Yanks Battle Reds Near Saigon in Six Hour Fight
U.S. infantry behind tanks broke a base camp 50 miles northwest of Saigon and pursued Reds into the jungle in a six hour clash. Authorities counted 82 North Vietnamese dead. Seven Americans killed and 28 wounded. South Vietnamese fought two battles 48 miles southwest, killing 21 Communists with one government soldier dead and another wounded. B-52 raids near the capital raised nine strikes in 24 hours.
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Egyptians say anti air guns down Israeli helicopter over Suez
Cairo reports antiaircraft fire shot down a Israeli reconnaissance helicopter over the Suez Canal and hit a second. A Tel Aviv spokesman said an Israeli soldier was killed by a sniper on the canal’s east bank. The two sides traded artillery across the canal for the 12th day and Israelis fought Arabs across the Jordan River for the fourth day.
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Suez Canal
Tel Aviv
Jordan River
Husak Warns Czechs On Anti Soviet Expression
Gustav Husak, newly installed Communist Party chief, warned Czechoslovaks that further anti-Soviet expression could trigger civil war or retaliation by Russian troops. The statement, broadcast by Radio Prague, is his first since replacing Dubcek in the new pro Soviet government.
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Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Gustav Husak
Husak
Radio
Alexander Dubcek
Tornadoes Hit East Pakistan Killing Dozens Across Weeks
A tornado struck Sirajganj, about 150 miles north of Dacca, killing nine and injuring over 100. It marked East Pakistan’s third tornado in a week after a Monday Dacca storm that killed more than 600 and injured 5,000, and a second Dacca hit damaging buildings on Thursday.
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Sirajganj
Dacca
East Pakistan
Heart of Dixie
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Georgia
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South Carolina
Tremor Shakes Baja California. evacuations amid rumors
A strong quake struck La Paz and other Baja California cities sending hundreds to the streets in panic. It was the strongest of eight tremors in 72 hours as offices evacuated amid rumors that Baja California might separate from the continent.
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la Paz
Baja California
Tito Shifts Yugoslavia Toward the West Amid Czechoslovak Crisis
Belgrade reacts to Soviet policy and pro Soviet officers in the Yugoslav Army by leaning toward the West. Ordinary Yugoslavs express stronger Western ties following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia on Aug. 21, ending years of cautious Soviet relations.
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Europe
Tito
Czechoslovakia
Floods and Tornadoes Strain Midwest Rivers
Floods and storms push the Mississippi River toward Hannibal Missouri testing flood controls in Wisconsin Iowa and Illinois as rising waters halt all commercial river traffic and threaten industrial centers along the waterway.
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Illinois
Floods and Tornadoes Roar Across Southern and Midwestern States
National floods along the Minnesota North Dakota border forced hundreds to evacuate near Rock Island and Moline while the Red River flooded 210000 acres of farm land. Tornadoes ripped through Alabama Georgia and the Carolinas causing deaths injuries and extensive damage.
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Fargo
East Grand Forks
Former Army sergeant dies from crater radiation 22 years after test
Patrick Stout of Texas died in Houston at 55 from leukemia suspected to be caused by atomic radiation exposure in the Alamogordo crater in 1945. He had walked into the New Mexico site to prove radiation disappeared and relayed messages for the Manhattan Project.
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Houston
Patrick Stout
Stockdale
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Pat
Alamogordo
John Wayne Injured In Horse Fall On Set
Film star John Wayne suffered a dislocated shoulder and bruises after falling from a horse on location near Wilson Louisiana while filming The Undefeated. X rays showed no fracture and he returned to the set after treatment. Earlier he had broken ribs in Durango during the same project.
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Wayne
Durango
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Space Not For Women Says McDivitt
Astronaut James A. McDivitt told a news conference in Ann Arbor that he would not choose a woman astronaut for any space flights in the near future. He said criteria could change but more money to modify crafts would be needed, citing design problems such as waste disposal as making women astronauts undesirable.
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Col. McDivitt
Ann Arbor
McDivitt
Eisenhower honored with museum proposal and widow’s mailing privilege
In a late letter former President Eisenhower grateful that the Smithsonian proposed naming a museum and study center after him. The Senate approved a resolution granting Mrs Mamie Eisenhower lifelong mailing privileges, a customary benefit for presidential widows.
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Earl Warren
Smithsonian Institution
Eisenhower
Senate
Mamie Eisenhower
Warren Fete Honors Chief Justice Warren and Mrs Warren
President and Mrs. Nixon will host a black tie White House dinner Wednesday for Chief Justice Earl Warren and Mrs. Warren. Warren plans to retire from the Supreme Court in June.
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Earl Warren
White House
Warren
High Court
I W Abel Re-Elected President of International Tellers Union
The International Tellers of the United Steelworkers of America announced on Friday the re election of I W Abel to a second four year term as president of the union.
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International Tellers of
United Steelworkers of America
I. W. Abel
Princess Michiko Delivers First Daughter in Tokyo
A 4 pound 15 ounce girl was born Friday night at the Imperial Household Hospital in Tokyo to Princess Michiko and Crown Prince Akihito. The newborn is the couple's first daughter and their third child. Both mother and baby are reported well.
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Akihito
Imperial Household Hospital
Tokyo
Beatrix Expected Third Child in October
Dutch Crown Princess Beatrix and Prince Claus announce their third child is due in October. The release from the government information service says the princess is in excellent health and is married to German-born Prince Claus.
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Hague
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Driver resigns as head of VA
William J. Driver submitted his resignation as director of the Veterans Administration, reported by the White House. Indications pointed to several more VA resignations as GOP leaders urged the President to appoint a Republican to the post.
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Veterans Administration
White House
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Gerald Warren
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Congress
Nixon appoints Knauer as consumer affairs aide
Mrs. Wilhelm Knauer of Philadelphia will be sworn in today as the new consumer affairs assistant in a ceremony at 11:15 a.m. EST in the Roosevelt Room. Judge Catherine Kelly of the U.S. District Court will administer the oath in Washington.
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Wilhelm Knauer
Philadelphia
Roosevelt Room
Catherine Kelly
U.S. District Court
Washington
Treaty plea from Brandt to Kiesinger to sign nuclear ban
Foreign Minister Willy Brandt urged Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger on Friday to end wishful thinking and sign the treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons before a future delay harms Germany's international standing.
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Kurt George Kiesinger
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