Shutdown of four air bases could cut U S forces in Thailand
In Bangkok discussions loom on trimming U S forces in Thailand amid talks with Thai officials. Officials say two of six bases Udorn and Utapao would stay active, while Ubon Korat Takli and Nakorn-Phanom could close. About 48,000 U S personnel are in Thailand plus 1,200 involved with MACV.
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Infants? Infantrymen Fight To Reach Helicopter Crash Site
U S infantrymen assault Hill 102 near Da Nang to reach a downed command helicopter. North Vietnamese defenses include antiaircraft guns and bunkers as Marine units block possible retreat. Casualties: at least 22 enemy and one American killed. 14 Americans wounded.
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Search For Hurricane Victims Continues Worldwide Toll
The Camille disaster prompted a vast search across Mississippi coastal strips and Virginia mountains where nearly 400 people are dead and hundreds missing. Officials cite 315 dead in Mississippi, 40 in Virginia with 110 missing, while Nelson County bears the heaviest toll. Louisiana and West Virginia also report fatalities, as the James River recedes and the hurricane breaks up over the North Atlantic.
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Congressmen push to suspend airline fare hikes
Twenty western members of Congress petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board to suspend and investigate proposed fare increases by American, Continental, Eastern and United. Rep. John E. Moss led 18 California lawmakers and Nevada's Rep. Walter S. Baring, urging the CAB to set fare levels, decide if rates should be per mile or per hour, and curb excessive competition while noting higher costs and pollution could follow.
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Autopsy Refusal Will Not Affect Inquest Plans
Dist. Atty. Edmund Dinis said the Sept. 3 inquest into Mary Jo Kopechne's death will proceed regardless of any Pennsylvania court ruling on exhumation. Kopechne, 28, a secretary for the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, drowned July 18 when a Kennedy car left a bridge on Martha's Vineyard. State and local motions opposing exhumation are to be heard Monday in Wilkes-Barre Pa.
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Mary Jo Kopechne
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Court of Common Pleas
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Vietnamese woman seeks status of Green Beret husband in Saigon
Pham Kim Lein, 34, asks the U S Embassy about her husband Chuyen Thai Khac said to have worked as an interpreter with U S Special Forces at Tay Ninh. She claims he faced a lie detector test and electric chair treatment at a Green Beret camp. A MACV official advised sending her petition to the staff judge advocate. A preliminary murder inquiry into eight Green Berets stalled at Long Binh Army complex.
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Pham Kim Lein
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Thai Khae Que
U.S. Military Assistance Command
MACV
Chuyen Thai Khac
Right to Exist Report Issued Highlights Swan Hope
Interior Department report titled The Right to Exist warns 90 species face extinction while noting hopeful signs for the trumpeter swan. It catalogs endangered species including the black-footed ferret ivory-billed woodpecker Attawater's prairie chicken California condor and Florida Key deer.
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West Coast Brush Fires Force Large Evacuations
More than 1,800 residents fled as fires raged across remote brush and grassland in Southern California. In northern San Diego County about 1,500 were ordered out as a 12,000 acre blaze near Fallbrook threatened homes and a trailer park. Firefighters faced near record heat up to 118 degrees and 10 percent humidity, with multiple fires burning in San Diego and San Bernardino counties. Evacuation centers opened, Red Cross aid deployed, and investigators traced several blazes to matches.
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