Outnumbered GIs Hold Off Reds at Crow's Foot
About 170 U S cavalrymen beat back North Vietnamese assault in the Crow s Foot valley near Bong Son South Vietnam suffering heavy casualties. The battle left 52 enemy bodies and 44 fresh graves nearby while helicopter gunships pounded flanks and U S howitzers fired at point blank range.
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AN Khe
South Vietnam
U.S
Crow's Foot
U.S. 1St Cavalry
22Nd North Vienamese
Hownt
Bong Son
12Th Cavalry
Michael C. Livergood
Mont
Custer
Pentagon confirms U S bombings hit outskirts of Hanoi
The Pentagon acknowledged civilian areas in North Vietnam were bombed. Officials said evidence shows bombs struck targets three to six miles from Hanoi center and outside city limits. Air Force leaders noted 70 plus SAM sites and thousands of anti aircraft batteries ring Hanoi.
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Hanoi
Dodge City
Air Force
Saigon
Assassins Miss Top S Viet Figure in Saigon Grenade Attack
In Saigon police report a grenade was thrown at Dr. Phan Quang Dan, a leading South Vietnamese political figure, but he was not seriously injured. The attack occurred as authorities investigate the motive and identify suspects.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Phan Quang Dan
Dan
Christmas holiday traffic deaths fall below last year’s record
The 78 hour Christmas weekend killed 561 people, well under the NSC’s 650 to 780 estimate and short of nine prior holiday records. The tally, from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday, may rise with delayed reports, but still outpaced nonholiday periods.
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National Safety Council
Safety
Oklahoma
New England
Mansfield urges major restudy of Great Society programs
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield proposes a thorough top-to-bottom reevaluation of Great Society laws and related programs such as medicare civil rights farm subsidies and foreign aid. He asks 17 committee chairs to determine which laws need restudy and cites changing national needs and Vietnam costs as considerations.
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Washington
Mike Mansfield
Senate of “Great Society
Mansfield
Senate
Congress
Vietnam
Senate of the United States
Five Rogers girls face Christmas fire after parents’ death
In Racine Wisconsin the Rogers family faces tragedy as a two car crash kills Richard Sr and Vivian. Fire then destroys the family home in Caledonia leaving siblings aged 2 to 15 and their 19 year old brother Richard Jr to stay with neighbors and grandparents while arranging a new home. Richard vows to keep the siblings together and support them on his worker’s wages.
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Racine, Wis
Rogers
Richard Rogers
Caledonia
Richard
Richard Sr
Vivian
Richard Jr
Barbara
Patrica
Deborah
Lisa
Sue Lynn
Racine
Cyril Murray
Ohio Road Fatalities Lower This Holiday Weekend
Ohio highways killed drivers over the holiday weekend, with deaths dipping below the 1965 Christmas toll but still rising above official forecasts. Officials logged at least M deaths from Friday 6 p.m. to Monday midnight, echoing last year’s grim total of 50. Predictors expected 33 more fatalities, warning that New Year’s weekend may add the same toll. Ohio ranked among the top three states in weekend deaths.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Snowstorm Slows Southwest Drive Across Plains
A major second snowstorm snarled traffic from the Southwest into the Plains with up to two feet in southern Rockies. Gallup New Mexico measured 12 inches at the airport as winds gusted to 35 mph. Roads including U S 85 between Las Vegas and Raton and U S 6 remained closed or treacherous with ice and drifts.
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Plains
Weather Bureau
Rockies
Gallup
New Mexico
Arizona
U.S. 85
Las Vegas
Raton
Chicago Los Angeles
New Mexico-Texas
Colorado
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Local Weather Forecast Highlights Cold Night
Mostly clear and not so cold tonight with a low in the lower 20s. Wednesday brings increasing clouds and possible snow or rain with a high in the low 30s. Yesterday reached a high of 32 and a low of 12. Current 1 am reading shows 20 degrees.
Dartmoor Prison Escape Sweep As Five Convicts Flee
British convicts overpowered two guards at Dartmoor Prison and scaled a 30 foot wall on a bitter night. Five escapees, aged 4 to 15 year sentences, fled with two recaptured from another open prison in Derbyshire. Police hunt the bleak moorland as Leyhill inmates also vanish.
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Dartmoor
Leyhill
Derbyshire
Earl Mountbatten
Britain
Mountbatten
George Blake
Blake
Princetown
England
Chuckle Life Ups and Downs Nature of Daily Routine
A light reflection on the daily cycle from rising in the morning to starting work. The tone notes the humor in ordinary rhythms and the movement between energy and effort.
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