Transport shot down at Khe Sanh and Quan Long battle rages
UPI dispatch reports a C123 transport was shot down by Communist ground fire near Khe Sanh. In Quan Long extreme southern Vietnam South Vietnamese forces retook the city after savage fighting, killing 275 Viet Cong and destroying the hospital where patients were murdered. Civilians and combatants suffered casualties as the Viet Cong attacked and were repelled.
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Saigon
UPI
Khe Sanh
Quan Long
South Vietnam
Ca Mau
Robert Kaylor
Quang Long
U Minh II
U.S
William C. Westmoreland
U.S. Army
U.S. Marine Corps
Westmoreland
Creighton Abrams
I Corps
Robert Cushman
Mekong Delta
An Xuyen
Rooming House Fire Kills Nine in East Houston
In Houston nine people died in two arson fires in east Houston. The fires struck one vacant house and a two story rooming house, with five men and three women killed in the latter. An unidentified man died in the other structure. Gasoline or kerosene is suspected. the front door area was the ignition point. Investigators link a prior minor fire to the deadly blaze. Mary Hill, 30, and Clara A. Ryckman, 76, were identified among the victims.
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Houston
UPI
East Houston
M. E. Manos
S. J. Byington
Byington
Fire traps 21 in Belle Isle salt mine collapse
Twenty one miners were trapped over a mile below the Belle Isle salt mine after a shaft head frame fire at midnight. Coast Guard and local units fought the blaze as rescue teams prepared a man cage and self contained breathing apparatus from Oklahoma to reach the trapped crew.
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Morgan City
UPI
Belle Isle
Coast Guard
New Orleans
Stabbing Victim Steven Ward Undergoes Surgery
Steven Ward son of Carl and wife of Washington partners was stabbed at his Cedar Rapids home. He underwent surgery at Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids this morning and his condition was listed as serious but improving. A separate UPI report states Linda Connington 24 Cedar Rapids was charged with assault to inflict great bodily harm in the stabbing of Steven Ward.
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Steven Ward
Carl Ward
East Main Street
Washington
Mercy Hosin
Cedar Rapids
Steven
UPI
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Linda Connington
Stanley criticizes farm program in Iowa speech
State Sen. David Stanley told Republican women in Ames that Gov. Hughes and Agriculture Secretary Freeman should explain why the Johnson Freeman Hughes team keeps grain dumping prices below parity. He urged the governor to listen to Iowa farmers after meeting Freeman claimed the Democratic Party is in better shape in the farm belt.
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Ames
Iowa
UPI
David Stanley
Harold Hughes
Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Johnson
Air France jet crashes on mountain peak killing 67
A Boeing 707 from Lima to Paris struck St Claude mountain on Guadeloupe’s Pointe-A-Pitre exit. All 67 aboard died including two Americans, J Rosenbluth and Mrs William Zeckendorf Sr. Rev Emile Gabel among victims. Cause unknown. similar 1962 disaster echoed. Pope Paul VI expressed sorrow. Flight had stopped in Caracas Lima Quito before crash at 9338 feet.
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Pointe - A- Pitre
Guadeloupe
UPI
Air France
William Zeckendorf Sr
America
Lima
Peru
Zeckendorf
J. Rosenbluth
New York
Paris
Pointe-A-Pitre
Zeckendorfs
Beekman Place
Greenwich
Conn
Emile Gabel
International Catholic Press Union
Paul VI
St. Claude Mountain
Caracas
Venezuela
Quito
Ecuador
Santiago
Ford’s cool take on open housing in Senate bill
UPI reports House Republican Leader Gerald Ford remained skeptical about the open housing provision in the Senate civil rights bill. He warned against rushing the measure without floor or committee study, as Senate votes moved to finalize amendments including antiriot language and protections for civil rights workers. The coalition faced divisions over exemptions for certain housing and veterans clauses, with key votes on single family owner occupied homes and cross state incitement to civil disorder.
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Washington
UPI
House
Gerald R. Ford
Senate
Michigan
Ford
Civil Rights Coalition
Howard H. Baker Jr
R-Tenn
Jack R. Miller
Iowa
Baker
Rotary exchange student Dana McAvoy in New Zealand
Dana McAvoy, a Rotary International Exchange student from Washington, reports life in Wellington New Zealand. He flew from Des Moines to Wellington on January 11 and will spend a year abroad. He mentions language differences, local customs, school life, and plans for rugby and surfing, praising teachers and peers.
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Dana McAvoy
Marion S. McAvoy
Washington
Wellington
New Zealand
Dana
Des Moines
Rotary International
Hawaii
Honolulu
Paddy
Doris
Carey
Robert
Iowa dairy owner found fatally shot in his shop
LAPORTE CITY Iowa UPI reports Dale Redman 55 a dairy operator was found shot twice in the face at about 1230 am by Police Chief Bob Weber at his dairy building. Redman had just bought a new equipment move to the old city fire station. the shots were fired with a .22 caliber revolver and authorities said a missing home return prompted the alarm.
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Laporte City
Iowa
UPI
Bob Weber
Dale Redman
Redman
Old City
Admits arson at Clinton school
Clinton youth Richard Leo Jablonski age 17 pleaded guilty to delinquency by arson in Clinton County Juvenile Court before Judge David Halbach. He had admitted setting nine other fires in Clinton, including the one that destroyed Clinton High School, with plans for possible Hilltop mental health treatment in Independence.
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Clinton, Iowa
UPI
Clinton
Richard Leo Jablonski
Clinton County
David Halbach
Halbach
Clinton County Atty. L.D. Carstensen
Criminal Court
Jablonski
Clinton High School
Brice Oakley
Independence
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Clara A. Ryckman
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Concert Association
Washington Concert Association
J. W. Helscher
Kay Stewart
Everetts
Phote
Helen Gilbert
Rotary
Francis
Onslow
United Press International
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