Fears Mount For White Hostages In Congo Crisis
Reports from Kinshasa say mercenaries hold hostages at Kisangani airfield and a military hospital. Professors, women, children, and newsmen are among captives as Mobutu delays an army assault while Red Cross considers a rescue plan.
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Kinshasa
Congo
UPD
Radio
Kinsangani
Stanleyville
Bukavu
Kindu
Mobutu
International Red Cross
Red Cross
U.S
U. S
Robert H. McBride
Washington
McBride
Carrigan Lane Slum Protests Roil Village Trustees
Local property owners pressed Bennington Village trustees over Carrigan Lane conditions alleging nine year old dilapidation, fire damage, garbage, junk cars and animal mistreatment. They urged higher taxes on the Carrigan Lane property to force action and demanded health and zoning enforcement while trustees debated jurisdiction and possible inspections.
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Carrigan Lane
Bennington Village
Glenn Spencer
Safford St
Patricia Corbett
Division St
Alfred LaBrie
Division
Safford Streets
Winifred LaFlamme
Safford Street
Division Street
Spencer
Board of Trustees
George Ryan
Board of Health
Henry Mallory
Spenser
Corbett
Frederick Tifft
Bloody Battle Near Cambodia Escalates In Vietnam War
U S 4th Division fought near the Ia Drang Valley as 35 Americans were killed and 25 wounded. About 500 troops faced multiple Viet Cong and North Vietnamese units near Pleiku with 30-man groups and reinforcements. Communists reportedly suffered unknown losses as night fell and border incursions continued. Marines pounded Lao Leatherneck frontier guns while Viet Cong shell civilian An Loc.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
4Th Division
Central Highlands
Ia Drang
Pleiku
4Th Infantry
Cambodia
Mekong Delta
Vietnam
Leatherneck
U.S. Defense
Robert S. McNamara
An Loc
Con Con Rejects Court Reorganization
In Albany on Tuesday Democratic and Republican delegates to the Constitutional Convention defeated three court consolidation proposals. Plans to merge the Court of Claims with the Supreme Court, the Family Court with the Supreme Court, and civil and criminal courts in New York City were voted down, following Monday’s failure to merge Surrogate's Court with the Supreme Court. The defeats mark a setback for Sen. Robert Kennedy who had pushed all consolidation measures.
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Albany
N.Y
Court of Claims
Supreme Court
Family Court
New York City
Inside Mental Health Commissioner Calls Segregation Harmful
Inside page note reports the mental health commissioner stating that separating the mentally retarded worsens problems. The edition also highlights Seventeen voting in a million dollar school budget at Hoosick Falls and Dorset Historical Society restoring an ancient burial ground.
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Mental Health Commissioner
Hoosick Falls
Dorset Historical Society
Kiesinger De Gaulle Talk In Bonn Ahead Of Visit
Bonn reports say Chancellor Kiesinger prepared to press De Gaulle on stronger Western Europe voice in world affairs and to press France on Britain's entry to the European Common Market while De Gaulle arrives with his cabinet for a biannual summit under the 1963 friendship treaty.
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Bonn
UPI
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Charles de Gaulle
Kiesinger
de Gaulle
Western Europe
France
Britain
Europe
Middle East
Truce Violations Persist as Israel and Egypt Clash on Canal
Israeli and Egyptian forces exchanged heavy fire across the Suez Canal in a series of violations. Israeli naval units sank two Egyptian torpedo boats near the Sinai coast while air and ground clashes near Ismailia wounded one Israeli and damaged tanks. Soviet ships visiting Port Said drew no direct involvement, though eight warships remained nearby as Cairo floated possible extended Soviet participation.
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Suez Canal
Mediterranean
Sinai
Port Said
United Arab Republic
Canal
Cairo
Ismailia
Jerusalem
East Bank
United Nations
Israel
Ria
Egypt
Sinai Desert
Newport News Shipyard Riot Ends After Midnight Clash
About 3,000 workers rioted at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co after a strike began over on overtime layoffs. Police restored order after hours of violence injuring 20, including nine officers. Looting occurred near pawn shops as crowds attacked cars and vehicles at the yard.
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Newport News
UPI
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co
John F. Kennedy
Ting
Peninsula Shipbuilders Association
A. C. Seals
Red Mobs Rampage Through Hong Kong Riots
Pro Communist mobs clash with police in Hong Kong and Kowloon in the sixth day of anti-British rioting. Buildings burned, vehicles torched, and a Chinese man was found dead in Kowloon as authorities impose an 8 p.m. curfew and deploy 900 riot officers.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Kowloon
New Territories
China
Tai Po
Shaukeiwan
Nathan Road
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Rudolf Nureyev
Margot Fonteyn
Royal Ballet
San Francisco
United Press International
Alexandria
al Gomhoua
U.A.R
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