Ben Tre People Trust Soothsayer Over Aid Plans
In Ben Tre Vietnam locals show more faith in a shack by the Ben Tre River and a 20 piaster soothsayer than in government or U S aid schemes. After Tet much of the city was destroyed with 7 254 of under 11 000 homes wrecked. refugees numbered 43 000 with 8 000 remaining to be resettled. Civilians killed and wounded totaled 366 and 500 respectively.
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Ben Tre
Peter Arnett
Associated Press
Vietnam
Mekong Delta
U.S. Army
Saigon
U.S
Nguyen Tung
Tung
9Th Division
Cao Dai
Kien Hoa
Kenneth Wimmel
Cincinnati
Ohio
Miners Strike Grow to Halt West Virginia Mines
Wildcat walkouts shut scores of mines in southern West Virginia as about 7,000 miners protested the legislature’s handling of a black lung compensation bill. The action spread from Tuesday, with District 29 UMW officials declining comment on turnout, while two bills seek to deem pneumoconiosis work connected under different trigger years.
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Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
State Senate
House of Delegates
Beckley
District 29
United Mine Workers
Aflciop
Black Lung Association
I.E. Buff
Buff
Thes
Affinity
Charles Han
Black Lime Association
Controversy Over Confederate Flag Roils South Carolina Campus
Militant SC students press to ban the Stars and Bars and Dixie at USC events while AWARE seeks removal from state property. Administrators study the demand as flag burnings and tense campus clashes draw in Gov McNair and local officials.
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Columbia
University of South Carolina
Association of
Afro-American Students
AWARE
South Carolina
Robert McNair
Young Democratic Club
Young Republican Club
Thomas F. Jones
Confederate Memorial
State House
State Laws
Aware Int
Jones
JF Brett Bursey
Beautfort
D.C
United States
Stractad
South Carolina State College
Orangeburg
Tom Richardson
Afro-American Association
Ken Price
Robert Salley
Jon Kraus
Kraus
The
South Carolina American Civil Liberties Union
Richland County
Marine Prisoner Overpowers Guard and Flees
A Marine prisoner, Cpl. Joel Fox of Charleston, overpowered a guard on a Greyhound bus near Georgetown County and fled with a gun after removing handcuffs for a restroom break. Guard Lance Cpl. John Ojea was wounded lightly. about 15 passengers aboard. Fox had turned himself in at Charleston Naval Base Feb 14 after AWOL and was being transported from Charleston to Cherry Point Marine Air Station.
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Woodrow C. Carter
Joel Fox
Charleston
Charleston Naval Base
Cherry Point
N.C
Marine Air Station
Lance
John Ojea
Ojea
Fox
Q Ojea
Highway 17
Georgetown
Carter
Myrtle Beach
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U Thant
United Nations
Israel
USDA
New York
S.C. University
Washington
S.C
Bursey
Glenstyle
Imperial
Purdum Paint Co., Inc
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Piney Forest Road
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