Pacification Drive in Saigonistricts Hit by Viet Cong Offensive
AP analysis from Saigon reports that North Vietnamese operations impair pacification in some areas while others escape damage. By April 30, 983 of about 12,000 hamlets were under enemy control, with 14 of 272 districts relinquished, and some 564,000 people or about 3 percent of the population under foe control. Casualties and abductions rise as terrorism undermines local security efforts.
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Searchers Seek Missing Navy Plane Over California Coast
An intensive search for the missing Navy P3A Orion with eight aboard is planned over remote coastal mountains and waters from Monterey to Morro Bay. Coast Guard reports low clouds and fog hindered vessels and aircraft during the hunt, with Air Force and Civil Air Patrol joining as officials say the plane may have catastrophically failed after departing Moffett Field.
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Bomb blast in Belfast kills six IRA men and others
In Belfast a Sunday explosion in a Catholic district killed six people including three IRA men Edward McDonald age 27 and Martin England, both on the army list, and wounded 18. Other bombs in the city and surrounding areas caused heavy damage. killings raising Northern Ireland death toll to 345. Troops engaged gunmen, four soldiers wounded, and a possible seven day cease-fire floated by Provos in Londonderry.
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Laotian Forces Lose Attempt To Recapture City
North Vietnamese troops repelled two Laotian columns aiming to retake Khong Sedone in southern Laos over the weekend. One Laotian battalion reached near a Vietnamese command post on Phou Khong but failed to dislodge the defenders. Laotian T28 bombers pounded bunkers while entrenched enemy troops held firm.
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Three Killed Eleven Hurt in Memorial Day Crash Near Flagstaff
Memorial Day weekend crash near Flagstaff Arizona left three dead and 11 injured including Maxine Daymond Soto 35 and two Sacaton residents as their car veered off U S 89 then collided with an oncoming vehicle. A Gainesville Florida wreck killed three from Williston and injured five. In Texas a mother Winona Warner Powell 39 and her daughters Lizzie 15 and Allie 12 died after a dirt road crossing collision with a freight train near Rhome.
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Wilderness wedding haven runs on quiet, quirky charm
In Enumclaw Washington Vera Dyar known as Lady Vera turned 160 acre Little Lake Ranch into an outdoor wedding site. Couples arrive with ministers, electric organ plays, and audience of peacocks swans and ducks as she recalls decades of weddings amid a sylvan lake setting.
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