U S Bombers Step Up Southern Laos Attacks
U S B52 bombers intensified strikes against North Vietnamese supply routes in southern Laos. Over 24 weeks the raids exceed 500, focusing west of the DMZ in a 70 square mile area south of the Bang Hien River and north of Khe Sanh. Reports say North Vietnamese movement toward northwest South Vietnam continues amid heavy supply flows.
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Saigon
U.S
Laos
Demilitarized Zone
Bang Hien River
Khe Sanh
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Huong Lap
Hanoi
Laotian Panhand
Associated Press
John T. Wheeler
Phnom Penh
Tranoi
Kompong Thom
Phnom
High School Poll Reveals Drug Use and Social Views
Washington AP report summarizes Merit Publishing Co. survey of over 22,000 high school juniors and seniors from 8,000 schools. Ten percent admitted current marijuana use, 53 percent opposed premarital sex, 66 percent opposed, and 60 percent did not. The poll covers Vietnam war views, race relations, voting age, and Nixon approval. Switzerland produced 68 million timepieces last year.
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Washington
Merit Publishing Co
Northfield
Vietnam
Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
George Wallace
Apartment Trend Up Nationally
Miami Beach report notes a national shift to apartments with a forecast that half of new U S housing starts over five years will be apartments. Industry leaders cite rising costs, government role, and demographics driving the boom, plus mega projects and new financing challenges. The piece closes oddly with a non sequitur about the domestic chicken.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Cap
United States
Jonard M. Gross
National Apartment Association
Mortgate Bankers Association
Gross
Atlanta
Tydings Demands Beall Itemize Net Earnings
Maryland Senator Joseph D. Tydings reports 1970 earnings totaling 77,313.30 and challenges Republican rival J Glenn Beall to fully disclose his income sources Beall had criticized Tydings for not detailing income in an earlier report Tydings says he earned 116,716.44 in 1969 with salary, capital gains, and honoraria as major sources and cites stock sales including Charter Co and other firms mentioned in a Life Magazine piece about the primary elections.
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Baltimore
Joseph D. Tydings
D-Md
Tydings
J. Glenn Beall
Beall
Senate
Muhlenberg College
SLOC
American American Medical Association
United Jewish Appeal, Inc
Charter Co
American Cyanamid Wards Co., Inc
U.S. Life Holding Co
Richardson Merrell
Kelloggs
Firestone
Safeway
T. Rowe Price
New Horizon Fund
1St National Bank of North Fast
Greyhound
Columbia Broadcasting
Distillers Corp
Seagrams Ltd
SmithKline & French
Unicon Corp
Charter Cy
Life Magazine
Govern
Charter
Congress
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Galler
Quaker State
H. L. Mills
Frederick
George
THE
Wastlington
House of Representatives
America
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