Henry E. Howell Jr
ICC
N&w
Howell
Wider Split Seen After Red Meeting in Moscow
Yugoslav party predicts deeper rifts as Moscow seeks to impose a single general line at the Communist conference. Several major parties boycott, fearing a Kremlin center will bind all parties, with clashes anticipated behind closed doors. The Italian party and others plan strong resistance to Soviet directions.
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Moscow
Comintern
Kremlin
Brezhnev Speaks as Yugoslavs Reject Conference Invite
Brezhnev opens a conference with calls for a united front against imperialism while cautioning about divisions within communist parties. Yugoslavs reject the invitation, saying consultations typically deepen splits among Communist and socialist parties worldwide.
Saigon Advances In Shift Of War Burden
Secretary of State William P. Rogers says South Vietnamese forces are rapidly taking over more combat duties as U S troop pullout speculation grows. He notes Saigon training progress and stresses U S willingness to support a freely chosen South Vietnamese government, without backing a specific Saigon regime.
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Saigon
Washington
William P. Rogers
U.S
Rogers
Vietnam
Nixon
South Vietnam
ARVN
Army of the
William Rogers
Judge to Rule Saturday on City District Injunction
Mercer County Circuit Court Judge F Morton Wagner will decide Saturday on an injunction to halt Bluefield from electing a new city board until the five voting districts are fairly redrawn. Tanner files the request claiming district populations are unbalanced with two South Bluefield districts containing over 65 percent of registered voters and only four at large.
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Mercer County
F. Morton Wagner
Bluefield
Wagner
Dan Wells
T. Courtney Tanner
Tanner
South Bluefield
Wytheville GI Killed In War
The Defense Department reported the death of Wytheville Virginia soldier Pfc. Jesse S. Manuel Jr. in combat action. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Jesse S Manuel Sr of Wytheville.
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Viet
Sheila McNabb
Brother John
Vietnam
Northeastern Junior High
Summerville
Mass
Eleanor Sobel
Brookline
Defense Department
Wytheville, Va
Pfc
Jesse S. Manuel Jr
Jesse S. Manuel Sr
Wytheville
D-Day Remembrance Falls On 25th Anniversary In France
VIERVILLE SUR-MER France AP Fifty years after the invasion 180000 Allied troops began the assault on Normandy with Sgt Robert Fruling recalling the cliff at La Pointe du Hoc and Gen Omar Bradley and Gen Eisenhower sending messages as the push into France started.
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Vierville Sur - Mer
France
Robert Fruling
Omar Bradley
U.S. Ranger
Pointe du Hoc
Utah
Omaha
D-Day
U.S
Memorial
American Cemetery
Saint Laurent
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