Spacemen Begin Tests After Gemini 7 Flight
Astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell start three days of medical tests at Cape Kennedy to study the effects of a 14 day space mission. They report confinement and constant dreaming as major complaints and say dehydration made food tedious toward the end.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Frank Borman
James A. Lovell Jr
Space
Moon
Borman
Lovell
Air Force
Col
Navy
Walter M. Sehirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Schirra
Stafford
Wasp
Bermuda
Gemini
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Tex
Air
Forces repulse Viet Cong raid near Saigon fuel depot
In Saigon forces beat off a company size Viet Cong assault five miles outside the capital near a major fuel and ammunition depot on the fifth anniversary of the war. The attack aimed at but evidently not at the depot sparked alerts as analysts warned of a potential riverfront fire if tanks were hit.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nha Be
U.S
Biddeford Elections Bring Tight Mayor and Council Races
Voters in Biddeford turnout moderate to heavy across seven wards for the city election. Democratic Leo Lemire faces Republican John Xaphes for mayor as Democratic chances flicker for a council seat, with Laflamme contesting ballots and Roberge as a Ward 3 contender. In Vietnam, U S raids resume with F105 strikes on Bac Can highway, two pilots killed, and curfews in Saigon as martial security remains tight.
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Biddeford
Board of Education
Leo R. Lemire
John F. Xaphes
Lemire
Daniel P. Cantara
Xaphes
Willie W. Pomerlea
Roberge
Ward 3
Laflamme
Publication dispute over North Viet Nam peace feelers
Washington faced a heated clash over publishing correspondence on a conditional peace offer from Hanoi. Officials said no new U S action was decided while critics accused Rusk of sabotaging the process. Goldberg defended disclosure as necessary for public credibility.
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Washington
Johnson
Viet Nam
Hanoi
U.S
Ho Chi Minh
North Viet Nam
U. S
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
United States
Giorgio la Pira
Florence
Christian-Democrat
Dean Rusk
la Pira
Rusk
State Department
Arthur J. Goldberg
United Nations
ABC
Goldberg
Benjamin Spock
H. Stuart Hughes
Committee For A
Dominican Peace Efforts Suffer Sharp Setback
Violence in the Dominican Republic escalated as army troops clashed with about 125 former rebels at Hotel Matum near Santiago killing 12 and wounding many. U S paratroopers of the Inter American Peace Force arrived as fighting widened to Santo Domingo where a policeman was fatally shot amid pro rebel protests.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Santiago
Matum
U.S
Inter-American Peace Force
IAPF
Ing
Santiago Hotel
Hector Garcia-Godoy
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Leo Bedard
Sirius
Tuyen Nhon
Plain of Reeds
Father
North
Bac Can
Red China
Haiphong
da Nang
U. S.S
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Rita Nadeau
Laurianne Grover
Kittery
Harry N. Huot
Russell
Storer St
Saco
U.S.C.A. Choice Steer
Alice Roberge
Camp Ellis
Esther A. Furman
Washington Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
JPON
Russell's
N Save Food
Freeman
Boston
Main Street
Fea, Corp
Green's Shoe
S & H Green
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K & K Shoe Co
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Aime Poirier
Oniddohs
Chris
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Racine’s Bakery
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