Daily B52 Raids Loom in Strategy
SAIGON AP News says five B52 raids have flown in six days as US SAC planes step up strikes on North and South Viet Nam. Air Force and Navy missions hit storage areas barracks bridges and rail lines. two American planes were lost with one pilot captured. Civilians evacuated around Da Nang as student protests gain momentum and demand removal of the military regime.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Strategic Air Command
South Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
Navy
North Viet Nam
da Nang
Quant Tin Province
Zone D
Zone
API
Nguyen van Thieuw
Hue
Nguyen Hua Co
Ball to See De Gaulle on Viet Nam in Paris
U S Under Secretary of State George W Ball will meet President Charles de Gaulle in Paris on Tuesday to discuss new peace moves in Vietnam. He carries a personal Johnson message on the Vietnam situation and arrived with Treasury Secretary Fowler to push an international monetary conference agenda. This direct meeting marks a departure from prior visits when Ball met Foreign Minister Couve de Murville only.
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Paris
Ball
Maurice Couve de Murville
de Gaille
AF Transport 14 Servicemen Lost at Sea
A U S Air Force C47 carrying 14 service members from Howard AFB Panama to Cali Colombia went overdue Sunday night. Four Army Special Forces and ten Air Force personnel aboard were last heard from at 10:24 am Sunday. Searches by Air Force and Army began at 4:30 pm and were suspended at sundown with plans to resume at dawn.
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Panama
Upt
U.S. Air Force
Canal Zone
Cali
Colombia
Air Force
Howard Air Force Base
Army
Five Day Forecast With Mild Temperature Rise
The outlook shows temperatures averaging near normal through Saturday with a rise on Tuesday and Wednesday. Little change otherwise. Precipitation totals about half an inch from showers on Wednesday and early Thursday and again on Saturday.
Gemini 5 astronauts reach eight day mock moon flight
Houston officials report Gemini 5 crew L Gordon Cooper Jr and Charles Conrad Jr in excellent physical condition after circling Earth 120 times for seven days and 22 hours. Doctors begin extensive testing on weightlessness effects as preparations for future moon missions continue.
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Manned Space
Center
Houston, Tex
America
Moon
L. Gordon Cooper’ Jr
Charles Conrad Jr
Lake Champlain
Cape Kennedy
Champlain
Howard Minners
Johnson
Cooper
Conrad
Pope Paul
Castel Gandolfo
Italy
Berry
Charles Mathews
United States
Giruth
Earth
Mathews
Christopher C. Krafter
Computer failure caused Gemini 5 to miss target
Houston AP reports Spacecraft Center technicians search for cause after a computer failure fed to the Gemini 5 craft caused it to land 103 miles short of the target. NASA said the error produced a wrong landing prediction.
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Houston, Tex
Spacecraft Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Heavy Fighting in Santo Domingo Raises Peace Hopes
In Santo Domingo heavy night firefights between rebel troops and the Inter-American Peace Force killed at least 35 rebels and 10 wounded, with OAS reports listing 9 dead and 31 wounded. A Paraguayan Peace Force soldier was reportedly slightly wounded, no U.S. casualties. Reports said mortar fire touched off the clash amid talks on an OAS peace formula to end four months of crisis. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and committee members pressed for a settlement as talks continued at the Hotel Jaragua in the international security zone. President Johnson urged the civilian military junta to accept the latest OAS proposals in a weekend press briefing.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Organization of American States
Junta
U.S
An Agree
Ment
OAS
Ellsworth Bunker
Bunker
Omar Penha Marinho
Brazil
Ramon de Clairmont Duenas
el Salvador
Wushed
Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Organization of American States’ Peace Committee
Antonio Imbert Barreras
Francisco Caamano Deno
Imbert
Area Man Helps Float Gemini 5
Stamford Vermont resident Peter Allen Spencer, 22, served in a Navy recovery unit that attached a flotation collar to the Gemini 5 capsule after it splashed into the Atlantic off Bermuda. The three man team, led by Lt. John P. Hunt, dropped from a helicopter, ensured buoyancy for retrieval by the Aircraft Carrier Champlain, while astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad confirmed safe.
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Stamford
Peter Allen Spencer
Atlantic Ocean
Bermuda
Navy
Spencer
Drury High
North Adams
University of Vermont
Little Creek
Arthur Spencer
J.g
John P. Hunt
Jamaca Plain
Boston
J.C
William A. Langley
Greenville
D.C
Lt. Hunt
Gordon Cooper
Charles Conrad
Hunt
Langley
Champlain
Johnson Seeks White House Tour to Stop Steel Strike
President Johnson summoned steel union and management negotiators to the White House to avert a midnight Tuesday strike after mediators reported stalemate. Key figures Morse Collins Wirtz Connor and Moyers coordinated the visit, with talk of invoking Taft-Hartley if talks fail.
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Washington
Johnson
Steel Union
White House
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Leroy Collins
Pittsburgh
Morse
Collins
Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Commerce
John T. Connor
Bill D. Moyers
Texas
Moyers
William Simikin
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Wirtz and
Connor
Taft-Hariley
Martin King's Children Help Integrate School
Five Negro children including two Dr Martin Luther King Jr children were enrolled today in an all-white elementary school in Atlanta Georgia at Spring Street. They were accompanied by their mothers Mrs King and Mrs Ralph Abernathy Aburnathy is vice president of the SCLC and King heads the organization.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Atlanta
Martin Luther King J
Yolanda
Spring Street
Douzaleigh
Juandalynn
Ralph Abernathy II
King
Ralph Abernathy
Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Integration cautious in Hayneville as Negro pupils stay away
In Mayneville Alabama five black students slated for desegregated Hayneville High did not attend while a volunteer force of four black deputies and additional agents observed. Deputies guarded the entrance as white spectators watched. The delay follows a pattern in desegregation cases and comes after violence that claimed civil rights worker Jonathan Daniels and wounded another priest.
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Mayneville
Ala
Hayneville High School
Lowndes County
Jonathan Daniels
Daniels
Episcopal Seminary
Keene
Richard Morrissee
Chicago
Thomas L. Coleman
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LBJ
Conrad Amile
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Robert Gilruth
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Control Center
Charles Berry
Tass
Harold Wilson
Great Britain
Minners
Minner
Houston
Jane Conrad
Hawaii
Mter
Atlantic
Mars
Merriman Smith
Basic Steel
United Steel_ Workers union
USW
Martin King
United Press International
FBE
Hulda Coleman
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