War Comes Home in Saigon as Destruction Envelops City
In Saigon six days of fighting have shattered life for residents. A doctor tends a dying boy as a firefight echoes through the streets, graves are dug for Viet Cong and a colonel, and hospitals overflow with wounded. Homeless families wander, curfews ease for food, and chaos mirrors Berlin 1945.
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Peter Arnett
Saigon
South Vietnam
National Assembly
National Cemetery
Berlin
Khe Sanh Defender Warns Complacency Endangers Siege
Col. David E. Lownds leads the reinforced 26th Marine Regiment under heavy enemy fire at Khe Sanh as two North Vietnamese divisions surround the base. He warns complacency is dangerous while praising high morale and discipline and recalling prior wartime wounds and service. Born in Holyoke Massachusetts and Rhode Island alumnus, Lownds stresses the challenge of fixed-position assaults and honors leading a Marine regiment.
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Khe Sanh
David E. Lownds
26Th Marine Regiment
Hanoi
Col. Lownds
Lownds
Dien Bien Phu
Saipan
Iwo Jima
Vietnam
Holyoke
Mass
University of Rhode Island
Dominican Republic
Chautauqua to get new owner and name
Chautauqua Miami Valley Chautauqua will gain a new name and owner while preserving its religious educational and recreational purpose. The Michigan Baptist Bible Fellowship plans to keep the park open to the public with church camps Aug 5 23 and a move toward restoring the site within five years.
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Chautauqua
Miami Valley
James Allen
Michigan Baptist Bible Fellowship
Truman Dollar
Richard Freeman
Humphrey Odor
Miami Valley Chautauqua Association
Warren Howard
Howard
Fellowship
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Steve Lake
Invest Plan Weighs Aerospace Stocks for Grandson Savings
Reader seeks advice on placing five years of monthly savings into a common stock via Monthly Investment Plan. Advisor cautions against Marquardt Corp due to budget cutbacks and aerospace exposure, suggests Talley Industries for propellants but notes not MIP eligible, and endorses Conrac for industrial and aerospace instruments with strong growth since 1962.
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Marquardt Corp
W.W. A
Marquardt
Arizona-bases
Talley Industries
MIP
Conrac
Roger Spear
Roger E. Spear
Middletown Journal
Grand Central Station
New York
N. Y
Senators Try To Unblock Rhodes Bond Issue in Ohio
Ohio state senators work to remove a blocker on Gov Rhodes $850 million bond plan for highways and research. The stalled measure aims for the May 7 primary ballot with a $30 million research center tied to highway funds and ongoing pay and riot control bills advancing in the legislature.
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Columbus
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Senate Finance
Senate
Robert E. Stockdale
Portage
Oliver Ocasek
Marysville
Ocasek
GOP
House Judiciary Committee
Cincinnati
Toledo
Cleveland
Two Die and Three Hurt in Ohio Plane Crashes
Three separate plane crashes in northeastern Ohio Sunday left two dead and three injured. James Ewing, 39, of Salem died in a Salem Airport crash. Lloyd Baker, 62, of Cleveland was killed on takeoff from Hopkins Airport. his student Charles Suppokt, 23, was seriously injured. Two Wickliffe men survived a crash near Hudson. Donald Hollowell and Edwin Bennett were injured.
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Cleveland
Ohio
James R. Ewing
Salem
Lloyd H. Baker
Charles Suppokt
Cleveland Hopkins
Wickliffe
Hudson
Donald R. Hollowell
Edwin C. Bennett
Hollowell
The
Highway Patrol
Ewing
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S. Broad
Les Leighto
Hotel Roosevelt
South End
Boston
Rhodes
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Iddletown
Central Avenue
Touch & New
Zig-Zag Sewing Machines
Middletown Shopping Plaza
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