[News Script: Representatives leave for Vietnam] Page: 1 of 2
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--OPEN --
LIVE:HIX Good Evening:
Defense Secretary Laird and General Earle
1Wheeler -- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff --
are to leave Washington for Vietnam. tomorrow.
)President Nixon wants them to check on progress of
"Vietnamization" of the war effort. And, today --
in a rare Sunday session -- the two high officials
conferred with Nixon at the White House.
In ienam, the U.S. Command reports a slight
increase in the pace of the war. More than 80 enemy
troops
tofeu were reported killed in scattered actions.
In Saigon, terrorists used 20 pounds of plastic
explosives to wreck the South Vietnamese National
Press Center. It was closed at the time.
j4L5 miles away, a booby trap in an enemy munitions
stockpile suk touched off ammunition that killedone Green Beret and wounded four others.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Representatives leave for Vietnam], script, February 8, 1970, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1263815/m1/1/?q=%22Military+and+War+-+United+States+Armed+Forces+-+United+States+Army%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.