Leaflets Fall in North Vietnam Countered in Air
U.S. Air Force jets released an estimated 2.7 million leaflets over five North Vietnamese cities accusing Hanoi of trading rice for Chinese guns. A U.S. Navy A4 Skyhawk was lost, Cmdr. Peter Mongilardi Jr. listed missing. In the south, B27 bombers hit a Viet Cong staging area near Saigon, destroying buildings and killing about 100. Viet Cong mortared Nha Trang and Nghia Hanh. Americans wounded, a helicopter and planes damaged. A new 397th Tactical Squadron arrived at Bien Hoa. Vietnamese troops killed six senior Viet Cong near Saigon in a search and destroy operation. Overall, 64 American planes bombed targets south of Hanoi. Tuo Marong remained in Communist hands amid heavy fighting and weather delays hampered ground ops.
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UPI
Hanoi
North Viet Nam
Peter Mongilardi Jr
Nha Trang
Nghia Hanh
da Nang
U.S
Nghia Khanh
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Bien Hoa
Air Force
Bien Loa P
397Th
Woodfin Sullivan
Frostproof
Fia
Dinh Thuong
Viet Nam
Tuo Marong
Divers Continue Search For Local Drowning Victim
Divers continued today for the body of 32 year old Pittsfield man LaVerne U. Keefe presumed drowned during a family picnic on Onota Lake. Cold 40 degree water hindered long submersions as rescue crews used police boats and skin diving gear while three rescued children were brought ashore.
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Onota Lake
Burbank Park
Gail Goddeau
Robbins Ave
Keefe
Paul Mazza
Daniels Ave
Linda Lavigne
Prospect St
Don Marchetti
Walt Dickie
Daryl Howard
Bob Howard
Donna Merrill
Berkshire Skin Divers Club
Thomas Island
Russell Beekman
W German Minority Scores Big in Saarland Vote
West Germany's Social Democrats surged in Saarland with a 10 point vote gain, narrowing the plurality held by Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's Christian Democrats who retained leadership by one seat. Experts forecast possible larger SD gains in the September federal election where Erhard faces Willy Brandt.
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UPS
West Germany
Social Democrats
Saarland
Ludwig Erhard
Ekard
Christian Democrats
Christian Democrat
Erhard
Willy Brandt
West Berlin
Saar
Five Day Weather Outlook Near Seasonal Norms
The forecast calls for temperatures averaging around 66 with cooler nights Tuesday and Wednesday. Warmth returns Thursday through Saturday with rising highs and scattered showers or thundershowers possible Wednesday night or Thursday.
Dirksen demands specifics in talk of Viet concessions
Washington AP Sen Everett Dirksen urged that any discussion of U S concessions in Vietnam be specific and warned against a South Vietnamese coalition government including Communists He cited Fulbrights 1952 Geneva accords as a flawed basis and urged avoiding veto power for Communists in any peace settlement He and Ford stressed the danger of legitimizing Communist control.
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Everett M. Dirksen
U.S
Republican National Committee
Senate
United States
Fulbright
Viet Nam
Rusk
International Commission
Geneva
South Viet Nam
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J. W. Fulbright
Dirk
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dean Rusk
House
Gerald Ford
Eisenhower
Beatrix of Holland Betrothed Beatrix of Holland Betrothed
Queen Juliana announced the engagement of Crown Princess Beatrix to West German diplomat Claus Von Amsberg amid Dutch worries over his wartime background. Beatrix expressed happiness while noting doubts persist, and the couple gave no wedding date. Vandals defaced names with Nazi symbols, sparking fear of destabilizing the monarchy. In England, under 18s are barred from pubs, but welfare clinics use pubs for postnoon care in a Somerset town.
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Claus von Amsberg
Beatrix
von Amsberg
Amsberg
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Bonn
Amsterdam
Claus
Joseph Mlt.l. Cais
Holland
Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant
Bridgewater
England
GOP fears splinter funds threaten party unity
GOP chairman Ray Bliss warns separate fundraising groups including Goldwater backed Free Society Association and liberals Republicans for Progress could drain funds and weaken the national committee. He urges unity while noting Eisenhower remarks and internal personnel matters at a closed meeting.
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Washington
Ray C. Bliss
GOP
National Committee
Bliss
Free Society Association
Barry M. Goldwater
Republicans For Progress
Goldwater
Republican National Committee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thousands of New York taxi drivers strike for union recognition
Several thousand New York City taxi drivers and mechanics walk out seeking union recognition from fleet owners. Police patrol cab stands to prevent violence. The strike idled thousands of taxis, boosting subway and bus use during rush hour. About 3,500 voiced support at a midnight rally in midtown Manhattan. In Chicago, 6,000 taxi workers strike into a third day as only one fifth of taxis operate.
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New York
UPI
New York City
Manhattan
Bronx
Queens
Brooklyn
Midtown
Chicago
Teacher Turns To Calf-Roping And Rues the Day
An amateur calf roper from Ashburnham Massachusetts Wesley Bailles a 34 year old teacher in the Gardner school system suffered a broken back Sunday when a runaway steer dragged him through a ditch and over a log at a Woodstock Vermont rodeo He was taken to Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover New Hampshire and later transferred to a Fitchburg Massachusetts hospital Battles tried to bring the animal under control by roping it while on foot.
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Woodstock
Ashburnham
Mass
Wesley Bailles
Gardner, Mass
Mary Hitchcock Hospital
Hanover
N.H
Fitchburg
Channel Rebels at Colleges Urged to be Channelled
Harvard educator Dr Dana L Farnsworth told NEA delegates that campus unrest is an encouraging force if guided by faculty fairness and listening to student complaints. President Fretwell urged expanding student leadership to help run colleges and foster teaching and learning amid desegregation era challenges. The NEA opened its 103rd annual convention with a million dollar fund drive to aid unemployed Negro teachers in the South due to desegregation.
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Harvard
Dana L. Farmsworth
Harvard University
Health Services
Farnsworth
National Education Association
K. Fretwell
The
Association For Higher Education
NEA
South
Smoking Ban Implemented At Phillips Andover Campus
Phillips Andover Academy headmaster John M. Kemper banned cigarette smoking on the prep school campus after the U S surgeon general linked smoking to respiratory diseases. Seniors had been allowed to smoke prior to the ruling.
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