Cost of War Rises as Casualties Soar in Vietnam
U S and Communist forces report record weekly casualties while troop strength climbs to about 427000 and 286000 respectively. Red mortar barrages near the DMZ and along the Cambodian border prompt new ground sweeps, with Koreans engaging along a 45 mile coastal corridor and Air Force jets striking Viet Cong units at dusk.
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Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
North
South Vietnam
Gio Linh
Junction City
Numbers Game Confirms Viet Cong Understate Losses
Intercepted military messages cited by U S officials indicate Communist battlefield commanders are downplaying their casualties while inflating American losses by up to 20 to 40 times. Data show U S casualties 60 percent higher this year than in 1966, with B 52s slated for movement to Thailand in April to shorten strike times and boost missions against infiltration routes and bases in South Vietnam.
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Washington
Hanoi
U.S
William C. Westmoreland
Guam
Thailand
Vietnam
Laos
Quinine cartel price rigging exposed by Senate probe
Senate investigators led by Dr. John M. Blair reveal an international cartel manipulated quinine and quinidine prices after the US stockpile sales, with major English, French, German, and Dutch firms implicated. Prices rose in the United States once stockpile releases halted.
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Washington
America
Senate
John M. Blair
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee
U.S
General Services Administration
Blair
Subcommittee
United States
France
West Germany
Netherlands
Alcan Plant Strike Over Ends With 61-Cent Hike Pact
Electrical workers at the Alcan Aluminum plant in Warren Ohio ratified a three year contract boosting wages by an excess of 61 cents an hour. About 105 members of Local 716 International Union of Electrical Workers approved the pact Wednesday night, ending the strike that began Sunday at midnight.
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Warren
Ohio
Alcan Aluminum Corp
International Union of Electrical Workers
Pope Readies Encyclical On Poverty
Vatican sources say Pope Paul VI will announce in the Easter message the upcoming encyclical on poverty and social justice in developing nations. The document, his fifth of his 30 year reign, is slated for release Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Vatican
St. Peter’s Square
Pope Paul
Robbers Convicted in Warren Union Savings Bank Heist
Two former Alliance men were found guilty by a US District Court jury in Youngstown for the $69 000 robbery of a Union Savings and Trust branch in Warren on Sept 2 1965. Ernest Holt 33 of Cleveland and Renz Nicholson 32 of Pontiac Michigan were convicted after less than an hour of deliberation. Sentencing was postponed pending a probation report.
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Youngstown, Ohio
Alliance
Union Savings & Trust Co
Warren
Ernest Holt
Cleveland
Renz Nicholson
Pontiac
Mich
Newsman and fiancee slaying case ends in probation
Veteran newspaperman Eugene Fiske 49 received five years probation for the October 25 slaying of his fiancee Virginia Wolpert. He pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was ordered to pay funeral costs. Police said he beat Wolpert after a quarrel and then sought medical help at a Kentucky motel.
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Cincinnati
Eugene Fiske
Virginia Wolpert
Fiske
Toledo
Common Pleas Court
Pleasant, Cool Night Then Mild, Sunny Friday Forecast
Forecasters expect a fair cool night with lows in the lower 40s. Friday should be mostly sunny with a high around 50, a touch warmer. Yesterday reached 50, with an overnight low of 40. This morning at 11 a.m. the temperature was 49.
NATO spy ring claimed with 300 NATO personnel
Italian parachutist Giorgio Rinaldi and his wife were charged as spies for the Soviet Union. Authorities said up to 300 NATO employees across civilian and military ranks from several nations were implicated, with arrests reported in Greece, Cyprus, Switzerland and Spain. The probe focuses on NATO bases in southern Europe and the Mediterranean.
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Rome
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Europe
United Sates
Giorgio Rinaldi
Ty von Maria
Turin
Guido Netti-Modena
Soviet Union
Greece
Cyprus
Switzerland
Spain
Netti-Modena
Italian Defense Ministry
Mediterranean
Soviet Trawler Towed After Fishing in U S Waters Near Alaska
Coast Guard towed the 178 foot Soviet trawler SRTM 8 457 after it ignored orders to stop near the Shumagin Islands. The vessel had fished 5.5 miles east of Sval Cape in the 12 mile exclusive zone. Governor Hickel urged strong federal action and a Russian ambassador statement on zone observance.
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Robert Emerson
Coast Guard
Kodiak
Storis
Shumagin Islands
Sval Cape
Shumagins
U.S
Mitrofania Island
Chignik
Alaska Peninsula
Hickel
Cincy Brewery Workers Vote On Contract
Almost 800 United Brewery Workers Union members vote on a proposed three year contract that could end a week old strike of three greater Cincinnati breweries. The deal reportedly includes a $6 weekly raise each year plus expanded fringe benefits.
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Cincinnati
United Brewery Workers Union
Big New York Bank Cuts Interest Rate For Top Customers
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. lowered its prime rate from 5 1 4 percent to 5 percent, matching Chase Manhattan Bank and signaling potential a nationwide round of rate cuts. Other banks including First Pennsylvania, Philadelphia National, Wells Fargo, and Bank of California followed or studied similar moves, with Chicago showing notable resistance to cuts.
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New York
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co
Morgan
Chase Manhattan Bank
Pacific Coast Stock Exchange
Morgan Guaranty
First National City Bank
Philadelphia
First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co
Philadelphia National Bank
Wells Fargo Bank
Bank of California
San Francisco
Chicago
Violent Weather Hits East and West Across Nation
A spring snowstorm dumped up to a foot in parts of the Northeast with New York City at 10 inches. Pacific Coast rains plus high mountain snows collided with plains thunderstorms in the southern plains including Spade Texas. Tornadoes along the Texas New Mexico border faded as New England faced another snow event denting snow removal funds.
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Pacific Coast
Southern Plains
New York City
Texas
Spade
Tex
Anton
Texas-New Mexico
New England
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Ann Landers
Dr. Crane
Peete Eee
Theater
Valley News
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New York Bank
Associated Press
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Minn
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Calif
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