South Viets Reds Fight Long Battle
Marines and U S forces clash with Communists along the Hoi An sector 360 miles northeast of Saigon as helicopters drop Leathern ecks into a muddy paddy. Fire from the hamlet and paddy dikes continues into the night while air and artillery support target enemy positions. Elsewhere Americal Division reports 13 enemy killed near Tam Ky with five Americans wounded. A hospital near My Tho is said to be mortared by guerrillas.
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Death Toll Mounts in Vietnam War Week
SAIGON AP reported the Vietnam War killed 166 Americans and wounded 1,397 in the week ending last Saturday, bringing total US casualties to 15,812 killed and 99,305 wounded since January 1961. Allied forces punched 1,523 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong deaths. The week marked the sixth straight decline in American battle deaths. In the Air War, Marine Intruders hit the Hai Phong bridge 24% miles from the port with heavy anti aircraft fire reported. Air Force F105s bombed Hoa Lac airfield 20 miles west of Hanoi using radar through bad weather.
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VIPs Put Strain On Viet Forces
VIPs visit Saigon as 38 congressmen seek time with Ambassador Bunker and General Westmoreland. A new U.S. directive requires armed escorts for leaving the Saigon area. VIP housing varies between hotels and U.S. guest houses. Cost estimates are unavailable. some trips are funded by committees or U.S. funds, others by lawmakers.
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Financier Guilty On 11 Charges In U S Court
New York AP Financier Lowell M Birrell 60 convicted in Federal Court on 10 counts of selling unregistered stocks and one count of conspiracy. Jury of seven men and five women deadlocked on five fraud counts, leading to a mistrial. Birrell allegedly rigged stock of American Le duce Petroleums Ltd between 1955 and 1958. He had left the United States in 1957 and lived in Brazil seven years. He returned in 1964 and pleaded innocent. He lives in Cape May NJ with court appointed lawyers.
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Leduce Petroleums, Ltd
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Nation hit by Asian flu across multiple states
The Asian flu outbreak spreads from the West Coast to the East with Iowa and Georgia reporting cases. Officials note pneumonia deaths tie to influenza totals while Florida Pensacola Naval Base reports 76 cases and Oklahoma City hospitals plead for patient flow control amid rising absenteeism and early school holidays in Bergen County New Jersey.
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Two Trucks Collide Killing Fourteen in Peru Crash
Fourteen people were killed and 35 injured when two trucks collided head on on the Pan American Highway near Chaneay, 351 miles north of Lima. Police reported a passenger-carrying truck was among the vehicles on a dangerous curve named Dona Maria.
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Postman Rescues Child From Bronx Building Explosion
New York AP Fort Lee postman George Triantafillou, 38, rushed into a demolished two story Bronx building after an explosion sparked fires across Delafield Avenue. He found a mother and her child amid wreckage as Con Edison crews worked on a gas leak. Nine injured in blast.
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Goat Temperature Record Sparks Curiosity
A fragment notes a claimed normal blood temperature for domestic goats as 1103.8 degrees Fahrenheit, attributed to mammals, prompting questions about accuracy and context in animal physiology discussions.
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