Embattled camp holds line near Dak To fight continues
UPI reports Ben Het camp on three hills held despite a 48 day siege as 500 South Vietnamese infantrymen moved to open Route 512 toward Dak To amid heavy North Vietnamese shelling. Air resupply continued as artillery fire blocked helicopter landings. U.S. advisers note large enemy force in Dak To Kontum area with significant casualties on both sides.
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Ben Het
Dak
Dak To
Route 512
David Lamb
U.S
Green Berets
28Th
Dak To- Kontum
Dien Bien Phu
Lamb
August draft call 29,500 and Vietnam returnees
The Pentagon set an August draft call at 29,500 with 900 GIs due back from Vietnam by July 9. The Army will shrink overall by 13,000 as 8,000 withdrawals are not replaced and 5,000 more exits are not refilled, while first Vietnam returnees from the 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry, 9th Division depart July 8 for discharge or new assignments.
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Ft. Lewis
Tacoma
Wash
Weather Summary For Middletown And Regions Noted
Scattered showers and thundershowers are forecast for the Pacific Northwest Rockies Northeast Mid Mississippi Valley and Southern Florida. Fair to partly cloudy elsewhere with warm to hot conditions across the country. Showers end today clearing this afternoon with highs in the 70s and low 80s. Tonight will be partly cloudy with little temperature change and overnight lows in the 50s. Wednesday partly cloudy and mild with possible afternoon showers or thundershowers. Highs again in the 70s and 80s. Winds west to west 10 to 20 mph. Middletown rainfall 10 date 17.29 inches Yesterday 0.23 inches Last year 19.23 inches High Low H
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Pacific Northwest
Rockies
Mid-Mississippi Valley
Florida
Middletown
Family service may continue on same ship after Evans disaster
Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird emphasized that a family may keep serving together despite three brothers' deaths in the Evans disaster. He said it would be less compassionate to bar all family members from serving together in the long run.
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Washington
Evans
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Tiers Reraid thcorypD Vol. 13 Middletown News Note
Orange County publication dated 1909 publishes weekly editions from Middletown New York. The paper lists circulation rates and mailing details across Orange Sullivan Ulster Sussex and Pike counties with a daytime weekday schedule and a 1909 price of 25 dollars per year.
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Tomaday
Bone
Orange County Publications
Ottaway Newspapers Radio, Inc
Mulberry St
Middletown
N. Y
Carrer
Orange
Sullivan
Ulster
Sussex
Pike
Red Cross says Biafra relief exhausted amid starvation risk
Geneva relief spokesman warned three million in Biafra face slow starvation as food and medicine stocks run out after rationing began two weeks ago when relief airlift was suspended following a Red Cross aircraft shoot-down. Joint Church aid said daytime flights must resume soon to avoid a repeat of last July and August’s starvation death toll.
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Red Cross
Biafra
Joint Church Id
Tito hosts neutral conference in Belgrade
President Tito prepares to reopen Belgrade for a July 8 neutral conference aimed at mobilizing a group of unaligned nations. The event seeks a neutral role amid blocs and growing self agreement among neutrals, with talks hinting at improved ties with the Soviet Union and Gromyko invitation to Belgrade.
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Andrei Gromyko
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Long Beach
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Kan
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Belgium
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