Saigon Minister Le Minh Tri Dies in Grenade Attack
Education Minister Le Minh Tri, 46, died after a grenade blast demolished his car in downtown Saigon. His driver and a passerby were killed or wounded. Witnesses blamed two youths on a motorcycle. The attack followed heavy U S and South Vietnamese operations near Khe Sanh and in the Plain of Reeds as the war continued.
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Saigon
le Minh Tri
Tri
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia
U.S
Khe Sanh
Plain of Reeds
da Nang
1St Infantry Division
Sanday
Dr. George H. Scanlon of Iowa City Dies at 74
Dr. George H. Scanlon founder of the Iowa Medical Foundation and chair of the state medical examiners board died at his Iowa City home. He 74, served as president of the Iowa Medical Foundation later renamed the Scanlon Medical Foundation. Survivors include his wife, one son, and one daughter. Services set for Thursday at St. Marys Church. Rosary planned for Wednesday evening at George L. Gay Funeral Home with callers Tuesday evening.
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Iowa City
George H. Scanlon
The
Iowa Medical Foundation
State Board of Medical Examiners
Scanlon
Iowa Medical Society
Scanlon Medical Foundation
University of Iowa College of Medicine
St. Mary's Church
George L. Gay
U S envoy Komer’s car burned during METU protest in Ankara
Anti American students at Middle East Technical University overturned and burned the U S ambassador Robert Komer’s official limousine during lunch with Rector Kemal Kurdas. Komer remained at lunch and later issued a cautious statement.
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Ankara
Turkey
Middle East Technical University
U. S
Robert Komer
Komer
Kemal Kurdas
METU
The
Student Federation
En‘way
Central Intelligence Agency
Viet‘nam
U. S. Agency For International Development
Winter Snow Grips Iowa Widespread Shutdowns Begin 1909
A major snowstorm blankets Iowa as schools close and travel slows. Eastern Iowa reports up to 5 inches with icy conditions in western and southern areas. The storm disrupts buses and roads while University of Iowa resumes classes amid travel delays.
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Jounty
Iowa
Towa
Snow Cover Blanketed Cedar Rapids by Two Inch Fall
Snow Blankets Cedar Rapids with two inches officially at the airport and reports of up to four inches locally. City crews mobilized 115 workers and 73 machines to plow more than 600 miles of streets as freezing rain and drifting disrupted travel. Airports and airlines faced delays but Cedar Rapids remained open while neighboring cities faced broader disruption.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar’ Rapids
Donald Canney Sr
Canney
Omaha
Des Moines
Chicago
Ozark Airlines
O'Hare
United Airlines
Chuckle Aman on marriage and fractions puzzles readers
A joking note about a man who links marriage to prepositions and fractions. The quip hints at misunderstandings of women and math with a playful, punchy tone.
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Aman
Zopyrtoh
Nixon names Henry Cabot Lodge as Paris peace talks chief
President elect nominates Henry Cabot Lodge 66 a hard line veteran diplomat to head the Paris negotiating team. Lodge who twice served in Saigon stresses both peace desire and recognition of sacrifices while signaling his influence may shape Nixon's stance on Vietnam talks during Bonn briefing.
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New York
Nixon
Vietnam
Paris
Henry Cabot Lodge
Thetas Lodge
Saigon
Lodge
Johnson
Bonn
West
Germany
Black Students Union
Third World Liberation Front
Clark Clifford
Emacusauyous Waeervers
Allj
Lebanon
George Murray
Hayakawa
Joseph Alioto
Service Chiefs Named for Navy Air Force and Army
Secretary of Defense designate Melvin Laird named Rhode Island Governor John Chafee to be secretary of the navy and MIT professor Robert Seamans Jr to head the air force. In a surprise move Stanley Reser was nominated to remain as secretary of the army. Chafee, 46, leaves the Rhode Island governor’s office Tuesday after defeating Paul Ignalius, who has led the navy since September 1967.
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Washington (Ap
Reagan Vow to Use Bayonets Opens San Francisco Campus
San Francisco State University reopened as militant students and union teachers joined picket lines. Governor Reagan pledged to keep the campus open at the point of a bayonet if necessary and backed President Hayakawa’s order to restore order.
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S. J. Hayakawa
San Francisco State College
San Francisco
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Lebanon and Israel See Border Talks Stall
Lebanese and Israeli officials met at the border under mixed armistice commission supervision to discuss Israel’s charges that Arab guerrillas cross into Israel from Lebanon. Lebanon’s government said talks occurred at the frontier despite ongoing tensions and press coverage of the dispute.
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Israel
Lebanon
Mixed Armistice Commission
Finland
Watlana Shenewane
Hussein Quweini
U.N
Beirut
Sidon
Sirhan Trial Opens In Guarded Los Angeles Court
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan 24 faces trial for Kennedy murder in a heavily guarded LA courtroom. The proceedings may span over two months with about 200 witnesses, closed circuit access for reporters, and a defense team led by Grant Cooper assisted by Emile Zola Berman and Russell Parsons.
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Los Angeles
Sirhan Bishara
Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Ambassador Hotel
New York
Hall of Justice
Mary
Jerusalem
Superior Court
Herbert Walker
Grant Cooper
Los Angeles County Bar Association
Los Angeles District Attorney's Office
Cooper
Russell Parsons
California
South Carolina
Matthew McKeon
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George McArthur
G. H. Scanlon
Ows
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University of Iowa
I Gazette
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Independence
Gazette
Decorah
Ramine Nrah
AFT
Associated Press
Frank Licht
Seamans
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Laird
Resor
Defense
Robert McNamara
Terpelling
Caius
Pentagon
San Francisco State
America
Naranne
Alana
Middle - East
Atty
David Fitts
District Attorney's
Lynn Compton
John Howard
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