U N Command protests slayings near truce line
The United Nations Command denounces the slayings of six Americans and a South Korean south of the armistice line near Panmunjom. General Ciccolella presented bloodied evidence and a letter from General Bonesteel demanding an end to the attacks, while North Korea denied the charges and warned of renewed conflict.
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Panmunjom
Korea
United Nations Command
U.S
Richard Ciccolella
Military Armistice Commission
Johnson
Ciccolella
Park Chung Kook
Bonesteel
Pyongyang
Kim Il-sung
U.N
U.N. Command
Pyongyang Medicine Manufacturing Co
Mur
United States
Flood cripples Florence as Arno overruns city center
Florence suffers its worst Arno flood since World War II with the river overflowing its banks and cutting water and power. The metropolis of 450,000 faces isolation as floods hit bridges, streets, and historic sites including the Piazza della Signoria and the Uffizi Gallery while trains and roads are submerged.
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Florence
Italy
Ponte Vecchio
Uffizi Art Gallery
Piazza del Duomo
Giotto
Sicily
Alps
Tuscany
Rome
Lungarno
Arno Way
Piazza Della Signoria
Johnson says Manila talks unite nations to walk the last mile for peace
President Johnson hailed the Manila conference as strongly united in resolve to seek peace in Vietnam and said he would undergo throat and abdominal surgery in about two weeks. He emphasized his health did not deter the 31,500 mile trip and that more troops could be needed, contingent on General Westmoreland, with possible shifts by allies, while criticizing Nixon’s foreign policy critiques and noting no plans for political speeches before the election.
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Washington
Johnson
Manila
White House East Room
Viet Nam
William C. Westmoreland
U.S
Westmoreland
Saigon
Russia
Red China
Soviet Union
Richard M. Nixson
Nixon
United States
Biddeford Man To Be Part Of Capsule Recovery Unit
Biddeford native SFM3 Charles Conklin will join a three man Navy Underwater Demolition Team on Gemini 12 recovery duties in the Caribbean. The Biddeford High School graduate, 22, leaves Boston this weekend aboard the USS Wasp for the recovery area where frogmen attach a flotation collar to the capsule and help astronauts into life rafts before the capsule is hauled aboard the carrier. Lt. Dennis Bowman of Portland also joins the first recovery team.
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Biddeford
Saco
Caribbean Sea
Boston
U.S.S. Wasp
Navy
Conklin
Maine
J.G. Dennis Bowman
Portland
Gemini
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Raymond Gagne
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Kennebunk, Maine
RCA Victor
General Electric
Quis
Jewelers
See
Main Street
Richard’s
Sens
Ed's Grove Junction
Jos. T. Letellier & Sons
MEMCO
Parlin Mfg
SAPP
Pool Street
Royal R. Chretien
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Ken
Pine Point
Charles Conklin
Old Orchard Beach
Nicholas W. Danton
York County Vocational
University of Maine
Maine Recreation Development Authority
Biddeford High
Maine Maritime Academy
USNR
Navy League
York County
Democrats
Democrat Party
500” Club
Theodore
Ted
Theodore Truman
Nadeau
Democratic
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WRR Gen
Fea. Corp
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Maine Linoleum Co
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Alfred
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