Terrorist attack hits Saigon embassy violence and raids
Communist terrorists bombed the Nationalist Chinese Embassy in Saigon and gunned down two Chinese officials. One dead, 27 wounded as police detain a 20-year-old suspect. U S. and allied air strikes hit Haiphong and DMZ fronts as heavy fighting continues across South Vietnam.
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Saigon
Red
U.S
North Vietnam
Haiphong
Demilitarized Zone
South Vietnam
Charles T. Chung
Phung Ngoc Anh
Hanoi
Huong Vi
U.S. Air Force
Vietnam
William Momyer
Haiphong Mons
Pentagon unveils Nike X antimissile plan for U.S. defense
The Pentagon proposes a $5 billion Nike X antimissile system to defend every U.S. region with at least one battery of Sprint missiles. McNamara says focus is China as main threat, not a full-scale ABM, with sites planned along coasts and near Canada.
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Washington
Pentagon
United States
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Red China
McNamara
San Francisco
U.S
Midwest
Canada
Great Lakes
China
Soviet Union
Joint Chiefs of Staff
United Press International
Boston Bank To Manage Maine Retirement Fund
AUGUSTA AP Boston's merged Old Colony Trust Co First National Bank will manage the 125 million dollar Maine State Retirement System fund Trustees announced the arrangement marking the first time the fund has had professional management and oversight by a single bank manager
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Augusta
Boston
Old Colony Trust Co
First National Bank
Maine
Beulah Becomes Major Threat to Texas Coastline
Beulah the hurricane with 130 mph winds hunched toward the lower Texas coast. Warnings cover Corpus Christi Port Aransas Galveston and Padre Island evacuation and coast_guard reports rising winds and tides up to ten feet. The storm centers near 23.7N 95.7W about 190 miles southeast of Brownsville moving northward.
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Brownsville
Tex
Beulah
Rio Grande
Texas
Weather Bureau
Port Arkansas
Galveston
Padre Island
Corpus Christi
South Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Port Mansfield
Little Port
Caribbean
Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Coast Guard
South Padre Island
UN General Assembly Opens Amid Middle East Tensions
The United Nations General Assembly opens its regular session in New York with top focus on the Arab Israeli conflict and a Soviet backed Communist candidate Corneliu Manescu for assembly president. Delegates anticipate protracted debate as key issues include Israel withdrawal, Suez waterways, and other items on a 96 item agenda.
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United Nations
N.Y
General Assembly
Middle East
Assembly
Suez Canal
Corneliu Manescu
Romania
London
George Brown
Brown
Sinai Peninsula
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
China
U.N
South-West
Africa
Aid to revive fishing industry proposed in three year plan
Washington AP Edward M Kennedy and Edmund S Muskie proposed a $90 million three year program to aid the stagnant U S fishing industry. It would create a fisheries extension service, provide technology grants, offer a 50 percent vessel construction subsidy, study regulations, expand fish protein research, and form marketing agreements to counter seasonality and price volatility. Brooke called for marine sanctuary study and coastwise planning to curb habitat loss and water pollution from development.
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Washington
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Kennedy
Senate
Agriculture Extension Service
United States
Edward W. Brooke
Rmass
Brooke
Kennedy urges looser oil imports over heating fuel costs
Senator Kennedy and colleagues pressed Secretary Udall to ease No 2 heating oil import controls citing artificial shortages driving high prices for New England New York and East Coast markets. They noted Venezuelan imports and Middle East supply disruptions as factors with Interior Dept data showing about 7 000 barrels a day imported and 1 102 000 barrels used daily last year.
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Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
New England
New York
Kennedy
Harrison A. Williams Jr
D-N.j
Winston L. Prouty
R - Vt
George G. Aiken
R-Vt
Secretary of the Interior
Stewart L. Udall
Sens
John O. Pastore
Dr.i
William G. Hathaway
Maine
Udall
Aiken
New Jersey
East Coast
Prouty
Venezuela
Interior Department
Middle East
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Rusk
Detroit
Harry S. Ashmore
Center For the Study of Democratic Institutions
Ho Chi Minh
Ashmore
State Department
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Tempo Footwear
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Arundel Consolidated School
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Sam’s
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