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Show World Briefs SAIGON (AP) -South Vietnamese Viet-namese troops and tanks pressed westward across branches of the Ho Chi Mini) trail in southern Laos Tuesday behind enemy forces for-ces retreating under the furious lash of U.S. air power. At last reports, the main column col-umn in the second day of the operation had proceeded about 12 miles inside Laos along Highway 9, slowed by U.S. bomb craters in the road and bad weather that suddenly closed in. They also were halting to seize munitions caches. Helicopter-borne troops set up a fire base 15 miles west of the Vietnamese border. ABOARD USS NEW ORLEANS ORLE-ANS (AP) The Apollo 14 explorers explor-ers returned home from man's most scientifically rewarding moon mission today . blazing back to a pinpoint splashdown in warm Pacific waters. They landed within sight of this recover) carrier. The Kilty Hawk command ship, carrying Alan B. Shcpard Jr.. Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa. hit water at 4:05 p.m. EST. climaxing a journey that scientists say will vastly enrich man's knowledge of the moon. BELFAST. Northern Ireland (AP) Five men were killed on a mountain trail near the Irish republic border Tuesday by the explosion of a land mine which police said Irish republicans had planted. The victims- two technicians for the British Broadcasting Corp. and three construction workers were driving to the top ol Brougher Mountain to check a BBC TV-radio transmitter dam-aued dam-aued by an explosion last month. ; ANGELES (AP) A pow-rttauake pow-rttauake shook Southern :iaai dawn Tuesday, caus-Ijjs, caus-Ijjs, 10 deaths, injuring and damaging hospital ,s highways, bridges and Icilitics. 0I a.m. shock hit hardest lU buildings in the heavily ..J San Fernando Valley 0 miles from the quake l,i the San Gabriel Moun- oritics said seven bodies found at the Veterans nation Hospital in Syl-; Syl-; two old buildings were i. Fifty-four persons were A unaccounted for by Officials emphasized 1 not mean they necessarily ..urns. ,o others were killed at View Sanitarium, a new lion complex a mile away. Hapscd there. man was killed in the e of a Los Angeles skid row itnd another was crushed ling freeway bridge. Biologists placed the . center 2o miles north-( north-( downtown Los Angeles iiied the San Gabriel fault. I'ling-shapccJ crack in the jolting first shock. Colby Col-by literally hundreds oC aftcrsliocks. struck hardest los Angeles commuting k San Fernando Valley, ' ipulation ol' 1.3 million. ly hit were the town -II and Saugus. with an 'lalion of 70.000. also 'miles of the center. fill dam of Van Nor- Jt the valley's west end vertical cracks and some 1 ils(.7 billion gallons of llc city's largest store. f families were evacua- "ficials began draining '"Iv's nearly seven mil-: mil-: were asleep or profit pro-fit day when the shock ;Jc" shakes tor those lrans rollina motion for lc distant. |