Reds Hold Hill Fort Against Marines Near DMZ
Marines and South Vietnamese troops battled to seize a hilltop fortress near the DMZ as heavy artillery and air strikes pounded entrenched Viet Cong bunkers. Despite two days of fighting the Reds held the position, with Marine losses listed at 13 killed and 63 wounded and 190 Viet Cong killed nearby. Additional clashes near Quang Tri city yielded about 150 Viet Cong killed. The operation, called Lam Son 64, aimed at key bases including Con Thien Dong Ha Camp Carroll Cam Lo and Khe Sanh.
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Saigon
Upi
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
U.S
Con Thien
Dong Ha
Camp Carroll
Cam Lo
Khe Sanh
Quang Tri City
Soviet Union accuses U S of bombing its ship in Vietnam port
Moscow alleges U S planes hit the Soviet merchant Turkistan in Cam Pha near Haiphong wounding two sailors. Washington denies confirmation while reviewing flight paths. The incident prompts警 strong Soviet warnings of possible measures to protect ships amid broader Mekong Delta fighting and bomber raids on Quang Ngat province.
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Moscow
UPS
Soviet Union
U.S
Turkistan
Cam Pha
Haiphong
Washington
Pentagon
United States
U.S. Pacific
Adm. Ulys
Andrei Gromyko
John Guthrie
Llwellyn E. Thompson
Vietnam
New York Officials Meet Hippie and Youth Delegations
City leaders met with Lower East Side hippie representatives and a largely Negro and Puerto Rican youth delegation to defuse violence after a Thursday clash in Tompkins Square Park. Police intervened as 500 teens attacked about 2,000 hippies amid shouting and rioting threats, prompting the mayor to arrange talks with Water Commissioner James Marcus to address community tensions.
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New York
UPI
Lower East Side
Tompkins Square Park
Wendy Allen
Evers urges Mississippi Negro youths to refuse induction
Civil rights leader Charles Evers called on draft age Negroes in Mississippi to refuse induction until Negroes sit on state Selective Service boards. He noted 29 of 82 counties are mostly Black and no Black board members exist. He warned that previously boards were lily white and urged desegregation by June 1. He said Black youths must avoid serving under segregated boards while fighting for equal rights.
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Jackson, Miss
UPI
Charles Evers
Mississippi
Evers
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
U S claims two thirds of North Vietnam power destroyed
U S defense officials said bombers damaged about sixty seven percent of North Vietnam electric power facilities in raids focused on Hanoi Haiphong thermo power plants. They also reported significant damage to Thai Nguyen iron and steel works Haiphong cement plants and MIG bases near Hoa Lac Kep and Kien An.
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U.S
Dmz
Saigon
North Vietnam
Hanoi- Haiphong
Red River Delta
Panhandle
Pho Ly
Hanoi
Thanh Hoa
China
New China News Agency
Mekong
Palm Beach
Washington
UPI
Defense Department
Haiphong
Pentagon
Thai Nguyen
Hoa Lac
Kep
Kien An
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Assis
Warsaw
Russia
Ses S
Lloyds Register of Shipping
Oregon
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Hom River
Quang Ngat
Nyc
Stone Trial
London
Brian Jones
Jones
Prince Stanislaw Klossowski de Rowla
Baron of
Watteville
Mick Jagger
Keith Richard
Buon Nativadad
Rome
Italy
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