Marines Ambush Cong in River Near Da Nang
U S Marines report killing 50 Communist troops and wounding one in a river ambush near Da Nang as 150 were engaged. West of Saigon, additional clashes produced U S casualties. Overnight shelling into DMZ dropped to among the lowest levels since late February. An American aircraft dropped a supply parachute into South Vietnam before crossing into North Vietnam.
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Dmz
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Irish Turmoil in Northern Ireland Violence Surges
Catholic rights demonstrators stoned a police station and hurled fire bombs at officers who countered with clubs as brawling swept a Catholic district. Premier Terence O Neill called a Unionist meeting amid warnings militants may gain civil rights traction. police blamed the IRA for renewed clandestine hostilities.
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Poli
Terence O'Neill
O'Neill
Irish Republican Army
West German Arrests Report Soviet Spies Betrayed by Defector
West Germany announced the arrest of several alleged KGB spies, betrayed by a Communist defector. Berlin investigations traced suspicions to multiple individuals on the basis of the defector's revelations, with the prosecutor noting the defector’s KGB identity remained unpublicized.
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Karlsruhe
West Germany
KGB
Berlin
Soviet large carrier enters Mediterranean amid NATO drills
In Naples the Lenin Gradno, an 18,500 ton missile armed helicopter carrier, joins Mediterranean theatre as NATO ships and aircraft conduct south of Turkey maneuvers. Across the region, Arab Israeli fire escalates along the Sea of Galilee front while Egypt sends commando units into Sinai.
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Italy
Mediterranean
NATO
Turkey
Leningradno
Black Sea
Sea of Galilee
Israel
Jordan River
Jordan
Egypt
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Sinai Desert
Abadan
Iran
Iraq
Shatt al Arab
Nixon names Rumsfeld War on Poverty head
President Nixon picks Rep. Donald Rumsfeld to direct the Office of Economic Opportunity amid Senate confirmation questions from Sen. Fred R. Harris. Rumsfeld, longtime Hoover conservative, opposed early OEO funding. The move marks OEO’s return to a full-time director, after Sargent Shriver.
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Nixon
Chicago
Office of Economic Opportunity
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Rumsfeld
Fred R. Harris
D-Okla
House
Harris
Americans For Constitutional Action
OEO
White House
Sargent Shriver
U.S
France
Bertrand Harding
Tricia Nixon Hosts First White House Party May 10
Tricia Nixon will host a private black tie masked ball at the White House on May 10 for younger social set. She asked Alice Roosevelt Longworth to pass an invitation to her granddaughter Joanna Sturm, her childhood playmate.
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Tricia Nixon
Nixon
White House
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Theodore Roosevelt
Mrs. Longworth
Joanna Sturm
Thurmond Stirs Penn Audience With Defense Tradeoffs
Senator Strom Thurmond spoke to about 1,500 at the University of Pennsylvania where he mocked critics of defense spending and warned Nixon would not jeopardize the people. He claimed a new secretary of defense under Nixon kept America from becoming a fourth-rate power and suggested the Vietnam War might have ended sooner if the dams were cut and the country flooded.
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Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
University of Pennsylvania
Nixon
America
Queen Elizabeth II to Review 64 NATO Ships Off Portsmouth
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will review 64 ships from 12 NATO nations on May 16 near Portsmouth England to mark the Atlantic Alliance's 20th anniversary.
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Portsmouth
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