Nixon and Connally host Texas visit for 26 electoral votes
Nixon and Connally welcomed about 200 guests at a private Texas ranch dinner amid hawkish talk on Vietnam. Guests included H. Ross Perot and George Brown as the bid to lock Texas’s 26 electoral votes intensified before the May 6 primary. Nixon toured the Connally ranch and stayed overnight with Pat Nixon.
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Fla
Randolph Air Force Base
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California
New York
Pensylvania
Refugees and battles as Viet offensive widens
Viet refugees fled Hue area after a failed break through by South Vietnamese Rangers while Communist forces pushed forward. U S air power set a new single day mission record with 28 B 52 raids as North Vietnamese and Viet Cong advance across Kontum Thua Thien and Quang Nam provinces. Escapes from Pleiku and Da Nang mounted as civilian convoys and military evacuations continued amid looming risk of Hue shelling and An Loc siege. May Day signals a turning point as enemy forces near Saigon with reports of imminent bombardment and possible Tet like assaults.
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Nixon says U S to use military measures up to limits
Secretary of State Rogers outlined a policy of using all military means short of nuclear weapons or reintroducing TS ground troops to prevent a North Vietnamese takeover while pursuing negotiations in Paris. He cited ongoing withdrawal plans and the aim to keep South Vietnam from falling to Communists amid a spring offensive. Rogers suggested imminent resumption of secret talks, with Tho back in Paris and Kissinger involved. Sen Gravell Alaska urged withdrawal, while Sen Dole supported Nixon's peace path and negotiations.
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Nuns Arrested in St Patrick’s Cathedral Antiwar Protest
Eight nuns were arrested at New York's St Patrick's Cathedral for disrupting a religious service amid antiwar protests against Indochina. A spokesman said charges would not be pressed. Separately, students remained inside Columbia Urban Affairs Center and Lewisohn Hall, and Cornell Carpenter Hall, as campus occupations continued with counterdemonstrators present.
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North Vietnamese push toward Quang Tri city analyzed
General Bowen reports North Vietnamese forces outnumber South Vietnamese troops at Quang Tri with reinforcements needed to counterattack. He notes the northward advance despite heavy Allied air strikes and that the main worry is the northern front as a potential provisional government aims to establish itself in Hue.
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