Struggle to retake Quang Tri and Saigon announces gains
A chaotic battlefield report describes S Vietnamese efforts to retake Quang Tri while clashes intensify around Tam Quan Bong Son and nearby towns. North Vietnamese troops push toward Citadel walls as US naval bombardments disrupt coastal towns and civilian evacuations begin.
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Bong Son
Tam Quan
Hoai An
An Lay
Lhe Que Son
Ta Nang
Ielel
Lion
Body of Gambler Found in Long Beach Harbor
The body of Jewell Douglas Jones, 57, a Los Angeles gambler on probation, was found floating in Long Beach Harbor near Magnolia Street. He had stab wounds, hands and feet bound, and was tied with a gag. Detectives labeled it a gangland style killing with a recent gambling arrest record dating to 1961.
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Long Beach Harbor
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Jewell Douglas Jones
Magnolia Street
Pacific Ocean
James
Fischer in chess title lead in Reykjavik clash
Fischer edged Spassky in a dramatic third game to take a 2 1 6 lead in the world championship match. A large crowd cheered as Fischer opened with an unusual queen's bishop pawn push, a departure from his typical king's pawn start, and forced Spassky to resign after 41 moves.
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Fischer
Spassky
Vischer
No fear like blazing mine fire in Blacksville mine tragedy
BLACKSVILLE Va on Sunday a burly ex miner named Murray told how a mine fire trapped 12 miners at Consolidation Coal Co Blacksville No 1 mine since Saturday. He recalled his own 1967 near death in Tumplines Mine and said escaping after 144 hours felt like beating the devil. Murray now a machinist vows never to return to mining.
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Blacksville
Murray
Consolidation Coat Co
Mina
Consolidation
Tumpliies
Mor- Hanlon
Billy
Hils Cousin
Mine disaster sparks safety dispute at Blacksville pit
At the Blacksville coal mine Consolidation operation nine miners remain missing after an overhead cable sparked oil ignited by a moving mining machine. Arnold Miller and Leonard Popkovich accuse safety violations as the cause while Corcoran admits workers may have been behind the machine. The mine opened in 1968 and employs 325 men, producing about one million tons annually.
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Blacksville
Arnald Miller
Conslidate
United Mine Workers Union
Leonard J. Popkovich
Miller
West Virginia
Corcoran
Consolidation
Action Line: Discoloration from harmless dye linked to currents
Readers asked about harbor discoloration and pollution safety. Experts from USC and the California Water Quality Control Board said a harmless red dye traced water currents, not pollution. Community questions covered hiking clubs, Boy Scout Explorer Post 818, the Angeles Sierra Club, and Lakewood activities.
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C.R. Long Beach
University of Southern California
Action Link
California Water Quality Control
Los Angeles
Moon
Lakewood
Boy Scout Explorer Post
Weinhers
Karen Malerhofer
Action
Lo Wl Dorado Library
Studebaker Road
Malertoter
Television Interference Committee Meeting In Long Beach
The Associated Radio Amateurs of Long Beach forms a Television Interference Committee to address interference between ham radios and commercial radios or televisions. If the amateur operator is at fault they will correct it. if the fault lies with a receiver, they will suggest mitigation. Most amateurs use single sideband, which may be heard on other devices. Complainants are advised to write ARALB Television Interference Committee, PO Box 7493, Long Beach, California 90807.
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Long Beach, Inc
TYE Committee
Aralb
Long Beach
California
Ong Beath
Dockers close ports in Britain
Striking longshoremen shut down all major British ports to protest the jailing of five London dock workers who refused the nation’s new labor court. Thousands of workers in other industries joined a nationwide stop page as miners printers and truck drivers also walked out. Prime Minister Edward Heath met with Trades Union Congress leaders to seek a solution as the crisis widens, with market effects evident in the pound and stock exchange.
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Liverpool
Hull
Southampton
Manchester
Glasgow
Bristol
Swansea
Pawich
Edward Heath
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Trades Union Congress
Sadat vows Egypt will stand alone against Israel
In a Cairo University speech President Anwar Sadat said Egypt must stand alone if needed to confront Israel. He defended rejecting a peace by concession, praised Arab unity, and outlined efforts to ease US and Soviet tensions while noting Egypt’s expulsion of Soviet advisers.
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Israel
Anwar Sadat
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Soviet Union
Ganiel Abdel Nassar
Cairo University
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Cairo
Novvar
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