Air and ground actions across DMZ and Vietnam coast
Allied artillery hit a Communist bunker north of the Ben Wai River near Con Thien while U S planes protected a recon flight. North Vietnamese forces were driven from two refugee centers on the northern South Vietnam coast with heavy civilian losses. Ho Chi Minh City area shelling wounded civilians as fighting spreads. Across the cease fire line Israeli jets attacked Egyptian targets on the Gulf of Suez, with ground clashes reported with Jordan and Syria. A Soviet weather satellite station was launched over Antarctica while in Korea floods and landslides killed 108, injured 42 and left 32,000 homeless. Brazil reports President Costa e Silva remains partly paralyzed after a stroke. Gromyko to address U N General Assembly as Soviet U S talks resume on Mideast peace and nuclear missile restraint.
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Saigon
Dmz
U.S
Ben Wai River
Con Thien
North
South Vietnam
Harker
Hoe
Egypt
Tel Aviv
Gulf of Suez
Jordan
Syria
Seoul
South Korea
Irish Mob Violence in Belfast Sparks Clashes
In Belfast Irish Catholic and Protestant mobs fought with fists and firebombs as police and troops intervened. Two British soldiers died in unrelated incidents police called accidental. Soldiers along the Peace Line said the situation was frightening and some compared danger to Cyprus duty.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Cyprus
National Experts to Advise U S Space Goals
Nixon convenes a special task force to set space policy for the next decade. They reportedly urge postponing manned Mars landing for at least ten years, focus on lunar exploration, large crew orbital stations, nuclear rocket development, and a 1975 target for a 12 person Earth-orbiting station.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
Mars
Agnew
Thomas Paine
NASA
Air Force
Robert Semans
Lee Dubridge
Moon
Earth
Onassis and Jackie spend millions after marriage
Aristoteles Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy, married for a year, reportedly spent between 15 and 20 million dollars since nuptials. They own nine residences including a Monte Carlo villa and Glyfada villa, plus art worth about 25 million and jewels near 6 million. The couple also invested in a yacht, a Skorpios island, and redecorated properties amid a year of high spending.
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Aristolle Onassis
Jacqueline Kennedy
Boston Record American
Fred Sparks
Costas Skouras
Athens
Stephanos Zotas
New York
Onassis
Monte Carlo
Paris
Montevideo
Uruguay
Glyfada
Greece
Jackie
Fifth Avenue
London
Christina
Treak
Skorpios
Art Experia
Aristotle
America
Europe
Maria Callas
Kennedy
Onsassis
Calif
Irish Sailor Verity Beats Atlantic Storm To Reach Bahamas
Irish sailor Verity, aged 43, defied Hurricane Debbie after launching from Fenit Ireland on May 22 in a 20 foot craft named Brendan the Bold. He refused rescue when contacted 400 miles northeast of Puerto Rico and sailed toward the Bahamas where Columbus first landed in 1492, testing a monk’s possible 6th century Atlantic voyage theory.
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Bus Verity
America
Baamas
Columbus
Puerto Rico
Coast Guard
Ram Tt
Lauderdale
Fla
Verity
Fenit
Ireland
Brendan the Bold
Florida
San Salvador
Spain
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Costa E Silva
Gromyko
U.N
Andrei Gromyko
U.N. General Assembly
Mideast
Institute For
White House
Mervyn Dymally
California
Institute
Capitol
Senate
House
Defense Department
AMSA
Dixie
Williamsburg
Albert Brewer
Alabama
Mannington
W. Va
Mannington No. 9
Consolidation Goal Co
Atha
Atlantic
Miami
Trolly
Aiphiad
Ward
National Hurricane Center
Paul VI
Castel Gandolfo
Nettuno
St. Maria Goretti
Paul
Heart
Stanford University Hospital
Herman Jos+ Syn
Seattle
Mandhy
Sunda
Tory
Ysa Sen
Mobilé
Raul Quintana
Juan Manuel
Havana
Alabama State Docks
Lykes Brothers
Giddes Lykes
Gulf of Mexico
Earl Warren
United States
Beirut
Lebanon
Englewood
N.J
Carol Drakeford
Bergen County
Wilm van Sen
Barry Goldwater
Rariz
Britain
PIKE
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Tames Pike
St.Clement's Episcopal Church
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Duke Elington
Howard Lee
Chapel Hill
N.C
Bob Scott
Lee
Charlotte
Scott
Pierre Emmanuel
PEN
Internationals Writers. Organization
Arthur Miller
Jackie Onassis
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