In Delta Saigon Allied Marines Launch Major Delta Landing
About 4 000 Allied troops landed by sea and helicopter on the Thanh Phu Peninsula south of Saigon in the first big U S thrust into the Mekong Delta. Initial reports indicate only light enemy resistance and a small number of Allied casualties after the opening day of Deckhouse Five.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Mekong Delta
Delta
Thanh Phu
Central Highlands
Pleiku
U. S
North Vietnam
Holloway
Pleiku City
Chu Hanh
Binh Duong
Aren
Compromise On Powell Talked In Congress Battle
Washington AP reports talks of a compromise over seating Harlem Democrat Adam Clayton Powell as Congress convenes. Powell returns from the Bahamas to meet with unnamed figures amid House Democrat planning and McCormack’s stance against a hard unseating.
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Washington
Adam Clayton Powell
Harlem Democrat
Powell
Bahamas
House Democrats
Congress
Education and Labor Committee
John W. McCormack
Lionel van Deerlin
D-Calif
Sam M. Gibbons
D-Fla
New York
Romney Support May Be Cooling
Washington AP report cites Ripon Society noting Romney leads the 1968 GOP race but with cooling backing. It says moderates mull Percy and Rockefeller as fallbacks while Reagan emerges as a force. conservatives lean to Nixon, wary of rushing Reagan to the national stage.
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Walter R. Mear
Washington
Michigan
George Romney
Ripon Society
Cambridge
Mass
Republican Governors Association
Colorado Springs
Colo
Romney
White House
William Scranton
Pennsylvania
Press Corps
Society
The
Outone
Illinois
Charles H. Percy
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
California
Ronald Reagan
Barry Goldwater
Richard M. Nixon
Reagan
High Point Community Theatre Bridge Preview Jan 25 28
In final rehearsal weeks members of the High Point Community Theatre push all else aside for Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge set for January 25 to 28. The Sunday Enterprise features the full story with pictures.
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High Point Community Theatre
Sunday Enterprise
Las Vegas Motel Explosion Kills Six Injures Eight
A downtown Las Vegas motel blast killed six and injured eight. Authorities say the Or bit Inn explosion was a bomb with three floors destroyed. Victims include Lewis and Laura Palmer Preston Steve Merich Katie Merich James Mahon Robbie Pearce and others unaccounted for amid rubble.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Dist. Atty
George E. Franklin
Orbit Inn
Lewis Palmer
Laura
Preston
Idaho
Steve Merich
Katie
San Pedro
Calif
James Mahon
Bobbie
Charles Pearce
Essie
Bishop
Harvey Schnitzer
Insurance Increase Advised for North Carolina Drivers
A state study commission chaired by Sen. Ruffin recommended to the General Assembly that compulsory auto liability coverage be doubled from 5 000 to 10 000 for single fatalities or injuries and from 10 000 to 20 000 for all persons injured or killed in an accident. The panel also urged retaining the compulsory framework and offered other recommendations.
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Raleigh
North Carolina General Assembly
Aapeeeeve
State
Com
Sen
Ruffin
D-Wake
Senator Ervin probes bond coercion complaints from servicemen
The Senate Constitutional Rights subcommittee receives letters from servicemen and federal employees alleging coercion to buy savings bonds and donate to charity. Marines are claimed to have signed up soldiers in Vietnam fox holes. Ervin advocates protective legislation while Defense officials deny any authority or condonation of such pressure. He declines to provide complainant names due to fear of reprisals.
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Washington
Senate Constitutional Rights
Vietnam
The
Fox
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Subcommittee
Thomas D. Morris
Defense
Ervin
Defense Department
Pentagon
Marines land in Mekong Delta assault on Viet Cong stronghold
AP dispatch reports the first mass U S Marines to hit Vietnam's Mekong Delta beaches as part of Deckhouse Five. Lt. Stanley Cottle led White Beach assault amid Canberra and St Francis River bombardment. Iwo Jima helicopter group supported inland strikes.
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Associated Press
Peter Arnett
U. S
Vietnam
Mekong
Long
U.S
Stanley Cottle
Tulare
Calif
White Beach
Delta
Alpha
Iwo Jima
9Th Regiment
North
South Vietnam
Michael Sayers
Fort Smith, Ark
B Company
William C. Westmoreland
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Bridges
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Johnson
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Rockwell
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Piedmont
North Carolina
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Vung Tau
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