Assault against Saigon triggers major Allied offensive
UPI reports a five mile long USB armored column supporting thousands of allied infantry as the operation Alas Wedge launches toward Saigon. Communists suffer considerable losses amid heavy fighting while Marines battle near Laos and jungle plantations in Tay Ninh.
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Saigon
UPI
Junction City
George S. Patton
Sie i Londay
U.S. Maine
Laos
Shaw Valley
David Lamb
UPS
Nat Gibson
Ife
Tay Ninh
Tan
Gibson
U.S
John Bahnsen
Rochelle
James Catron
Federal Bay
Wash
U.S. Istair Cavalry Division
Two Boys Drown In Eastern Iowa
Two drownings occurred in eastern Iowa over a Monday and Tuesday. Eight year old Randy Blue of Waucoma Fayette county drowned in the Little Turkey river while crossing ice near his home. A two year old child of Velorovs and Mary Goll of Iowa City apparently drowned Tuesday morning in a creek behind Hilltop Trailer Court. Fayette authorities noted Randy's winter ice crossing habit. deputies and Waucoma firefighters recovered the body about 7:15 PM, 7% feet down.
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Randy Joe Blue
Richard Blue
Waucoma
Fayette County
Randy Blue
Top Tax Job To Thrower
President Nixon announced the selection of Randolph Thrower an Atlanta lawyer and former FBI agent to be commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Thrower 95 has long practiced tax law in Atlanta since 1936 with a World War II FBI service and a later Marine stint. He would succeed Sheldon Cohen.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Randolph Thrower
Atlanta
FBI
Internal Revenue Service
Thrower
Worldwat Tl
FBC
Marines
Sneldan Cohen
Iowa Senate Raises Usury Rate to 9 Percent
In Des Moines the Iowa Senate approved raising the maximum interest on loans charged by lending institutions to 9 percent by a 45 to 13 vote. The bill, lobbying by banking and finance interests, moves to the House as the first update since 1935 when the rate was 7 percent.
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Frank Nye Gerehé
Des Moines
Iowa
Iown Senate
House
Gene Glen
Ottumwa
Lee Gaudineer
Britain flexes military muscle over Anguilla rebellion
British paratroopers about 150 strong boarded three frigates Rothesay Rhyl and Minerva in Antigua as a show of force over Anguilla. London said the buildup is precautionary and seeks changes while Anguilla’s Webster leads a 2500 strong independent force. The crisis stems from Anguilla’s 1967 bid for independence from the federation. The islands lie about 150 miles east of Puerto Rico. Continued coverage Page 3.
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ST. Johns
Antigua
Britain
Anguilla
England
Rothesay
Rhyl
Minerva
London
Beish Foreign
Stewart
Scotland Yard T
Ronald Webster
Robert Bradshaw
St. Kitts Nevis-Anguilla
House of Commons
Webster
Puerto Rico
Lindsay Seeks Second Term as New York City Mayor
Republican John V. Lindsay announced he will run for a second four year term as mayor, declaring much of his work is already under way and noting that change is hard but necessary. He was joined by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Senators Javits and Goodell.
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New York
John V. Lindsay
Lindsay
Istate
G.O.P
Nelson Rockefeller
Jacob Javits
Charles Goodell
Oil and College Aid Policy in Nixon Unrest Debate
President Nixon plans to enforce laws cutting federal funds to students involved in campus disorders while lawmakers debate the need for new action. Fire at a Marshalltown nursing home kills four, compressing national concerns with local tragedy.
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Washington
Nixon
Marshalltown
Tues
Caced
Alan Sindy
House
G.O P
Ford
Senate
Republican
Dirksen
Higher’ Education
HEW
Labor Department
Shady Lawn
Juanita Clark
Man from Uncle tax collector joke prompts laughs
A witty quip about the younger generation discovering the true identity of the Man from Uncle as a tax collector circulates in today’s humor notes. Copyright earners.
Nixon and Kosygin push disarmament talks in Geneva
In Geneva the 18 nation disarmament talks opened after a seven month recess with Nixon signaling U S intent to start near term discussions with the Soviet Union on sea bed anti ballistic missile limits and verification. Kosygin urged a treaty banning all military installations on the sea bed and subsoil while urging continued effort toward disarmament and reduction of strategic weapons.
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Geneva
Nixon
U.S
Soviet Union
Kosygin
Alexei Roshchin
Gerard Smith
Freed Yank Leaves Iraq
BEIRUT Lebanon AP Panl Bail an American oil engineer spent a month in a Baghdad jail on espionage charges and arrived in Beirut with his wife Bail 45 of Conneautville Pa was released Feb 5 After release the Bails stayed at the Belgian ambassador's residence in Baghdad awaiting an exit visa fearing re arrest Exit visas usually take days but this one took over a month and the charges might be revived
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Beirut
Lebanon
Panl
Bagdad
Conneautville
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Don Lowry
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Elmhurst Drive
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Jaws
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Isle
Louisiana
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Lory Vuluure
Coast Guard
Cain
Higher Education Act
Morgan City
Mobji
Mobil Oil Co
Tower Terrebonne
Herman Allen
Bureau of Higher Education
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Marshall County
Evangelical Hospital
Total
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Green Mountain
LeGrand
Albion
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Leonard LaPour
Town Highway Commission
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Llowa Blaze
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