U S Aircraft Pound Foe on Three Fronts
U S planes attacked enemy positions on three fronts to aid Cambodian and South Vietnamese troops. Shelling eased in South Vietnam after four days, but new strikes hit along Cambodia Highway 4. B 52 raids and helicopter missions supported forces, with over 60 B 52s and 1,800 tons dropped across Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam. A U S helicopter was shot down near Da Nang, two crewmen wounded.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Highway 7
Chup
Indo-China
Demilitarized Zone
A Shau
Sepone
Laos
da Nang
Cancer Education Film Showings Scheduled at Jane Boyd House
A four part cancer education film series begins Thursday at the Jane Boyd Community House led by Linn County American Cancer Society education chair J Thomas Hoegen. The opening three films Time and Two Women Time To Stop Is Now and Breast Self Examination screened by ACS speaker bureau member Mrs James Owen. Subsequent showings occur next Tuesday at 1 pm and 7 pm and May 5 at 1 pm for the Over 60 group with It's Up to You featured.
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Jane Boyd
J. Thomas Hoegen
Linn County
The
American Cancer Society
James Owen
Cancer Society
Hoegen
Panel Rejects Nixon Manpower Training Plan
Washington AP brief: Nixon's special revenue sharing program for manpower training was rejected by the House Education and Labor Committee on a party line vote. The panel approved a separate $4.2 billion, five year public service jobs program for the unemployed, after veto threats on prior bills.
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Washington
Nixon
House Education and Labor Committee
Thompson to Introduce Rees on Law Day in Cedar Rapids
G K Thompson retired Iowa Supreme Court justice will participate in Law Day events in Linn County. He will comment on Saw day and introduce Iowa Supreme Court Justice Warren J Rees. The program includes a luncheon at the Montrose hotel and remarks by District Judge Robert Osmundson and Robert C Tilden.
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Thompson
Rees
Law
G. K. Thompson
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Supreme Court
Linn County Bar Assn
Justice Thompson
Warren J. Rees
Montrose Hotel
Robert Osmundson
Robert C. Tilden
Linn County Bar Assa
Linn County
Bar Association
National Merit Scholars From Eastern Iowa Named
Five Eastern Iowa students were named National Merit Scholarship winners among 1,000 nationwide. Recipients include James R. Hess Cedar Rapids Jefferson Nels H. Madsen University High Iowa City Kerry Dolch University High Iowa City James P. Fernow Linn-Mar and Steven A. Brandt Toledo South Tama County high school. The awards are nonrenewable and payable next fall after college enrollment.
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Eastern Iowa
James R. Hess
Cedar Rapids Jefferson
Nels H. Madsen
Kerry Dolch
University High
Iowa City
James P. Fernow
Linn-Mar
Steven A. Brandt
Toledo
South Tama County
National Merit Scholarship Corp
FBI role under review by justice committee
Washington AP report on the Committee for Public Justice launching a study into the FBI’s operations, chaired by Ramsey Clark and Burke Marshall. The panel will invite FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to participate, aiming for a dispassionate reform era inquiry into surveillance and fairness. Pete Dixon becomes interim track coach amid a campus student rivalry in Room 222 at 7 PM Wednesday in color on TV 9.
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Washington
Justice Department
Ramsey Clark
FBI
Bureau
Sur- Marshall
Wilkins
Committee For Public Justice
Clark
Burke Marshall
Roger Wilkins
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
J. Edgar Hoover
Burke
Hoover
Johnson
Marshall
Pete Dixon
Room 222
TV 9
Propose Exchange of Selves for Prisoners
Six Americans proposed to North Vietnam that they be allowed to exchange themselves for U S prisoners of war held by the North Vietnamese. Dominic Cimino said the embassy officials in Vientiane listened to the two hour meeting and he would discuss the results with colleagues before a statement. Cimino, an insurance man from Monterey Park California, said 59 Americans signed up to replace prisoners if approved.
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Vientiane
Laos
North Vietnam
U. S
Dominic Cimino
Cimino
Monterey Park
Calif
West German vehicle output hits March 1971 high
German industry data show West Germany produced 392,886 motor vehicles in March 1971, rising from 336,509 in March 1969. Exports for March reached 271,498, up from 170,414 in 1969, per the industry association.
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Frankfurt
West Germany
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Ross Wilson
Eighteenth Street
Million Club
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United States
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Channel 9
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