Paratroops invade Viet Cong stronghold with tear gas
U S paratroopers and Australian soldiers attacked a Viet Cong jungle stronghold 30 miles north of Saigon. Tear gas was used nonlethally for the first time since January. Guam based B-52s bombed targets and North Viet Nam was hit around the clock as South Korean forces began landing elements of a 15 000 man division at Qui Nhon.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
U.S. Baas
D Zone
North Viet Nam
Qui Nhon
Viet Cong to Observe Month of Hatred Against U.S.
Hanoi radio reports the Viet Cong will begin a month of hatred against the United States on October 15. The date marks the first anniversary of Nguyen Van Troi's execution for an attempt on U.S. Defense Secretary McNamara during a South Vietnam inspection tour.
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Tokyo
United States
Hanoi Radio
Nguyen van Troi
Saigon
U.S
Robert S. McNamara
South Viet Nam
Congress Eases Air Mail for Viet Nam Servicemen
The House quickly passed a bill to let servicemen in Viet Nam send all letters by air at no cost to themselves. The measure would also improve package sending for relatives and friends of the troops.
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Washington
UPI
House
Viet Nam
Officers Roughed Up by Soviet Troops in Berlin
BERLIN AP The U S Army confirmed that armed Soviet soldiers blocked four U S train commanders as they tried to inspect trains in Communist East Germany. Four U S trains moving to and from West Berlin were involved along with three American officers. Soviet troops blocked the way with weapons and grabbed the commanders by the arms. The United States has protested to Soviet authorities.
Seismic Signals Indicate Possible Nuclear Blast
The Atomic Energy Commission reported seismic signals from Semipalatinsk in the Soviet testing area that could indicate a low to low intermediate yield nuclear explosion. The note stopped short of confirming a test, describing the signals as not definitively an explosion.
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Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Soviet Union
Semipalatinsk
Yiela
Small Boats Reach Cuba in Refugee Boat Arrivals
Cuban Foreign Ministry said boats piloted by relatives of would be refugees arrived from the United States. The ministry spokesmen said boats will return to the U S Sunday with Cuban refugees after arranging exit from Camarioca port in Matanzas province. Negotiations continue between the U S and Cuba through the Swiss embassy in Havana.
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Cuba
Cuban Foreign Ministry
United States
Foreign Ministry
Camaroca
Camarioca
Matanzas Province
Fidel Castro
Florida
Castro
Arthur Monnier
Washington
Switzerland
U. S
Monnier
Maria del Rosario Martinez
Miami
Sextuplets Die After Gemzell Hormone Birth
A Swedish woman delivered sextuplets at Uppsala Academic Hospital on Oct. 3 using Prof Carl Gemzell’s hormone method. The six babies lived only hours. researchers have not yet determined the exact hormone dose needed.
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Stockholm
Gemzell
Svenska Dagbladet
Uppsala
Carl Gemzell
Four Convicted in Anti US Japan Riots in Tokyo
Tokyo District Court convicted four Japanese, including a Socialist member of Parliament, of leading the riot that greeted former U S presidential press secretary James Hagerty at Tokyo Airport five years ago. Prison terms ranged from four to six months with a two year stay of execution. The riot occurred as Hagerty arrived to prepare for President Eisenhower's visit.
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Tokyo
U.S
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Eisenhower
Storm Toll Feared After Typhoon Hits Agrihan Island
In Agrihan Guam area, a powerful typhoon with winds over 200 mph pounded the island Friday. Many homes wiped out. aircraft over the area report few survivors on the beach. Seven Japanese fishing boats missing. eleven ships of the Japanese Maritime Shipping Association search for them. Paramedical teams to assess island losses expected Saturday.
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Agana
Guam
Agrihan Island
Marianas
Carmen
Agrihan
Japan
Talks on Rhodesia independence collapse in London
London reports that negotiations between Britain and Rhodesia failed to resolve governance disputes. Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and Ian Smith ended talks without a meeting scheduled, heightening fears of unilateral independence and possible economic and racial conflict, with Britain and allies urging settlement before isolation or rebellion.
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London
Rhodesia
Britain
Harold Wilson
Ian Smith
Smith
Red China's Hand Seen In Indonesian Upheaval
UPI reports that Communist China played a key role in Indonesia's last week's uprising against Sukarno. Peking promoted the Indonesian Communist Party to seize power and cooperate with Red China, with Beijing now seeking to cover its involvement amid a confused, unsettled political scene in Jakarta and Peking.
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Tondon
UPI
China
Sukarno
Indonesia
Peking
Communist Party
Red China
Mao Tze-Tung
Jakarta
Russia
Soviet Reform Plans Echo Lenin NEP in Modern Shakeup
The Kosygin reform program in the Soviet Union is described as a sweeping industrial overhaul that recalls Lenin's 1921 New Economic Policy. The piece discusses profits, production incentives, factory ownership, and a shift toward market-like mechanisms within state control, comparing it to the original NEP and noting peasant concessions and potential freedoms in enterprise.
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Lenin
New York
Nana
Aleksei Kosygin
Soviet Union
V. I. Lenin
Britain
France
Russia
Lord Thomson
Moscow
Soviet Grain Imports Signal Quiet Economic Turnover
The text argues that Soviet agriculture and industry shifts resemble a New Economic Policy, with government purchases of millions of tons of grain abroad and a cooling revolution. It notes Khrushchev's foreshadowing and suggests a major, though non tumultuous, change likely to satisfy the Soviet people, while altering the USSR.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
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