New Year truce sees heavy fighting despite no U.S. fatalities
In the first 24 hours of the allied truce in Vietnam, U.S. forces report no American deaths despite 66 incidents and 98 Viet Cong killed. Viet Cong and South Vietnamese forces suffered heavy losses including 60 Viet Cong and 19 Marines in a Mekong Delta camp assault. Additional clashes near Saigon, Quang Ngai and Hau Nghia left wounded and killed on all sides as air support hesitated.
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Mekong Delta
U.S
USM
Hau Nghia
Third heart transplant patient facing danger in Cape Town
Cape Town doctors wait for a donor heart as 58 year old Dr Philip Blaiberg is described as dangerously ill with coronary thrombosis at Groote Schuur Hospital. Surgeon Dr Christian Barnard reflects cautiously on progress since the Washkansky operation and Blaiberg’s readiness to proceed assuming a suitable donor is found.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Christian Barnard
Louis Washkansky
Goote Schuur Hospital
United States
Britain
Philip Blaiberg
Groote Schuur
Barnard
London
Blaiberg
Washkansky
Adrian Kantrowitz
Brooklyn
N.Y
Sunday Times
Liberia’s Tubman Hosts Humphrey on Africa Tour Reach
Humphrey arrives in Monrovia for a nine nation swing marking 25 years since Liberian Freedom. He toasts President Tubman amid praise by Thurgood Marshall and U S officials. Ivory Coast reception mixed as French influence lingers over Abidjan.
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Humphrey
Tubman
Liberia
Indiana
Monrovia
United States
Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Supreme Court
Atlantic Ocean
Johnson
Republic of Liberia
Ivory Coast
Abidjan
Snow Flurries Possible As Temperatures Edge Up
The forecast for Southwest Ohio and the Miami Valley calls for increasing cloudiness with a chance of snow flurries late tonight. Lows will be between zero and 10 above as Tuesday turns partly cloudy and cooler with a high near 30 and a low around 4 below. About 0.3 inch of snow fell last night in the area.
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Ohio
Miami Valley
White House Peace Prayers Open 1968
President Johnson marked the arrival of 1968 with prayers for peace and kept a quiet New Year at the ranch with his wife and close friends. He joined a peace prayer at a Roman Catholic church nearby and summoned White House aides for a possible domestic announcement.
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White House
Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
America
Texas White House
Texas
Red River Lodge
New Mexico
Luci
Patrick Nugent
Fate of 375 deer at Twin Cities arsenal hinges on week of transplants
About 375 deer at the Twin Cities Army ammunition plant face possible extinction as 19 transplanted herd members struggle for survival in a wildlife area. Two deer died earlier from the efforts, and starvation looms for many without more feed. Twenty-two deer were tranquilized for relocation, but three died.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant
Talks Avert New York Bus Subway Strike
Negotiations at the Americana Hotel ended an all night session with a new contract between the Transit Authority and two transit unions. A strike would have halted 800 miles of bus and subway routes carrying millions daily, echoing the 1966 shutdown.
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Subway
The
Transit Authority
Two Transit
Americana Hotel
Labor
Theodore Kheel
Afl-Cio Transport Workers Union
TWU
Afl-Cio Amalgamated Transit Union
John V. Lindsay
Union
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