Cambodian Capital Under Siege As Airlifted Supplies Are Destroyed
The 7th division blew up recent U.S. airlifted supplies and moved five miles closer to Phnom Penh. Rebels shell Tuol Kork and ignite fires while government warplanes still strike from Pochentong. Khieu Samphan plans a new government if the city falls. Sihanouk denies Communist ties.
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Phnom Penh
UPI
Cambodia
Tuol Kork
Paris
Norodom Sihanouk
Khieu Samphan
Khmer Rouge
Lon Nol
Sihanouk
Pochentong
Armored Personnel Carrier Corps
Samrong
Hong Kong- Saigon
PDT
SOS
Takhmau
Bassac
Takhman
7Th Division
Major attack shapes up as Bien Hoa airbase hit
Communist artillery battered Bien Hoa airbase outside Saigon grounding most F5 jets. A37s were shot down near Ben Tranh, and bomb dumps exploded as turmoil spreads toward Xuan Loc. Civil casualties reported in Tan An with rockets striking Long An. Thousands flee Phnom Penh as Cambodian forces counterattack.
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Saigon
UPS
South Vietnam
Bien Hoa
Xuan Loc
Long An
Tan An
UPI
Leon Daniel
Beirut clashes intensify as Palestinians and Phalangists clash
Heavy fighting with mortars grenades and machine guns erupts in Beirut suburbs for a third day. Deaths and injuries are reported but figures vary with police and government assessing potential troop involvement to restore order.
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Beirut
UPI
Chiyah
Suleiman Franjieh
American University Hospital
Pierre Gemayel
Lebanon
Gemayel
Franjieh
Mahmoud Ammar
Phalangists
Ukiahi site of student conference
Student leaders from Mendocino Lake Napa Solano Sonoma and Marin Counties gather at Ukiah high school for a regional Student Leadership Conference. CASC Region IV sponsors the all day event with state officials and keynote speaker Assemblyman Barry Keene.
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Ukiah High School
California Association of Student Councils
Mendocino
Lake
Napa
Solano
Sonoma
Marin
CASC
Barry Keene
A.S.R
International search for Rembrandt stolen from Boston museum
Customs officials launched an international hunt for a half million dollar Rembrandt painting taken at gunpoint from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Two robbers slugged a guard, fled in a gold car amid mid day traffic, and the 23 by 16 inch portrait titled Elizabeth Van Rijn was valued well over a half million dollars.
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Boston
UPI
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Merrill C. Rueppel
van Dykes
Rubens
Rueppel
Elizabeth van Rijn
Rembrandt
George Mankowski
Mankowski
Elizabeth Paine Metcalf
Robert Treat Paine
R. van Rijn
Mendocino College Trustees Set Special Meet on Site-Finder Panel
Mendocino College trustees will hold a 4 30 p m special meeting at the Fairgrounds interim campus to form a 15 member citizen site finding advisory committee. The panel will review potential permanent campus sites including Redwood Valley and Mendocino State Hospital grounds with a deadline to propose 3 5 leading sites by August 1.
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Ukiah
City Hall
Greater Ukiah Chamber of Commerce
Mendocino College Board of Trustees
Fairgrounds
Andrew Beckstoffer
Mendocino State Hospital
Beckstoffer
Agora Architects
Gwathmey
Redwood Valley
Lake County
Mendocino Coastal Free Territory
Vinifera
New Board
Billie Smith
William Daniel
Walter Camp
Star Route
Willits
al Canepa Jr
Carol Newby
Donna Ek
Lew Fortin
MSH
Pete DeVries
Ford open to contingency fund plan for Vietnam evacuees
Secretary Kissinger told the Senate Appropriations Committee the President would back a congressional plan to create a contingency fund to aid in evacuating Americans from South Vietnam. The plan, proposed after a White House meeting, could reach up to 722 million dollars, with possible reductions. Ford seeks 722 million in military aid plus 250 million in humanitarian aid and broader authority to use troops for evacuations.
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Washington
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
Ford
South Vietnam
Kissinger
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
White House
U.S
Congress
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Barbero
Don Smith
Redwood Empire
Ukiahi
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