Names Remain of U.S. Marine Bases in Vietnam After Decades
AP Special Correspondent recalls Marble Mountain to Khe Sanh, once battle sites where Marines and soldiers fought from Da Nang to the 17th parallel. Now bases are repurposed or abandoned, with only names like Monkey Mountain and Hamburger Hill evoking the war memory.
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George Esper
DA Nang
Vietnam
Marble Mountain
Monkey Mountain
Hai van Pass
Quang Tri
Dong Ha
Con Thien
Khe Sanh
U.S
Vietnamese People’s Committee
Communist Party
South China Sea
Lim
Stray missile draws apology from Soviets
Moscow admitted a target missile during Barents Sea exercises might have entered Finnish and Norwegian airspace and apologized to both nations. Tass blamed a mechanical fault for the disappearance of the missile, noting it could have partially crossed into Norway and Finland. No wreckage was found after a hunt in Arctic Finland.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Barents Sea
Finland
Norway
Tass
Norwegian
Arctic
Oslo
Svenn Stray
Priest's murder shocks Poland as police testify
A secret police lieutenant in Poland testified that he cooperated with investigators over the killing of priest Jerzy Popieluszko, calling the murder frightful and cruel and saying he could not live with it on his conscience. The trial exposed flaws in the interior ministry and sparked national outrage.
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Torun
Poland
Chmielewski
Popieluszko
Interior Ministry
Cambodian guerrilla camp braces for likely Vietnamese assault
Cambodian resistance leader Gen. Dien Del oversees Ampil bunker works as 12 000 frontline troops prepare against Vietnamese forces. Reports say Hanoi uses long range howitzers and a nonlethal battlefield gas at Ritchisen, with China supplying rifles and antitank weapons. Masks are being sewn by local women.
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Ampil
Cambodia
Vietnam
5Th
Ritchisen
Khmer People’s National Liberation Front
Dien del
Lon Nol
Khmer Rouge
Liberation Front
Phnom Penh
Hanoi
China
Ritchisen Camp
Cambodia fights rage as general quotes 5000 fighters
In Cambodia fighting intensifies near the Thai frontier where about 5,000 guerrillas are dug in along Ampil defense lines. The camp once bustling with 23,500 residents fled a week ago after shelling by Vietnamese forces, leaving a quiet, wary civilian population amid the conflict.
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Ampil
Gandhi calls for reconciliation and balanced ties amid new government
In New Delhi the prime minister urged reconciliation with Sikhs and better ties with neighbors and superpowers. He pledged to combat violence and fanaticism while prioritizing Punjab crisis resolution and strengthening U S and Soviet relations after a landslide victory.
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New Delhi
India
Rajiv Gandhi
Reagan
Nikolai Tikhonov
Gandhi
United States
Soviet Union
Climbers reach jet's wreckage on Illimani Mountain
Bolivian climbers braved sub zero temperatures and high winds to reach the Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 wreckage at about 21 000 feet on Illimani. No survivors were found according to Eastern Airlines. U.S. officials and military helicopters prepared to assist retrieval as weather delayed efforts.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Eastern Airlines
Illimani Mountain
Asuncion
Paraguay
Illimani
U.S. Air Force
McGuire Air Force Base
Washington, D.C
Felix Forestiers
Marian Davis
U.S
Arthur Davis
William Kelly
Peace Corps
Jonathan Watson
U.S. Marine
Eastern
Larry Campbell
Kenneth Rhodes
Mark Bird
Miami
J.B. Loseth
Haywood H. Hargrove Jr
Houston
Airlines
Paula Musto
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Egypt
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Ohio
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