GIs Smash Reds Near Saigon in Four-Hour Battle
American troops backed by tanks and helicopters hit a bunker complex 17 miles from Saigon, killing 29 Communist fighters. In separate shelling, Red gunners hit two South Vietnamese battalions, with heavy casualties. The U.S. engagement lasted four hours and left 64 Communists dead while U.S. forces suffered 7 dead and 17 wounded. South Vietnamese losses included 12 killed, 97 wounded, and 12 missing after shelling 42 miles northeast of Saigon. A 24 hour truce for Buddha's birthday was announced in Saigon and by allies, with no immediate Communist response.
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Battles in Vietnam push American casualties past four thousand
Last week heavy clashes along the Cambodian border left 205 American troops killed and 1,288 wounded in seven days. The cumulative 1969 toll rose to 4,108 killed and 25,432 wounded, with allied forces reporting 3,414 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong deaths. Since 1961, 34,651 Americans have died and 222,300 wounded, and 1,308 are listed as missing.
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Lana Turner Weds Nightclub Entertainer in Las Vegas
Lana Turner age 48 marries Ronald Dante 49 a nightclub hypnotist in a private Las Vegas ceremony. They met in a Los Angeles club three months ago and plan to return to Southern California for Dante’s club engagement beginning Monday. Turner's six former husbands included Artie Shaw and Fred May.
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D C Visitors Lynda Robb and Luci Baines Johnson in D C
Former President John son s daughters Lynda Bird Robb and Luci Baines Johnson visit Washington for the first time since leaving the White House in January. Lynda 25 and her Marine Maj. husband Charles S Robb 30 seek a house likely in Virginia Robb to take a Pentagon post. A George Bellows print The Great White Hope sold for 2000 at Park Bennet Galleries in New York to Stanley Hesse after outbidding Herman Levin.
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Ten Soviet Generals Die in Suspected Air Crash or Rocket Test
Diplomatic reports say ten Soviet generals, aged mostly in their fifties, may have been killed in an air crash or rocket test explosion within the last three weeks. The 10th general’s death was announced by the Soviet armed forces newspaper, but no details are given.
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West German Mark Revaluation Request Leaks
Government sources disclose economics minister Karl Schiller has demanded a revaluation of the West German mark in a letter to Chancellor Kiesinger. Officials say a decision on revaluing Europe’s strongest currency is expected today.
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Carpenter to Retire from Navy and Enter Private Oceanography Business
Navy Cmdr. M Scott Carpenter the nations only astro naut a naut to retire July 1 and enter private business He spoke in Oklahoma City Tuesday and was contacted in Wichita Kansas Thursday night where he was to address a Wichita State University audience The 44 year old Carpenter one of the seven original US astronauts declined to discuss the exact nature of his business or its location noting it would be in oceanography.
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Doctor Linnell Named Dean at USC College
Dr. Robert H. Linnell will assume the role of dean of the College of Letters Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California.
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