Vietnam War Fractures Families Amid Guerrilla Attack
A Da Nang youth and a Saigon girl describe family separations caused by the conflict as divisions split brothers and relatives. Viet Cong terror squads kill and threaten officials while President Thieu says the offensive aims to seize military leaders and their families. Newsmen report tied Viet Cong prisoners and notes begging return to authorities.
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da Nang
Quang Ngai
Saigon
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Red
Nguyen van Thieu
Showdown Over GOP Convention Officers Drafted by Shafer Backers
Republican governors backing Gov. Raymond P. Shafer push state chairs and national committeemen for a showdown on the Miami Beach convention cochairmanship. Ray C. Bliss signals officer picks after Feb meetings while Gov. J. Chafee coordinates a Tulsa agenda focusing on the Governors Association Policy Committee report.
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Washington
Raymond P. Shafer
Platform Committee
GOP
Miami Beach
Ray C. Bliss
Republican National Committee
Bliss
Mayer
Republican Governors Association
Non J. Chafee
Shafer
COP
Daniel J. Evans
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rich M. Nixon
George Romney
Michigan
Chafee
Tulsa
Okla
Missing nurse believed captive of Viet Cong
Betty Olsen a 33 year old nurse from the Vietnam leprosarium where six American missionaries were killed is now believed captive of the Viet Cong. A spokesman for the Christian and Missionary Alliance said U S State Department information placed her about 170 miles northeast of Saigon. Olsen daughter of Rev Walter Olsen is connected to the Alliance work in Africa four years in Ivory Coast. She was born in Africa and attended Nyack Missionary College in Nyack New York. She is formerly of Seattle. Hal Boyle saw her at Da Nang base and described her as Belle of Da Nang and the woman 10,000 men.
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New York
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Betty Olsen
U.S
Saigon
Miss Olsen
Walter Olsen
Field Christian
Africa
Ivory Coast
Nyack Missionary College
Nyack
N.Y
Seattle
Viet
Hal Boyle
da Nang
Policemen Quits After Suspected Abuse in Miami
Miami police chief says two officers stripped a 17 year old Negro boy to his shorts and dangled him from a highway overpass. Officer P Edwards 27 resigned and John Creekmore 23 faced dismissal. a third officer found the boy still in shorts. Officials timing and motive not clarified.
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Miam Ceman
Walter E. Headley
Liberty City Negro
Miami
Headley
Te P. Edwards
John Creekmore
Sisand
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