Engagement in A Shau Valley Launches New U S Offensive
Thousands of American troops sweep the A Shau Valley in Operation Montgomery Rendezvous near Hamburger Hill, continuing the Vietnam War's fighting along North Vietnam's corridor into South Vietnam. Since June 1 the offensive has killed 106 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, with American losses at 21 dead and 130 wounded, as U S field commanders call it a gallant victory while critics label it senseless. The operation follows the end of Apache Snow and involves the 101st Airborne Division, but no action has yet occurred around Hamburger Hill, the peak captured May 2 after 11 days of fighting.
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Saigon
UPS
A Shau
Hamburger Hill
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
U.S
101St Airborne Division
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
American missionary teacher killed by Arab shells near Jerusalem
UPI report says a 25 year old American missionary school teacher Shirley Anderson of Rochester was fatally wounded by about 70 Soviet made shells fired from Jordan at Qalya Beach near Jerusalem while she and Elaine Bonnet of Lodi California were on a tour. Bonnet was wounded in the arm as both prepared to swim.
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Jerusalem
Jordan
Qalya
Shirley Anderson
Rochester
Middle East
Elaine Bonnet
Lodi
Calif
Hadassah Hospital
F111 price doctored cited by cost expert witness
Air Force efficiency expert A. E. Fitzgerald testified at a congressional hearing that cost shifts occurred after his November remarks on the F111 and CSA budgets. He said Pentagon officials reallocated him to minor projects and accused officials of masking higher costs, including for the Mark II avionics system.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
A. E. Fitzgerald
Pentagon
Fitzgerald
Management Systems
House
Senate Economic Committee
CSA
Sen
B. Jordan
Idaho
Congressional
Defense Department
Defense
Robert M. McNamara
McNamara
Nixon orders war review of chemical and biological program
President Nixon ordered a detailed review of the U S chemical and biological warfare program including arms control and the Geneva protocol. The move follows criticism after a Dugway accident and plans to ship surplus lethal gases to sea were suspended amid protests.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
U.S
Richard D. McCarthy
Dn.y
Gerald Smith
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
McCarthy
Smith
United States
Army
Dugway Proving Grounds
Utah
Evans officer refuses to testify over Melbourne collision
Lt. J.G. Ronald C. Ramsey of the destroyer Frank E Evans declined to testify before a joint U.S. Australian inquiry panel, citing lack of guaranteed full constitutional rights. The move, first by an officer on either ship, could hinder the board’s effort to establish full facts of the June South China Sea disaster that killed 74 Americans. Ramsey’s counsel argued the panel cannot adequately advise him without access to prior witnesses and cross examination.
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Subic Bay
Philippines
Long Beach
Calif
Special Board of Inquiry
Evans
South China Sea
Frederick F. Tilton
Mariemont
Ohio
Ramsey
Tilton
University of South Dakota
Deserted Brooklyn Pier Reflects Longshore Strike Standstill
A Brooklyn pier and numerous New York area docks lie empty as a three day strike by the Masters, Mates and Pilots Union continues. The conflict centers on captains demanding top pay as vessel officers aboard merchant ships.
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Brooklyn
New York
Masters, Mates and Pilots Union
UPI Telephote
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Laos
Snietnam
CBA
New Jersey
Atlantic Ocean
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