South Vietnam Company Suffers Severe Losses
In six hours of fighting six miles south of the Cambodian border a South Vietnamese company with 130 regulars led by American Green Berets suffered heavy casualties. U.S. strategic bombers then hit North Vietnamese bases along the border with about 750 tons of explosives. Seven civilians were killed and 62 wounded, while 35 enemy bodies were reported.
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Saigon
Iles
Thiengen
U.S
U.S. 3Rd Marine Division
Vietnam
U.S. Marine
Nixon Postal Plan Rejected Unanimously
Washington A 26 member Post Office Committee voted unanimously to reject President Nixon's postal corporation plan and favor an alternate reform proposal by Chairman Thaddeus J. Dulski. The decision came amid parliamentary confusion as revival prospects remained unclear.
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Washington
Nixon
Postal Corporation
Case Post Office Committee
Thaddeus J. Dulski
DNY
Famed Lawyer Bailey to Defend Green Beret Officer in Vietnam
Famed Boston criminal lawyer F Lee Bailey will defend Capt Robert F Marasco of Bloomfield New Jersey among six Green Beret officers charged with murdering a Vietnamese double agent. Trial set for Oct 20 with Capt Leland J Ley and Capt Budge E Williams. Col Robert B Rheault's defense to be led by Edward Bennett Williams.
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Long Binh
Vietnam
Boston
F. Lee Bailey
Green Beret
Bailey
Robert F. Marasco
Bloomfield
N.J
Leland J. Ley
Duncan
Okla
Budge E. Williams
Athens
Edward Bennett Williams
America
Robert B. Rheault
Vineyard Haven
Mass
Rheault
Penn Central Names New President Gorman to Lead Rail Giant
Paul A. Gorman, 61, former Western Electric president, will become head of Penn Central on Dec 10 succeeding Alfred E. Perlman as president and chief administrative officer. Perlman to become vice chairman amid the merger of New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads. The company reports assets around $6.5 billion with last year’s consolidated net earnings of $90.3 million, while railroad operations lost $2.8 million.
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Philadelphia
Paul A. Gorman
Penn Central Co
Western Electric Co
Alfred E. Perlman
Stuart T. Saunders
Penn Central Board
Perlman
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Gorman
Carrollton
Western Electric
University of Missouri
New Jersey Bell
American Telephone and Telegraph
Water Flow Restored to Jordan Ghor Canal in Secret Deal
Report says Israel allowed Jordan to repair the 40 mile Yarmuk canal after Jordan agreed to enforce the Arab Israeli cease-fire in the Jordan and Beisan valleys. A 30 man crew began repairs Monday and water resumed by afternoon. US mediated at Jordan’s request. Guerrilla activity and retaliatory strikes followed along the border.
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Associated Press
Jordan
Ghor
Israel
Beisan
United States
Yarmuk
Guer Ss
Sea of Galilee
Zafririm
Jerusalem
Warm spell lifts New York amid sun and clouds
Albany reports a milder fall start with temperatures near 70s and 80s after frosty 20s and 30s last week. Fog lingered in eastern areas while Adirondack sites logged above freezing. forecasters call the month warmer and drier than normal with partly cloudy skies and scattered showers in the east.
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Albany
N. Y
New York State
Adirondack
Forest-Ranger School
Wanakena
Adirondacks
Weather Bureau
New York City
New York
Lake Ontario
Unions Back U S Plan to Curb Construction Costs
Atlantic City reports union leaders cautiously support a White House commission studying construction inflation. They blame high interest rates and rising land and material costs more than wages, while pledging cooperation to present labor views. President Nixon named union leaders to the commission to address labor-management tensions and inflation.
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U. S
Atlantic City
N.J
White House
C.J. Haggerty
Afl-Cio Construction and Building Trades Department
Nixon
Haggerty
Labor
Building Trades Union
Special Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Commission
Nixon Seeks 662 Million for SST Development
President Nixon announced a request for 662 million dollars over five years to develop a supersonic transport aircraft the SST. He argued the United States must lead in world aviation while acknowledging debate over cost practicality and noise.
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Washington
Nixon
United States
White House
Congress
John A. Volpe
Volpe
U.S
Gould Charges Campus Radicals and Unions Weaken Universities
Hamilton New York AP Chancellor Samuel B Gould of the State University warned that student radicals and expanding faculty unions threaten American universities. He spoke at Colgate University during its 150th anniversary asserting campuses resemble a game farm without keepers and that universities risk universal intellectual mediocrity by joining public passions without considering consequences.
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Gould
Hamilton
N.Y
The
State University
Samuel B. Gould
Colgate University
Joser
Cohn Defends Self as Jury Selection Opens in Bribery Trial
In New York, Roy M. Cohn, 42, faces bribery conspiracy and extortion charges in a federal trial. Judge Inter B. Wyatt denies Cohn’s disqualification bid and orders jury selection to begin. The case centers on 1962 city condemnation of bus lines run by Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, where Cohn served as counsel and director.
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New York
Roy M. Cohn
Inter B. Wyatt
Cohn
City
Fifth Avenue Coach Lines
Egypt accuses U.S. of violating UN charter on Israel support
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad charged that U.S. military and political backing of Israel breaches the United Nations charter and harms prospects for peace in the Middle East during a statement from United Nations headquarters in New York.
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United Nations, N.Y
Mahmoud Riad
U.S
Israel
U.N
Middle East
Supreme Court Denies Delay in DNC Demonstrators Trial
Justice Thurgood Marshall rejected a request to delay the trial of eight demonstrators linked to last summer’s Democratic National Convention disturbances. The defendants face charges of conspiracy to travel interstate with intent to engage in noting.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
Vention
Four Die as Car Exhaust Clears Skunks in Ontario
Four people died in Little Current Ontario when a car backed to a door of Daniel Minnan's house and exhaust pipe was run through a floor hole to clear skunks from under the house at West Bay Indian Reserve. Police said all doors and windows were sealed.
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Ont
West Bay Indian Reserve
Daniel Mignan
Erie LV Sues Central Over ICC Merger Violations
Erie Lackawanna Railway Co files a $4.3 million damages complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington against Penn Central Co. The suit alleges a flagrant violation of protective merger conditions set at the January 1 consolidation, outlining breach of agreed safeguards.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Penn Central Co
Erie Lackawanna Railway Co
ICC
New _e Railroad
Penn Central
Police Seek 14YearOld After Abandoned Bicycle Found
Police in Ogdensburg New York searched for a 14 year old boy whose bicycle was found abandoned and damaged near the city. The AP report notes the missing youth was last seen in the area as investigators pursue leads and request public tips.
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Ogdensburg
New York City
Missing Bay Youth Patrick Small Disappears
Missing Bay police report Patrick W. Small son of Mr and Mrs Irving Small of Ogdensburg was found missing Monday. His bicycle with a crumpled front wheel was later located on a road east of his home.
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Patrick W. Small
Irving Small
Ogdensburg
Judge Winter Would Have Avoided Buying Haynsworth Stock
Judge Harrison L. Winter testified that he would have avoided purchasing Brunswick Corp. stock by Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. under the circumstances, though he did not believe he would have been legally disqualified. He noted a Brunswick ruling in a related case was publicly filed after Haynsworth bought the stock.
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Haynsworth
Ay Committee
Aynsworth
Brunswick Corp
Winter
Brunswick
Nixon
4Th Circuit
Supreme Court
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Plane Crash Near Mexico City Kills Many
In a Sunday crash near Mexico City, Mexicana Airlines Boeing 707 slammed short of the runway in drizzle. Of 111 aboard 30 are dead, five crew members died, more than 50 injured with nine in serious condition. Bodies recovered include 25. crane and bridge work ongoing to lift wreckage from swamp.
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Mexico City
Chicago
Mexicana Airlines
International
Acapulco
Civil Aeronautics
Boeing Co
Seattle
Soviet says reply soon to Nixon missile talks bid
The Kremlin said it would reply soon to Nixon’s bid to begin U S Soviet discussions on curbing the nuclear arms race. Gromyko did not define soon and the delay dimmed hopes for a disarmament parley. Rogers and Gromyko met for a three hour dinner and discussed the Middle East UN issues Germany Berlin and the nonproliferation treaty.
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Nixon
United Nations
N.Y
Kremlin
Andrei A. Gromyko
William P. Rogers
U.S
Germany-Berlin
Vietnam
Red China
Gromyko
Middle East
Joseph Sisco
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Rogers
Women Conducting Meat Boycotts Spread Nationwide Movement
Housewives who led local supermarket meat boycotts report only partial price drops but say the movement is expanding nationally. In Levittown and nine Long Island groups, 1,500 women are organized or forming to push lower meat prices, with affiliates forming in Florida Colorado Virginia and Connecticut.
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New York
Mickey DiLorenzo
Levittown
Long Island
DiLorenzo
Bureau of Labor Statistics
FLP
Melbourne Beach
Fla
Fort Collins
Colo
Arlington
Shelter Rock
Conn
Chicago
Prime Beef on Municipal Tree Planting and Sidewalk Pots
Citizens question the August tree planting move and its costs arguing for spring or fall timing. They worry concrete sidewalk pots on East Bridge St narrow sections may impede snowplows and wonder if pots will be removed in November.
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