Nature Was Only Victor At Ben Het Siege
The two month clash in Dak To and Ben Het valley ended with monsoon floods. South Vietnamese troops with U S air and artillery support held their ground while North Vietnamese forces withdrew. American engineers transportation units and air power supported the South Vietnamese effort as about 60 Americans died and nearly 300 were wounded.
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Dak
U.S
Laos
Kontum
Saigon
Pleiku
Ban Me Thuot
33 Dead In Ohio Floods And Storms In Northern Counties
The toll rose to at least 33 with searches continuing for more victims after storms pounded northern Ohio and floods followed. Five missing include an infant and two Wooster police officers. Coast Guard reports nearly 200 holiday boaters unaccounted for but likely ashore. Army Corps gates opened at Beach City and Mohicanville reservoirs to prevent spillover amid Muskingum Basin flood control efforts.
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Ashland County
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Corps
Huntington District
Maurice D. Roush
Beach City
Mohicanville
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Lake Creek
Mohican River
Viet Cong Attack Hits U S Base Near Saigon
Viet Cong forces launched their first ground attack in a week on a U S military headquarters 120 miles northeast of Saigon. Six Americans were killed and 18 wounded as three or four armored vehicles were destroyed. Additional blasts in Can Tho City wounded soldiers and civilians while weekend air losses raised U S helicopter deaths to 2,830 and aircraft losses to 2,579.
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U.S
Ists
Can Tho
Mekong Delta
Air Force
Commuter Plane Crashes in Georgia Swamp
A twin engine Air South Beech 99 with 14 aboard crashed near Monroe Georgia in a swampy area killing all on board. FAA reported instrument flight and no survivors as wreckage spread over an acre and a half.
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Monroe
Air South
Federal Aviation Agency
FAA
George Collier
Israel and Egypt clash over Suez Canal and spy ring
Across the Suez Canal on Sunday night Israel and Egypt exchanged artillery and air fire. Cairo reported downing an Israeli jet over the Gulf of Suez and the capture of a major Israeli spy network in Cairo, including two West German citizens and two Egyptians with maps of Egyptian positions.
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Egypt
Suez Canal
Gulf of Suez
Cairo
Sinai
Weekend Rainfall and Upcoming Shower Threat
The forecast calls for showers and thundershowers tonight and Tuesday with lows in the lower 70s and highs in the lower 90s. Wednesday looks partly cloudy, hot, and humid with a chance of more showers. Yesterday reached 82 with a 70 degree start. weekend rainfall totaled 0.66 inch.
Ohio Traffic Deaths Hit 35 As Holiday Fatalities Near 584
Ohio recorded 35 traffic deaths over the long Fourth of July period, part of a national total of 584 fatalities. The count neared the state forecast of 38 deaths by the Department of Highway Safety, underscoring the holiday danger on streets and highways.
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Ohio
National
Associated Press
State Department of Highway Safety
Rockefeller Tours Kennedy Airport After Latin America Trip
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller arrived at Kennedy airport returning from a Latin American fact finding mission. He urged changes in U S foreign policy toward South and Central America. AP reports weekend traffic deaths totaled 584 across the holiday period, higher than prior three day counts but below the four day 1967 peak, with many single vehicle crashes and a large share of victims under 30.
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Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Kennedy Airport
Rocky
Latin America
South and
Central America
Associated Press
Child Hit and Killed in New Orleans Street Run
Five year old Herman Valden of Miami is struck and killed in New Orleans while running into the street from between parked cars. A policeman questions a witness as his mother and sisters mourn nearby. The driver was not cited.
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Little Herman Valden
Herman Valdez
Miami
Fla
New Orleans
Soviet Warships To Visit Cuba In July
A Soviet naval squadron will visit Havana from July 22 to 27 at Cuba’s invitation. The group includes a rocket cruiser two submarines a tender and a tanker and forms part of a training cruise in the central Atlantic. Tass calls the visit a sign of strengthening Soviet Cuban ties and a display of naval power near the United States.
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Romania
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