World and U S News Briefs Snapshot Roundup
Australian quadruplets weighed at birth with three girls and a boy. World War II ace Gregory Boyington lies gravely ill after surgery. Goodyear walkout involves 20 000 United Rubber Workers across 11 plants in 10 states. Senate panel backs Thur good Marshall for the Supreme Court. Strom Thurmond opposes. Red Cross aids in Congo amid mercenary mutiny near Kisangani. AFL CIO Guild blasts anti trust exemption while Tulsa Tribune urges legislation. Postal rate hike advances six cent letter and ten cent air mail charges.
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Mysterious Red Object Chases Girls on Highway
A report from Mason County describes a red object seen near a highway that allegedly pursued two girls. Details are scarce and the sighting remains unconfirmed. Local authorities say no injuries reported and there is no official identification of the object.
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Newark Riot Sparks Looting and Fatal Shooting
Rioting in Newark New Jersey escalated to looting and gunfire leaving a 16 year old African American boy dead. State Police and National Guardsmen were deployed after nearly 200 arrests amid widespread property damage and numerous injuries.
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Missiles and raiders hit Vietnam fronts in Thursday actions
U S pilots logged 170 missions against North Vietnam focusing on Hanoi Haiphong missile sites and oil depots. A wild SAM fired at Navy fliers struck a village near Haiphong. Viet Cong guerrillas overran a coastal hamlet northeast of Saigon, inflicting heavy casualties and kidnapping 11. Twenty four Americans wounded in two mortar strikes near Saigon. Vietnamese forces reported light infantry casualties and civilian wounds from scattered shelling.
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Johnson asserts unity on Vietnam troop need
President Johnson holds a White House news conference with Gen. Westmoreland and Defense Secretary McNamara to project administration unity over sending more troops to Vietnam. Westmoreland says forces will be supplied if needed, though no exact numbers were disclosed.
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Six Rail Unions Threaten Strike After Midnight
Washington six rail unions threaten to strike after midnight Saturday despite congressional warnings. Leaders plan to meet today and Monday to decide whether to heed calls to defer strike plans while a deadlocked shopcraft dispute remains unresolved. The conflict centers on a 90 day no strike period and a presidential board to recommend settlement terms.
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Fighting Grows Along Suez Cease Fire Line
The Associated Press reports renewed tank and artillery fire across the Suez cease-fire line as Egypt claims destruction of an Israeli launch and several rubber boats. Israeli forces say Egyptian artillery mortars and tank assaults continued with sporadic attacks noted.
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Clash Continues From Canal to El Qantara. Israelis Claim Tank Losses
Resumes machine gun fire began at sunset Thursday and continued today from the canal’s southern end to El Qantara near the northern end. Israelis say they destroyed three Egyptian tanks and suffered some troop casualties. An Egyptian communique reports only one 45 minute exchange of fire this morning.
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Cease-Fire Tensions Rise Along Suez Line and Oil Plan
United Nations observer Lt Gen Odd Bull travels Cairo to Tel Aviv to arrange U N monitors along the cease fire line after Israeli forces fire near El Qantara and Egypt returns fire. The canal area remains volatile while Israel signals tapping Egyptian Sinai oil wells to meet domestic needs of about 3 million tons a year with potential exports.
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U S Officials Favor Military Man for Viet Presidency
U S officials in Saigon favor a military leader to head South Vietnam, arguing civilian politicians are detached from rural realities and risk a coup that could delegitimize the government. Nguyen Van Thieu, backed by the military junta, challenges Nguyen Cao Ky after Ky’s ouster, with U S support shifting behind Ky to Thieu’s concern.
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Surveyor 4 Begins Its Long Journey To Moon
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP America's Surveyor 4 rocket lifted off at 7 53 a m EDT for a 62 hour 224730 mile trip to Sinus Medius Central Bay on the moon's near side. NASA said the mission began well after a rocket glitch delay and will test robotic prospecting gear including a magnet shovel and revolving camera eye to study crater formation.
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Weather outlook with cooler weekend and light showers
Temperatures drop well below normal from Saturday through Wednesday with highs in the low to mid 70s in the north and upper 70s to low 80s in the south. Overnight lows range from the mid 50s north to around 60 south. The weekend turns warmer, followed by cooler air early next week and total rainfall under .25 inch from early next week showers or thundershowers.
Pleas For Foreign Aid Sounded By Rusk In Testimony
Washington AP administration hopes to revive foreign aid proposals cut by the Senate committee as Secretary of State Dean Rusk prepares to testify. The panel slashed 1967 68 requests by over 250 million and rejected advances in multiple areas amid Vietnam policy opposition. The group also added 50 million a year for birth control in aid receiving nations and set limits on expanding aid. In New York, Postmaster General Lawrence F O Brien swore in John R Strachan as postmaster, highlighting equal employment opportunities in the postal service.
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