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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1971
Page
13
Michigan Democrats circulated oversized fake Nixon dollars as a gag to lampoon the president’s policies. The Secret Service confiscated the notes as counterfeit novelty items under federal law.
The U.S. Army acknowledged temporary confinement of GIs in large metal crates at Long Binh near Saigon, calling them 8 by 10 foot rooms with cross ventilation and not tiger cages. A deserter reportedly spent over 50 hours in a steel container before psychiatric evaluation.
South Vietnamese forces launch a two pronged push into Chup rubber plantation in eastern Cambodia. The operation begins with about 6 000 troops and more than 100 armored vehicles, part of a 25 000 man campaign to deny North Vietnamese staging areas and disrupt supplies. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong losses total 61 killed, while 11 South Vietnamese died and 17 were wounded. Paratroopers and rangers report 47 NVA killed with U S air strikes support. The Chup drive marks the deepest penetration into Cambodia since February.
Mary Ann Harbert, freed from Chinese custody after 30 years, says life on a rural commune with plantings, pets, and Chinese companions was not unpleasant. She played badminton and cards during captivity and denies any crime or trial.
Bandits fleeing a crowded department store opened fire killing Constable Jean Guy Sabourin aged 32 as he ticketed a car. They escaped after dropping a $50 000 payroll sack from Simpson department store, with a possible fourth getaway driver noted. Police report Sabourin the second Montreal officer killed in three months amid five wounded others.
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