Americans Find Huge Red Base Near Saigon
US air cavalrymen uncovered a four square mile North Vietnamese base northwest of Saigon in War Zone C. The base, possibly the largest in the war, could house 5 000 troops and included hundreds of bunkers, an underground hospital, dining halls, a bicycle shop, and a command post. Fifteen miles from the Cambodian border, it showed heavy activity with 354 bunkers counted and up to 1 000 estimated. engineers faced an extended demolition effort.
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Saigon
U.S
First Air Cavalry Division
Frank Henry
Franklin
N.C
Henry
Rick Merron
Henry Colavita
Arlington
Chicago University Building Seized by Students in Sit-In
Rebel students took control of the University of Chicago administration building amid protests over the firing of sociology assistant professor Marlene Dixon. Faculty and clerical staff were barred. ringleaders demanded student power in hiring and firing and warned of possible disciplinary action against participants.
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Charles O’connell
Marlene Dixon
Dixon
Four men loot Citroen plant payroll for 142000
Four men, one armed with a sub machine gun, robbed the Citroen auto plant payroll on Friday taking 142000 dollars meant for workers. The incident occurred as guards and employees were preparing the payroll distribution. Police initiated an investigation to identify and arrest the suspects.
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Paris
UPS
Citroen Auto
Nixon Moves Toward All Volunteer Army Plan
President Nixon directed the Defense Department to plan a commission to develop a detailed action plan to end the draft after Vietnam expenditures are substantially reduced. Congress would need to approve scrapping the draft, with critics calling an all volunteer army mercenary and costly.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Vietnam
Congress
Pentagon
Defense Department
Ronald Ziegler
Defense
Laird
Secretary of Defense
Ziegler
Scorpion Loss In Atlantic Remains Unexplained
A navy court of inquiry could not determine the Scorpion’s loss 400 miles southwest of the Azores last May. It ruled out foul play or sabotage and found no evidence the nuclear reactor was involved. Ninety nine crew members were aboard.
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Washington
UPI
Navy
Atlantic
Azores
Bjornsen Buys C R Loop Site in Cedar Rapids
Bjornsen Investment Co buys an almost full block between Second and Third streets SE and Fifth Avenue SE from Rock Island railroad. The Nash Finch building and freight house will be redeveloped with the freight house to be demolished and the Nash Finch building leased. Purchase price listed as 325000 in revenue stamps. The site lies within the proposed Civic Center area bounded by Third Street SE Fifth Avenue SE the Cedar River and the future Sixth Avenue line.
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Second
Third Streets
Fifth Avenue SE
Bjornsen Investment Co
Rock Island Railroad
Nash Finch
Terry Bjornsen
Civic Center
Third Street SE
Cedar River
Sixth Avenue SE
Sixth Avenue
31 Killed in Rail Wreck Near Seoul
A collision of two passenger trains in a heavy snowstorm south of Seoul left 31 dead and 77 injured. About 300 passengers were stranded on six buses on a mountain road east of Seoul with hunger and cold reported. Snow totals exceeded 70 inches in parts of South Korea this week.
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Seoul
South Korea
Hijacker of 63 Tired of TV Dinners Hijacks Miami Jet
A gunman claiming fatigue with TV dinners hijacked a National Airlines jet with 63 aboard, forcing a Cuba diversion from Tampa after boarding from San Francisco. He held a stewardess at gunpoint, spoke of chemistry studies, and warned of hunger and world suffering as the crew returned to Miami.
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Miami
UPI
National Airlines
Cuba
Federal Aviation Administration
Charles Leeds
Seanna Anderson
Leeds
San Francisco
Tampa
Miss Anderson
Europe
Crosstown Freeway Alignment Proposed for Cedar Rapids
Iowa highway officials outlined a southwest to northeast crosstown freeway corridor for Cedar Rapids as part of the regional transportation plan. The route would parallel First Avenue E through the center, linking Highway 549 with the Cedar Valley expressway via interchanges at Edgewood Road, Sixteenth Avenue, and Twentieth Street NE, then proceed toward First Avenue and Indian Creek with further interchanges and connections.
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Iowa Highway Commission
Cedar Rapids
Commission
Edgewood Road
Sixteenth Avenue
B Avenue
Second Street
Twelfth Street
E Avenues
Twentieth Street NE
F Avenue
Twenty-seventh Street
First Avenue
Twenty-ninth Street
Indian Creek
Twenty-ninth Street Drive
Government worried as a quarter live beyond means
A humorous remark notes the U S government frets about 25 percent of people living beyond their means. The quip ends with a jab at those in charge, underscoring satire and social commentary.
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U.S
Watts Volunteers Aid Mud Victims in LA Neighborhood
Actress Neva Patterson watched as Watts Labor Community Action Committee volunteers cleaned mud from her Hollywood area home. Henry Franklin supervised a crew that refused payment, while residents praised the Watts workers for their help after days of heavy rain and mud.
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Los Angeles
Neva Patterson
Labor Community Action Committee
Mid
Miss Patterson
Mandeville Canyon Road
Hollywood
Sunset Boulevard
Watts
Ellsworth Freeman
Henry Franklin
David
Lisa
Jesse Frank
Missing 11 year oldDebra Horn feared kidnapped in Allenstown
Parents plead to abductor by phone and prayer as a 100 person search party and state police scour Allenstown New Hampshire for Debra Horn 11 missing since Wednesday. Blood on a highway is being tested for a possible link. FBI watching but no ransom note. Weather hampers outdoor clues.
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Allenstown
N. H
UPI
Debra Horn
Debra
Debbie
Kenneth Horn
National Guardsmen
Woodlands
FBI
Horn
Kenneth
Granite State Scales Co
View New Agency for Area Schools
Des Moines reports the Iowa Senate committee favors creating a new agency to run area schools with a focus on vocational technical training. Senator Joseph Flatt says public instruction now handles the mission but future area schools may exceed the current Board of Regents institutions. The plan aims to emphasize practical training without downgrading liberal arts curricula.
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DES Moines
Iowa
State Board of Public Instruction
Senate Higher Education Committee
Board of Regents
Joseph Flatt
Winterset
California Sea Floor Well Leak Threatens Coastline
Oil bubbled from a Pacific offshore well at 21 000 gallons daily, dark slick covering 200 square miles. Washington experts, led by Interior Secretary Walter Hickel, raced to seal the leak as Reagan supports offshore operation scrutiny and a state bill seeks inspections beyond three miles.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Pacific Ocean
Washington, D.C
Interior
Walter Hickel
Ronald Reagan
Hickel
Union Oil Co
California
Fish and Game
Coast Guard
California Senate
Reagan
De Gaulle tour in Brittany sparks clashes by Rennes crowd
In Rennes police separate fighting supporters and opponents of Charles de Gaulle as he begins a Brittany tour. The president enters city hall ignoring catcalls and shakes hands with locals while separatist tensions and earlier bombings frame the visit. One man injured in the melee.
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Charles Daley
University
Daley
Edward Levi
Brink
Rennes
France
Charles de Gaulle
Britanny
de Gaulle
City Hall
Vive de Gaulle
Brittany
Paris
Schroeder and Laird to Meet in New York Saturday
Bonn reports Defense Minister Gerhard Schroeder will confer with U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird in New York on Saturday to discuss defense and alliance issues.
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Bonn
Defense
Gerhard Schroeder
Melvin Laird
New York
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