Pope addresses Palm Sunday crowd in St Peter's Basilica
The 73 year old Pope presided at Mass in St Peter's before 20 cardinals and thousands of Romans and Easter tourists. He blessed palms and distributed them then appeared for his noon blessing in St Peter's Square. In Jerusalem 5000 pilgrims, half foreigners, joined a two mile Palm Sunday procession led by Msgr James Belletritti. The King assassination anniversary in Memphis featured remarks by Sen. Birch Bayh and a protest at St. Patrick’s Cathedral led by Rev Hosea Williams, with 15 demonstrators briefly disrupted Mass.
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Nixon Family Plans Easter Gathering and Wedding
First Lady Pat Nixon returns to Washington ahead of Easter social week as daughter Tricia, 25, visits Florida’s Key Biscayne for upcoming June 12 wedding to Harvard law student Edward Finch Cox. Vic Damone resigns from The Godfather role citing image concerns for Italian Americans. Maj. Gen. Robert Maloy leads a mostly black service at Osan Air Base honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Louis Armstrong shows slight improvement amid heart ailment hospital care in New York.
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Fire Base 6 siege yields heavy North Vietnamese losses
North Vietnamese forces attacked Fire Base 6 in the central highlands near the Laotian border but were repulsed after a five hour battle. Military reports cite 287 enemy dead, raising five day losses to over 1,800. South Vietnamese and American casualties include 70 killed and 125 wounded, with five Americans dead and one missing. Some observers doubt the tallies, noting air strikes caused many enemy deaths. The same dispatch covers Allied elections in Chile, East Pakistan tensions, and a bank bombing in Santo Domingo with no injuries.
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Youth rampage halted in Madison block party disturbance
Police used tear gas to disperse about 200 youths who overturned trash and attacked patrol cars on Mifflin Street after a block party. About 1,200 were present earlier. 16 were arrested as officers pursued vandals through night-time streets near the University of Wisconsin campus.
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