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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1968
Page
4
April 19 news conference amid heavy South Vietnamese guard to shield the defector from a Viet Cong assassination attempt. Dao urged allies to intensify battlefield action in support of Paris talks, saying fighting and talking would continue and that allied forces should be more active for greater success.
Dao, a former Viet Cong deputy political commissar for Saigon region No 1, says the Viet Cong is in a weak position for talks after describing Tet Offensive as the Communists biggest military failure. He backs Saigon policy while warning a coalition government including the Viet Cong would let Communists take over South Vietnam.
Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko left Moscow with a seven man delegation for Prague for discussions of issues of mutual interest. The group includes Alexei A. Yepishev and other high ranking officials. Separately, Soviet poet Vik tor Urin accused pro Western leaning writer Jan Prochazka of betraying communism in an open letter, questioning his faith and calling for adherence to revolutionary duty.
In El Paso a federal conspiracy trial of 14 defendants may extend into late June after a mistrial for a 15th. Mildred Ross collapsed in court and was found mentally incompetent, committed to a Missouri hospital for up to 90 days for evaluation. Delores Savoie testified about gambling seen in 1959.
Mrs Ola Kent 65 prepares to hang a five star service flag in her window signaling three sons and two grandsons summoned to active duty with the National Guard. The Kent family includes Maj Ralph G Kent 45 Spt Major Harold L Kent 40 Sgt Arnold D Kent 38 Lt Daryl P Kent 22 and Spec 4 Clifford Kent 21.
Five men were arrested in an East Harlem apartment on Fifth Avenue and 132nd Street on conspiracy to murder police, burglarize a state armory, and rob a check cashing establishment. Detectives found homemade bombs, weapons, and explosives. Suspects Hannibal Thomas 21 Wallace Marks 23 J Preston Lay Jr 23 John Garret 23 Lloyd Butler 19, all named.
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