Haiphong B52 Raid Marks Escalation in Vietnam War
U S forces launched the first B52 and tactical bomber strike on Haiphong deep in North Vietnam in retaliation for a North Vietnamese invasion of the south. The attack targeted fuel dumps warehouses and truck parks, with heavy bombing reported.
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Saigon
United States
Hai Phong
South
Haiphong
North Vietnam
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Hanoi
South Vietnam
An Loc
Nguyen van Thieu
An Luc
Bastogne
U.S. and Canada Sign Clean Lakes Pact
President Nixon and Prime Minister Trudeau signed a five year plan to clean the Great Lakes with a $2.5 billion budget, creating an international commission and installing treatment facilities. The pact aims to cut phosphate, curb ship discharges, and reduce shipping accident risks across the lakes. Demonstrators gathered outside Parliament Hill as security remained tight.
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Ottawa
Nixon
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Great Lakes
Washington
U.S
United States
Canada
Lake Erie
Erie
Ontario
St. Lawrence International
A Victory For P G Congressman Criticizes Lake Erie Pact
Wisconsin Democrat Rep Henry S Reuss denounces the US Canada Great Lakes cleanup agreement as a victory for Procter and Gamble and the phosphate detergent industry. He says the US dropped a key phosphate limit, despite Canada’s acceptance, amid a lobbying push led by P G executives and Bryce Harlow.
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Washington
Canada
Great Lakes
Wisconsin
Lake Erie
Procter & Gamble
Henrry S. Reuss
D-Wis
Reuss
House Conservation and Natural Resources
United States
Howard J. Morgens
Nixon
Bryce Harlow
White House
Morgens
Republican National Finance Committee
P&g
GOP
Kids Find Tub Class Real Groovy
Salt Lake City teacher Marilee Christensen turned a secondhand cast iron tub into a reading corner by painting it orange and adding pillows. Students flock to read in the tub, with rules of three per tub, no splashing, and plenty of reading.
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Salt Lake City
Marilee Christensen
Outage Hits Weather Bureau at Greater Cincinnati Airport Concourse
A short circuit in an underground line caused a power outage at the airport concourse, taking the U S Weather Bureau equipment offline. Emergency power kept the terminal open and flight operations were unaffected.
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Covington, Ky
Greater Cincinnati
U.S. Weather Bureau
Weekend Sun Snapshot Fades Into Clouds and Mild Temps
Forecasters say Saturday’s sun may reappear with a cloudy period and temperatures rising to the mid 60s. A 30 percent shower chance is forecast for today, with a cooler night in the 40s and lower chances of precipitation.
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Weather Bureau
Apollo 16 mission ready for lunar mountain landing
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP engineers cleared late hour glitches on the Apollo 16 pad as the countdown advanced for a Sunday launch of astronauts John W Young Charles M Duke Jr and Thomas K Mattingly II. The plan calls for a 3 27 p m Pacific time splashdown near Hawaii on April 28 after lunar descent and three days of orbit experiments.
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Thomas Duke
Charles M. Duke Jr
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Moon
John W., Young
Thomas K. Mattingly
Duke
Mattingly
Earth
Lunar
Young
Hawaii
Ticonderoga
Pacific Ocean
FDR Aide Crowley Dies at 83 in Wisconsin
Leo T. Crowley aged 83, first chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and wartime cabinet member under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, died Saturday at St Marys Hospital in Madison Wisconsin.
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Madison, Wis
Leo T. Crowley
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Franklin D. Roosevelt
St. Mary's Hospital
A Glance Inside U.S. Metric System Debate
The United States appears to edge toward the metric system as much of the world adopts it. The Ashes Have Cooled recounts lingering bitterness from the 1960s riots, from Watts to Washington, amid continuing despair and poverty. A Middletown man recalls the Maine as one of six living Spanish-American War veterans in the area.
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America
Watts
Washington
Middletown
Maine
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