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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1971
Page
9
AP reports union leaders expect a yes vote on a nationwide Bell Telephone strike after tabulations from over 500000 ballots were sent to Kansas City and will be announced by union president Joseph A Beirme during the annual meeting.
Two battalions of the New Mexico National Guard were mobilized to back Albuquerque police after a weekend of disorder that left at least 13 people wounded by gunfire and dozens more hurt. About 150 arrests were made as crowds roamed Roosevelt Park, downtown, and the police headquarters amid looting and fires.
James Brinton 25 of Seattle vanishes at sea during a solo ocean crossing attempt in a 17 foot kayak. The capsized craft was found off Washington's Olympic Peninsula after a 7000 mile journey through Japan. Authorities deem survival unlikely as Coast Guard and local boats search in 29 mph winds and 6 to 10 foot seas. Brinton, an Eagle Scout and Vietnam veteran, grew up boating in Puget Sound and planned to teach, with dieticians assisting his provisions for the voyage.
Cambodian and South Vietnamese troops clash with Communist forces on three fronts in Cambodia. In South Vietnam, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces press the central highlands and extend the siege of Fire Base 5 near the barbed wire perimeter. Premier Pham Van Dong urges escalation of the war, saying U S training of the South Vietnamese military is failing. In Cambodia, the 9th North Vietnamese Viet Cong Division renews assaults on bunkers around two hamlets in the Vitet Suor marshes near Phnom Penh as monsoon rains impede fighting.
North Vietnamese assaults drove government forces from Srang on Highway 3, with Cambodians reoccupying the town last week. Near Krek, about 150 enemy troops faced South Vietnamese infantry, 29 North Vietnamese killed with U.S. air support. Five South Vietnamese dead, 11 wounded. In Fire Base 5 area reinforcements fought into the night, 24 North Vietnamese killed, South Vietnamese 1 dead and 21 wounded.
Ocean search is under way for a four engine C135 with 24 aboard, missing since Sunday on a Pago Pago to Hawaii flight. Rescue planes tracked a crash beacon 200 miles north of Palmyra Island, and searches extended into the Pacific as weather allowed.
Partly cloudy today tonight and Tuesday with a chance of scattered thundershowers. Lows tonight in the lower 60s. Measurable rain chances 30 percent today 20 tonight and 10 Tuesday. Sunday high 89 and low 64 with trace precipitation.
President Nixon demands an intensive federal drive to provide jobs or job training for returning Vietnam veterans. He cites 370000 veterans jobless and a 10.8 percent unemployment rate among 20 to 29 year olds, higher than the 8.4 percent for nonveterans, and directs Labor Secretary Hodgson to lead the effort.
Washington AP The whereabouts of Tricia and Edward Cox remained a mystery as President Nixon's daughter and son-in-law continued their honeymoon. The couple left the White House Saturday night after the ceremony, while workmen began dismantling the Rose Garden wedding setting before all 460 guests departed, and by Sunday the decorations were removed.
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