Cambodian Forces Hold In Fierce Clash Near Phnom Penh
Reported fighting intensified around two key towns 30 to 50 miles from Phnom Penh as Cambodian government troops clashed with Communist forces. In the Fish Hook area US troops backed by helicopter gun ships battled guerrillas nine miles inside Cambodia, with six guerrilla bodies found and seven US wounded.
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Phnom Penh
Reuter
Phnom Fos
Tram Khnar
Kompong Cham
Mekong River
Tonle Bet
Fish Hook
Cambodia
South Vi Nam
Ho Chi Minh
Associated Press
Alli
Saigon
South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Lom Phat
Se San
Tom Phat
Camia
Cricket tour of England may be cancelled as vote polls
Lancaster area papers quote a Labour MP saying the African cricket tour could be off if voting papers support the Cricket Council. The council already called off two deputations at Lords planned to plead against the Springbok visit.
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Londgos
Bucday
AAP
England
Papera
Labour
Cricket Council
Canada aids Papua New Guinea with scholarships plan
Canadian Prime Minister announces aid expansion in Pacific programmes. Canada to fund postgraduate studies for University of Papua New Guinea graduates in Canada and provide library materials and teaching staff through the University Service Overseas. Scholarships for undergraduates discussed.
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University of Papua-New Guinea
Canada
Trudeau
South-east Asia
Australia
Newealand
University of the South Pacific
Fiji
Papua New Guinea
Commonwealth
Canadian High Commission
Canadian University Service Overseas Organisation
Gorton
Ottawa
Canberra
Nurses Demand Action as Prime Minister Receives Lunch Guests
About 400 nurses gathered on Parliament House steps in Canberra in protest as Prime Minister Mr Gorton, host Mr Trudeau, and Health Minister Dr Forbes left a luncheon. They pressed for higher wage increases granted by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. Gorton said he would review the commission report but could not address the nurses due to parliamentary duties.
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Trudeau
Parliament House
Gorton
Anthony
The
Conciliation and Arbitration Commission
Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission
Hospital Employees’ Federation No 1
J. Mackie
Dr Forbes
Hayden
Qid
Whitlam
Canberra
Woden
Calvary
K. EE
Enderby
Labor
Bond conditions mocked by magistrate in ACT court
In the ACT Petty Sessions, Supreme Court style bond conditions were dismissed as useless by Magistrate Dobson. Eddy Nicolaas, 18, of Yarralumla, pleaded guilty to four theft charges from purses at the Department of Shipping and Transport. He admitted taking $2 from a purse and $12 others, earning $54 fortnightly, paying board and expenses. He was remanded on $50 bail until June 2 for probation report.
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Supreme Court
Eddy Nicholaas
Second Street
Yarralumla
Department of Shipping and Transport
Nicholaas
Motors
Ork
P. K. Fenton
Commonwealth Police
Dobson
Nicholaus
Nicholans
Law Reform Commission to overhaul ACT law
The Government will establish a Law Reform Commission to review and reform ACT law with a fulltime chairman, ideally a Supreme Court judge. The move, announced by Attorney-General Hughes, follows Labor Party policy and complements planned laws on strata titles, a new Legal Practitioners Ordinance, and other reforms amid Senate disputes.
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Supreme Court
House of Representatives
Hughes
Legal Practitioners
Senate
Whitlam
Labor Party
ACT Law Reform Commission debated in Parliament
The ACT government backs a proposed law reform commission to review and update ACT laws with input from ACT bodies and professional groups. Opposition argues the draft criminal code and new procedures threaten civil liberties and would yield a draconian code if enacted.
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Labor
Interior
Nixon
NCDC
Defence Forces
Whitlam
Australia
Cathedrals Gift From Priest Aims Canberra War Memorial
The estate of Father Ignatius Bassence, who died December 21 in Darlinghurst NSW, leaves 655,728 59 to fund a Canberra National War Memorial Catholic Cathedral. All but 300 goes to the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese for construction. Probate granted to Archbishop Cahill as executor.
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Ignatius Ernest Bossence
Darlinghurst
Nsw
Canberra
T. W. Cahill
Archdiocese of
Canberra-Goulburn
Father Bassence
ACT Supreme Court
Cahill
Therese Pty Ltd
Commercial Bank
Bassence
George Weissel
William Keating
Neil Shannon
yra-Goulburn
Canberra National War Memorial
Martin and Barker
Commonwealth Avenue Bridge
Canberra Sees Jarring Frost Amid Cold Spell
More cold Canberra weather kept temperatures below average yesterday as the Bureau of Meteorology warned of continued chill today. Frost reached a low of 22.5 degrees, the coldest since August last year, with September 24 also marked by a very low minimum.
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Canberra
Bureau of Feteorology
Liberal unsure of AIDC progress and growth aims
A fragmented page notes Liberal uncertainty over AIDC procedures and a target growth rate of 5.5 percent per year under Mrs Gandhi. It also mentions UK election campaign mood, predicted rate changes, and mentions rugby players Stuart McDougall and Stuart Soar with brief diary references, plus notes on TV radio listings and classifieds.
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Gandhi
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