Gemini 7 mission set for December rendezvous test
United States space effort advances as Gemini 7 prepared for a December rendezvous with Gemini 6. Final prelaunch checks completed at Cape Kennedy with Lt. Col. Borman and Cmdr. Lovell aboard the Titan 2 vehicle. Flight plan calls for 206 orbits in about 329 hours, while Kraft expresses cautious optimism about a successful joint mission despite weather and system variables.
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Space Agency
Cape Kennedy
Air Force
Borman
Navy
Lovell
Cape Forest
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Schirra
Stafford
Christoper C. Kraft Jr
Klan Trio Sentenced in Liuzzo Slaying Case
Three Ku Klux Klan members, Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr., Eugene Thomas, and William Orville Eaton, were sentenced to ten years each for conspiring to violate civil rights in the Selma to Montgomery march case involving Viola Liuzzo. FBI witness Gary Rowe Jr. testified the men pursued and shot at Liuzzo as she drove along U S Highway 80 near Selma.
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Johnson
Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr
Fairfield
Ala
Eugene Thomas
Wil- Eugene Thomas
Wiliam Orville Eaton
Bessemer
Wilkins
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Detroit
FBI
Gary Thomas Rowe Jr
Liuzzo
U.S. 80
Montgomery
Selma
Rowe
APE
Pope May Sanction Friday Meat Rule Change
Vatican sources say Pope Paul VI may lift the Friday meat abstinence as part of a Vatican Ecumenical Council closure, possibly next week. The move would end the rule as mandatory discipline while urging voluntary penance through acts of charity and self denials.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Vatican Ecumenical Council
Nicholas I
East German Deputy Premier Die by Own Action
Berlin AP report says East German Deputy Premier Erich Apel, 48, died by his own hand after a sudden nervous collapse. ADN said he had long circulatory and nervous ailments. medical bulletin gave no detail on the method of death.
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Berlin
Erich Apel
East Germany
ADN
Apel
Apal
Westmoreland Authorized to Extend Viet Nam Tours
The Defense Department said General Westmoreland may extend U S tours of duty in Viet Nam for combat necessity to any length, but his policy is not to exceed 30 days of added duty. Reports had suggested soldiers were ordered to stay three extra months beyond the standard one year.
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Washington
William C. Westmoreland
U.S
Viet Nam
Defense Department
Picasso undergoes gall bladder operation at 84
Paris surgeons said Pablo Picasso, age 84, had gall bladder surgery two weeks ago and is recovering well but secrecy surrounds the operation request for privacy. In Paris the American Hospital initially stated and then denied Picasso was operated on there.
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Paris
Pablo Picasso
Picasso
Selma sighting ties Mrs Liazzo to Negro man in car
Testimony links Rawe to two Wilkins murder trials in neighboring Lowndes County. The first trial with a white jury ended in a deadrock, the second ended in an acquittal.
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Liazzo
Selma
Rawe
Wilkins
Lowndes County
Bomb remains unexploded near Metropole blast site
A time fuse failed to arm a planned attack as a concussion grenade exploded near the top floor of a three story officers dormitory two blocks from the Metropole, causing window damage. A second grenade thrown at the international officer's billet near a large American HQ complex two miles away did not detonate.
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Metropole
Tipped Soviet Missiles Said in East German Hands
New York report says East Germany guards Soviet missiles with atomic warheads under security similar to NATO. Handelsblatt in West Germany cites East German army guarding a T-5 600-pound warhead rocket with 45 mile range and a T-7 missile with 100 mile range. Poland protests NATO arms increase and cites U S blackout as proof of compromised fail safe.
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New York
Nana
East Germany
America
NATO
U.S
New York Times
West Germany
Handelsblatt
Dusseldorf
Poland
Hungary
Ussr
United Nations
Washington
Europe
Bohdan Lewandowski
Soviet Envoy Presses End to War as U.S. Is Accused
The Soviet ambassador at the United Nations, Federenko, urged an immediate halt to armed intervention in Vietnam and warned that U.S. actions in Laos and Cambodia escalate tension. He said Moscow backs North Vietnam’s demands for troop withdrawal and political settlement, while China pushes the war to continue. U.S. experts view China as the prime mover behind the conflict’s persistence.
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U.S
Viet Nam
United Nations
United States
Laos
Fedorenko
Moscow
North
Soviet Union
Red China
North Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Federenko
Southeast Asia
Cambodia
Nurses Only Can Bargain Under Labor Law
Three Massachusetts Superior Court judges ruled that a 1964 amendment allows bargaining by nurses only, not other hospital non professionals. The Memorial Hospital Worcester case found the Labor Relations Commission exceeded its authority by recognizing the International Union of Operating Engineers for seven stationary firemen. Ayub Khan to visit United States with Bhutto for talks in December after invitation by President Johnson.
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Boston
Superior Court
State Labor Relations Act
Harry T. Katus
Donald M. Macaulay
Cornelius J. Moynihan
Memorial Hospital
Worcester
State Labor Relations Commission
International Union of Operating Engineers
Afl-Cio
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Cern
J. F. Kahl CO
North Street
American Gem Society Quality
Saigon Blast
By Jeffendast
Pioneer Credit Corporation
Pittsfield
Great Barrington
Main Street
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Rawalpindi
Pakistan
Ayub Khan
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
Ayub
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