Marines Hit By Heavy Fire During Christmas Truce
In Saigon area, a U S Marine company faced intense small arms and mortar fire about eight hours into a 48 hour Christmas truce. Artillery was used in reply as Marines reported about 1000 rounds of small arms fire and 20 mortars against a Southeast Da Nang area position. Casualties were light on the Marine side. enemy losses uncertain. Two other incidents included sniper fire near a downed helicopter with two Viet Cong killed, and two aircraft from the 1st Cavalry Division taking ground fire during reconnaissance in Binh Thuan Province with one wounded trooper.
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South Vietnam
U.S
5Th Marine Regiment
da Nang
5Th Marines
Binh Thuan
U.S. 1St Cavalry Airmobile Division
Mysterious ailment hits arms plant in Burlington
At the Army ammunition plant in Burlington medical and scientific consultants probe an unusual environmental condition affecting 50 to 100 of about 200 workers on a secret production line. Most victims are women, with light headedness, dizziness or nausea lasting briefly. A plant spokesman said other plants report no trouble. The incident surfaced after 18 year old Jacqueline Allen was hospitalized briefly.
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Burlington
Army
George Mathes
Mathes
Jacqueline Allen
LBJ to greet injured soldiers in San Antonio visit
President Johnson will fly to San Antonio on Christmas Eve to greet an Air Force evacuation plane from Vietnam carrying 25 to 30 ill and wounded servicemen. Evacuees will receive treatment at Wilford Hospital Lackland and Brooke Army Hospital Fort Sam Houston before Johnson returns to the LBJ Ranch for Christmas.
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Austin
Tex
Johnson
San Antonio
Vietnam
Texas White House
Air Force
Kelley Air Force Base
Army
Wilford Hospital
Lackland Air Force Base
Brooke Army Hospital
Ft. Sam Houston
State May Get Light Snowfall
The Associated Press reports scattered light snow flurries possible tonight and Christmas Day but little chance of a white Christmas for Iowa. Morning lows ranged zero to 15, with highs in the low 20s to low 30s across the state and overnight temps dipping to single digits in the north.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Spencer
Storm Lake
Davenport
Mason City
Dubuque
Council Bluffs
U S Holiday Traffic Toll Rises Past One Hundred
An Associated Press survey shows at least 123 people died in U S highway crashes during the first hours of a three day Christmas holiday weekend. Snow and ice across the Midwest, East and South blamed for many fatalities with 16 deaths in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. Weather and hazardous driving warnings contributed to the toll.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Kenucky
Tennessee
Virginia
National Safety Council
Warren County Deaths Reported In Apparent Double Tragedy
A Warren County man and woman were found dead in a home about four miles east and one mile south of Milo in what sources described as a murder and self destruction. Authorities released no details immediately. The incident occurred Friday night or today in the rural community.
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Warren County
Milo
Texas Mother Receives Army Son Surprise Gift
Paris Texas AP Mrs C D Barker mother of a son in the Army in Germany received a large gift wrapped box at her home When she opened it her son Pfc Carl Barker emerged He told only his father a Paris doctor who suggested the unusual boxed arrival late Thursday It was a good thing we had a doctor in the house said the younger Barker as his mother and sister worely hysterics
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Tex
C.D. Barker
Germany
Pfc
Carl Barker
Barker
Winter Snowstorm Hits Dixie Heads for Northeast
A Weather Bureau warned snowstorm, the worst of the early winter, swept the South and moved toward the Northeast. Snow covered Jackson Mississippi and extended northeast to the Washington Baltimore Philadelphia corridor, with 16 states under warnings. Kentucky Tennessee Virginia fatalities linked to icy highways rose as the northern Arkansas region reported 18 inches of snow amid a cold air surge into the Gulf states.
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Jackson
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
Arkansas
Gulf States
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