Viets launch offensive in Cambodia and poverty bill fight
The White House leads a lobbying push in the House to defeat a multibillion-dollar anti poverty bill with a new child care program. Conservatives oppose the provision while civil rights and labor groups back it, risking a Nixon dilemma. Ford and Southern Democrats assist in lining up votes against the measure.
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Washington
House
Nixon
Senate
White House
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Office of Economic Opportunity
Conservation
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Elliot L. Richardson
Richardson
Police search for leads in Galveston teen killings
Police pressed their probe into the execution style deaths of two 15 year old Galveston girls Debbie Ackerman and Maria Johnson. Bodies found in Turner's Bayou with hands and feet bound and .38 caliber gunshot wounds. Johnson last seen with a girlfriend. Ackerman found later in the bayou. Investigators reported possible leads and noted sexual activity before death but could not confirm rape.
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Galveston
Tex
Debbie Ackerman
Maria Johnson
Turner’s Bayou
Texas City
Everett Walker
Bayou
Miss Ackerman
Walker
Miss Johnson
Weekend violence deaths reach thirty in Texas
The Associated Press reports 30 deaths in Texas over the weekend with 23 from traffic crashes. Four motorists died in a six car pileup near Rosenberg. Victims include Casinero Sosa Olivia Sosa Jessie L. Jones Richard Vella and others from Huntsville Rosharon Fort Worth and Dallas. A separate car train crash felled Walton Wilson and family in Fort Worth. Police pursued a Dallas stabbing case as suspect Wadley was wounded while demanding a TV extension card.
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Associated Press
Texas
Arcola
Rosenberg
Casinero Sosa
Olivia
Jessie L. Jones
Rosharon
Richard Vella
John R. Truelove
Huntsville
Texas 19
Forest Hills
Fort Worth
Walton L
South Vietnamese, U S Air Power Launch New Cambodia Push
Thousands of South Vietnamese troops with U S air support attacked North Vietnamese supply lines in eastern Cambodia near Highway 7 about 90 miles northwest of Saigon. Initial reports say air strikes killed about 40 enemy soldiers near Chrum as an armored column led the advance from Tay Ninh with helicopters and advisers aiding the operation.
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Saigon
U.S
Cambodia
Chrum
Phnom Penh
Highway 7
Associated Press
George Esper
Tay Ninh
Esper
South Vietnam
Krek
Highway 22
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Pecos
John McGee
Ray Whitley
Odessa
Monya Hooker
East Pecos Junior High School
Kay Idol
Adams St
Safeway
Pecos Optimist Club
Becky Chavez
Frances Castillo
Agapita Matta
Bill Stroud
Jack Boswell
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