South Vietnamese flotilla reaches Phnom Penh on Mekong drive
A South Vietnamese naval flotilla traveled 60 miles up the Mekong to Phnom Penh and reported more than 200 enemy troops killed. Marines seized the Neak Luong ferry crossing and linked with Cambodian strike forces as fighting along the Mekong intensified. Allies crossed border ships arrived Sunday and four Marine battalions were noted.
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Nixon
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U S Finds More Guns Than Cambodians Can Use
U S officials say allies may hand over some captured enemy arms to Cambodia while keeping others. About 4 000 AK47s were given earlier. current finds include 5 000 rifles and five million rounds with two million pounds of rice. Cambodia’s 40,000 man army has mixed weapons, many Chinese or Soviet. Continued U S aid includes a 2 000 strong ethnic Cambodian unit, delivered M1 and M2 rifles, and other plans.
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Fall From Fountain Fatal At Monroe Park
An 11 year old bricklayer Wilmer Curtis Donivan died when a fountain collapsed beneath him at Monroe Park in Richmond Virginia on Sunday afternoon as he tried to regain balance. He was identified by authorities and the incident is under investigation.
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Police Probe Sabotage Tries On Spanish Jets
European police launch a cross border probe into sabotage attempts against Iberian Airlines jets in London Geneva Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Interpol leaders from four cities converge in Paris to coordinate security as bombs suspected to be planted by anarchists injure no one and trigger precautionary evacuations.
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Crash claims UAW leader Walter Reuther in fatal jet
Walter P. Reuther, longtime UAW president and major labor figure, died in a Learjet crash near Pellston Michigan along with five others including his wife May. The jet was en route to see the union's education center near Black Lake, as investigators search for the cause.
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Nixon calls governors to White House on student unrest
President Nixon summoned U S governors to the White House to discuss campus unrest and Southeast Asia after student strikes and protests climaxed in a major weekend rally in Washington. Antiwar leaders urged continued action as Dellinger framed the weekend events as the start of a broader grass-roots movement.
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Nixon
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Cambodia
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Colleges debate fall campaign breaks amid campus protests
Yale president Brewster and Notre Dame head Hesburgh floated a fall campaign vacation to let students vote. Princeton adopted the idea. NYC Board of Higher Education chief Bowker backs two weeks off. Bloland urged governors to bar live ammunition on campuses after Kent State. Mansfield signals possible anti war amendment. Yale students planned talks with lawmakers to sway them. Colgate students met with Rogers to press views on Southeast Asia.
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Middletown Forecast and Washington Picket Action
The Middletown area will have partly cloudy and warm weather tonight and Tuesday with a chance of thundershowers. Lows in the low 60s and highs in the 80s. In Washington 200 classmates protested at the State Department urging Rogers to resign. Brandeis students and faculty, about 500, planned a meeting with Senators Hughes and Kennedy to discuss lobbying. The capital returned to normal after 60,000 weekend demonstrators left, with park workers removing the word Liberated from the Washington Monument.
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