Laird seeks $70 million aid for South Viet Nam Army
President Nixon aide Melvin Laird toured Saigon to discuss a renewed U.S. push for roughly $70 million in追加 funds to bolster South Vietnamese armed forces. He said American troops would be gradually replaced by Vietnamese units as they grow stronger, with no timetable given. The officer noted intensified rocket and mortar attacks on Saigon during the spring offensive, and discussed Paris talks on mutual troop withdrawals.
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Saigon
Alfied
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Saigo
Laird
Nixon
Ordey
Paris
Vietnam
United States
Viet nurse freed by Viet Cong after yearlong captivity
Miss Renate Kuhnen, a West German nurse, was freed by Viet Cong guerrillas near Kontum, Vietnam, two days before her 28th birthday. She had been held since a March 1968 raid on Dr. Patricia Cain Smith's hospital near Kon So Gai. She described decent treatment and hard labor, with rice as staple, during captivity.
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Kontum
Vietnam
Renate Kuhnen
Patricia Cain Smith
Kon So Gai
Montegnard ‘Ribal Village
Dr. Smith
Seattle
Wash
Miss Kuhnen
Trapped Miner Emerges After 200 Hours in Mine Rescue
Jones, a veteran miner with 20 years in the field, survived 200 hours trapped at the 1300-foot level as air and water slowly reached him through a drilled hole. Rescue crews battled rocks and cave-ins with help from a backup team before Jones crawled three feet to safety to cheers from about 500 onlookers.
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Jones
Ken Squires
Buck
Don O. Willie
Propos
Ima
Willie
Walt Graham
King Killer Accepts 99 Year Plea Deal
In a tense courtroom Judge Battle accepted a plea from Ray for murder in the first degree and a 99 year sentence. Ray waived appeals and future trials, stating the sentence was the promised outcome. Foreman announced a waiver of trial and cautioned there was no conspiracy evidence. Canale, attorney general of Shelby County, said no conspiracy had evidence at any time.
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Battle
Rey
Ray
Foreman
Canale
Shelby County
Egyptian General Riad Killed as Artillery Duel Rages
Egyptian crowds mourn Gen. Abdel Monem Riad, chief of staff killed by Israeli shelling near Suez. Nasser leads tributes as Palestinians join funeral in Cairo. U.N. observers cite Egyptian artillery after Israeli attacks along the canal. Israel reports MIG down and claims, while Egypt reports losses including tanks and pilots.
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Abdel Moneim Riad
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Riad
Egypt
Cairo
al Fatah Organization
U.N. Oeservers
U.N
Suez
Israel
al Ahtam
Ismailian
Ismailia
Mohammed Fawzi
Gamal Abdel -Nasser
Abdel Hakim Amer
Nasser
Suez Canal
Teachers Boycott in Watts Shuts Southwest College
In Los Angeles forty one teachers at Southwest College threaten to boycott classes until campus security improves. Spokesman Robert Williams says teachers will return only when district administration guarantees a secure environment for students staff and faculty amid bombings vandalism and campus unrest linked to Carver Junior High School incidents. A Black Students Union member was arrested sparking a sit in and melee with injuries and arrests. A Negro student group vows to shutter area schools in protest. In Kansas City a Powell address at UMKC ended with a no show and a large audience departing after an hour.
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Los Angeles
Southwest College
Robert Williams
al. Southwest
Carver Junior High School
Black Students Union
BSU
Black Students Alliance
Carver Junior High
Apollo 9 May Change Site of Its Splashdown
Apollo 9 faces a possible change in splashdown area as a 28 second engine burn is tested to adjust orbit after signals point to a fuel gauge system issue. Weather concerns near Bermuda and the east coast could affect landing timing with winds near 60 knots at Bermuda.
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Asronauts
Ross
Apollo 9
McDivitt
Roosa
South
Texas
Florida
ROCSA
Bermuda
Space
Evictors Kill Six in Chile Crackdown on Squatters
Police firing during an eviction in Puerto Montt Chile left six dead and four wounded as about two thousand squatters attacked with stones and iron bars. Officers responded with gunfire after a policeman was wounded, escalating a chaotic clash Sunday.
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Puerto
Monit
Chile
UPI
Major Crimes Show Big Increase in LB
Long Beach homicide totals surged in 1968 with 82 slayings up from 17 in 1967 and forcible rapes rising from 117 to 145. Robbery, burglary, larceny, and auto theft also climbed, while aggravated assault fell. Nationwide crime rose across major categories per an FBI quarterly report.
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Long Beach
FBI Quarterly
U.S
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Southland
Anaheim
Garden Grove
Los Angeles
Torrance
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S. Viet Army
U. S
Bien Hoa
South Vietnam
U.S. 4Th Division
Konlum City
Dr. King
A-1
Shell
Watts
Powell
University
Kansas City
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Adam Clayton Powell
Dn.y
Bill Ding
Davenport Roden
Apollo
Mission Contra
Jim
Stuart Ross
Mission Control
Schweickart
Walt Murray
Welch’s
Welch's
San Antonio
Atlantic
Tau
Ear
Ith
Federal Savines OF
Pine Mimlerk
E. Ocean Ave
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