Massive bombing hits Hue and northern front
AP reports massive U S air and naval bombardment killed about 400 enemy troops north of Hue and destroyed tanks. Waves of fighter bombers hit Hanoi Haiphong area as 600 strikes were launched. News notes POWs describe pep pills, regiments reinforced, jets downed, and heavy clashes from the Mekong Delta to Hue.
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U.S
Hue
North Vietnam
Hanoi- Haiphong
Mekong Delta
My Chanh
Demilitarized Zone
Dong Hoi
Indochina
Ern
van Tanh
Birmingham
Bastogne
Highlands
Pleiku
Kontum
An Loc
Mekong
Kien Luong
Gulf of Siam
Hanoi
China
Four Held As Museum Bandits
Four arrests followed a $1 million art theft at the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester Massachusetts. Police say four paintings remain missing including two Gauguins a Picasso and a Rembrandt. A guard, Philip Evans age 57, was shot in the side.
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Worcester, Mass
Worcester Art Museum
Paul Gauguin
Pablo Picasso
Rembrandt
Philip Evans
Worcester
Nixon and Kissinger Ready for Moscow Talks
MOSCOW AP Nixon heads to eight days of talks with Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders as Kissinger warns arms pact delays may occur. Nixon previously spent time in Salzburg preparing for the meeting in the Soviet Union.
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Moscow
Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Salzburg
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Klessheim Palace
Soviet Union
Legal Attack Opens Today On Truman Dam
Kansas City AP reports a federal case opening against the Truman Dam on the Osage River near Warsaw Missouri. The Environmental Defense Fund claims the $294 million project yields only 34 cents in benefits per taxpayer dollar and would harm the environment while forcing about 900 homes to relocate. The court hears EDF arguments as the Army Corps notes the benefit ratio dropping from 1.20 to 1.15.
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Kansas City
Environmental Defense Fund
Osage River
Warsaw
Tennessee
Arkansas
Florida
John W. Oliver
Truman
EDF
Osceola
Missouri
Congress
Army
Uncle Sam To Buy 800 Gun Detectors
Washington AP report says the House Appropriations Committee approved 2 million to add 800 magnetometers to screen passengers and baggage amid concerns over airplane hijackings. The FAA will distribute or ban the devices to airlines in a $2.9 billion transportation bill for the new fiscal year.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
House
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Department of Transportation
Pope Calls Hammer Attack On Pieta Sheer Madness
Laslo Toth, a Hungary native now Australian citizen, attacked Michelangelo’s Pieta with a 12 pound hammer in St. Peter’s Basilica. He cried I am God I am Michelangelo and was restrained by soldiers. The left arm and face of the Virgin suffered grave damage while Christ remained unscathed. Vatican officials pledged restoration. Pope Paul VI called the act sheer madness.
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Vatican City
God
Michelangelo
Florentine
St. Peter’s Basilica
Vatican
Jesus Christ
Beatrice Peck
Detroit
Christ
Laslo Toth
Hungary
Toth
St. Peter’s Square
Pope Paul
Francesco Vacchini
Lawyer To Get $390 000 Fee For 1966 Murder Case
Houston socialite Candace Messler Garrison and her nephew Melvin Lane Powers must pay lawyer Percy Foreman 390700 for his defense before and during the 1966 murder trial. The two were tried in Miami in 1966 for the death of Jacque Messier, husband of Mrs. Garrison's father. they were found innocent. The judge ruled Powers owes 140000 of 250000 and Mrs. Garrison owes 250000 for Foreman's work from 1964 through the trial.
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Houston
Tex
Candac Messler Garrison
Melvin Lane Powers
Percy Foreman
Powers
Garrison
Miami
Fla
Barnett Garrison
Foreman
Vatican police stop Italian claiming to be envoy of Holy Ghost
Vatican police halted Giovanni Tolla, 57, who said he acted as an envoy of the Holy Ghost and wished to see Pope Paul VI at the Arch of the Bells. He was handed to Italian authorities, who released him after questioning.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Paul VI
Giovanni Tolla
Tolla
Light Night For City Council
City council meets at 7 30 p m in city hall with two items on the agenda a third reading removing parking on Clark Street near the Mexico Audrain County Library and a Park Board report on bleachers for Fairgrounds Park. Shrine club bleachers about 2500 seats are being erected around the track for an American Legion rodeo Friday and Saturday. A previously tabled removal of parking on W Monroe Street from Western Street to the city limits remains off the agenda.
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Audrain County Rural Schools
Presser Hall
Kirby Allen
Howard Maxwell
Front
Ronnie Allan Neale
Sally Ann Hatcher
Mark Steven Wilson
Lynne £. Earle
Cynthia Mae
Clark St
Mexico-Audrain County Library
Park Board
Fairgrounds Park
Shrine Club
American Legion
W. Monroe St
Western St
Community Chest to Review Agency Budgets in June
Mexico's Community Chest board will meet June 15 and June 22 to review operating expenditures and budgets of all participating agencies. Chairman Jack Viar announced the agenda, with agency reps required to present a 1972 financial statement and 1973 funding request.
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Mexico
Community Chest Board
Jack Viar
Community Chest
Barbara Moorhead
City of
Viar
Jim Rezincek
Harold Edwards
Wade Mearthur
Norman Genthon
Kim Henderson
Larry Hynes
Charley Peck
Benny Goodman testifies on Chicago school music cuts
Benny Goodman, the King of Swing, testifies at public hearings on the Chicago Board of Education plan to cut music art and physical education programs to save money. He says they can't do that and that it is impossible to cut music.
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Chicago
Benny Goodman
Chicago Board of Education
Goodman
Jaycees Move To Lower Membership Age To Eighteen
Missouri Jaycees vote at St Joseph convention to drop member age from 21 to 18, conditional on changes to national bylaws at the Atlanta meet. Local chapters must amend bylaws before applying the new rule. Weekend awards include Educator of the Year, outstanding chapter and officers across multiple cities.
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St, Joseph
Missouri Jaycees
U.S
St. Joseph
Gary Hendren
Crewe Coeur
Springfield Jaycees
John Pratt
Springfield
Bud Oltman
Joplin
Bob Whittaker
Nixa
Chain of Rocks Jaycees
St. Louis County
Jim Peniston
Bill Putnam
Cavett Sweeps South Bronx Streets With Youth Gangs
New York AP report says Dick Cavett joined two youth gangs in the South Bronx last Tuesday on his television talk show. He broomed the streets with them and invited viewers to see the good things the gangs do.
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New York
Dick Cavett
South Bronx
County Assn Funds Upheld By Danforth
Missouri counties may band together to propose legislation and aid county government, ruled Attorney General John C. Danforth. No limit on how often voters can reconsider tax rates for county library districts, and funds may be used to support the Rigas Association of Counties. The action supports training, research, and legislation benefiting counties.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
John C. Danforth
Harold F. Relsch
R-Columbia
Rigas Association of Counes
Relsch
Danforth
Charles O'Halloran
Lithuanian Youths Riots After Funeral in Kaunas
Thousands of Lithuanian youths chanted for freedom and clashed with Soviet police after the funeral of a young Catholic who burned himself to death for political reasons. Several hundred youths were arrested and at least one policeman died of injuries from street fighting in Kaunas, sources said.
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Moscow
Kaunas
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