Capital Devastated An Loc Battle Intensifies
North Vietnamese troops and tanks renewed assault on An Loc as 70 U S B52 bombers dropped more than 1700 tons of explosives on the provincial capital. American advisers suffered one killed and one wounded, with two small spotter planes shot down. four crewmen aboard one plane missing.
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An Loc
U.S
U.S. Command
Chon Thanh
Quang Tri
Nixon
Saigon-Phnom Penh
Hue
Birmingham
International Control Commission
David Jackson
Hanoi
Jackson
ICC
South Vietnam
United States
Hanoi-Haiphong
Protests Spike as U N Headquarters Closes to Tourists
United Nations in New York shuts its doors to visitors amid a rising wave of antiwar demonstrations over Nixon's Vietnam policy. Across the U S protests erupt in campuses and streets with 500 plus arrests, while support for mining in North Vietnam appears in a ABC poll.
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New York
Nixon
University of New Mexico
American Broadcasting Co
Lieberman Research, Inc
United Nations
Security Council
William Kunstler
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Winchester Memorial Hospital Plans Four Story Expansion
Star Staff Writer Winchester Memorial Hospital announces a four story addition estimated at 2.5 million dollars with location undecided between a new wing near Stewart Street or a west side attachment. The project aims to add about 100 beds and will use depreciation funds over up to eight years.
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Star
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Winchester
William P. McGuire
Stewart St
Cork and
Clifford Sts
McGuire
Clifford St
Mansfield Sees No Help in Ending War
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield reported after a three week trip to the Orient that China will not pressure North Vietnam to end the war or release U S prisoners of war. He said Peking views the conflict as U S domination of Indochina and wants Washington out. The report coincides with then current release of the Kissinger papers on Vietnam strategy. A separate note mentions upcoming Bloodmobile visit sponsored by Winchester Rotary Club and a correction about Mobile Home Aluminum Skirting price.
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Winchester
Pop Bailey
Millwood Ave
Irene Bailey
Pop
Roy E. Potts
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Senate
Mike Mansfield
Orient
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U.S
Winchester Rotary Club
Red Cross
Christ Episcopal Church Parish House
National Institutes of Health
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Nixon
Peking
Hugh Scott
Chou En-lai
United States
Indochina
Ron Dellums
Calif
Congressional Record
Kissinger
Dellums
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Congressional Transcript
Vietnam
House
Hale Boggs
D-La
Gerald Ford
Rmich
Hampshire Primary Results Highlight Wallace Rockefeller in County
In Hampshire County the Democratic presidential race shows George Wallace 1439 and Hubert Humphrey 1197 while Jay Rockefeller defeats incumbent Gov. Arch Moore 2334 to 603 in party votes. James B. Cookman re elected delegate by 3 votes. sheriff and prosecutor races favor Democrats. circuit clerk contested. nonpartisan board of education seats won by Madeline Blue and Calvin Davis.
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W.va
Jay Rockefeller
George Wallace
Hampshire County
Hampshire
Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey
John D
Jay) Rockefeller
Arch A. Moore, Jr
Donald H. Cookman
Cookman
Paul V. Watson
Robert W. Powell
Madeline M. Blue
Calvin Davis
Nonpartisan Board of Education
Blue
Davis
Change Course As Mine Blockade Pressures Ships
The Pentagon reports several merchant ships bound for North Vietnamese ports seem to have altered course due to the U S mine blockade. Officials offered no specifics on destinations but indicated shifts potentially toward Chinese ports for land routes to North Vietnam.
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Washington
Pentagon
North Vietnam
Soviet warships seen moving south through Tsushima Strait
A Soviet Sverdlov class cruiser and a Kotlin class destroyer were spotted steaming southward through the Tsushima Strait between Japan and the Korean peninsula. The Defense Agency said the ships were traveling about 10 knots and offered no verdict on whether they head toward North Vietnamese waters amid Nixon era supply-cutting efforts.
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Tokyo
Tsushima Strait
Japan
Korean Peninsula
Japanese Defense Agency
Nixon
AFL-CIO Picks Carper for Israel and Cyprus Trip
Julian F. Carper of Middletown and president of the Virginia State AFL-CIO is chosen among 22 AFL-CIO officials to visit Israel and Cyprus. The trip, sponsored by AID and the State Department, runs from Dulles to Tel Aviv and Nicosia with a June 1 return, focusing on labor history, operations, and industrial relations.
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Julian F. Carper
Middletown
Virginia
Afl-Cio
Labor
Israel
Cyprus
Carper
George Meany
Agency For International Development
The
Educational and Cultural Bureau
U.S. Department of State
Dulles International
Tel Aviv
Nicosia
Dulles
Trout Season Opens Tomorrow In Frederick Area
Frederick and surrounding counties will open trout season tomorrow at 6 01 a m with legal hours one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset. The season runs until February 15 1973 and is announced by State Game Warden David Ramsey. The spring turkey gobbler season in Virginia closed at 11 a m today and the fall season opens in November.
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Frederick
David Ramsey
Virginia
Ramsey
Flood Bursts Hit New Braunfels Texas Drowning Five
A 90 minute cloudburst flooded New Braunfels forcing 3,000 residents to flee as the Comal and Guadalupe rivers swelled to 200 feet wide. Five people drowned and 20 to 25 were unaccounted for while officials estimated 15 to 20 houses washed away. Governor Smith sent National Guard to evacuate up to 125 families locally and in nearby cities.
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Tex
Royce Couch
Comal
Guadalupe
San Antonio
Austin
Preston Smith
National Guard
San Marcos
Seguin
U S Officer Killed In Frankfurt Bombing
In Frankfurt Germany a bomb attack on a U S Army headquarters killed Lt Col Paul A Bloomquist 39 of Salt Lake City Utah and injured 13 others including American and German civilians. Investigators have not identified the bomber and police prepared for a Vietnam war protest near the site.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U.S. Army
U.S
Vietnam
Ted Bloyd
Houston
Tex
Knut Mueller
Communist Party
Paul A. Bloomquist
Salt Lake City
Utah
Bloomquist
Army
West Germany
America House
West Berlin
Richmond Weather Quiet Under High Pressure This Week
A high pressure system keeps Virginia clear and mild with low humidity through tonight. An event note mentions an antique show and sale May 12 13 14 at the Lee Jackson Motel and a Glass Barn flowers display with over 100 centerpieces to choose from.
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Richmond
Virginia
Lee-Jackson Motel
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