New Hampshire primary shows McCarthy leads Johnson in early returns
UPI reports in Concord that McCarthy tops Johnson in the Democratic tally while Nixon leads Rockefeller on the Republican side. Write-ins include Kennedy and others as voting lines form in cloudy weather with heavy turnout in Manchester and idle counts in Waterville Valley.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
Eugene J. McCarthy
Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New Hampshire
Waterville Valley
Hart
McCarthy
Nixon
Rockefeller
Robert F. Kennedy
Minnesota
Manchester
White Mountains
Vietnam
South Vietnam
U.S
Milton man found dead in Milton lot likely exposure
Van Bureau County authorities investigate the death of 58 year old Ford Greenhow of Marshalltown found Sunday in a vacant Milton lot. County Medical Examiner Robert Gustafson said he apparently died of exposure while visiting relatives in Milton.
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Milton, Iowa
UPI
van Bureau
Marshalltown
Robert Gustafson
Ford Greenhow
Milton
Verbal clash over Vietnam policy between Rusk and Fulbright
Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Sen. J. William Fulbright clashed before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over public testimony on Vietnam. Fulbright pressed for full consultation before any major troop deployment, while Rusk refused to reveal specifics, citing wartime secrecy and constitutional limits. Johnson was said to have made no fresh decisions on troop levels.
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Washington
UPI
Dean Rusk
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vietnam
Sen
J. William Fulbright
Rusk
Fulbright
Arkansas Democrat
William C. Westmoreland
Johnson
Congress
United States
Southeast Asia
Iowa Weather: Clear to Partly Cloudy Through Wednesday
United Press International reports Iowa will see clear to partly cloudy skies tonight and Wednesday. Temperatures will be colder in the east tonight with lows from 10 to 15 degrees north and 15 to 20 degrees south, while Wednesday highs range from near 40 in the east to the mid 40s in the west.
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Iowa
Delayed action bombs hit Khe Sanh tunnels in Vietnam
U S Air Force B52s pounded Khe Sanh with new delayed action bombs designed to collapse tunnel networks twenty feet underground. Six bombing waves in 24 hours and reports say Giap directs the assault from Laos as Marines brace the base near the 70,000 North Vietnamese force surrounding it.
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Saigon
UPS
Khe Sanh
South Vietnam
U.S
Strategic Air Command
Vo Nguyen Giap
North Vietnam
Dien Bien Phu
Laos
Giap
Leatherneck
Hanoi
Saratoga
Enterprise
U.S. Army
196Th Light Infantry Brigade
Tam Ky
Wide-eyed girl in Saigon refugee camp after raid
A Vietnamese girl in a Gia Dinh suburb refugee camp gazes at a piece of grapefruit after a Viet Cong raid killed her father and two sisters. It is unclear if she had other relatives with her. UPI Telephoto.
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Saigon
Gia Dinh
UPI
Tornado and Winter Storms Hit Southern U S Regions
Late winter storms sweep the south with tornado warnings in three states and heavy snow from New Mexico to Missouri. A tornado watch spans Tennessee Georgia and Alabama while Huntsville and Deer Park report twisters. Mississippi sees a spotted tornado near Greenwood as power failures arise from wet snow. One child dies in New Mexico carbon monoxide incident. Provisional snow warnings extend to Ohio New York and Pennsylvania with strong winds across several states.
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New Mexico
Missouri
Tennessee
Georgia
Alabama
Huntsville
Deer Park
Mississippi
Greenwood
U.S. Weather Bureau
Springfield
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
New Mexico 285
Navajo Indian Reservation
Renee Juarez
Robert Juarez
Albuquerque
Vaughn
N.M
Juarez
Ohio
New York
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Kansas
Wyoming town sold to Chicago investors in Acme sale
ACME Wyoming, a turn of the century coal town of about 100 people, was sold for about 100 000 dollars to a Chicago area group. Owners say they plan to stay and develop the town with resort facilities and hunting access in the Big Horn foothills near the Montana line.
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ACME
Wyo
UPI
Wyoming
Chicago
Merton Bond
Big Horn Mountains
Montana State Line
Charles Franklin
America
Unrest Roils Red Nations Across Eastern Europe
In Warsaw riot police used water cannons and tear gas as youths demanded freedom outside party headquarters. In Prague new leaders prepared a Politburo session to gauge how firmly to condemn former chiefs without harming communism’s image.
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United Press International
Europe
Warsaw
Prague
Three soldiers return from Sweden
Three U S soldiers who fled West Germany for Sweden to avoid Vietnam service have returned to West Germany to face charges of being absent without official leave. Ray Jones of Detroit returned after flying from Sweden, while the other two reconsidered seeking asylum. Sweden had granted political asylum to 20 U S servicemen on humanitarian grounds.
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Stockholm
UPI
U.S
West Germany
Sweden
Germany
Ray Jones
Detroit Mich
Jones
United States
Vietnam
Theft loss revealed at Cedar Rapids store
Cedar Rapids police report an early Sunday burglary at Robinson Wholesale Store. An inventory showed 215 watches worth 7,870 dollars and 1,179 dollars in cash stolen, totaling 9,000 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
UPI
Robinson Wholesale
Hughes Defends Johnson on Vietnam Authority
Des Moines Iowa UPI Gov Harold Hughes says President Johnson has constitutional right to call up troops for Vietnam or anywhere to meet international commitments He notes Congress may question authority and that Senate hearings help determine federal funding He, a Senate candidate, criticizes misleading war information and military intelligence limits He cites flawed claims on bombing effectiveness percent of South Vietnam under Communist control and pacification progress
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Des Moines
UPI
Harold E. Hughes
Johnson
Vietnam
Hughes
Congress
America
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S. Senate
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
South
Scaffold fall injures workman at Crane Company site
Edwin Stuhr about 64 was taken to Washington County Hospital after falling from a nearly 15 foot high scaffold while two Iowa Sheet Metal workers laid pipe at the Crane Company building in northeast Washington. A fellow worker said Stuhr fainted and slipped from the platform. he remained in satisfactory condition with undetermined injuries as X rays were planned to assess his injuries.
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Iowa Sheet Metal Company
Washington County Hospital
Edwin Stuhr
Iowa Sheet Metal
Stuhr
Journal
Helen Gilbert
Letts
Iowa
Crane Company
Washington
G. J. Nemmers
Spring Cleaning drive set for March 18 in Washington IA
Washington officials announced the annual Spring Cleaning campaign will start March 18 weather permitting. Mayor Cloud Willits urged residents to collect trash in boxes for easy pickup, aiming to make Washington the Cleanest City in Iowa. The council plans junk car removals from streets and private lots if nuisance persists, with Chamber of Commerce backing the effort. If weather blocks March 18, collection will shift to a later date.
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Washington Sanitation Department
Cloud Willits
Willits
Washington
Iowa
Chamber of Commerce
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Duane Anderson
Iowa City
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Max Donaldson
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