Gemini 7 Heads Toward 14 Day Orbit Milestone
Gemini 7 pilots Borman and Lovell won approval for a full 14 day mission after a tense night watching fuel cell performance. Ground control said power would hold, with a planned Atlantic splashdown near the aircraft carrier Wasp and a rendezvous with Gemini 6 for postflight analysis.
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Walter Schirra
Thomas Stafford
Wasp
Elliot Lee
Borman
Lovell
Schirra
Stafford
Space
Mission Control
Berman and Lovell
Bermuda
John D. Hodge
Hodge
Air Force
Navy
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Cape Kennedy
Mission Control Center
Teen-Ager Terrorist Grenade Attack Wounds 12 U S Soldiers
In Saigon a teen age attacker hurled a grenade into a truck of U S soldiers wounding 12. The assailant fled as Saigon marked the Viet Cong anniversary amid heavy clashes elsewhere in Vietnam.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
National Liberation Front
North
Viet Nam
Air Force
North Viet Nam
U.S. Viet Casualties Less Than Expected
U S forces report lower than expected casualties in Vietnam with 1496 combat deaths recorded as of January 1961 and 2411 killed this year. Communist losses are pegged at about 35000, with a 2.7 to 1 Allied kill ratio reported in Saigon. The piece notes rising casualty projections, air strikes on targets near Dien Bien Phu and Vinh, and increased security after a Saigon bombing injuring four Americans.
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Washington
USS
Pentagon
Viet Nam
U.S
Saigon
Korea
United States
Dien Bien Phu
Vinh
Hanoi
Hanoi-Haiphong
Haiphong
Mekong River
U.S. Army
Johnson and Wilson to Meet Again in Washington
President Johnson and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson meet again in Washington to discuss Rhodesian independence, nuclear arms sharing with the Atlantic Alliance, and British defense cuts and disarmament. Attendees include McGeorge Bundy and George Ball. Wilson had spoken at the U.N. in New York before the meeting.
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Washington
Johnson
Harold Wilson
Britain
Atlantic Alliance
McGeorge Bundy
George W. Ball
David K.E
Saco alderman mulls recount after ballot inspection
Incumbent alderman Charles Gilpatric Jr. of Saco Ward 3 considers a recount of 547 ballots after an inspection in the mayor's office found results closer than expected. Waight led 275 to 272 after initial tallies, with a recount altering margins. request could occur within three days. Present were Mayor Reay, Gilpatric, and legal counsel.
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Charles Gilpatric Jr
Saco
Gilpatric
Harold P. Waight
Waight
Paul E. Reay
Atty
Nicholas Danton
Old Orchard Beach
George Bric
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Christopher C. Kraft Jr
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Carleton Day Reed Jr
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Maurice Ross
Joseph P. Kenneally
Clifford C. Clifford
Chris Throumoulos
Sen. Reed
Thomas Paraday
Fred Hadiaris
U.S. Viet
WRR
Fea. Corp
Antonio J. Dallaire
David P. Twomey
Joseph J. St. Louis
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Willie W. Pomerleau
John F. Xaphes
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Paul E, Laflamme
Firestone
Texaco
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Robert R. Labelle
Richard bin
Ette
Police
Missioner
Richard Binette
Wilson
T. W.U.A
Afl-Cio
CLC
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City and Central
Santa Claus
Adrien A. Petit
Ralph Oliver
John Cleary
Michael Schoonjans
Pool
Qniddohs
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Roland Lemieux
Gerald C. Nason
Alfred Gagne
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