Fighting Flares Across South Vietnam Iron Triangle Drive Progress
Sharp fighting flared in South Vietnam as the Iron Triangle drive pushed Communist losses beyond 450 men. Air raids, naval incidents, and ground skirmishes continued with 286 Viet Cong deaths counted in Cedar Falls and 457 U.S. planes lost overall in the north by week’s end.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Iron Triangle
U.S
North Vietam
Demilitarized Zone
Milletiamen
Rport
Cedar Falls
North Vietnam
North
Firemen Battle Blaze at Clearbrook Quarry Drill
Members of the Clearbrook Fire Company arrived at the W.S. Frey quarry in Clearbrook shortly before midnight to tackle a fire believed started from a propane heater in the hydraulic system of a telescopic drill. Damage was limited to the drill’s control system.
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Clearbrook
New Era Predicted in French German Relations
West German Chancellor Kiesinger hailed a new era in Franco German ties after talks with French President de Gaulle. He said the Franco German cooperation treaty is being revived and noted realistic, fruitful discussions on Europe East West relations and German reunification. He paid tribute at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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Paris
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Charles de Gaulle
France
Germany
Europe
Kiesinger
Federal Republic
West Germany
Frieday
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Willy Brandt
California Students Protest Budget Cuts
UC and state college budgets face 10 percent cuts prompting a temporary admissions freeze for the 1967 fall term. UC President Clark Kerr asks chancellors to pause admissions while student leaders from San Francisco, Hayward, Sonoma, and San Jose State urge legislators to oppose the cuts. Rallies draw several thousand students at San Jose, Fresno, and San Diego campuses.
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Clark Kerr
Berkeley
Kerr
Ronald Renegan
San Franc
Einer
San Francisco State
San Jose
Fresno
San Diego
Fire claims nine lives in North Philadelphia house
A three story North Philadelphia home fire kills John Drum 41 and his wife Dolly 39 and seven of their ten children. Three children escape by leaping from upper windows. A family friend, John Tassi 18, says victims were trapped as flames spread fast near 2533 Pere Street near Girard College.
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Philadelphia
John Drum
Dolly
Danielle
Mary
Kitty
Leo
Franccis
Donna
Thereesa
William
Daniel
John.Tassi
Tassi
Pere St
Girard College
Civilians Killed in Mekong Artillery Fire
Civilians, including ten children, were killed and 25 wounded in the Mekong Delta as government artillery fired during clashes with Viet Cong. Earlier accounts cited Viet Cong shields. investigations now suggest government fire caused the casualties. Reports conflict over who used civilians as shields and where the responsibility lies.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Mekong River
U.S
Man May Be Older Than He Thinks
Harvard paleontologist Prof. Bryan Patterson reports a fossil upper arm bone found near Lake Rudolph in Kenya dating about 214 million years old. The find suggests an early human lineage Australopithecus, perhaps five feet tall with upright gait and humanlike teeth, predating earlier estimates by hundreds of thousands of years.
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Bryan Patterson
Harvard Museum
Kenya
Africa
Cambridge, Mass
Harvard University
Patterson
Lake Rudolph
Tanzania
Louis Leakey
Leakey
Harvard
Ernst Mayer
Museum of Comparative Zoology
K.H
Soviet court releases American on bail in bear statue case
Buel Ray Woretham Jr. of North Little Rock Arkansas gains bail of 22222. He faces appeal after a Leningrad court convicted him on three counts of illegal currency exchange and theft of a bear statue. Gilmour of Salt Lake City also convicted. both were discharged from the U S Army. Bail funded by local residents and arranged through the U S Embassy.
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Moscow
Buel Ray Woretham Jr
North Little Rock
Ark
Wortham
U.S
Harelan G. Moen
Leningrad
Russian Federation Supreme Court
Craddock M. Gilmour Jr
Salt Lake City
Utah
Gilmour
Soviet Union
Supreme Court
Tass
Suspreme
Moen
Fyodro S. Rozhdestvensky
Worth
Pereson
Bolshesvik
Fairfax County zoning bribery scheme defendants convicted
A. Claiborne Leigh and Robert C. Cotten Jr. along with four codefendants were convicted of conspiring to use interstate facilities to carry out a zoning bribery scheme. Nine were charged originally. three acquittals by Judge Oren R. Lewis left six convictions among Washington attorneys Nathan Wechsler Sigmund Goldblatt and the Faigen brothers of Northern Virginia.
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Alexandria
Fairfax County
A. Claiborne Leigh
Robert C. Cotten Jr
Nathan __ Wechsler
Sigmund Goldblatt
Washington
Faigen Brothers
Northern Virginia
U. S
Oren R. Lewis
Special Steak Dinner at Winchester Steak House
The Steak House of Winchester advertises a 99 cent special steak dinner with many other choice steaks. Echo Village Restaurant also promotes U S Choice Steaks in the same listing.
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Steak House of Winchester
U.S
Echo Village
Violence In Army Reported As Anti Mao Faction Struggles
A Japanese paper says a Red Chinese unit stormed a Mao opponents hideout and arrested scores of officers near Lanchow. The report notes intra army anti Mao struggle, Liu Shao chi counter moves, and claims of counterattack as Mao supporters rally.
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Tokyo
Mao Tse-tung
China
People’s Liberation Army
Mao
Peking Radio
Liu Shao-chi
Communist Central Committee
Liu
Lin Paio
Peking
Mainichi Shimbun
Lanchow
Yellow River
750Th Lantern Regiment
Liu Chihechien
Military Revolution Committee
Yomiuri
Sankei
Red Guard
Central Committee
Lin Piao
Chu Teh
Chu
National People’s Congress
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