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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1970
Page
2
Disaster in Peru triggers floods and landslides across ten states affecting six million people. Communications collapse as radio operators assist relief while officials fear thousands dead and many injured from collapsing dikes and mud homes. Airstrips unusable hinder aid.
The article describes chaotic response after a major earthquake with reports of 2000 dead in Caraz, vanished towns near Yungay, and international aid moves. It notes American missionaries killed, Peace Corps workers lost, and relief from Peru, Chile, Argentina, the United States, and a Soviet ship offering medical help.
Two Soviet spacemen orbited Earth as Tass reported Soyuz 9 completed five orbits by morning. The craft lifted from Baikonur at 10 09 p.m. Monday and was said to endure weightlessness while carrying out flight plans. Orbit averaged about 86.59 minutes with a range around 129 to 137 miles above Earth.
North Vietnamese troops overran part of a South Vietnamese artillery base on a mountaintop near the Laotian border, with at least 46 South Vietnamese killed and 84 wounded and 15 missing. Casualties also reported among American and Australian advisers as the outpost, Tun Tavern, remained held by the enemy. The attack, believed from the 66th North Vietnamese Regiment, came as Allied operations in Cambodia limited southern attacks while northern bases faced fierce assaults.
In Washington a House subcommittee dispute over a secrecy label on four hours of testimony by Secretary of State Rogers centers on his reported opposition to sending American troops to Cambodia. The censored record omits much of the April 23 session while stressing Rogers’ opposition to ground troops, not the broader campaign.
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