Communists Open Two New Offensives in Cambodia
Communist troops launched two new offensives in Cambodia and attacked government forces within nine miles of Phnom Penh. Rice prices in Phnom Penh jumped about ten percent as the fighting threatened western Battambang Province.
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Saigon
UPI
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
South Vietnam
U.S
North Vietnam
Battambang
Kate Webb
Siem Reap
Highway 5
Nixon and Ky Breakfast Meeting at White House
South Vietnam's vice president Nguyen Cao Ky met for about ninety minutes with President Nixon in a White House dining room. Ky was joined by Bui Diem and U.S. officials including Kissinger and Irwin II as reporters were not available for questions before a later National Press Club appearance.
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Washington
UPI
South Vietnam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nixon
White House
National Press Club
Henry A. Kissinger
John N. Irwin II
Vietnam
United States
Bui Diem
Pentagon
U.S
North Vietnam
S Ky
Mai
Laird declines to reveal raid plans
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird refused to say whether more commando raids are planned to rescue Vietnam prisoners. He noted other camps exist in hard to land areas and reported the Hanoi raid found no prisoners. Senate leaders praised the operation but urged caution and questioned intelligence reliability.
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Washington
UPI
Melvin RK. Laird
North Vietnam
Laird
Senate Armed Services Committee
U.S
Hanoi
John Stennis
D-Miss
Armed Services Committee
Stennis
White House
Senate
Nixon
Mike Mansfield
Vietnam
Mansfield
Capitol
George D. Aiken
Administration
Congress
Hugh Scott
Scott
Pentagon
Plunkett Wins Heisman Trophy At 1970 Award Event
Stanford quarterback Jim Plunkett won the 1970 Heisman Trophy with 510 first place votes and 2,229 points, dominating Notre Dame’s Joe Theismann who finished second. Archie Manning, Steve Vorster, and Rex Kern followed in the top ten.
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NEW York
UPI
Jim Plunkett
Stanford
Plunkett
Joe Theismann
Notre Dame
Theismann
Archie Manning
Mississippi
Steve Vorster
Texas
Rex Kern
Ohio State
Pat Sullivan
Auburn
Jack Tatum
Ernie Jennings
Air Force
Don McCauley
North Carolina
Lynn Dickey
Kansas State
Bureau suggests new Lompoc Dam plan without flood control
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation proposes a third alternative for the Lompoc Dam Project, rewriting the report to present a reformulated plan that excludes flood control. Regional Director R J Pafford Jr outlined the approach to County Water Agency directors in Santa Barbara, with county staff and officials notified.
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U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Lompoc
R.J. Pafford Jr
County Water Agency
Santa Barbara
Fourth District
Francis H. Beattie
Army
Bureau
Water Agency
Santa Ynez
Arthur D. Scott, Jr
William Fick
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Santa Ynez River Water
Sheriff Sgt. Bill Kelly Seen on Crutches After Riot Control School
Attentive high school students enroll in special job opportunity classes as part of a local education initiative.
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Bill Kelly
Nixon inflation setback as October prices rise
UPI reports October living costs jumped six tenths of a percent led by cars clothing gasoline and services, the largest increase since April. Prices were 5.9 percent higher than a year earlier while weekly earnings dropped, reducing real spendable income for workers with dependents.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Deadly Winter Storm Grips Nation Across Regions
Icy, wintry weather caused at least 18 deaths across the United States as snow and freezing temperatures spread from Chicago to the East Coast. The blizzard forced road closures, power outages, and hazardous travel with snowfall totals reaching up to a foot in parts of Ohio New York and Oregon.
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United Press International
Chicago
Oregon
Gulf States
Texas
Lower Michigan
New York State
Ohio
Erie
Henrietta
Rochester
Pennsylvania State Line
Midwest
Northwest
Wisconsin
Michigan
U.S. 99
Corvallis
Ore
Red Star plant touts ecology in industrial laundry service
Lompoc facility manager Robert Kranig says ecology underpins routine work at Red Star Industrial Service which cleans heavy duty garments and linens. Chemist Sam Hamway notes low phosphate use due to water softening, biodegradable compounds, and alkaline soaps, with five settling tanks and wastewater near neutral for sewer discharge.
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Robert Kranig
Red Star
Lompoc
Kranig
Sam Hamway
DS. Hamway Company
Oakland
Hamway
Weather forecast shows fog then fair with variable clouds
Fog this morning gives way to fair weather with variable high cloudiness through Wednesday. A cooler spell arrives Wednesday with highs in the 60s and lows tonight in the 40s. Light wind shifts to northwest 5 to 15 mph. Wednesday tides include high tides of 5.6 feet at 7:20 am and 3.7 feet at 8:20 pm, and low tides of 0.7 feet at 12:50 am and 0.3 feet at 1:40 am.
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