Heavy toll in ambushes near Saigon and Kompong Trabek
South Vietnamese rangers replace militia in a heavy ambush east of Saigon with 58 militiamen killed and 55 wounded. In Long Thanh district the fight marked the area’s largest engagement in two years as North Vietnamese and Viet Cong held a position after bombing. Cambodian forces beat back a NV tank assault near Kompong Trabek, aided by U.S. bombs, with 24 Soviet tanks reported knocked out. A Dragon's Jaw strike hit Thanh Hoa, and a Navy A7 pilot is listed as missing after an Haiphong area clash.
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Binh Song
Highway 15
Binh Son
Long Thanh
U.S
Cambodia
Kompong Trabek
Svay Rieng
North Vietnam
Dragon's Jaw
Thanh Hoa
Air Force
Saratoga
Haiphong
Hong Gai
House moves toward vote to halt war
Washington AP reports rising pressures as the House weighs an end-the-war amendment tied to a foreign aid bill. Speaker Carl Albert cautions the outcome is uncertain as both sides acknowledge the fate of the antiwar measure hinges on a pivotal vote and possible rejection of the entire package. The political stakes mount amid shifting support in Congress and a Senate pivot toward or away from end-the-war language.
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House
Senate
Carl Albert
Congress
U.S
Indochina
Thailand
Hanoi
Pentagon
House-Senate
Merit Who's Who Honoree Clarissa Hightower
Clarissa Hightower daughter of Rev Harold Hightower and Mrs Hightower of Little Rock has been named to the Merit Who's Who Among American High School Students 1971 72 She will be a Parkview High senior this fall edit The Constitution and study journalism at the University of Tennessee this summer Scottish Rite degrees were given in Little Rock to Horace Fuller Claud Byrd Ben Rice and Douglas Waters others from Hope included Guy Grigg Fred Fuller Y C Coleman Harry Shiver 33rd and Thurston Hulsey of Washington Terry Becherer has moved to a private room from Intensive Care after heart surgery at St Luke s Hospital Houston.
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Harold Hightower
Little Rock
Jesse Brown
Hope
Parkview High School
Constitution
University of Tennessee
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Claud Byrd
Ben Rice
Douglas Waters
Guy Grigg
Fred Fuller
Y.C. Coleman
Harry Shiver
Thurston Hulsey
Washington
Terry Becherer
St. Lukes Hospital
Houston
Barnica Auto Fatality Ends El Dorado Man life
Robert C. Barnica, 52, of El Dorado and formerly of Hope, was killed in a late Sunday auto accident in Nevada Missouri. A World War I veteran and Union Heights Church of Christ member, he is survived by his wife ElVera Leeward Barnica two sons Lynn Roy a daughter Deborah his mother Mrs Muriel Barnica three brothers William Lyle Jim and three sisters. Graveside services were held Wednesday at Memory Gardens with Rev Frank Paragould officiating Burial was by Herndon Funeral Home.
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Robert C. Barnica
el Dorado
Hope
Nevada
Missouri
Union Heights Church of Christ
ElVera Leeward Barnica
Lynn
Roy
Deborah
Muriel Barnica
Jurls Burg
Colo
William and
Lyle
Boulder
Neb
Jim
Scotts Bluff
Millie Matuse
Denver
Annie Thomas
Omaha
Marge. Mose
North Platte
Memory Gardens
Frank Paragould
Herndon Funeral Home
Weather report from Arkansas station midweek summary
Weather Experiment Station reports 24 hours ending 7 am Wednesday with high 100 and low 55. Forecast for Arkansas calls for occasional showers and thundershowers mainly in the south, cooler today. Tonight and Thursday, partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers and little temperature change. Highs in the upper 80s to low 90s, lows mid 60s to low 70s.
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Arkansas
Waiting game tenants shot at house. woman wounded
An eye-witness says gunfire blocked entry to a house for about 45 minutes. Law officers entered, moved the woman to Nevada County Hospital where a spokesman reports she is in satisfactory condition.
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Nevada County Hospital
Hempstead
Emmet
Grocer buys 'useless' Eagleton campaign items
Liberty New York AP reports grocer David Friedland bought 7 000 McGovern Eagleton bumper stickers 100 000 tab pins and 99 000 buttons from Votes Unlimited Ross Industries. Items deemed useless as campaign gear became collector's items with orders from Washington state the Smithsonian and even Eagleton buying a quantity.
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Liberty
N.Y
David Friedland
McGovern-Eagleton
Votes Unlimited
Eagleton
Friedland
State of Washington
Smithsonian Institution
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