Gemini Five poised for space shot at Cape Kennedy
With ten minutes remaining the Gemini 5 countdown halted due to a telemetry problem as the crew raced weather. Clouds and rain threatened Pad 19 at Cape Kennedy while L Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles Conrad Jr. prepared for an eight day orbital mission delayed three hours and eighteen minutes by a new power-system fueling issue.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Cape
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Charles Conrad Jr
Air Force
James Albert
Cooper
Conred
U. S
Huddle Set For Ike's Place Rally On GOP Finance
Big-money GOP contributors meet at Ike Eisenhower farm in Gettysburg to coordinate party finance efforts. National chairman Ray Bliss chairs talks and aims to unify fund raising against next year's elections amid unity concerns.
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Gettysburg
GOP
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ray C. Bliss
Bliss
Republican National Finance Committee
Free Society Association
Barry Goldwater
Lucius D. Clay
Finance Committee
Washington
Marines claim over six hundred Viet Cong killed at Van Tuong
A U S Marine officer cited aerial counts and ground bodies to estimate more than 600 Viet Cong dead after the Van Tuong Peninsula battle. Marine spokesmen reported 552 Viet Cong bodies found and lighter Marine losses. The operation involved a large regimental thrust with 50 prisoners taken.
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Chu Lai
Viet Nam
U. S
van Tuong
Marine Regiment
Governor Naming Probers
Governor Edmund G Brown plans a special commission to study the Watts riot causes and peaceful solutions for racial strife in Los Angeles. He will announce members and chair as 12,000 National Guard troops begin withdrawal. Dr Martin Luther King Jr faced both hecklers and supporters during a Watts visit.
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Los Angeles
Edmund G. Brown
Vision
Watts
Martin Luther King Jr
Dr. King
Samuel W. Yorty
William H. Parker
President Johnson
Commerce
LeRoy Collins
Yorty
Brown
National Guard
Death Camp Survivors Clash With Israeli Police in Jerusalem
Hundreds of concentration camp survivors clashed with police during a protest as West German Ambassador Rolf Pauls presented credentials to President Zalman Shazar. Demonstrators broke through barriers, tore fences, and pressured near the residence while police escorted Pauls and his deputy.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Rolf Pauls
Zalman Shazar
Shazar
Pauls
Alexander Toeroek
Nazi Guards Get Life For Mass Deaths
Six former Auschwitz SS guards and officials were given life sentences for mass murder or aiding in mass murder at Auschwitz. Eleven others received 14 years to 3 years 3 months, with three acquitted. The 20 month trial was the longest and largest in German legal history as survivors watched.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Auschwitz
Hans Hofmeyer
Federal registrars expand in South under Voting Rights Act
The Justice Department ordered 10 more federal registrars to register Negroes in five counties in Mississippi Alabama and Louisiana under the Voting Rights Act. In nine counties already served 16 492 have registered with 2 057 on the new day. Officials say some counties discriminate and will keep registrars until fair processing is shown.
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Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Atty
Nicholas Katzenbach
Jefferson Davis and Jones
Perry and Wilcox
Ouachita Parish
Civil Service
Katzenbach
Justice Department
Marina Oswald Porter Threat Case Headlines Dallas Jail Interview
Kenneth Jess Porter, jailed on a threat charge after marrying Marina Oswald, denies gun threats in a jailhouse interview. Marina Oswald Porter, 23, swore out an affidavit accusing him of slapping her and brandishing a gun. Porter, 27, was released on $1500 bond and said return to marriage depended on her wishes.
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Dallas
Tex
Kenneth Jess Porter
Lee Harvey Oswald
Porter
Marina Oswald
John F. Kennedy
Justice of the Peace
Batter Up In Athens
Elias Tsirimokos, a former left wing Socialist, renewed efforts to form a Greek government and end a 35 day crisis. King Constantine named Tsirimokos after he and ally Stephanos Stephanopoulos claimed to have a preliminary majority against ousted Premier George Papandreou. Tsirimakos planned to seek a confidence vote in Parliament next week.
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Athens
Elias Tsirimokos
Greece
Constantine
Tsirimokos
Stephanos Stephanopoulos
George Papandreou
Tsirimakos
Water shortage forces New York air cooling ban
In New York a water cooled air conditioning ban limits usage to six hours daily as heat and humidity rise. City inspectors, including William L. Walker, target violations in buildings such as 201 E. 69th St where the lobby remains cool despite restrictions on water based cooling.
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New York
Federal Bureau of Investigation
New York Telephone Co
William L. Walker
E. 69Th St
Federal grant for forestry cleanup of Appalachian mine sites
Officials in the Wayne National Forest announce a 263000 dollar federal Appalachia program grant to reclaim 1300 to 1500 acres across Athens Hocking and Perry counties. Five firms will begin with seven bulldozers to fill dirt remove waste coal cover pits and plant trees. Work must finish by June 30 1966.
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Athens
Wayne National Forest
Ray W. Knudson
Hocking
Perry
National Forest
Knudson
Conservation Office Slated Realigns Ohio Offices
The soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to reduce Ohio area offices from ten to six. Tiffin Warren Wapakoneta Hillsboro Lancaster and Cambridge offices are eliminated. New offices will open in Athens and Medina while Defiance Coshocton Dayton and Columbus offices remain.
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Soil Conservation Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Raymond S. Brown
Columbus
Tiffin
Warren
Wapakoneta
Hillsboro
Lancaster
Cambridge
Athens
Medina
Defiance
Coshocton
Dayton
As Draft Winds Blew He Strolled Up Aisle
Dennis Taylor was ordered to report for Army induction after his wife Juanita filed for an annulment in Summit County Common Pleas Court. She alleged the 21 year old married to avoid the draft two days after the wedding took the license to his draft board and boasted of avoiding service. Local Draft Board No. 115 chair Sal Germano said Taylor did not establish a bona fide home and lost his deferment.
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Metro Toronto
Toronto
Akron
Dennis Taylor
Taylor
Common Pleas Court
Sal Germano
Germano
Physician Quitting As Astronaut
Dr. Duane Graveline, a 34 year old scientist astronaut, resigns before a space flight. He leaves NASA to remain as a medical doctor at the Manned Spacecraft Center for personal reasons. His wife had filed for divorce shortly after he joined the space program.
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Houston
Tex
Duane Graveline
The
Space Agency
Graveline
Manned Spacecraft Center
Space Team
Emergency Borneo Trip Stirs Malay Anxieties
Malaysia's Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman made an urgent flight to Sarawak today amid rising unrest after Singapore's separation from the federation. He is set to visit Sabah, with Deputy Premier Razak already dispatched to explain the split ahead of Malaysia's Aug 31 anniversary.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Malaysian Borneo
Singapore
Malaysian Federation
Sarawak
Borneo
Sabah
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