Viet Cong ambush hits U.S. Marines in Batangan fight
Saigon AP reporting: Viet Cong forces attempting to break the allied cordon on Batangan Peninsula trap U.S. Marines in an ambush. Two Americans killed, five wounded. enemy casualties unknown. Meanwhile Da Nang to Quang Ngai saw four Americans killed and 16 wounded as U.S. forces report 86 enemy killed. Navy says five sailors died when a harbor boat struck a mine near the DMZ, with three crewmen lost. In An Khe, eight NVA and 11 American paratroopers wounded as a sweep goes on. Weekly U.S. casualty tally shows 151 battle deaths for the week, with total U.S. dead at 30,795 and wounded at 194,234. Enemy losses total 434,048 since the war began.</S:
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U. S
da Nang-Quang Ngai City
U.S
Quang Ngai City
US. Navy
Cua Viet River
Demilitarized Zone
Navy
An Khe
17Th Airborne Brigade
U.S. Command
Pleiku City
Batangan
Deaths: Mrs Lilley 83 of Corry Memorial Hospital
Mrs Lilley of 2544 East Washington street died early today after a brief illness at Corry Memorial Hospital. A Concord Township native born June 22, 1685 she married Clyde Lilley in Mayville in 194. Surviving are daughter Bess Lilley and three sons Park William and John with 11 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Visitation at St George Funeral Home this evening and tomorrow. Funeral Saturday at 2 p.m. with Rev Harold Webb officiating. Burial in Evergreen Cemetery Union City.
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Lilley
Edna M. Lilley
St. George Funeral Home
Evergreen Cemetery
Union City
Petere
Jerry
Bess Lilley
Park of Corry
William
John
Harold Webb
Veseyan Methodist Church
Fire Guts Firm Four Warehouses in Scranton
Atlas Container Corp and four other firms suffered warehouse fire damage in Scranton PA yesterday. Tenants included Simmons Mattress, Popular Science Publishing, Parson Corp, a meat packing firm and Jacqueline Cochran Cosmetics. Atlas owner Myer Fink estimated damages over 250000 dollars and said Popular Science stored more than 1 million dollars worth of goods.
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Scranton, Pa
Atlas Container Corp
Simmons Mattress Co
Popslar Science Publishing Co
Palaron Corp
Jacqueline Cochran Cosmetics Co
Myer Fink
Atlas
Popular Science
NATO Ministers Set Goals For 5 Years Ahead
NATO defense ministers met in Brussels to approve goals for 1969 through 1973, aiming for modest personnel and materiel increases amid the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. U.S. forces in West Germany and European contributions factor into plans as European spending is projected to rise 5 to 80 percent by period end. France did not attend the meeting.
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Richard M. Nixon
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Mediterranean
Harlan Cleveland
NATO
Paul H. Nitze
Johnson
Clark Clifford
Pierre Messier
Alliance
U.S
Vietnam
Wire Guild Votes On AP Pact Offer
NEW YORK AP members of the United Telegraph Workers returned to work at Associated Press offices as the Wire Service guild voted on a new management offer to end their week long walkout. UTW workers resumed operations restoring AP transmission to normal, with supervisory staff handling machines during the vote. George J. Kleinman said the UTW contributed to collective bargaining as the guild pressed ahead with the vote.
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New York
United Telegraph Workers Union
Associated Press
Wire Service Guild
UTW
Guild
George J. Kleinman
Associated Press Division 44
European defense ministers hold informal sessions to align views
A dinner hosted Wednesday by Belgian Defense Minister Paul Segers for European defense colleagues followed Britain's earlier dinner with Denis Healey at the November meeting. An informed NATO source said such sessions are now established practice to create a shared European stance on current issues and assist the new U.S. administration’s NATO planning. They would be linked to regular defense ministers meetings held twice yearly.
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Paul Segers
Britain
Denis Healey
NATO
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