Viet Cong offensive nears 52 days as shelling climbs
UPI reported 1 560 rocket and mortar salvos since the offensive began on Feb 23 with 25 targets hit overnight including a provincial capital and five district towns. Five South Vietnamese soldiers died and 19 civilians were wounded. US B 52 bombers dropped a million pounds as battles stretched toward Tay Ninh and Quan Loi.
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Walter Whitehead
Saigon
UPI
Mekong
Cambodia
U.S
Kien Thien
South Vietnam
11Th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Tay Ninh
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Quan Loi
Airline executive aims to break light aircraft world loop record
Dr. Alvin Marks, 40, of Sacramento, left Honolulu at 11 36 pm on the final leg toward a solo around the world flight in a Cessna T2. He expects to land in Sacramento about 3 30 pm today, aiming to beat the 1967 lighter than 3380 pounds record set by Sheila Scott. Marks averages 70 mph, higher than Scott’s 36 mph pace. He traveled via Wake Island and rested in Honolulu with his daughter Susan Chapman.
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Honolulu
UPI
Alvin Marks
Sacramento
Calif
Marks
Honolulu International
Sheila Scott
England
Wake Island
Susan Chapman
Harvard undergrads still stay out in fifth boycott day
United Press International reports most of Harvard University's 4,800 undergraduates missed classes on the fifth day of a boycott over the school's handling of last week's sit-in crackdown. Two thirds were out on Tuesday as nationwide campus protests spread.
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United Press International
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California
Stanford University
Ronald Reagan
Stanford
Harvard
Reagan
Sacramento
Pennsylvania
Albright College
Reading
Albright
Arthur L. Schultz
la Salle College
Philadelphia
Catholic College
New York
Columbia University
Hamilton Hall
A Democratic Society
SDS
Snow and Storms Hit Central Rockies and Southeast
Four inches of snow fell at Evergreen Colorado as a wintry storm blanketed the Central Rocky Mountains. Showers and thundershowers stretched from Michigan and New York to Florida while lighter rain touched the lower Midwest. A brief tornado touched down south of Coldwater Michigan, lifting a bathroom roof and rolling a trailer. A twister north of Dighton Kansas caused no injuries. Travelers warnings continued due to heavy mountain snow in northern Colorado and western Wyoming. Stockmen’s warnings remained in effect into western Nebraska and northwestern Kansas. An inch and a hail event occurred at Hebron Nebraska and Kansas winds produced small hail. Rain totals rose to 1.73 inches at Augusta Georgia and over an inch at Columbia North Carolina. Elsewhere clear skies and mild conditions prevailed with early morning temperatures from 30 at Laramie Wyoming to 76 at Miami Florida.
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Rocky Mountains
Michigan
New York
Florida
Midwest
Coldwater
Dighton
Kan
Colorado
Wyoming
Nebraska
Kansas
Hebron
Neb
Augusta
Columbia
N.C
Sierra Club election drags on as Brower feud looms
Election judges continue tallying a record five seat board vote split between traditionalists led by David Brower and the new breed of conservationists. Sixty percent of 72,000 members voted with a close result anticipated as Brower refrains from resigning amid a wider policy power struggle over staff spending and programs. The dispute follows Brower’s unauthorised club fund ad and IRS tax exemption questions.
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Ira Rifkin
SAN Francisco
UPI
Sierra Club
David Brower
Brower
Edgar Wayburn
anti-Brower
Wayburn
Internal Revenue Service
Jurors in Sirhan Case Bond Over Sequestered Trial
The 12 jurors and six alternates in the Sirhan B. Sirhan murder trial grew friendly during three months locked at the Biltmore Hotel. They dined at nearby restaurants, enjoyed outings with spouses, and kept news exposure away with watched TV and clipped press.
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Kathleen Neumeyer
Los Angeles
UPI
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Biltmore
Sheriff's Department
Don
Holywood
Balboa Island
Orange County
Superior Court
Herbert V. Walker
Paramount Studios
Summit confab sought on Reagan tax reforms
California Assembly tax writer urges a bipartisan summit to draft a tax reform consensus acceptable to Gov. Reagan and both parties. Possible participants include Controller Flournoy, Speaker Monahan, Assembly Leader Unruh, and Biddle.
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DE Vans
Shumway
Sacramento
UPI
Assembly
Ronald Reagan
Bagley
Houston I. Flournoy
Robert T. Monahan
Jess M
Unruh
W. Craig Biddle
Lower House
Revenue and Taxation Committee
John G. Veneman
Modesto
Nixon
Reagan
Reward fund set for UC custodian
UCSB faculty and staff organize a Faculty Club Reward Fund to aid arrest and conviction of those responsible for Friday morning bombing that fatally injured caretaker Dover Sharp, 55. By Saturday the fund neared $1,000 with expectations of more donations from campus and Santa Barbara residents.
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UCSB
Dover Sharp
Santa Barbara
Calif
Senate bill seeks to bar riot staging by newsmen
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill to make it a misdemeanor to stage a riot or urge a crime by a newsman. Supporters cite overzealous reporting and FCC findings, while opponents warn it would curb news flow and threaten reporters.
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UPI
Senate Judiciary Committee
John L. Harmer
Glendale
Mike Dorais
California Newspaper Publishers Association
Harmer
Federal Communications Commission
Chicago
Howard Smiley
California Broadcasters Association
FCC
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