Seven Month High in American Losses in Vietnam War
AP reports the Communist spring offensive kept U.S. battle deaths at a seven month high with 141 Americans killed last week, up from the prior week and matching peaks last September. Wounded fell sharply to 45 percent as rocket and mortar attacks declined. South Vietnamese casualties reached 42 dead and 1,336 wounded. enemy deaths rose to 3,458. Allied actions included strikes into Cambodia and several clashes in the Mekong Delta, with 14 Americans killed by a Viet Cong booby trap.
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Saigon
U.S
Mekong
Eight Cent Letter Change Proposed by Nixon Administration
Nixon asked Congress to raise the postal rate to eight cents and to create a new independent postal commission to oversee the Post Office Department while granting postal workers an eight percent pay boost. The plan reduces cabinet status for the postmaster general and insulates the service from direct presidential control, with a bipartisan commission hiring the postmaster general.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
United States Postal Service
Post Office Department
Postal Service
Bureau of the Budget
Hope Star publishing info and late 1920s rates
A Hope Star publication blurb lists staff roles and contact details from The Star Building Hope Arkansas. It catalogs affiliations and advertising representatives, plus subscription prices by carrier and mail for Arkansas Hempstead Nevada counties and others, with rates for one week to one year and student offers.
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Hope
Hempstead
Nevada
Lafayette
Howard
Pike
Clark
Arkansas
Mont
Blackmun Held Stock in Three Firms
Washington AP reports the Justice Department notified the Senate Judiciary Committee that Judge Harry A. Blackmun owned stock in Ford Motor Co and American Telephone & Telegraph and participated in related cases. The holdings, about $2,500 to $1,359, were deemed insignificant by Deputy AG Richard Kleindienst as Blackmun sought to address possible ethics concerns during Supreme Court nomination hearings.
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Washington
Justice Department
Senate Judiciary Committee
Harry A. Blackmun
Richard G Kleindienst
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Federal Appeals Court
Kleindienst
Blackmun
Supreme Court
Department
U.S. 8Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Ford Motor Co
Federal
Ford
Blackmmm
Twize
American Telephone & Telesgraph Co
At&t
Court of Appeals
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Nebraska
Iowa
Northwestern
End of U S combat role in Indochina may hinge on Saigon will
The piece discusses Vietnam Cambodia and Laos amid Nixon hopes to wind down combat. It draws parallels to 1963 and Kennedy era assurances, warns that a U S withdrawal could allow North Vietnam and Viet Cong to prevail, reshaping Asia’s future under China’s rising dominance.
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Camodia
Httle
U.S
Vietnam
Indochina
North Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Asia
Southeast Asia
China
United States
Vieteam
Weather Forecast for Arkansas Region
Weather station reports 24 hour period ending 7 am Thursday with high 75 and low 52 and precipitation of .03 inch. Considerable cloudiness in southern areas, partly cloudy north tonight with scattered showers and thundershowers most numerous south. Friday forecast partly cloudy with a slight shower chance near the southern border and mild by day. low temperatures range from the 30s to the low 60s.
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Weather Experiment Station Resort
Arkansas
Weather Summary From Across the Nation
The Associated Press reports varied conditions nationwide with clear skies in Albany and Albany border regions, cloudy in Albuquerque Atlanta Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Indianapolis Jacksonville New York Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh St Louis Seattle and Washington. Rain or snow noted near Fort Worth Helena Honolulu Los Angeles Milwaukee Winnipeg and other locales with temperatures ranging from the 30s to the 80s.
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Ore
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Richmond
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Salt Sk
San Diego
San Fran
Seattle
Tampa
Washington
Winnipeg
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Page One
Space Agency
Soviet Union
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Hope Star
of Hope
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Salidary
Star Building
Walnut St
Hope, Ark
P.O
Area
By Star Publishing CO
Alex. H. Washburn
Donal Parker
Paul O H. Jones
C.M
Pod) Rogers
Billy Dan Jones
Ark
Audit Bureau of Circulations
AP News Dispatches
Southern
Ass'n
Arkansas Press Ass'n
Arkansas Dailies, Inc
Poplar
Tenn
Hartford
Dallas
Texas
Michigan Ave
42Nd St
N.Y
Mich
Skirvin
Oklahoma City
Ole Sare
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Bill Freeman
R. L. Broach
POT Haa Ree Agency
Beauty Shoppe
Gleem
Walgreens Super Berite
Loo’s
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