Australians battle Viet Cong in coastal swamps near Saigon
An Australian infantry force clashed for six hours with the Viet Cong D445 Battalion in coastal swamps 47 miles southeast of Saigon. Canberra reports 70 enemy killed with overall allied casualties light. Separate action north of Saigon involved the U S 4th Infantry Division with heavy casualties and three other companies moderately wounded in a two day fight against a North Vietnamese regiment.
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D445
Saigon
U.S. 4Th Infantry Division
Highlands
Civil Engineers February Meeting at Marguerite's High Point
The Northern Branch of the North Carolina Section ASCE will hold a February meeting Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Marguerite's Restaurant in High Point. Dr John D Watson president of Watson Engineers Greensboro will discuss design and construction methods.
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Civil Engineers
North Carolina
American Society of Civil Engineers
Marguerite’s
High Point
John D. Watson
Watson Engineers, Inc
Greensboro
Republicans Ready To Censure Powell Seat Controversy
Washington AP report says Republicans plan to seat Adam Clayton Powell while censuring him and docking pay. House fate hinges on GOP support, with many Democrats split between expulsion and censure as deliberations resume Monday.
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Powell
Washington
Adam Clayton Powell
Harlem
Claude D. Pepper
Florida
House
North Carolina Group Names Fulltime Death Penalty Abolition Chairman
Marion A. Wright, a retired lawyer from Linville Falls, is named chairman to lobby for abolition of the death penalty in the 1967 General Assembly. He will run a Raleigh office, push bills, distribute materials, and seek key legislative support. Two abolition proposals already exist in the House. one limits death penalty use to certain cases and allows life imprisonment otherwise. A second bill by Rep. Ed McKnight of Forsyth narrows the penalty to only three specified circumstances.
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Raleigh
Marion A. Wright
Linville Falls
North Carolina
Wright
Conway
S.C
Southern Regional Council
North
Carolina
House of Desentives
Ed McKnight
Forsyth
Florida Governor Marries Divorcee at Breakers Hotel
Florida Governor Claude Kirk, 41, wed Erika Mattfeld, a Brazilian divorcee and Rio Copacabana celebrity, in a brief civil ceremony at Palm Beach Breakers Hotel watched by two Palm Beach County detectives and Justice Millard Caldwell. The pair plan a two day honeymoon.
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Claude Roy Kirk Jr
Florida
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Brazil
Palm Beach
Kirk
State Supreme Court
Millard Caldwell
Episcopal Church
Germany
Copacabana
Rio de Janeiro
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