Gun Sales Curb Fought By Senators
Washington senators attacked the administration backed bill to curb gun traffic. Senator Gordon Allott argued that a sporting goods rifle could be as deadly as a mail order weapon, while Senator Paul Fannin said the bill targets law abiding citizens and misses the real abuse. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach warned that a mail order rifle sent to a post office box aided by a false name helped trap Kennedy.
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Washington
Gordon Allott
Lee Harvey Oswald
Allen
Colorado
Senate
Atty
Nicholas Kateenhbach
Kennedy
Allott
West
Arizona
Paul Fannin
Gemini Flight Set June 3 With Two Astronauts
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP NASA announced June 3 as the target date for a four day Gemini flight by James A McDivitt and Edward H White II. If approved White could exit the craft for a 15 minute space look. They will conduct 11 medical scientific and engineering experiments and circle the Earth for multiple orbits.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
James A. McDivitt
Edward TH. White
White
Alexei Leonov
Voskhod
MacDivitt
Air Force
Valery Bykovsky
McDivitt
Virgil I. Grissom
John W. Young
Navy
Edward H. White
Earth
Dr. Zay Jeffries Dies Renowned Metallurgist at 77
Dr. Zay Jeffries of 289 Holmes Road, a longtime GE executive and leading metallurgist, died today at Pittsfield General Hospital at age 77. A Harvard PhD and Case Institute alumnus, he led GE’s lamp and metallurgical divisions and helped establish the United States tungsten carbide industry.
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Zay Jeffries
Holmes Road
General Electere Co
Vics
Pittsfield General Hospital
Jeffries
Willow Lake
SL. D
South Dakota School of Mines
Carholoy Co
Pittsfield
Chemical Metallurgical
Plastics Ave
United States
Two Weapons Used To Slay Salesman TYNGSBORO Mass AP
William E. Fergnani a 51 year old trailer sales firm owner was shot to death at his Route 3 trailer lot with two different caliber bullets according to Tyngsboro police Robbery was not motive as only 73 was found on him and 1300 in his car trunk Police seek a man and a woman seen leaving in a black Ford toward New Hampshire Fergnani had identified three men later awaiting trial in Middlesex Superior Court for kidnapping and robbing him last October The suspects are Daniel J St Angelo Christopher W Mustone and Albert L Georgio
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Tyngsborg
Mass
William E. Fergnani
Fergnani
Harold Pirrotio
New Hampshire
Middlesex Superior Court
Daniel J. St. Angelo
Quincy
Christopher W. Mustone
Revere
Albert L. Georgio
Boston
Lowell District Court
West
Peabody
Probe Planned Reentry Heat Test at Cape Kennedy
NASA plans a Project Fire spacecraft launch to study heat during reentry of manned moon missions. An Atlas rocket will deliver it to 500 miles altitude, then a second stage will drive it through the atmosphere at 24 800 mph above the South Atlantic. Launch window starts at 3 22.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
South Atlantic Ocean
Viet Nam Foils Coup Attempt and Air Strikes
A rapid series of raids thwarted an attempted overthrow of Premier Phan Huy Quat in South Vietnam. At least 50 plotters, including a colonel and several majors, were arrested, with one rebel officer killed resisting arrest. The coup was tied to dissident military elements, with U.S. officials noting no clear Viet Cong involvement. Concurrently, nearly 100 U.S. and South Vietnamese aircraft bombed military targets in North Vietnam, including a barracks, gun boats, and a radar site, with 44 planes reportingly setting a base ablaze.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Phan Huy Quat
Ccmmand
Quat
Qual
U.S
Maxwell D. Taylor
Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
Hanoi
Hon Hieu
Armed Forces Council
Nguyen Cao Ky
Bien Hoa
da Nang
Air Force
North Viet Nam
Ambassador Taylor Under Fire Plane Hit But No One Hurt
In Saigon a ground fire bullet struck a jet carrying Ambassador Max D. Taylor en route to Da Nang. The plane landed safely with no repairs needed and the ambassador continued to Saigon. The coup attempt near Saigon triggered tight security and arrests, while Quat’s government faced a shifting political landscape and military demilitarization efforts.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Maxwell D. Taylor
da Nang
U. S
Taylor
U.S. Marine Corps
Chu Lai
Dominican Republic Civil War Cease Fire Underway
A 24 hour cease fire began at noon to allow removal of dead and wounded in Santo Domingo as junta and rebel forces pause amid heavy fighting. U.S. insists on impartiality with 19 Americans killed since intervention. Brazil to dispatch 1300 troops as regional peacekeeping move while UN/OAS mediate.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Hattle-Tornorthern
Red Cross
United Nations
Luis F. Fernandez Martinez
Dominican Red Cross
Antonio Imbert Barrera
Ozama
Imbert
Organization of American States
U.S
Cyrus R. Vance
Defense
Johnson
Washington
Assi
Arthur Sylvester
George E. Reedy
White House
Ellsworth Bunker
United States
McGeorge Bundy
Col
Rafael Fernandez Dominguez
Fernandez
Adlai E. Stevenson
U.N. Security Council
Miguel Roman
Stevenson
Roman
Red
Jottin Cury
GAS
Jose A. Mora
Uruguay
Mora
Jose Antonio Mayolore
U.N
QAS
Brazil
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Summer schooling plan buses Boston children to Sharon
Fifty Negro children from two Boston schools will be bused to Sharon for July and August summer classes to test a suburban integration theory. The program, estimated at $3000, follows a statewide push to end school imbalance seen as harmful to all students.
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Sharon
Mass
Boston
Edward J. Logue
William Ohrenberger
Arthur W. Danielson
Sumer
Walter N. Benoit
Donald L. Wassman
Sharon Unitarian Church
Boston School Committee
Roxbury
House Unit Votes Stay In Defense Shutdowns
The House Armed Services Committee moves to curb Defense Secretary McNamara by authorizing a 30 day freeze on closing or restructuring military installations. The measure requires congressional review if a plan could impair U.S. defense and marks a shift from past wide scale closures. Chairman L Mendes Rivers leads the panel, succeeding Carl Vinson.
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Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Robert S. McNamara
House
Senate Armed Services Committees
United States
Congress
McNamara
L. Mendes Rivers
D-5.c
Otis Fike
D-N.y
Rivers
Five Day Forecast Warmth Shifts and Rain Likely
The forecast calls for temperatures averaging 5 degrees above the seasonal 37, with warmer conditions tomorrow and Sunday and cooler Monday. Expect warmer conditions Tuesday and Wednesday with showers and thunderstorms anticipated Saturday night, Sunday, and again Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Dr. Jeffries
Ambassador Taylor
Vinh
National Police
40Th Regiment
Pham Nene Than
Pham Ngoc Than
Ho Chi Minh
L’unita
Phan Way Quat
Vance
U.S. Mioves
Sylvester
Jose A. Mora Oas
Secretary of Defense
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