Life and Death in a Vietnam Hospital Ward
AP photographer Horst Faas recalls a night in the 24th Evacuation Hospital at Long Binh. A tall sergeant with critical wounds dies. nurses and doctors race to save others as 400 enemy casualties are reported on TV.
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Long Binh
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Ortiz brothers on leave from Roswell Army posts
Pvt. Eustacio Ortiz returns home to Roswell for holidays with his parents Abraham and the late city home. He joined the army in June after Goddard High Class of 1966, trained at Ft. Bliss and Ft. Belvoir in Engineer Equipment Repair. His brother Ignacio Ortiz also serves in the armed forces and accompanies him.
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Capital University votes to end mandatory chapel
The Board of Regents at Capital University in Columbus votes to abolish compulsory chapel attendance. President Harold Yochum says the change lets students show Christian commitment and personal responsibility by participating in worship programs without a set requirement.
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Board of Regents At
Capital University
University
Harold Yochum
Virgin Prairie Strip Retained as Preserve
Mattoon Illinois reports a tiny virgin prairie preserve may be staked out along the Illinois Central tracks between Carbondale and Urbana. SIU botanist Robert Muhlenbrook has led students to a mile long patch about 40 yards wide beside an abandoned roadbed and the university will lease the land from the railroad for $1 a year to maintain the area. In Washington, Sen Clinton P Anderson receives a new medal from the Federal Land Bank recognizing his leadership as Agriculture Secretary 1945 48.
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Robert Muhlenbrook
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Carbondale
Urbana
Washington
Clinton P. Anderson
D-N.m
Federal Land Banks
William G. Plested Jr
Federal Land Bank of Wichita
Anderson
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