North Viets On Move In Laos Near Key Positions
North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces threaten Luang Prabang region positions on the Plain of Jars. Reports describe night attacks on Phon Kaul and uncertainty over Xieng Khonam airfield loss. American sources note helicopter use and heavy fighting with Meo tribesmen and Thai/South Vietnam air support.
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Maonge Sat
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Muerk
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Sourves
Mekong River
Tang Vrabane
Xiene Lom
Pak Bong
Pak Rong
Ta Wn
B52s Raid Laos DMZ in Heavy Bombing Campaign
U S bombers carried out large raids on Laos near the Ho Chi Minh trail and along the DMZ in South Vietnam. About 152 aircraft dropped thousands of tons of bombs targeting supply depots and infiltration routes, with watercraft and coastal staging areas also hit. Reports say North Vietnamese replacements may be arriving in the 3rd Corps region, and allied forces pressed patrols and bombardments across multiple fronts while awaiting a broader campaign.
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Laos
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Laois
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Dmz
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Sale Kon
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Mansfield Pushes Full Report on Safeguard Missile System
Senate leader Mike Mansfield urged the Nixon administration to reveal full cost and feasibility details of expanding the Safeguard anti ballistic missile system. He pressed Melvin Laird for facts on radar reliability and total system expense during a state armed services hearing. The ABM program faces site proposals at Whiteman Missouri and Warren Air Force Base Wyoming amid local talks in Sedalia Maine and other communities.
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State Armed Services Committee
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Laird
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Warren Air Fares Base
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Cheyenne
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Sedalia
Hlos Itonrest
Ralph Walker
Seda
Nisan
Montana
North Dakota
State Officer To Help Vets Get Benefits
Maryland veterans and dependents can access benefits from federal state and royal governments. Rolin McCardell assistant state service officer of the Maryland Veterans' Don Mission urges eligible people to contact him at City Mall office from 9 am to 4 pm for assistance with monetary benefits and other entitlements.
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Maryland Veterans' Don Mission
McCannell
City
Crampton Promoted to Army Specialist Five in Vietnam
Ronnie 1 Crampton, son of Mrs. Margaret Crampton of Sharpsburg Route 2, was promoted December 12 to Army specialist five. He serves as a personnel specialist in Headquarters Company and Band of the 4th Infantry Division's Support Command near Pleiku in Vietnam. His age is not fully legible.
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Pleiku
Israel weighs retaliation after Swissair crash and Austrian blast
Swiss investigators sift wreckage of the Switzerland bound airliner that crashed killing 47 as Israel's Premier Meir and cabinet meet for nine hours to discuss retaliation. Swiss officials cite possible criminal act and a link to an Austrian flight bombing in Frankfurt. Four European airlines suspend Israel service. emergency teams assess evidence while diplomats seek unified response.
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Israel
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Beir
Popular Front For the Liberation of
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Amman
Tat
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
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British European Airways
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Copenhagen
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Swissair Hight
Palestine
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Four Found Not Guilty In Housewife's Murder
Four defendants including Judith Kavanaugh’s husband Paul and Wayne Today publisher Harold Matzner and his wife Dorothe, along with Vincent Kearney Jr., were acquitted in the 1966 murder of Judith Kavanaugh. The case linked a counterfeit ring and a New Jersey crime era, with trial concluding four years after the homicide near Clifton.
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Paterson
Kavanaugh
Matzner
Laird Seeks Time to End Draft With Volunteers
Washington officials say end of the draft by 1971 is premature. Pentagon and Senate Armed Services leaders urge delaying the switch to an all volunteer force by years, citing pay boosts for first term soldiers and other measures as needed to boost volunteers.
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Laird
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Meet the Press
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