Missing pilots wives meet Reds in Vientiane
Mrs James Hughes of Santa Fe New Mexico meets a North Vietnamese embassy official to locate her husband a USAF colonel missing in action. She hands over special medication for his old skin grafts and is joined by Mrs Louis Jones of Apple Valley California whose husband is also missing.
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UPI
James Hughes
Santa Fe
N.M
U.S. Air Force
Hughes
North Vietnam
Apple Valley
Calif
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
House widens My Lai probe under Rivers leadership
Washington UPI reports the six member subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee chaired by Rep. L Mendel Rivers discusses former Reps Charles Halleck and Porter Hardy in the ongoing inquiry into My Lai. Halleck previously served as House Republican leader and Hardy headed a House Armed Services subcommittee. Both retired after 1967 term.
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Rep. L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
Armed Services Committee
Charles A. Halleck
R-Ind
Porter Hardy
D-Va
Halleck
Hardy
Armed Services
Congress
My Lai
Rep
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
Freak Accident Kills Two in Saigon Area
Two South Vietnamese civilians died and eight were wounded when a U S truck brushed a bridge railing and snagged barbed wire triggering warning flares. The flares ignited grass, the fire set off a claymore mine, and the blast struck a three wheel taxi. A separate incident saw a tank shell explode in a tank being unloaded, hitting a nearby home and injuring two women and a child.
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Saigon
Middle East talks show cautious Russian stance
A White House source said Russia shows limited willingness to urge Arab leaders to retreat on demands. Local passions in the Middle East hinder outside pressure, though talks are more businesslike and less propagandist. In Laos, Pathet Lao ambushed a taxi near Vientiane, killing one of five passengers as the vehicle exploded after a mine or hand device.
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Soviet Union
White House
Russia
U.S
Vientian
UPI
Pathet Lao
Here
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