Young Architect Wins Memorial for Vietnam Dead
Maya Ying Lin, at 21 a Yale architecture student, won the national Vietnam Veterans Memorial design contest. Her low black marble V cuts into the ground and lists the names of all Americans who died in Southeast Asia from 1961 to 1975, including 38 who perished at the Mayaguez incident. The project was funded by public donations, with $1.2 million raised so far.
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Bess Truman Hospitalized After Hip Break at 96
Former First Lady Bess Truman, age 96, lay in fair condition awaiting surgery for a fractured right hip at Research Medical Center in Kansas City after apparently falling from her bed at home in Independence. Dr. Wallace Graham called the fracture serious and planned surgery to replace the damaged ball and thigh bone with metal, then reattach the limb.
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Five Children Die in Oakland Apartment Fire
Five children died when a fire swept through a second floor Oakland Housing Authority apartment building just before 1 am. Firefighters found four unconscious victims and could not revive them. the fifth was already dead. Authorities noted heavy smoke and chaos at the scene as investigators work to determine how many people were inside.
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Oakland Housing Authority
Heston Named Reagan Arts Task Force Co Chair In Washington
Actor Charlton Heston says his appointment by President Reagan as co chairman of a task force on the arts and humanities means he will resign his co chairmanships of the American Film Institute and the Center Theatre Group at the Los Angeles Music Center.
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