US Captain Dies a Hero in Viet Nam Conflict
Brig. Gen. Ca Van Vien says Capt. Thomas W. McCarthy of Fayetteville North Carolina died at the Cambodian border after rallying a unit during a dawn ambush by Viet Cong near Saigon. Vien said 14 Viet Namese were killed and 85 wounded as American advisers faced heavy fire. An additional American adviser died in a separate ambush northwest of Saigon. Since 1961, 114 Americans have been killed in combat and 192 have died from all causes.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
McCarthy
Ca van Vien
Thomas W. McCarthy
Fayetteville
N.C
Vien
United States
Calm Volcano Lets 30,000 Return Home
Villarrica volcano in southern Chile appeared to calm, allowing about 30,000 evacuees to begin returning home. In Conaripe the mud and rock avalanches killed three residents and left 22 missing, with the wider area reporting up to 22 dead and 35 missing. Rescue teams faced washed-out roads and floods as they delivered aid, while a relief squad noted residents reaching safety moments before the avalanches. The eruption marked the worst since 1948 when around 200 were killed.
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Temuco
Chile
Villar Yica
Conaripe
Villarrica
Santiago
Mother immunizes son with third Sabin dose in Alabama
In Montgomery, Mrs Mozelle Wallace a State Health Department employee gave Alabama Governor George C Wallace his third Sabin oral polio vaccine dose on Tuesday. The act followed standard vaccination practice and the governor received credit for the timely immunization amid public health efforts.
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Sonny Boy Montgomery
Ala
Mozelle Wallace
State Health Department
Alabama
George C. Wallace
US opposes UN role for Peiping in WHO vote
The United States said it will oppose Communist China's seat in all UN bodies. France backed Peiping at the WHO assembly in Geneva where the bid was defeated 5 to 21 with 22 abstentions. State Department spokesman Phillips vowed to continue the stance in every UN body and noted little notice of France's position before the WHO vote. The next clash is expected at the UN trade and development conference opening March 23 in Geneva.
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Washington
United States
China
United Nations
Yearly Assembly of the
World Health Organization
Geneva
U.N. General Assembly
Paris
France
Peking
Health Organization
Red China
State Department
Richard I. Phillips
World Health Organization Assembly
Republic of China
U.N
Arts
U.N. Conference On Trade and Development
Phillips
U. S
Antibias Bill Rejected in Ireland
In Belfast the House of Commons rejected by 27 to 13 a Labour party anti racial discrimination bill. The measure would have made it an offense to discriminate on color race or religion or to publicly contempt or hatred for any person on those grounds.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
House of Commons
Labor Party
Hand Transplant From Dead Donor Shows Movement
In Guayaquil Ecuador a Navy sailor with a right hand transplant from a deceased laborer began to move the hand in a circular motion on Tuesday. Julio Luna 32, who lost his hand to a grenade blast in February, also can move several fingers according to hospital informants.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Julio Luna
East Germany offers passes to split West Berlin
East Germany proposed passes for West Berlin residents to move through the city wall within hours if Mayor Willy Brandt accepts Communist terms. Neues Deutschland urged Brandt to accept after Bonn and Western Allied pressure. The move aims to split West Berlin from West Germany. over a million West Berliners had visited East Berlin during Christmas as talks stalled on an Easter agreement.
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West
Spitter at Adlai Stevenson Faces Court Trial
A 22 year old Irving resident Robert Edward Hatfield must appear in County Criminal Court of Appeals in Dallas for aggravated assault after he allegedly spit on United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson last October. Hatfield also struck Dallas police officer L R Lawson who arrested him.
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Dallas
Tex
Irving
United Nations
Adlai Stevenson
Robert Edward Hatfield
County Criminal Court of Appeals
Hatfield
L. R. Lawson
Stevenson
British Tommies Quitting Uganda
Kampala Uganda Premier Milton Obote said British troops brought in during last month's abortive mutiny will return to Kenya next Monday. He said the situation here no longer requires their presence.
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Kampala
Uganda
UPH
Kenya
Milton Obote
Wilson Backs London on Cuba and China
British Labour Party leader Harold Wilson voiced strong support for the government's stance against the United States over Cuba and China. After meeting with President Johnson, Wilson said Labour would not back away from the British position if elected, while noting U.S. arguments that embargo might curb Cuban Communist threats.
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Wilson
London
Cuba
China
Washington
Labor Party
Harrold Wilson
United States
Red China
Johnson
Britain
U.S
Senate setback delays fallout shelter funding vote
Washington AP report says Senate Armed Services panel 4-1 vote to defer action on House approved 190.6 million plan for federal incentives to build fallout shelters in schools hospitals and nonprofits slows progress for civil defense program. Pittman says delay hinders defense needs but stops short of deciding merit.
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Washington
Secretary of Defense
Othart L. Pittman
Senate
Pittman
House
Senate Armed Services
Subcommittee For Congress
Congressional Committee
Saudi Arabia and UAR Resume Ties
In Cairo and Riyadh, the United Arab Republic and Saudi Arabia agreed to resume diplomatic relations immediately as part of moves to settle their Yemen dispute following talks in Saudi Arabia. The restoration ends a 1962 severance after the Yemeni monarchy was toppled, signaling cooler postwar regional ties.
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Cairo
United Arab Republic
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Riyadh
Policewoman Rescues Baby as Father Threatens Jump
London policewoman Margaret Cleland faced a 90 minute stand off with Thomas French a 31 year old garage owner who threatened to leap from a 50 foot roof ledge with his infant son Miss Cleland lunged grabbed the child and fell to the roof floor both were unharmed French was restrained and hospitalized for observation.
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London
UPI
Margaret Cleland
Thomas French
Greek King Paul Improves After Near-Death Report
In Athens the Royal Palace announced King Paul is resting quietly. A medical bulletin noted urinary trouble that afflicted the monarch showed signs of improvement after earlier reports of possible death. The update comes from the Greek royal household.
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Athens
Greece
Paul
Envoy quits Panama post over aid project flaws
Joseph Farland, the last U.S. ambassador to Panama, says he resigned due to irregularities in a $10 million AID housing project known as the Gilbane project. He departed August 31 and noted there was no replacement by the Kennedy or Johnson administrations as diplomatic ties were severed earlier that year.
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Manchester
N.H
UPD
Joseph Farland
U.S
Panama
Farland
New Hampshire
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Agency For International Development (Aid
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