U S Troops Battle Viets Near Saigon
U S forces in South Vietnam engage near Saigon as operations in the A Shau Valley continue Lam Son 720. The 101st Airborne plans helicopter and artillery support with possible Laos targets while official troop counts trend downward toward a Nixon timetable.
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Stan Fisk
U.S
South Vietnam
Nixon
101St Airborne
A Shau Valley
1011St
Laos
101St
Lam Son
101St Division
Saigon
A Shau
Hue
Rain Snow Hit Center Of Nation As Storm Spreads
A spring storm brings showers and thunderstorms across the central states with snow in Ely Nevada and several inches expected in Rockies highlands. Warm Gulf air lifts into Minnesota, raising temps, while Pacific Northwest reports light rain and northern New England mixed precipitation. Temperature range 27 to 93 across the nation.
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Nation
Ely
Nev
Rockies
Stockman
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi Valley
Minnesota
Pacific Northwest
New England
Texas
Laredo
Federation Formed as Union of Arab Republics
The federation unites Egypt Libya and Syria with a planned single president, parliament, capital, flag, and anthem. Kuwait Jordan Lebanon and Sudan welcomed the move while Saudi Arabia and Iraq stayed silent. Pravda praised the union amid lingering Arab scepticism about its viability after past unity efforts. The establishment follows referenda slated for Sept 1.
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Egypt
Libya
Syria
Middle East
Israel
Kuwait
Jordan
Lebanon
Sudan
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Pravda
Ogden Nash in Critical Condition in Baltimore Hospital
Ogden Nash, 68, famed for humorous verse, was listed in critical condition Sunday night at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. He was admitted Tuesday with an undisclosed illness and his family asked for no further details. Nash debuted in The New Yorker in 1930 and has authored over a dozen books and three Broadway comedies. He has lived in Baltimore since 1965.
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Baltimore
Ogden Nash
Union Memorial Hospital
Nash
New Yorker
Eight Arrested In Death Of Panther Tie to Fire
Eight people, four men and four women, were arrested on weapons charges as police link the Queens killing of Black Panther Samuel L. Napier to a March 8 Harlem shooting connected to a party faction dispute. Napier, 32, who lived in the basement of Panther headquarters, was found gagged and shot after a deliberate blaze intended to cover the murder.
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New York
Black Panther
Queens
Black Panther Party
San Francisco
Harlem
California
Party
Huey P. Newton
Samuel L. Napier
West Coast
Napier
Panther
Manhattan
Mississippi Loyalists nominate Charles Evers for governor
In Jackson Mississippi the Loyalist Democrats nominated Fayette Mayor Charles Evers 48 as their candidate for governor making him the first black hopeful for Mississippi’s highest office The convention drew about 2500 attendees most of them Black Evers pledged to law and order and equal justice while the Loyalists seek national party recognition but lack state legal standing
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi
Fayette
Charles Evers
Evers
National Party
Democratic National
Pope Urges Purification of Hearts
Pope Paul VI urged Christians to defend their hearts from a world he called aggressive and morally lax. He spoke to a large crowd in St. Peter's Square during the Sunday blessing, contrasting ecological talk with the need to cleanse the human moral environment.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
St. Peter’s Square
Paul
Walker Installed As President at Russell Sage College
C U Walker takes the presidency at Russell Sage after six years at Hamline University. A Pitt graduate with Columbia and Stanford advanced degrees, he envisions education in the 70s as a liberating, ideas growing process. The two day installation featured social events and a panel on education’s future.
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Dr. Walker
Hamline University
St. Paul, Minn
University of Pittsburgh
Columbia University
Stanford University
Menlo College
Calif
Rockford College
Rockford, Ill
Cherie Hall Duckworth
San Francisco
Max Lerner
Martha Peterson
J. B. Hefferlin
McCloskey Claims U S Planes Destroyed Laotian Villages
Rep. Paul McCloskey says U S planes deliberately destroyed thousands of Laotian villages during an 18 month bombing period ending in 1968 70 and accuses officials of deception. He appeared on Face the Nation after an Indochina tour and urged halting all bombing to challenge Nixon in the GOP primaries.
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Paul N. McCloskey
U.S
Nixon
Laos
State Department
United States
California
Republican
McCloskey
Indochina War
CBS
Indochina
Vientiane
G. McMurtrie Godley
Nationalist China Plans Offensive Conference To Counter Communists
A conference of Nationalist China ambassadors will be held later this month with Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai presiding. The meeting aims to plan a strategy to counter the Communist China smiling offensive and to strengthen ties with allied nations.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
Chow Shu-kai
Blast Rips Catholic Church in West Leyden NY
A powerful explosion destroyed St. Mary's Church in West Leyden a village of 200. No injuries were reported though the pastor Rev. Thomas Driscoll collapsed from shock. Police awaited explosives experts to determine cause likely propane gas from a basement stove.
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N.Y
UPI
New York
St. Mary’s
Thomas Driscoll
Lewis County General Hospital
Lowville
Poughkeepsie Firemen Hit By Two Fires
About 100 firefighters battled two major blazes in Poughkeepsie New York one in a Main Street three story building and another boiler explosion at the Washington Street firehouse. Fireman Raymond Kihl Mire collapsed and died at the Main Street scene. Four others were treated for minor injuries. Damage was heavy at both sites and firehouse records were destroyed.
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Poughkeepsie
N.Y
UPI
Dutchess County
Washington Street
Main Street
Raymond Kihlmire
Soviets Plan Manned Spaceflight Ahead Of Orbital Station
Soviet sources say a Soyuz program crewed spacecraft may launch into earth orbit within two days as part of efforts toward an orbital space station. Details on crew size were not disclosed and no official confirmation was available.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Earth Week Kicks Off With Nationwide Cleanup Drives
Earth Week launches across the United States with activities from beach cleanups in Newburyport to bottle pickups in St. Louis and a Madison Avenue car ban in New York. Rhode Island University hosts seminars on Planet Earth Do You Have A Future while Nebraska aims to collect 100 tons of recyclables.
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Atlanta Zoo
Plum Island
Surfcasters’ Association of
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Mass
St. Louis
Sacramento
Calif
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42Nd St
57Th St
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Rhode Island University
Nebraska
Massachusetts Highway Dept
Francis X. Sargent
Milwaukee River
Wisconsin
Jordan River
Salt Lake City
Ohio
Abductors Shoot Couple Then Flee in Poughkeepsie
A young man Michael Gibbons twenty of Poughkeepsie and Ann Garramone of Little Ferry New Jersey were shot while escaping two men who abducted them from a parked car on a Poughkeepsie street. Gibbons was admitted to Vassar Brothers Hospital with a groin wound. Garramone was treated and released. Police said the pair bolted from the abductors’ car as gunfire erupted and a State Police alert was issued for the suspects.
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N.Y
Michael Gibbons
Ann Garramone
Little Ferry
N.J
Vassar Brothers Hospital
Gibbons
Miss Garramone
Four Airmen Missing After Caribbean Crash
Four U S Air Force enlisted men are missing after a single engine plane crashed off the southeast coast of Puerto Rico during a day off flight. Coast Guard divers will restart the hunt for bodies and wreckage after locating parts of the aircraft.
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San Juan, P.R
UPI
U.S. Air Force
Caribbean
Puerto Rico
Ramey Air Force Base
U.S. Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Train Service To Montreal Still Disrupted
Train service between Whitehall and Montreal remained disrupted Sunday night as crews repaired two washed-out track sections along the Lake Champlain shoreline near Port Kent. An assistant trainmaster said work began Friday and was expected to restore service today.
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Port Kent
N.Y
Delaware and Hudson
Whitehall
Montreal
Lake Champlain
Here
Thomas Welch
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