Wounded Wait Long For Ride to Safety
In Dak Pek Vietnam medevac helicopters fought through mortar and machine gun fire to extract the wounded from an enemy border enclave. Lt Col James Rose aided operations directing air support as South Vietnamese choppers evacuated stretchers amid heavy ground fire.
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Oer Dak Pek
Vietnam
Dak Pek
Laos
South Vietnam
Rome
Dien Bien Phu
Rose
U.S
Col Nguyen van Doung
II Corps Ranger Command
Quang Tri Rescue Mission Survives North Vietnamese Trap
In Quang Tri North Vietnamese troops tried to lure an American rescue helicopter into a trap but were killed when the Americans recognized the ruse. The Monday operation rescued 80 Americans 43 Vietnamese and a French photographer from Da Nang prior to the city’s abandonment.
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DA Nang
Vietnam
Quang Tri
U.S
Air Force
Charlie
Pollution gear to curb nitrate plant emissions near Lawrence
Cooperative Farm Chemicals Assn. plant manager says most pollution control equipment for an ammonium nitrate unit has arrived and installation will start within weeks at an estimated cost of 100000. Also noted are a promotional brochure by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, a 5000-copy Realtors promotion, local river levels after heavy rain, the Worden weather reports, and May license tag schedules under Douglas County Treasurer Edythe Norman.
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Allen Hoffman
Cooperative Farm Chemicals Assn
Lawrence
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Dorothy Rooney
Ed Julian
Lawrence Board of Realtors
The
World Company Printing Service
Douglas County
Edythe Norman
Lecompton City Annexation Debate Heats Up
About 15 residents attended the Lecompton City Council meeting to discuss the south annexation plan with critics questioning its validity. Developer C. C. Matthews pushed the annexation while Richard Davenport sought a city trash collection contract. the council took no action. Dale Gregg updated on the Douglas County Solid Waste Disposal Committee, and council members plan a regional meeting to discuss subdivision rules and a May 16 League of Kansas Municipalities event in Olathe.
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Lecompton
C. C. Matthews
Richard Davenport
Dale Gregg
Douglas County
Eudora
League of Kansas
Olathe
School board rewrites sick leave and extra duty pay terms
Board actions include limiting accumulated sick leave payments to 187 days at five dollars per day for staff with 20+ years, with annual ten days earned after five years. Extra duty pay is restructured and no longer part of the regular tenure contract, with hourly rates for duties such as coaching and publications supervision.
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Teacing
Kendall
Larry Cox
Pinckney
Des Moines
Iowa
Judith Parks
Grant
Holly Miller
Schwegler
Kathleen Greene
Mary Sizemore
Cordley
George Mack Jr
Deerfield
Marjorie McGuire
Lawrnce
City of
Lawrence
Haskell Indian Junior College
Ottawa
Seaman High School
Shawnee Heights
Jerry R. Magnuson
Closed Senate session weighs publishing Vietnam war study
The Senate meets in a rare closed session to decide if Sen. Mike Gravel can publish in the Congressional Record a National Security Study Memorandum on Vietnam. The 500 page NSM1, prepared for Nixon in 1969, covers bombing and agency assessments.
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Senate
Washington
Mike Gravel
Congressional Record
National Security Council
Nixon
Gravel
Telligence
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Pentagon
Senate Public Works Subcommittee
Henry A. Kissinger
Mous
U.S
Congressional
Robert P. Griffin
Michigan
No Public Storm Shelters Under the Existing Setup
Douglas County Civil Defense director Chuck Belote says no public tornado shelters exist under current policy. He urges private arrangements for those without basements and notes public shelters only for nuclear emergencies while acknowledging a need for local shelter policies.
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Chuck Belote
Douglas County
Civil Defense
Belote
Dutch Professor Lets KUMC Talk
Dr. Paul G. Hugenholtz, cardiology professor from Rotterdam, will speak on Experience in Automated Intensive Care at 3 30 p m in Wahl Hall East Auditorium during Kansas University Medical Center House Staff Day. The event features 35 scientific papers and a banquet honoring completing trainees.
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Kansas City
Kan
Paul G. Hugenholtz
Rotterdam
Holland
Kansas University Medical Center
Wahl Hall-East Auditorium
Dr. Hugenholtz
Harvard Medical School
Medical Faculty of
Kansas University
Kansas Union Today
U.S
Indochina
Attorneys Seek 32 Errors in Calley Case
Lawyers for Lt. William Calley filed suit with the Army Court of Military Review alleging 32 errors in his conviction for the 1968 My Lai killings. They assert questions about evidence and potential command influence by Gen. William Westmoreland. Calley was sentenced to life, reduced to 20 years on review, with Nixon to make a final ruling.
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Washington (Ap
William Calley
Army Court of Military Review
Army
Calley
My Lai
Latimer
Nashville
William C. Westmoreland
Vietnam
Nixon
KU Graduation Committee Hints Expanded Ceremony Participation
The Kansas University Graduation Committee proposes summer law graduates join in commencement with hoods but no diplomas and asks that other postbaccalaureate schools be allowed to participate if feasible. The plan targets 1973 and notes KU may include photographs for relatives during the 100th commencement.
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Kansas University
Laurence Chalmers
Law School
Chalmers
Law
William Seymour
Coyotes Target Rodents Over Livestock On Farms
Coyotes favor mice rats squirrels and gophers over livestock, a preference that supports rodent control on farms and can reduce crop damage and disease risk for farmers.
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School of Fine Arts
Gunther Schuller
New England Conservatory
John Biggs
Emporia
University Theatre
Hoffman
Wakarusa
National Weather Service
Weather Service
U.S. 59
Worden
Edgewood
Edgewood Park
Edgewood Homes
7Th
Haskell
Housing Authority
Hugh Dunham
15Th Street
Haskell Avenue
Journal-World
State Department
Defense Department
Central
Kumc
George Latimer
Salt Lake City
Nashville Tennessean
Harry Shaffer
Journal-World Photo
Warren Mortuary
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