Rockets Pound Kontum Amid Two Month Offensive
North Vietnamese rockets and artillery battered Kontum in a fierce two month offensive. U.S. sources warned of a possible drive to seize a second provincial capital as sappers and tanks attacked from the south. By dusk, some sappers remained entrenched near the airstrip while refugees gathered at a nearby center housing up to 5,000 Montagnards.
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Saigon
Kontum
U.S
Quang Tri
An Loc
Associated Press
David J. Paine
Central Front
Pleiku
Paine
South Vietnam
Vietnam War Front Reports Northern Push Rebuffed Near Hue
Reports from Hue say 166 North Vietnamese troops were killed by government troops and artillery in a battle near My Chanh, with 15 South Vietnamese soldiers killed and 43 wounded. Two Soviet BTR-30 carriers were destroyed, marking a new weapon in use. At An Loc, up to 4000 refugees escaped as shells claimed civilian lives. American airstrikes hit major Hanoi Haiphong targets for the first time since 1965 68 bombing. Kontum saw 150 300 sappers penetrate near the city with clashes leaving several hundred South Vietnamese infantrymen engaged and 23 sapper deaths.
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My Chanh
Hue
U.S
An Loc
Saigon
Tau 0
Hanoi-Haiphong
Kontum
Msgr
Paul Seitz
Kapang
3Nd Military Region
Pleiku
U S Economic Signs Glowing Ahead
The Commerce Department reported a 1.4 percent rise in the leading indicators index for April, with March revised up to 1.9 percent. Eight indicators showed gains except one dip in price and labor costs, signaling economic acceleration. Total public and private debt neared $2 trillion at end of 1970, up $152.5 billion from the prior year.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Xixon Administration
Nixon and Soviet Leaders Sign Fifth High Seas Accord
President Nixon and Soviet leaders approve the Washington Moscow Naval Agreement to prevent incidents at sea. The accord governs naval movements, requires greater caution, and mandates annual consultations between U S and Soviet navies. It excludes merchant ships and fishing vessels from its scope.
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Moscow
Nixon
John Warner
U.S
Adm
Sergei Gorshkov
Rixon
Washington Moscow
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Europe
Oxon
Ms Suite
Kremlin White House
Ronald J. Ziegler
Fani
Ziegler
Nexans
Dis
Vietnam
Dacha
Peter Flanigan
William P. Rogers
White House
Henry A. Kissma
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Alexei N. Kosygin
Anatol Dobrynis
Hi Sais
Former Solon Given 4-Year Prison Term
In a Texas case tied to a stock fraud scandal, former House Speaker Walter Knapp and other officials faced prison terms after trials in Abilene and Travis County. Knapp received four years for using postage stamps from an official expense account, amid broader probes into bribes and corruption involving lawmakers and a Houston promoter.
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Austin
Tex
Tour-Wertean
Senate
Walter Knapa
Amarilo
Ion
Knapp
Travis County
Gus Tutecher
Rush McGinty
Hep Emoy Shanon
Fort Worth
Stork Witd
Abilene
Dallas hostage drama ends as gunman surrenders
Virgil Lee Fuqua of Dallas held Mrs. James Roberts, 26, of Waco, for hours at gunpoint after abducting her from a grocery. Negotiations led by Police Chief Frank Dyson Fuqua yielded surrender at Dallas Police Headquarters. The woman and suspect awaited further legal action while authorities described the scene as tense yet nonviolent.
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Dallas
Wallaasars
Tove Field
Frank Dyson
Paul Townsend
Virgil Lee Fuqua
Showers Possible as West Texas Weather Forecast Improves
Forecasters anticipate scattered thundershowers in the Permian Basin tonight and Friday as lower afternoon temperatures rise. National Weather Service in Mudland Odessa notes a one in five chance of rain with moisture from the Gulf of Mexico increasing. Expect 16 to 30 mph winds, gusts noted, with no frontal activity seen.
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Permian
National Weather Service
Mudland-Odessa
West Texas
Gulf
Howe Ras
Stetroa
Dallas woman hostage held five hours by gunman
Mrs Meredith Roberts told AP she was frightened but unthreatened as the gunman kept talking during five hours of captivity after entering the drive in grocery where she was with her husband. He released her and drove away toward Fort Worth and Meacham Field.
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James Roberts
Waco
Dallas
Meredith Roberts
Ghocery
Ile Theater
Teaslers
Heberts
Worth & Meacham Field
Cahat
Ottkatig
Reta
Barth Gwiey
Arive
Fragmented OCR News Fragments From Odessa Daily
Readable bits show a chaotic array of sections including AMUSEMENTS CAREER CORNER COMICS DATELINE DEAR ABBY DOCTOR'S COLLIN EDITORIALS FINANCIAL NEWS SPORTS TV WORRY CLINIC YOUR HOROSCOPE and a garbled political note. The page mixes society and bridge columns with generic sections in a truncated, diary-like layout.
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Abby
Doctor's Collin
Financial
Woody Jacoby
News Society
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High Seas Accord
Solon
Athene
Prenauraee Meyes
Bob Setl
Sai
Houston
Frank Shartedsen
Triutaty
Nadir Anaher
Travis Codey
Krappe
Traud Sanda
Espensarcaunts
David Ratlitf
Samderd Testanet
Hye
Texas
Anayges
Tata
Balint Ata Orand
Hothe
Tad
Psn
Tom Medes
Etarie Kringgeaascin
Ted Om
Huds Mower
Amatitin
Investigaim Tose
Dyson
Stiil
Lownsend
Fuqua
Townsend
Thadd Johnson
Roberts
Johnson
Love Field
Jimmy Roberts
Waco, Tex
Meredith
Hestade
Orivedit Orgtery
Ateut
Odessa
Wesvers
Hans
Lieto
Baetiallem Wisk
Bedasimet
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