Grounded Victory Defies Odds at Fire Base Fuller
Report on the June 23-24 assault at Fire Base Fuller atop Dong Ha mountain near the DMZ. Despite independent U.S. assessments predicting defeat, North Vietnamese forces overran the base after heavy artillery and air strikes, highlighting stubborn enemy resolve and casualty costs. Recount includes statements by Brgt. Gen. Vu Can Giai and Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Lam.
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Quang Tri
South Vietnam
Saigon
Dmz
Brgt
Vu Can Giai
Fuller
Campaigners Fill Japanese Cities Ahead of Upper House Vote
In Tokyo and other cities campaigners handed out literature as voters prepare to elect half of the 252 seats in the House of Councilors. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, 70, may not seek reelection next year. A total of 308 candidates run, including 15 women.
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Tokyo
UPI
House of Councilors
Eisaku Sato
Diet
Best fed Salyut crew in spaceflight history
Soviet doctors in Moscow say Russia’s Salyut cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev are the best fed in spaceflight history. A Soviet Russia report notes a wide variety of meats cheese and vegetables served hot four times daily on the longer than 20 day mission with an on board oven for hot meals.
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Moscow
UPI
Russia
Salyut
Dupik
Police infiltrate Reading rock festival to arrest 80
Five hundred officers in beads and hippie garb infiltrated the Reading festival on the Thames attracting 30,000 fans. Eighty people were arrested for marijuana possession as a police lab and temporary jails were set up. Ken McGowan, a festival organizer, provided legal aid tents and rights leaflets while police questioned whether arrests respected detainees' rights.
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Reading
England
UPI
Thames River
London
Ken McGowan
McGowan
Death of famed Soviet rocket designer Isayev announced
Soviet Tass obituary signed by Brezhnev Kosygin and Podgorny states Alexei Isayev died Friday at 62. He led engine development for Vostok Voskhod Soyuz and interplanetary stations, regarded as the Soviet space program’s father and equal to von Braun in influence.
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UPI
Alexei Isayev
Wernher von Braun
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Isayev
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Nikolai V. Podgorny
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Voskhod
Kremlin
Serge Korolev
Soviet Union
America
von Braun
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