Foe Suffers Heavy Casualties As Tempo of Attacks Increases
In South Vietnam a surge of Communist shelling and ground assaults Tuesday and today left 37 American GIs dead and 114 wounded. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese losses totaled at least 249. U.S. Marines and air units repelled crossings near the DMZ and at Khe Sanh, with 116 enemy casualties reported near the Laotian border and other clashes at multiple bases.
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Air Force falsified cost estimates on Mark II system says witness
A. E. Fitzgerald testified before the Joint Economic Subcommittee that Air Force officials lied about Mark II and other weapons costs to push projects, citing a 1967 estimate of 712 million versus a true 941 million and later 2.5 billion. He described pressure from generals to hide true costs and said he was reassigned after exposing figures.
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Joint Economic Subcommittee On
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Robert S. McNamara
Pentagon
William Proxmire
Wisconsin
Thailand
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Polite But Desperate Gunman Hijacks Transcontinental Jet
A calm but desperate hijacker forced a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 from Oakland to New York to divert to Havana then return to the United States. The 87 aboard included physicist Dr W Wallace Birnbaum of Berkeley. The hijacker, identified as J Davis, a tall Negro from Oakland, carried a gun and a bag with a Panther book. The jet refueled in Miami after Cuba detainment, and several passengers bound for Europe missed connections.
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Physics International Inc
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Behnke
Europe
Fueling Starts For Apollo 11
Cape Kennedy reports fueling of the Apollo 11 lunar mission begins as officials approve a four week countdown. Astronauts Armstrong Collins Aldrin are in good health. they will fly 10 hour days, six days a week, approaching a July 16 launch.
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Neil A. Armstrong
Michael Collins
Edwin FE. Aldrin
Charles A. Berry
Donald K. Slayton
Samuel C. Philipps
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