American Plaster Spending Curbed in Saigon
The article reports on drastic American spending in South Vietnam, detailing billions of piasters used inside Saigon and through AID, from bars to billets, and the resulting 160 percent price rise since 1965 with 40 percent this year, while wages grow and unemployment remains low. It notes uncertainty about postwar effects when the U.S. withdraws.
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U.S
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Saigon
Chicago
United States
Soldiers in Vietnam react to U.S. riots at home
In Saigon, U S infantrymen from the 1st Division express distress over racial violence, calling riots a festering social sore. Black and white soldiers from Ohio New Jersey and Michigan review civil rights protests and the impact on American life while stationed near Di An.
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David Travis
United States
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
di An
Saigon
Travis
Newark
N.J
Vietnam
Waford
Mike’’ Parker
Spec
Kiser Hunter
Detroit
Hunter
Leasehold On Shopping Center Sold
In Roanoke the Law land Chancery Court approved the sale of Towers Shopping Center leasehold to the First National Bank of Boston for 2.85 million. The bank plans to sell the leasehold to Times-World Corp. after trustee Frank W. Rogers confirms the deal. Times-World president M. W. Armistead II said stockholders will decide within weeks. The bank received clear title enabling operations and rents. existing leases remain in force. The decision may pave the way for expansion.
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Roanoke AP
Lawland Chancery Court
Roanoke
First National Bank of Boston
TimeseWorld Corp
Frank W. Rogers
M. W. Armistead II
Times-World
S. L. Fellers
Boston Bank
Pravda Reports U.S. Racial Turmoil and Detroit Flames
Pravda runs half page on U.S. racial troubles with headlines Tanks and Machine Guns against Negroes and Detroit in Flames. Boris Strelnikov cites America’s suffering of dark skinned citizens and notes violence from 1957 to 1968 with Detroit shown in recent photographs.
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Detroit
Pravda
U.S
America
New York
Soviet Communist Party
Boris Strelnikov
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