Klick From Citadel: Marines Counterattack Near Quang Tri
South Vietnamese Marines under Major Richard Rothwell face North Vietnamese forces in a fortified pocket near Quang Tri Citadel. A forward observer on a water tower directs artillery while U S jets strike with napalm and bombs to drive the NVA from the area.
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Quang Tri City
Vietnam
UPI
Maj
Richard Rothwell
Arlington
Rothwell
NVA
U.S
Panama Pan to elect People's Assembly in first post‑military vote
Panama's electoral tribunal urged 525000 eligible Panamanians to vote Sunday in the first election since the national guard seized power four years earlier. The race features 1658 candidates for 505 ward seats with abstention penalties, and the tribunal stressed civic duty and broad guarantees for a fair vote.
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Panama City
UPI
People’s Assembly
Panama
National Guard
EgyptLibya merger urged as war goal against Israel
Cairo paper Al Gomhouriya states the Egypt Libya merger should aim at waging war to liberate Arab lands occupied by Israel. It also says the United States is an enemy of the Arab people. Foreign Minister Ghaleb backs resuming UN mediation. An Israeli source reports border gunfire in the Golan Heights with no casualties.
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Cairo
UPI
al Gombhouriya
Egypt-Libya
Israel
United States
Murad Ghaleb
Egypt
United Nations
Golan Heights
Nablus
West Bank
Jordan
al Ahram
France
Libya
Britain
al Gomhouriya
Anwar Sadat
Muammar Khadafy
Hiroshima Prayer Service Marking A-Bomb Anniversary
Hiroshima observes the 27th anniversary of the first atomic bombing with a Buddhist temple bell toll and a brief prayer service. About 20,000 residents are expected to participate in the somber remembrance.
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Hiroshima
Japan
UPI
Peace Memorial Park
U.S. Army Air Corps
Eight strip mine permits issued in West Virginia
Eight permits covering 738 acres were issued by the state Department of Natural Resources. Recipients include Pocahontas Fuel Co 220 acres at Horsepen McDowell County and Princess Susan Coal Co 186 acres at Mammoth Kanawha County with six more in Cab in Creek Sherman District Boone County and Nicholas County plus one application by Rayburn Mining Co for 250 acres at Ragland Mingo County.
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Charleston
W.va
UPI
State Department of Natural Resources
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Horsepen
Big Creek
McDowell County
Princess Susan Coal Co
Mammoth
Malden
Kanawha County
Valley Camp Coal Co
Belle
Cabin Creek
Cedar Coal Co
Comfort
Sherman
Boone County
Imperial Coal & Construction Co
Leivasy
Kentucky
Nicholas County
Adkins Construction Co
Summersville
Hamilton
Masteller Construction Co
Shaw
Elk District
Mineral County
Rayburn Mining Co
Ragland
Lee
Mingo County
Protesters stall tank convoy in Yokohama
Five U.S. Army tanks bound for Vietnam were halted by about 100 antiwar demonstrators on a crowded Yokohama street at 1 a.m. The protestors, aided by Yokohama's left wing mayor invoking parking laws, kept the convoy stranded for 21 hours as it moved from Sagamihara to a dock.
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Yokohama
Japan
UPI
Vietnam
Sagamihara
Tokyo
Looting Surges in Flooded Laguna Province Towns
Widespread looting is reported in flooded Laguna Province towns with police in Los Banos ordered to shoot to kill. President Marcos warns tension rises in flood areas as survivors turn to snakes and rats for food. Death toll climbs to 427 per National Control Center. Looters dismantle roofs and raid poultry and hog houses including a 6000-chicken farm.
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Manila
UPI
Laguna
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Luzon
Marcos
National Control Center
Los Banos
International Rice Research Institute
University of the Philippines College of Agriculture
Agriculture College
Police show of force returns to Lower Falls streets
Two RUC officers in green flak jackets patrol the Catholic Lower Falls ghetto while about a dozen residents watch in wary silence. Soldiers follow at a distance as Shillington reopens the streets after IRA battles, with onlookers recalling past unrest and urging cautious progress toward possible peace.
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Donal O’higgins
Belfast
UPI
Lower Falls
Royal Ulster Constabulary
RUC
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Ulster Police
Graham Shillington
Divis Street
Gestapo
Billy
Peel Street
Conway Street
Percy Street
Leeson Street
The
Brigid Walker
Fischer opens commanding lead in world chess match
In Reykjavik, Fischer defeated Spassky in game 10 on move 56 to push to 6.5 points while Spassky holds 3.5. Rumors of a Russian illness and early return circulated among spectators, but Spassky's seconds dismissed the claims as groundless with the title still within reach for both players.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
UPI
Bobby Fischer
Boris Spassky
Spassky
Fischer
Moscow
Nikolai Krogius
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