End of war too late for paratrooper Ronnie Beets
Ronnie Beets, a Vietnam paratrooper and later paraplegic, died in an Odessa Texas hospital from lingering Viet Cong grenade injuries. His brother reported Beets kept fighting, firing some 2,000 rounds before his weapon jammed during Chu Lai combat in 1967.
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Oklahoma City
Ronnie D. Beets
Vietnam
Chu Lai
Japan
San Antonio
Long Beach
Ronnie Beets
Odessa
Tex
Beets
Ronnie
Saigon Deepens Criticism of U S Hanoi Peace Pact
Saigon issued its strongest rebuke to the U S Hanoi wartime accord as Washington voiced uncertainty about signing by Tuesday. Viet Cong pressed on, demanding Thieu's removal or a revised settlement while North Vietnamese and Kissinger talks continue in Paris.
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Washington
Saigon
United States
Thieu
South Vietnam
Spiro T. Agnew
Robert Dole
Kansas
Dole
Edward W. Brooke
Massachusetts
Nixon
Brooke
Educators tour NMRC and push for state vocational commission
State Board of Education members toured the New Mexico Rehabilitation Center in Roswell and later debated teacher tenure and certificates. They passed a resolution to create a state commission for postsecondary occupational education, tying funding to Title X requirements.
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State Board of Education
Roswell
New Mexico
Goddard High School
NMRC
Robert Swanson
Santa Fe
Irvwin Ashley Jr
Swanson
United States
Ashley
Jim West
State Department of Education
Leonard DeLayo
State Board of Educational Finance
Bill McConnell
BEF
Commission
DeLayo
Luciano Baca
Teacher of the Year honors Col E L Lusk in Albuquerque
Col E Lusk of Roswell received the Teacher of the Year Award from the National Retired Teachers Association at its state meeting in Albuquerque. He is president of the Roswell NRTA and a former NM teacher, superintendent, legislator and noted traveler. Fort Worth hotel demolition ends in seconds.
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E. L. Lusk
National Retired Teachers Association
Albuquerque
Lusk
Roswell National Retired Teachers Assn
Hospitality House
Cahoon Park
New Mexico Military Institute
New Mexico
Russia
Europe
Japan
Fort Worth
Tex
Worth
Cold wave warning extended to Roswell and plains
The National Weather Service in Albuquerque warns a cold wave covers Roswell and southeastern plains tonight into Tuesday with occasional snow and freezing rain. Temperatures plunge from 65 today to 25 tonight, then 34 Tuesday. freezing in Hondo Valley before sunrise Tuesday.
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Roswell
Plains
Albuquerque National Weather Service
Hondo Valley
National Weather Service
New Mexico
Rocky Mountains
Colorado
Wyoming
Arizona
North Dakota
Minnesota
Bismarck
N.D
Helena
Mont
California
Los Angeles
Mogollon Rim
White Mountains
The
Weather Service
Trains Crush in Chicago Rail Crash Kills 34
A rear end collision of two Illinois Central Gulf trains on Chicago's South Side during the morning rush hour left 34 dead and over 200 injured. Passengers reported a 20 second warning as rescue crews used bars to free the trapped amid screams.
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Chicago
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
H.G. Mullins
SC Gulf
National Transportation Safety Board
Washington
Barbar Kukulski
U S Navy curtails North Vietnam coast strikes
The 7th Fleet has sharply reduced naval operations below the 20th parallel and withdrew ships from the North Vietnam coast as part of de escalation for cease fire talks. Air attacks above the parallel are halted and bombardments in Haiphong area not yet deactivated. In South Vietnam government forces recapture hamlets near Dak To while heavy shelling by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong continues.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
U.S
7Th Fleet
North Vietnam
North Vietnamese
Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Hanoi
Haiphong
U.S. Command
Panhandle
Vinh
South Vietnam
United States
Washington
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Roswell Independent School District
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Ray Mitcham
State Board
U.s.-Hanoi
Agnew
Tran van Lam
National Council of Reconciliation and Concord
Paris
Henry A. Kissinger
South
Indochina
Kissinger
By Marilyn Holmes
Witer
Roswell and Vicinity
Associated Press and Record News
Haiphong Harbor
Thanh Hoa
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
le Trung Hien
Dak To
Kontum
Highlands
Hien
Dak Seang
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