Midwest Snowstorm Claims Dozens As Roads Close
A fierce winter storm dumped heavy snow from the Rockies to the Great Lakes, causing road closures from Montana to Missouri. More than twenty deaths were blamed on shoveling and traffic accidents as thousands of travelers sought shelter. Des Moines reported large drifts and a helicopter evacuated a man with a bleeding ulcer from a truck stop while officials guarded a 42,000 pound explosives payload on I 80.
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Vietnamese Volunteer Aims for U S Nurse Training
Pvt. Nguyen Thanh Binh, 19, practices with an M 16 rifle in South Vietnam. She joined the air force to pursue nursing in the United States after ten months of training she will study medicine in the U S for three years and return to Vietnam as a nurse.
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Green Berets end border camps rollout in Vietnam
After more than five years of Special Forces operations in border camps in South Vietnam the last two Green Beret outposts were handed over to South Vietnamese forces. The camps housed Montagnard irregulars amid heavy sieges, with armor and artillery battles including Soviet PT76 tanks. North Vietnamese sieges at Ben Het followed, as three months of fighting yielded nearly 2,000 casualties.
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Police confession recounted in Laporte murder case
Montreal AP report states a coroner heard that Francis Simard, 23, gave police a confession in the Pierre Laporte murder case. Simard reportedly said Jacques and Paul Dansennal helped kidnap and kill Laporte, but he refused to sign the confession. The two brothers were arrested with him last week.
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Nixon Heads to California for Eight Day West Wing Stay
President Nixon leaves Washington Tuesday for an eight to ten day trip to the Western White House in San Clemente California. He plans work on the remaining congressional business and the 1972 budget and State of the Union message. Mrs Nixon will accompany him, doctors advised rest in spots, and aides expect to wrap up a final batch of bills before departure.
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