Reds Overrun Fire Base Fuller In DMZ Breakthrough
North Vietnamese forces overran Fire Base Fuller and then pressed on to Landing Zone Sarge and Camp Carroll as air and artillery pounded three bases forming a triangle to block infiltrations into Quang Tri Hue plains. Several American technicians were missing after explosions and rocket barrages. the three bases remained in a high state of alert with ARVN leaders stressing the defense. In Cambodia, unmarked U S Army helicopters were photographed near Phnom Penh while intelligence sources cautioned the craft could evacuate wounded.
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Faller
Sarge
Camp Carroll
U.S
Fuller
Carrell
Carroll
Quang Tri-Hue
Army of the Republic of
Cambodia
South’ Vietnam
UPS
Kenneth J. Braddick
Pentagon study hints at 1963 Vietnam pullout plan
Knight newspapers publish Pentagon notes indicating U S policy makers considered a staged withdrawal from Vietnam with most troops leaving by 1967 and a small force remaining. The Diem overthrow and assassination altered plans and led to renewed U S involvement.
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Detroit
UPI
United States
South Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Pentagon
Knight Newspapers
Detroit Free Press
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
The
Free Press
Knight Group
Knight
U.S
Diem
Weather Report Skies Clear With Warm Weekend Outlook
Today's forecast calls for sunny weather and lower humidity with highs in the 70s. Tonight will bring increasing cloudiness and cooler lows in the 50s and 60s. Saturday has a chance of showers with highs in the 80s and southerly to variable winds around 10 mph. Rainfall figures show Middletown totals at 18.43 inches to date, with last year’s figures about 4 pinnes recorded and other prior totals around 19.15 inches and 7.53 inches.
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Wyenerday
Middletown
Moot point hearing in Meduinean case against Calley
A moot point hearing questioned the potential overturning of actions by Lt William Calley over Medina involvement. Bailey insisted the case be dismissed citing lack of evidence that Medina ordered the slaughter, with UPI telephoto credit.
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Caph
Ernest Meduinean
William Calley
My Lot
Medina
Calley
Bailey
UPI Telephoto
Unedited Pentagon Footage Demanded By Congress Leader
Rep Harley C Staggers chairman of the House Commerce subcommittee demands unedited footage of CBS The Selling of the Pentagon. He warns that media untruths could control the nation if allowed to continue and voices concern over today’s media sources.
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Washington
CBS
Pentagon
Harley C. Staggers
House Commerces
Page & T
India seeks US halt on military cargo to Pakistan
India demands Washington block shipments of arms to Pakistan and seeks assurances no further cargoes will be sent. Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh spoke in Parliament amid protests over reports that ships, including the Padma and Sunderbans, loaded arms and parts from New York under an American embargo. The State Department had referenced military equipment sales tied to Pakistan during the civil conflict.
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New
Delhi
United States
Pakistan
Sardar Swaran Singh
Singh
India
New York
Sunderbans
U.S. State Department
French 18th Century writing table sets auction world record
A Lebanese collector paid 415,800 at Christie's for a French 18th century writing table from Anna Thomson Dodge’s Detroit heiress collection, toppling records for furniture and a single session sale. Habib Sadet of Beirut bought the piece as crowds gasped at Christie's London rooms. Garden City notes Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk recalls 1954 as pivotal for Indochina and U.S. involvement, with comments to Newsday on Geneva accords and Vietnam.
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London
Detroit
Christie’s
Anna
Thomson Dodge
Habib Sadet
Beirut
Versailles
Christie's
Garden City
Norodom Sihanouk
Cambodia
United States
Indochina
Newsday
William Atwood
Sihanouk
Geneva
U.S
Queen Elizabeth Meets Public Despite Threats in Manchester
In Manchester the queen carried out a meet the people visit despite police reports of at least one threat to her life. Police suspected an IRA call and checked reports of a man with a gun near a parked car. The queen appeared unperturbed and continued greeting pensioners and their children.
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Manchester
England
Elizabeth
Irish Republican's Army
IRA
Irish Republic
Northern Ireland
Middletown Daily Record Circulation and Rates Notice
Publication details show a Middletown newspaper with home delivery 90 cents weekly, single copy 15 cents, Sunday Record 20 cents. Postage paid in Middletown. May 1971 paid circulation listed 46,920 with error in text and date.
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Tingle
Middletown
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