Monsoon Floods Roar Across South Vietnam Killing, Evacuating
Monsoon rains triggered floods along the northern coast from Hue to Quang Ngai City leaving 100 dead and 150,000 evacuated. About 40 percent of the rice crop was destroyed as waters reached 10 to 15 feet in the countryside and five feet in Da Nang. Several bridges on Highway 1 were out and two American sailors were missing after being swept from a junk near Quang Ngai Province. Communist attacks continued elsewhere, with Cambodian forces bolstering operations along the Mekong near Phnom Penh.
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Saigon
UPS
South Vietnam
Hue
Quang Ngai City
UPI
Dennis Gibbons
da Nang
Vietnam
Quang Ngai
Central Highlands
Phnom Penh
Mekong River
Nixon urges defeat of violence endorsing four Western Senate races
President Nixon campaigns in Anaheim urging voters to back Senate Republicans who oppose violence and condone peaceful protest. He links radical protests to electing lawmakers who will uphold his Vietnam and domestic policies, with stops planned in Phoenix Albuquerque Las Vegas and Salt Lake City.
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San Clemente
Calif
UPI
Nixon
Senate
Anaheim Convention Center
GOP National Committee
California
House
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Phoenix
Ariz
Albuquerque
N.M
Las Vegas
Nev
Salt Lake City
Utah
Murphy
Ronald Reagan
Jess Unruh
United States
South Vietnam
Southeast Asia
San Jose
Convention Center
Vietnam
Canada
Cairo
Anwar Sadat
Halloween safety push from Lompoc police and sheriff
police and Santa Barbara County sheriff offices announce enhanced two man patrols and detective units for Halloween. Officials urge drivers and pedestrians to exercise caution at dusk and for children to wear bright clothing or carry lights. Weekend forecast calls for warmer days with highs in the 60s to 70s and moderate southerly winds. tidal times listed for Sunday and Monday.
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Lompoc
Santa Barbara County
Viet Cong vows to press on with Vietnam War
Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, Viet Cong chief negotiator in Paris, told a London reception the war will continue until U.S. forces withdraw within eight months. She rejected U.S. framing of Nixon peace proposals and said Washington misrepresents the Viet Cong’s stance.
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London
VPI
United States
Nguyen Thi Binh
Paris
Britain
Nixon
Vietnam
Soviet Says Air Space Violations Not Accidents
Tass commentary in Red Star denounces U S claims that border air crossings are accidental. It asserts overseas bases near the Soviet Union are used for espionage and hostile activities and questions why U S planes fly near Soviet borders.
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Moscow
UPI
U.S
Tass
Red Star
Armenia
U.S. Army
Turkey
Soviet Union
Washington
Grenade Attack Wounds 10 Arabs and 2 Israelis in Gaza
A grenade on a Gaza City main street wounded two Israeli soldiers and 10 Arab civilians. The attack, the third in three days, occurred as guerrilla violence rose in the area near Jabalia Refugee Camp.
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United Press International
Gaza City
Beirut
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
PFLP
Hussein
Wasfi Tel
Jordan
al Hadaf
Tel
Soviet Union
United States
Israel
Jacob A. Malik
U.N. General Assembly
Middle East
U.S
Egypt
Russia
Jabalia
Gaza
TIROS Satellite Launch Set for Wednesday
A McDonnell Douglas built Delta Super Six rocket is scheduled to launch the TIROS weather satellite from Vandenberg AFB no earlier than November 4. The two stage Delta carries a 680 pound TIROS payload into a sun synchronous orbit about 790 nautical miles up and includes a piggyback 10 pound test payload. The launch marks the second use of the Super Six configuration with six solid Castor motors and a Thor first stage, producing about 325000 pounds thrust at liftoff.
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Vandenberg Afb
Delta
National Aeoonautics and Space Administration
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
thecDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company
Santa Monica
TIROS
Environmental Science Services Administration
ESSA
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Rita Monasterio
Lompoc High School
Joni
Rita
Art Scott
Henry van Goey
NASA Space Operations
Neil Armstrong
Madame Binh
Soviet
United Nations
Brown and Caldwell
Pasadena
Federal Correctional Institution
Vandenberg Village
Mission Hills
S. Barrington
Crestview Terrace
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