Fierce action in Hue and Saigon in war’s bloodiest week
Allied planes tanks and troops battled Viet Cong on the outskirts of Saigon and in Hue for the fifth day of heavy fighting. Officials reported about 13,000 Viet Cong killed and 983 Allied dead including 318 Americans. Hue saw intense fighting with Marines and government forces assaulting the citadel.
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South Vietnam
Tan Son Nhut
Forbidden City
Perfume River
U.S
John Chaison
Imperial Citadel
NEA chief urges education push at Iowa meeting
NEA president Braulio Alonso urged teachers to unite and push for higher pay and improved working conditions. He cited NEA studies showing leaders in wage campaigns are experienced educators and pressed for a $6 billion urgent needs program funded by Congress. Delegates backed resolutions for scholarships, higher salary goals, better leaves, sabbaticals, and removing sales tax on school activity accounts.
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ISEA
Iowa
Dickinson County Teachers Association
Johnson
Capitol Hill
Arthur Okun
Council of Economic Advisers
James Duesenberry
Gardner Ackley
Italy
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Stanley to speak in Washington County February 13
State Senator David Stanley Republican candidate for U S Senator will visit Washington County Tuesday February 13 meeting two groups He will speak at 6 20 p m at the Washington Y M C A Community Room and at 9 p m at the Helscher home in Washington The 39 year old attorney has served three terms in the Iowa House and two in the Iowa Senate He is married with four children He carried a 60 percent majority in 1964 and 73 4 percent in 1966
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David Stanley
U. S
Washington County
Stanley
Washington Y’s Men’s Club
Washington
J. W. Helscher
Iowa House of Representatives
Iowa Senate
Iowa
Harold Hughes
Surprised by Brazilian Visitors at Washington High
John Mansur, Rotary Exchange student at Washington High, recalls two visitors from Brazil who surprised him during an American Government class. One was a Brazilian religion teacher, the other a theology student in the United States. The guests, John Murnane and Edson Zandonadi, stayed with Ira Morrisons and discussed Brazil and the United States, touching on politics, industry, and foreign aid before departing for Chicago.
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Edson Zandonadi
Brazil
John Mansur
Rotary
Ira Morrison
Washington
Rotary Exchange
Washington High School
John
United States
Juiz de Fora
Divine Words Seminary
Chicago
Amer
Ica
Ithaca
New York
Zandonadi
Viet Cong Uprising Idea Fails in Saigon Uprising Effort
A high ranking American official said Communists failed to spark a general uprising in South Vietnam but can still launch a second wave of attacks in Saigon and other cities. He noted heavy losses, with about 10,000 killed and 36,000 involved, while massed North Vietnamese forces around Khe Sanh and the DMZ threaten renewed major assaults.
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Citadel
South Vietnam
U.S
Saigon
Villa-To-Villague
Can Tho
Rice Bowl
Mekong Delta
UPI
Hanoi
Khe Sanh
Demilitarized Zone
County Board to Meeting Discuss School Merger Plan
The Washington County Board of Education will join Cedar Linn and Johnson counties boards for a Monday night meeting at 7 p.m. in Iowa City to discuss merging county school systems and superintendents offices. This follows Dr. Robert Stephens University of Iowa study recommending regional service areas and mergers. Washington County has not decided to merge. meeting will be discussion only. In Waterloo an early morning crash killed Mildred Dullea, 49, with her husband John Dullea, 36, uninjured. toll stands at 61 for Iowa.
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Washington County Board of Education
Iowa
Stephens
Ens
Washington County
Waterloo
UPI
Mildred Dullea
John Dullea
Marijuana seized in Ames rooming house basement
Ames police and state narcotics agents confiscated a quantity of marijuana from the basement of a rooming house near the Iowa State University campus. Police chief Arne Siedelmann declined to specify the amount or address and said the seizure is part of a continuing investigation with no arrests imminent.
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Ames, Iowa
UPI
Arne Siedelmann
Ames
Iowa State University
Siedelmann
Liedelmann
Iowa Weather: Clear to partly cloudy and warmer day
Weather summary for Iowa shows a clear to partly cloudy sky with rising temperatures. Winds shift from east and southerly 15 to 25 mph west, tonight and Sunday bring mostly cloudy skies with warmer conditions tonight and cooler air arriving Sunday especially in the west. Highs reach 40 to 45 in the northeast to the lower 50s in the southwest, with lows around 30 to 35 northeast and 35 to 40 southwest.
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Iowa
Missionaries slain as leprosarium wiped out in Vietnam
Six American missionaries were killed at Ban Me Thuot leprosarium in Vietnam when the Viet Cong attacked the hospital complex. Three women among the dead, with several others missing or wounded, and a nurse who fled into the jungle believed to be safe. Names and hometowns of the deceased were listed, including Griswold of Orlando and his daughter from White Plains, along with Thompson of New Kensington and his wife Ruth.
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Ban Me Thuot
Richard Perkins
Marie Ziemer
Toledo
Ohio
Robert
Ziemer
Leon C. Griswold
Orlando
Fla
White Plains
N.Y
Carolyn
C. Edward Thompson
New Kensington
Ruth
Ruth Wilting
Cleveland
Betty Olson
Walter Olson
Seattle
Africa
Hank Blood
The
Wycliffe Translations
Los Angeles
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