Hanoi Rejects Neutral Cruiser For Peace Talks
A North Vietnamese spokesman in Vientiane rejected Indonesias offer to host preliminary talks with the United States aboard a cruiser in the Gulf of Tonkin. Hanoi said the plan violates Johnsons conditions and favors Jakarta, insisting talks be held in Phnom Penh or Warsaw. US supporters in Congress pushed Warsaw as a site, while Hanoi maintained neutrality concerns and press access would be restricted.
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Laos
United States
Gulf of Tonkin
Washington
Hanoi
Johnson
Indonesia
Jakarta
Sukarno
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Warsaw
Poland
U.S
J. W. Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nicholas Katzenbach
Fulbright
South Vietnam
South Korea
Anoi
Waite House
Donesia
Adam Malik
North Vietnam
Malik
White House
Phone Strike Settlement Near in Nationwide Talks
Washington AP A tentative three year contract offers a 6.5 percent annual wage rise and fringe benefits for about 600 000 Bell System workers including 145 000 operators linemen and other staff The accord worth over 2 billion dollars could end the first nationwide Bell strike in 21 years pending ratification and affects 17 cities with 23 000 installers in Western Electric 40 states and the District of Columbia The deal would set a pattern for future bargaining while federal mediators press to settle remaining disputes in New England and other regions
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Joseph A. Beirne
Ginia Telephone
Bell Telephone System
Bell System
Afl-Cio Communications Workers of America
Beirne
Anenc
Virginia
Defense Department
Pentagon
Arlington
New York
Bell
Western Electric Co
States
District of Columbia
Afl-Cio International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
R3oston
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers
New England Telephone Co
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They Really Weren't Viet Cong Troops
In Vietnam a hundred husky men in white shirts move across dry fields as an American helicopter surveys them. Col Hank Emerson's command plane urges troops and gunships arrive, yet the detainees say they fled an anticipated attack. The scene hints at a Viet Cong replacement company on the move, with detainees awaiting camp processing.
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Dong Tam
Vietnam
Hank Emerson
Milford
9Th Division
Icarus the asteroid begins Earthward approach today
Washington AP reports the maverick asteroid Icarus, about a half mile across, speeds toward Earth at 20,000 mph and will pass within four million miles on June 14. Navy astronomers say no collision danger, while scientists caution future returns remain possible. The rock orbits the sun every 409 days and was known to approach Earth in mid June since 1957.
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Washington
Navy
Earth
Robert S. Richardson
Richardson
Altadena
Calif
Icarus
Mercury
Solar System
Poor People's March Begins In Memphis As King Aide Leads
In Memphis hundreds of marchers prepare to join the Poor People's Campaign to Washington. A memorial stone for Martin Luther King Jr. and his widow Coretta Scott King is unveiled at the Lorraine Motel as Ralph Abernathy leads a Memphis march toward Marks Mississippi. Abernathy says poor whites Native Americans Mexicans and Puerto Ricans will join the effort. An early incident in Marks involves Mississippi highway patrols breaking up a student sit-in outside Quitman County jail with some organizers jailed.
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Washington
Martin Luther King Jr
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Miss
King
Ralph D. Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Lorraine Motel
Abernathy
Memphis
Mississippi
Quitman Count
Jack Harrison
Willie Bolden
SCLC
Appalachia
Congress
Indiana Primary Shadows Over Branigin Humphrey Clash
In Indiana Democratic primary Branigin and Humphrey face questions of stand-in roles as Kennedy and McCarthy push for momentum. Nixon fights for Republican votes amid crossover temptations, with Rockefeller entering as a potential helper to keep GOPers in their lane. Branigin campaigns with strong support while McCarthy eyes wins to keep momentum alive.
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McCarthy
Nixon
Humphrey
Indiana
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Richard M. Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
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