Hanoi Holds Fresh Redrive Pressure Across South Vietnam
North Vietnamese supplies flow toward the south as Hanoi eyes new attacks. The 1st Division repelled a Saigon block attempt in southeastern Cambodia. Analysts speculate divisions may join efforts to topple Thieu while Saigon tightens city security amid five fronts from Quang Tri to the Mekong Delta.
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Henry S. Bradsher
Washington Star
Saigon
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Demilitarized Zone
Quang Tri
Kontum
North Vietnam
Laos
Nguyen van Thieu
Suth Vietnam
Quang Tri-Hue
Binh Dinh
Mekong
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Equi
Paris
Henry A. Kissinger
Vietnam
le Duc Tho
Peking
Moscow
United States
Tho
USS
William J. Porter
Weather outlook for the week with varied clouds
Tonight cloudy with showers likely and a low in the mid 50s. Tuesday will have variable cloudiness with a high in the 60s. Wednesday turns partly cloudy and cooler. Thursday remains fair with seasonable temperatures. Map and details on page 17.
Fall of Quang Tri Threatens Hue as Vietnam War Advances
North Vietnamese forces captured Quang Tri after five days of heavy fighting, driving South Vietnamese troops from the provincial capital and threatening Hue. Reported evacuations varied as American advisers' status remained unclear amid the rapid central coast advance and disruption of Highway 1 north of Da Nang.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Quang Tri
Demilitarized Zone
da Nang
U.S
Kontum
Highlands
Hue
Thua Thien
Nixon
Highway 1
Thomas Bowen
Imperial
Anderson testifies on FBI snooping and press rights
Columnist Jack Anderson told a House subcommittee that FBI chief Hoover kept secret memos on intimate details of prominent Americans' lives for Johnsons bedtime reading. He urged end to over classification amid Nixon press suppression claims and noted Pentagon Papers context. A separate report from Racine, Wisconsin, details a Beechcraft crash near Lake Michigan.
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Jack Anderson
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
High
Lyndon B. Johnson
Anderson
House Government Information Subcommittee
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Nixon
Pentagon
Spiro Agnew
Agnew
Racine
Wis
Lake Michigan
U.S. Coast Guard
Cleveland
Neil Ruenzle
Coast Guard
Illinois Legal Assistance Fund aims to aid two million poor
The Illinois State Bar Association announced a statewide legal aid system for indigents. Morton Barnard said the Illinois Legal Assistance Fund could serve about 2 million people and seek funds from state, federal and private sources. The home office is in Springfield and 154 new attorneys would join 112 existing Illinois lawyers.
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Springfield
Illinois
Ilinois State Bar Association
Morton John Barnard
Illinois Legal Assistance Fund
Legal Aid
Quiet Saigon Linked to Rising War Anxiety
Saigon remains unusually calm as Hanoi offensive expands. Residents report nervousness from the absence of attacks with officials extending curfew and food hoarding fears. Americans note Saigon as a prime target and expect an eventual escalation.
May Day marches across nations as workers protest
Millions of workers marched in foreign cities in May Day demonstrations of labor solidarity. Communist regimes in East European capitals held major celebrations and East Germany displayed Soviet missiles in an East Berlin parade that Western allies called illegal and provocative.
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Associated Press
East Germany
East Berlin
Anna High School band concerts in Anna Illinois
The 76 member Anna Ohio high school varsity band traveled at least 300 miles to perform in Anna Illinois Sunday afternoon. Paul Workman the band director organized fundraising to charter buses and arranged a joint program with Anna Jonesboro Community High School band. The Anna Illinois town population is about 4000 and Anna Ohio reports a student body of over 300.
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Anna High School
Anna
Ohio
Paul Workman
Workman
Illinois
WRAJ
Til
Tex
Russia
Inl
Anna-Jonesboro
Anna, Ill
Government lifts wage and price controls on millions
The President's Cost of Living Council exempted small businesses and small government units with 60 or fewer workers from wage and price controls. Health and construction remain regulated, rent controls unchanged, while enforcement is tightened on remaining firms. about 5 million firms now exempt, affecting 500 billion in yearly sales and 19 million workers.
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Washington
Donald Rumsfeld
Pay Board
the Price Commission
Internal Revenue Service
Rogers Free Trade Defended by Secretary Rogers
Secretary of State William P. Rogers urged open world free trade as best for global and U.S. interests addressing business leaders at the Chamber of Commerce annual meeting. He warned protectionist walls risk retaliation and harming exports and rejected unilateral strategies.
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William P. Rogers
Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting
Rogers
Congress
U.S
Treasury and Commerce Departments
United States
State Department
Nixon rent board member charged with extortion
Rose Wylie a member of President Nixon's National Rent Advisory Board and her son Aaron Blandon 27 were charged in warrants with blackmail extortion and conspiracy for allegedly extorting 10000 from a contractor involved in an education program for the Philadelphia Housing Authority in 1970. Asst Dist Atty Harvey Sernovitz said Mrs Wylie's power over contracts came from her position as head of the Residents Advisory Board representing public housing tenants.
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Rose Wylie
Nixon
National Rent Advisory Board
Harvey Sernovitz
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Anna, Ohio
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