Carriers Enter Laos War Pushing Air Strikes
Two U S carriers with about 170 warplanes join Air Force efforts to cut Laos supply corridors. Navy says no South Vietnam bombing since Feb 15. Laos strikes centered there. Mekong Delta battles yield 97 enemy killed. U S toll also 97 in light action. Xieng Khouangville abandoned by Laotian forces as North Vietnamese advance east of Plain of Jars. Parliament seeks meeting with Pathet Lao leader to end fighting. Deputy Tran Ngoc Chau sentenced to 20 years at hard labor. Plot to kill Israeli Minister Eban reported. Israeli Egyptian raids over Suez Canal. Israeli strike targets artillery and anti aircraft batteries. East German soldiers defect to West Berlin.
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Laos
U.S. 7Th Fleet
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Gulf of Tonkin
Mekong Delta
Nixon
Page
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Xieng Khouangville
Plain of Jars
Moung Soui
Prince Souvanouvong
Pathet Lao
Tran Ngoc Chau
National Assembly
Chau
Acquittal in Algiers Motel Riot Civil Rights Case
A federal jury acquitted three white Detroit police officers and a Black private guard of conspiring to violate the civil rights of 10 people at the Algiers Motel during the 1967 Detroit riot. Six men and six women found them not guilty after a nine hour deliberation. The defendants faced charges under the IR7L civil rights law for beating and terrifying 10 persons during a search for snipers.
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Ronald August
Robert Paille
David Senak
Melvin Dismukes
August
Sargent Shriver Quits as Paris Ambassador
Sargent Shriver resigns as ambassador to France amid speculation on future political moves. He had stayed on at Nixon's request and indicated he asked to resign months ago, with no comment from White House. Shriver, 54, long tied to the Kennedy era, also faced Maryland political pressure and possible runs for governor or U.S. Senate.
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Shriver
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State Department
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Paris
Peace Corps
Office of Economic Opportunity
Two Alabama sisters rescued in Kansas City escape
Tina Cain aged 3 and Tiffany 2 were found unharmed in a Kansas City suburb, after being held against their will Monday from Butler Alabama. FBI arrested John Messick and Donald Jones, relatives and steprelatives of the children's mother. The girls were reunited with their father Alan Cain at Kansas City airport.
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FBI
Tina Cain
Tiffany
Butler
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Pollee
Liberty
John Charles Messick
Tucson
Ariz
Donald Bradford Jones
Alan Caln
Cain
Tina
Van Gogh Works Set World Auction Records in New York
Two paintings by Vincent van Gogh sold for 1.4 million and 475 thousand dollars at Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York, setting world records for the artist. Le Cypres et L'Arbe en Fleurs led the prices while Le La boureur sold for a lower bid. A European dealer unnamed buyer appeared to have purchased the works via staff. The Crocker estate of Burlingame California consigned nine paintings. another piece, Nature Morte aux Fleurs et Figues de Barbari, brought 260 thousand.
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Parke-Bernet
New York
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van Gogh
W. W. Crocker
Burlingame
Calif
Crocker
Renoir
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