United States Offers North Vietnam Aid Amid Tet Tensions
The AP report notes Washington floated a possible aid package up to 2.6 billion with broader aims for postwar reconstruction and a future peace that could influence North Vietnam and Viet Cong negotiators. Officials said Nixon discussed limited troop reductions only after credible peace talks, while Bien Hoa air base and other locations remained on alert for potential Viet Cong offensives around Tet.
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Vietnam
North Vietnam
Viet ‘T
Wankly
Indo-China
South Vietnam
SMGON
Anjpeace
Nixon
U.S
Adi
Paris
Vixom
Ine
Fighting Near Saigon Highlights Tet Threat
Near Saigon fighting raged Friday just 16 miles from the capital in one of the closest battles since the Tet offensive of 1968. US command warned of increased readiness across South Vietnam as North Vietnamese forces moved to encircle a frontline firebase in the central highlands. Reports noted a radar site controlled a missile battery, a navy jet crash in Tonkin Gulf with no casualties, and a helicopter loss in the central highlands. The weekly air losses totaled 8,007 aircraft and helicopters.
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Saigon
Capal
U.S
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Buen
U. S
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Tonkin Gulf
Central Highlands
Navy
U.S. Command
Border Picketed In Dock Strike At Ensenada Wharf
AP report from San Diego notes longshoremen and teamsters union members picketed the Ensenada harbor delaying cargo entering California. Across the West Coast strike, ships diverted or stalled, signaling broad labor action and hindered freight flows with uncertain duration.
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Ban Diego
California
Baja California
Ensenada
Evsoilana
City Officers Killed in Guerrilla Gun Attack
Deputy Police Commissioner Paley described the ambush on a Manhattan street where two city policemen were shot in the back by gunmen. Officials said the killings tied to a larger Indo China reconstruction debate and a proposed multi billion aid plan.
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Robert Paley
Manhattan
Indo-China
North
North Vietna Fam
Aver
Ferivays
U.S
U.S. Ausill
Emil Lamparck
Lamparck
Preston Ripella
Thornton
Weather Closes In as Iowa Forecast Warms Up
Snowy spell ends as Iowa's weather shifts. Forecasters predict warming through Saturday with lows from zero to single digits and highs near 10 to 20. Snow moved out earlier than expected with minimal additional accumulation, though temperatures plunge across multiple towns.
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Iowa
Weather Service
Sklea
Codar Rapids
We Ceduc Rapids
Marenga
West Union
Payette
Manchester
Ochwvein
Tawa
Bloomquist Killed in Toledo Auto Crash
Frank Bloomquist 35 a star guard of Iowa football in 1957 and all Big Ten that year died Friday in a Toledo area car crash. A Waterloo High School alum he served as Breton Builders vice president and Rittenhouse Motors manager and worked as a consultant to the Office of Opportunity. He is survived by his wife and three children.
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UPI
Frank Biumquist
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Waterloo High Schoul
Bloomquist
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Rittenhouse Motors
Path
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Bennomle Opportunity
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Big Ten
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Am Uti
Ron Behagen
Marvin
Taylor
Ajihe Braw
Tierade
Thelohio
Butler County
Gente
Nivetghont
Grada School
High Schol
Author Links Wife to Swiss Hughes Account
New York AP report says author and multimillionaire Clifford Irving’s wife Draughtis Ackerman helped trigger Swiss authorities’ interest by opening a bank account in the name A. R. Hughes. Federal grand juries questioned Irving about plans for an autobiography of Hughes. Maury Ness Nessen and others were in attendance as lawyers.
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Hughes
New York
Multimilionaire Cervatric
Clifford Irving
Draughtis
Marlin Ackerman
Irving
Watlind
Federwider
H.fal
Eity
Alty
Fran Hogan
Litonard
Sh Hue
McGraw-Hill, Inc
Iman
Newrawyer
Maury ‘Nessen
Nessen
A. R.I. Hughes
Newnan
Sewell
Ackerman
Newman
Edith
Nes
Sen
Nessun
McGraw- Hill
Helga HR. Hugheson
FBT
JFBI
U. S. Postal Service
Boel
Gebright
Selassie welcomes UN to Africa in council meeting
Emperor Haile Selassie urged the United Nations Security Council to move from words to action on racism and colonialism in Africa as the council opened its first meeting outside New York in nearly 20 years. The agenda centers on Rhodesia, apartheid in South Africa, and territories in Angola and Mozambique with observers watching tensions across southern Africa.
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Addis Ababa
Eihlogly
Nalie Selassie
U.N. Security
Afric
New York
Selassie
Rhodesia
South Africa
South-West Africa
Angola
Mozambique
Afican
Council
Guinea
Somalia
Sudangald
Britain
Ugal
Africa Hall
Canferine Center
U.N. Economie Commission For Africa
Impact of U S War Tactics on South Vietnam
Two scientists from the Fund for Investigative Journalism and Environment report that bombs herbicides and clearing operations have caused greater damage to South Vietnam than North Vietnam. They say 10 percent of rice fields are destroyed and undetonated bombs threaten farming while aerial herbicides continue to harm Mekong delta forests and wildlife, with tractors clearing vast forest land.
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Washington
Indo-China
South Vietnam
U.S
North Vietnam
Egbert Pfeiffer
Pfeiffer
University of Montana
Arthur Westing
Union and Flocs Nf
Fund For Inves
Vietnam
Westing
Mekong
Theso
Saigon
Ho Bo
Bui Loi
Saige
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