Americans interrupt Viet Cong torture session near Pleiku
U S Army soldiers from the 1st Division arrived after reports that Viet Cong overran Plei Bon village east of Pleiku. They found villagers tortured by the Viet Cong including a wife cut and flesh removed, with Montagnard families aiding the strike force as they fled into the hills.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Ward
U.S
Pleiku
Central Highland
Plei Bon
Chemical fumes trigger 3000 to evacuate in New Jersey
A general alarm fire at a chemical plant in East Brunswick forced about 3,000 residents to flee four square miles as dangerous fumes spread. Police treated 300 inhalation cases, no serious injuries reported, residents sheltered in schools and fire stations and returned home after roughly 40 hours. The blaze started in a trailer with organic peroxide behind the Chemicalad Company plant. cause undetermined.
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East Brunswick
N.J
Chemicad Company
Sea Captain Admits Faulty Seamanship
Lt. Ignace Mich AP reports Capt. Martin Joppich, master of the Cedarville, pled guilty to faulty seamanship at a Coast Guard hearing into the May 7 collision with the Topdalsfjord in fog in the Straits of Mackinac. Ten Cedarville crewmen were killed. the captain is confined to a hospital.
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Ignace
Mich
Martin Joppich
Cedarville
Coast Guard
Straits
Mackinac
Joppich
Roman Keenan
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