Raids Cost U S Three More Airplanes In North Vietnam
U S Command reports three additional U S aircraft downed in North Vietnam raising total U S losses to 647 since the war began. U S pilots flew 186 missions as B 52s intensified strikes on the A Shau base near Laos with a 25 mile supply road still active. Friday marked the fourth day this month of record or near record missions.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
United States
U.S
North
Laos
TA Girls Coach Going To Nassen
Miss Doro thea J. Vlahakos, formerly an instructor at Colby College, is named assistant professor in physical education at Nassen College. She will begin full time duties in September and has taught at UNH and Hudson Falls High School. She earned a BS from UNH and an MA from Middlebury, and has held leadership roles in regional teacher and coaches associations. She resides on Summer Street in Saco.
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Springvale
Dorothea J. Vlahakos
Colby College
Nassen College
Donald C. Ziemke
Vlahakos
University of New Hampshire
Hudson Falls Central High School
Thornton Academy
Middlebury College
Southwestern Maine Teachers Association
Board of
Coaches and Officials
Floods Ease In Fairbanks
Floodwaters from the Chena River receded in Fairbanks revealing a city coated with brown silt and debris. The Weather Bureau warned of rising Tanana River flooding threatening villages west of Fairbanks and possible evacuation plans for Nenana and Tanana hospitals if needed.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Chena River
U.S. Weather Bureau
Tanana River
Weather Bureau
Tanana
Nenana
Alaska Disaster Office
Anchorage
Federal Agents Nab Brown On Gun Count
Federal agents nabbed H. Rap Brown as he left a Manhattan apartment and charged him with carrying a .30 calibre automatic carbine on flights between New York and New Orleans while under indictment. The SNCC figure was to be arraigned and faces possible removal to New Orleans for the firearms charge.
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New York
H. Rap Brown
Manhattan
New Orleans
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Maryland
Internal Revenue Service
West Side
Federal
Brown
William Kunstler
U.S
Earle Bishopp
Stephen Kaufman
SNCC
Stokely Carmichael
Hanoi
Carmichael
North Vietnam
United States
Baton Rouge
Washington
Justice
New Department
New Or- Orleans
Local Businesses Prosper Despite the Poor Weather
Local merchants report mixed effects from persistent fog and rain with varied impact by sector. A Biddeford department store and a Saco pharmacy describe conditions as good or very good, while a Biddeford hardware store notes certain lines like latex paint and glassware selling well despite damp conditions.
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Saco
Biddeford
Dieppe Raid Recalled as Misnomer Operation Jubilee
Twenty five years after Dieppe Canadian forces led a costly nine hour raid on the northern French coast. The assault left about 75 percent of Canadian troops casualties and exposed critical plan flaws. Analysts note lack of heavy bombardment and flawed planning. Alastair Buchan recalls wartime mood of eagerness before the disaster.
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England
Dieppe
France
Carl Mollins
Associated Press
Europe
Alastair Buchan
Buchan
Lord Tweedsmuir
Canada
Royal Marine
U.S
Quintet Killed as Car Plunges Into Saco River
Five people likely Montreal family members died when their car plunged off the Redstone covered bridge into the Saco River in Conway New Hampshire. Police identified driver Guy Chayer 38 and his wife Helene 35 with three teenage girls presumed his daughters. Rescue workers recovered bodies from chest high water.
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Conway
N.H
Montreal
Redstone Covered Bridge
Saco River
Joseph Wilson
Guy Chayer
Authority Row Over Vietnam War Stirs Congress Debate
Critics press that Congress holds sole constitutional authority to declare war while President Johnson asserts ample power under the Tonkin resolution. The dispute emerges amid talks on withdrawing support and a weather-delayed war and floods in Alaska.
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Vietnam Senate
Johnson
Congress
Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Nam
Panhandle
Esso
California
Golden State
Trophe
Washington
United States
Southeast Asia
Gulf of Tonkin
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nicholas Katzenhbach
Katzenbach
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Tonkin
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Kunstler
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