Terrorist attacks escalate in Saigon amid US forces deaths
In Saigon another grenade attack wounds three American soldiers after a deadly theater bombing that killed two servicemen and wounded 51 others. A six member US Vietnam security council convened as US Military Police increase patrols and security at American sites. Marines and officers responded to the theater bomb and gunfire as bystanders ducked for cover.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Joint Security Council
Security Council
Nguyen Khanh
David G. Nes
U.S. Marine
Donald E. Koelper
Pasadena
Calif
Three-Year Sentence For Tazewell Hit And Run
Charles William Abner 29 of Pocahontas was sentenced to three years in the Virginia State Penitentiary for a hit and run that killed Elizabeth Ann White 21 of Abbs Valley. A manslaughter indictment in the same death remains, with trial not yet set.
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Pocahontas
Tazewell County
Abbs Valley
Virginia State Penitentiary
Richmond
Abner
Elizabeth Ann White
W. L. Sexton Jr
Viginia
Miss White
White
Bluefield
W. Va
West Virginia
Virginia
Ohio
Princeton
D. A. Altizer
Dorothy Mitchum
Circuit Court
Meany backs wheat boycott while seeking settlement
AFL CIO President George Meany endorsed a possible boycott of U S wheat shipments to the Soviet Union to press for at least half of the grain shipped on U S vessels. He said he would support measures including a boycott but would aid President Johnson in seeking a settlement and backed the 50 50 shipping demand.
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Miami Beach
Fla
George Meany
U. S
Soviet Union
Johnson
Meany
Afl-Cio
U.S
Executive Council
Maritime Trades Department
Thant
George W. Ball
Ball
Washington
Cyprus
High Court Rules On Equal Representation
The Supreme Court ruled that congressional districts must be drawn to provide equal representation for equal numbers of people as far as practicable. Justice Harlan dissented, warning the decision threatens many current House seats. the ruling, 6-2, emphasizes equal representation as the constitutional goal. The decision specifically calls for realignment of Georgia's districts.
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Washington
Supreme Court
John M. Harlan
High Tribunal
House of Representatives
Harlan
Tom C. Clark
Hugo L. Black
Cuse
Georgia
Water Pipe Cut by Commander at Guantanamo Bay
Rear Adm. John D. Bulkeley ordered the pipeline severed with acetylene torches inside the northeast main gate of the base. Water is now supplied by tanker while desalination plants are built over the next year at a cost of $10 million to replace the cut water line from the Yateras River.
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Guantanamo Naval Base
Cuba
Fidel Castro
U.S
Florida
Yateras River
Havana
John D. Bulkeley
Draft rejection indented for rehabilitation under military control
Selective Service director Lt. Gen. Hershey proposed inducting thousands of draft rejects for two years of military supervised rehabilitation and training. The plan would be funded from the war on poverty and use induction powers to convert 1-Y rejections into training, with paths to enlistment or reserve roles.
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Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Johnson
Hershey
Armed Services
Thant Proposes Peace Force Plan On Cyprus
U Thant revealed a memorandum proposing a peace force for Cyprus and a mediation framework. The plan seeks prior agreement on force composition, financing, and command and calls for international backing to avert NATO tensions amid renewed Cyprus clashes.
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Thant
Cyprus
Turkey
Greece
United States
Britain
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Mediterranean
Republic
Rubens Heads painting stolen from Brussels museum
A Rubens painting valued at about one million dollars was stolen from the Brussels Museum of Ancient Art in predawn hours. Thieves used a roof access, entered via skylight, and left other works untouched. The work, depicting four views of Negro heads, was government owned and not insured.
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Brussels
Belgium
Peter Paul Rubens
Brussels Museum
Europe
United States
Roberts-Jones
Anton van Dyck
Ruby defense seeks acquittal by insanity claim
In Dallas AP reports Jack Ruby moves to drop the case at the outset arguing he is mentally unfit to stand trial for killing Lee Harvey Oswald. The motion to acquit without a jury was denied as no jury selection began. Trial delayed until Tuesday after the funeral of former Dallas Mayor Robert L. Thornton.
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Dallas
Jack Ruby
Kennedy
Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Robert L. Thornton
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