Rebels Defy Junta as U S Forces Tighten in Santo Domingo
Dominican rebels reject a surrender invitation from the five member junta led by Gen Antonio Imbert Barrera while U S troops fortify the Embajador Hotel area with 105mm howitzers. Rebel chieftain Col Francisco Caamano Deno boasts higher morale and reserves, as exiled Costa Rican figure Jose Figueres weighs in and U S officials urge restraint and readiness for further contingencies.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Antonio Imbert Barrera
U.S
Washington
Imbert
Francisco
Caamano Deno
Santa Domingo
Donald Reid Cabral
Elias Wessin Y Wessin
Dominican Air Caamano
Caribbean Sea
4Th U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force
2Nd Airborne Division
Embajador Hotel
Yebel
Mike D. Monk
Vandemere
N.C
Ellard C. Dana
Virginia Beach
Donald FE. Martin
Wichita
Kan
Dana
Francisco Caamano Dena
Hubert H. Humphrey
Frank Horton
R-N.y
Jack H. Vaughn
Sate
Vaughn
Hale Boggs
D-La
Cyrus R. Vance
ABC
Nebraska
Roman L. Hruska
Colorado
Gordon Allott
Johnson
Rusk
OAS
Navy Urges Officers and Crewmembers to Extend Service
Secretary of the Navy Paul Nitze asked officers and enlisted personnel to extend service by three to six months to alleviate manpower drain during crisis duties off South Vietnam and the Dominican Republic. The Navy faces extended deployments, enlistment shortfalls, and loss of trained personnel to higher industry pay.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Paul K. Nitze
Navy
South Viet Nam
Nitze
Dominican Republic
South
McDonald to press charges over USW election irregularities
David J. McDonald, lame duck president of the United Steelworkers, will convene the union’s Executive Board on May 19 to present charges of irregularities in the Feb. 9 election that ousted him by 16,142 votes. An investigation reportedly found at least 6,000 votes miscredited. observers doubt the appeal will succeed. If blocked, McDonald may seek a Labor Department inquiry possibly triggering a new vote.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers
USW
International Tellers
McDonald
W. Abel
Stephen Wexler
Washington
Union
Abel
U.S. Labor Department
Labor Department
Pico Rivera Mayor Backs Ban on Topless Shows
Ruth Benell the mayor of Pico Rivera California testified to a legislative committee in favor of a bill allowing local governments to prohibit topless bathing suit displays. She said for a while tops were covered but then the bottom fell out.
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Sacramento
Calif
UPI
Ruth Benell
Pico Rivera
South Korea Rounds Up Coup Plotters
Seoul reports the arrest of at least seven army officers and several civilians for plotting a coup against President Park Chung Hee. No generals were involved. most suspects were colonels and majors held under house arrest. authorities cite rivalry between military academy classes and favoritism as motives amid Park’s pending trip to the United States.
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Seoul
UPI
Park Chung Hee
Army
Park
United States
Orient Press
John M. Chang
Korean Military Academy
Kim Chong Pil
Academy
Kim
British engineer jailed for selling guided missile secrets
In Old Bailey, 52 year old Frank C Bossard, an Aviation Ministry official, received 21 years for five Official Secrets Act charges after admitting to selling British guided missile data to the Russians. He claimed financial distress and said secrets were gathered in hotel rooms during lunch breaks. Another case saw Sgt Peter Sidney Allen plead guilty to three charges of passing embassy documents to an enemy. Bossard faced up to 70 years. sentences include 14 years for recording information and 7 years for each of four charges, to run concurrently.
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Imbert
San Juan
Juan Bosch
U.S
Dominican Republic
Bosch
Cuba
London
Britain
Central Criminal Court
Aviation Ministry
Frank C. Bossard
Old Bailey Court
Sir Frederick Elwyn Jones
Bossard
Aviaton Ministry
Frederick Said Bossard
Bonn
Germany
Army
Peter Sidney Alien
Allen
Middle East
Negro Schools Boycott 80 Percent in Houston
Students at Houston’s five Negro schools boycotted classes and picketed with signs to speed desegregation. The action, about 80 percent effective, targets the current grade by grade integration plan which has advanced only through the first five grades. A protest committee planned to meet the school board tonight.
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Houston
Texas
School Buses Crash Injures 28 Children in Springfield
A collision of two school buses at an intersection in Springfield Mass injured 28 children and two bus drivers. Ursuline Academy pupils aboard a Holyoke Street Railway bus were cut and bruised after being thrown from seats. Police deployed ambulances and cruisers to transport victims to three area hospitals.
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Springfield
Mass
Sey
Ursuline Academy
Holyoke
Icebreaker Rescues Scientists on Floe Off Greenland
Nineteen scientists were evacuated from a melting ice island off Greenland by the Boston based icebreaker Edisto. The operation ends a saga dating to 1961 when the U S launched research on Arctic ice. The Edisto rammed ice floes using dynamite and headed to Keflavik Iceland for onward flights to New York.
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Boston
UPS
Greenland
U.S. Navy
Edisto
Alaska
U.S
Uhe Edisto
Keflavik
Iceland
New York
Vietnamese and American forces pound North Viet Nam
Reports from Saigon say American and Vietnamese warplanes bombed North Viet Nam targets from midnight through the day. Chinese linguists in Viet Cong ranks are reportedly present. Casualties rise as battles intensify in the Mekong Delta and around Saigon. Naval and air strikes destroy bridges trucks and military targets as U.S. toll climbs toward 366 dead.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
North
Peking
Navy
Mekong River
Coral Sea
Midway
Ha Tinh
Hanoi
Tho Hgon
Mekong Delta
Hai Yen
Hau Nghia
Buon Sar
Vance R. Suiley
San Rafael
Calif
U.S
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Jose Figueres
Costa Rica
Organization of American States
Figueres
Dean Rusk
Associated Press
inter-American
Paul Nitze
Steel Union
Donald Dawson
California
Bush
Daniel L. Dawson
Dawsen
South Korea
N. Viet
Took Records Out
United Press International
Icebreaker
Foe
America
Ellicott Machine Corp
Baltimore
Moscow
Red Square
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