U.S. rejects Red demand to remove Saigon leaders at Paris talks
Ambassador Bruce told the North Vietnamese Viet Cong that the United States rejects removing Saigon’s top three officials as a precondition. Washington says troop withdrawals by July 30 are negotiable within a broader settlement. South Vietnam’s Lam called the five Communist points unacceptable before talks continue. Gromyko began an East Berlin stop on a East-West German tour.
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Saigon
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David K. E. Bruce
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U.S
Nam
Meeling
Pham Dang Lam
Berlin
Andrei Gromyko
East Berlin
U.S. Casualties Lowest Since 1965 Amid Vietnam Storm
Allied commands report 43 Americans killed in action last week and 272 wounded, with overall casualties at 43,904 killed in action since 1961. South Vietnamese losses 215 killed, 625 wounded as allied forces claim 1,484 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed. Air activity fell due to Tropical Storm Louise though bombers continued strikes through Laos.
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Allied Commmands Today
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Vietnam
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Louise
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Fish Hook
Phnom Penh
American journalist and Japanese photographer killed in Cambodian ambush
An American UPI newsman Frank Frosch and Japanese photographer Kyoichi Sawada, Pulitzer winner, were ambushed and shot to death near Highway 2 south of Phnom Penh. Frosch, 27, Indianapolis, and Sawada, 34, Tokyo, were found 30 feet from their car. Frosch served as UPI bureau chief in Phnom Penh. Sawada won a 1964 Pulitzer for a Vietnam river hardship image.
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Cambodia
Frank Frosch
Indianapolis
Ind
Kyoichi Sawada
Tokyo
United Press International
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Virginia Military_ Institute
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Georgia
Oglethorpe Echo
Athens News
Quang Ngai Province
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UPT
Vietnam
Hong Kong
Priests Endorse Conscience Objection to Vietnam War
The New England Conference of Catholic Priests voted to advise Catholic youths they may seek conscientious objection to the Vietnam War on religious grounds. The resolution cites Vatican II decrees and urges local draft boards and priests be informed of the church policy. The stance challenges the just war doctrine as irrelevant to Vietnam and urges personal judgment from Catholic youths.
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Vietnam
Attorney accuses Abrams of torture in My Lai case
Atlanta attorney Charles Weltner, representing Sgt. Esequiel Torres, charges Gen. Creighton Abrams with permitting torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners in Vietnam on August 1 1968 at Chanh Luu. He accuses Abrams of dereliction and failure to control troops.
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Chanh Luu
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