U S Planes Bomb Buffer Area in South Vietnam
U S B52 raids from Guam hit suspected NVA troop concentrations in the central highlands and a Viet Cong headquarters. Detachments reported 469 sorties with claims of 466 Viet Cong targets destroyed or damaged. Marines faced heavy rains near Da Nang as clashes continued and a suicide bomber attack near Saigon wounded five. Six Vietnamese were killed in a Quang Tri movie house blast with 45 wounded.
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Guam
South Viet Nam
Central Highlands
Saigon
Cambodia
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
da Nang
U.S. 1St Cavalry
Quang Tri
Peru Quake Kills About 100. Hundreds Hurt in Lima Areas
About 100 people killed and around 1 000 injured as a major Peru earthquake struck near Lima. Reports cite 32 dead in Callao and heavy damage in Chorrillos Puente Piedra La Molina Huaura Haucho. President Belaunde Terry vows aid. epicenter off the coast north of Lima. 7.6 on the Richter scale.
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Callao
Lima
Chorrillos
Puente Piedra
la Molina
Haucho
Huaura
Barranca
Fernando Belaunde- Terry
National Geophysics Institute
Red Bloc Talks Begin on Vietocular Conference
Nine Communist states including Bulgaria Cuba and East Germany meet in Moscow to discuss Vietnam policy. They plan a recessed session by Wednesday and may watch a space launch at Baikonur with unclear details.
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Soviet Central Asia
Baikonur
Soviet Space Center
Bulgaria
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary
Mongolia
Poland
Romania
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Yale Professor Advocates Police Reform and Viet Nam Peace Talks
Yale professor Reich urges strict police safeguards and respect for rights, proposing rules on stops and searches. Goldberg frames Viet Nam settlement as political, calls for dialogue and adherence to 1954 Geneva principles amid U.N. debate with Roa urging end to Yankee imperialism.
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Goldberg
Assembly
United States
Viet Nam
High Court Stay Threatens New Haven Railroad Merger
The High Court stay endangers the New Haven bankruptcy and its merger prospects with Pennsylvania and New York Central. Trustees Joyce Smith and Kirk warned that delaying inclusion of the New Haven’s passenger and freight operations could derail plans to run rail lines piecemeal, despite support from New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island and a later Paris bank forecast of a coming boom.
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New York
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
ICC
Pennsylvania
New York Central
New Haven
Richard Joyce Smith
William J. Kirk
Veterans Reject Design for New War Memorial
Veterans oppose the proposed war memorial design unveiled at State and Main streets. Some groups regret contributing before viewing the plan. The meeting occurred at the Polish War Veterans hall on Beach Street.
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State
Main
Beach Street
Air Force to buy 99 F 4Es with built in Gatling gun
The Pentagon announced the F 4E Phantom will feature an internally mounted 20mm Gatling gun capable of 6,000 rounds per minute, in addition to bombs rockets and missiles. The F 4E also gets a miniaturized nose radar preserving the Sparrow missile while boosting fire control and thrust.
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Southeast Asia
Pentagon
Air Force
Navy
U.S
Robert F. Worley
Air Force Tactical Air Command
Viet Nam
Not killed in battle says Sitting Bull was innocent
The text asserts Sitting Bull was not killed in battle. It claims he opposed peace views with the white men and that police failed to arrest him, leading to his death as U.S. proposals neared Viet Nam.
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Reich
Yale
Sitting Bull
Arcome
Viet Nam
U.S
Congress Agrees on Compromise Funding for Education and Aid
A conference committee sped a compromise bill authorizing 6 billion dollars for elementary and secondary schools over two years while trimming other programs. The measure includes education funding, antipoverty limits, and a slum clearance plan with FHA-backed satellite development, plus a Food for Peace delay resolution and restricted shipments to certain nations.
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Commissioner of Education
House
Senate
Otto E. Passman
D-La
Johnson
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Congress
House-Senate
Viet Nam
Cuba
India
Molocco
Yugoslavia
Kresge Founding Tycoon Dies at 99
William S. Kresge, founder of the Kresge chain, dies at 99 after leading a growth from a single Detroit branch to 915 stores by 1929 and 306 stores at retirement in 1925. He survived by his widow and five children and will be remembered for expanding the company across the United States Canada and Puerto Rico. Funeral services are set for Mountainhome Pennsylvania with all Kresge stores to close Friday.
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Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
North
Goldberg
Raul Roa
U.S
Roa
Cuba
United States
Souvanna Phowa
Laos
Assembly
Cambodia
Arthur J. Goldberg
Hanoi
Manila
China
Peking
Puerto Rico
Latin America
Guantanamo
Panama
Janos Peter
J. G. McCory
Memphis
Tenn
Detroi
Kresge
Detroit
Canada
Employes Land
Anna Harvey
Doris Mercer
Clara K. Swaine
Mountainhome
Stanstey S
Howard C
Birmingham
Mich
Ruth) Nugent
New York City
Charles S
Catherine) Dewey
John W
Anne) Watling
Santa Barbara
Calif
Methodist Church
Montainhome
New Zealand Set To Greet LBJ
Johnson’s 17 day tour to Asia and the Pacific includes New Zealand Australia the Philippines Thailand Malaysia and South Korea. In New Zealand he visits Ohakea and Wellington while security conducts house to house checks amid assassination threats and a returning theater memory for the former Navy lieutenant commander.
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Australia
Johnson
Manila
New Zealand
Ohakea
Wellington
Tasman Sea
Autralia
Philippines
Thailand
Malaysia
South Korea
South Viet Nam
Canada
Mexico
Viet Nam
Honolulu
Tourism income in Belgrade rises on Viet Nam war shift
Yugoslavia projects $100 million higher foreign tourist receipts this year as New Zealanders join global tensions over Viet Nam. The piece contrasts Johnson's security bustle in Wellington with Australia and New Zealand crowds, notes taxi shortages, and outlines his New Zealand and Canberra itinerary amid anti Vietnam protests and Manila conference cautions.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Viet Nam
Johnson
Australia
New
U.S
Wellington
Johnsson
New Zealand
Auckland
Government House
Parliament House
N. Kirk
Holyoake
Ohakea
Canberra
Honolulu
Manila
Hanoi
Supreme Court Keeps Penn Central Merger in Limbo
Supreme Court delays the Penn Central merger as eight railroads seek a stay. The parties dispute the delay while the merger remains contingent on future judicial review. The ICC and several states back Penn Central. briefs and jurisdictional statements are due in coming months.
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Supreme Court
Penn-Central
Penn- Central
ICC
Mae
Nurses End Chicago Pay Strike at Cook County Hospital
About 350 practical nurses ended a sick-call boycott at Cook County Hospital after talks between the Cook County School of Nursing and the Licensed Practical Nurses Association produced a wage settlement. Most nurses will return to the 7 am shift, with terms not disclosed until all nurses are informed.
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Chicago
Cook County Hospital
Cook County Nursing School
Robert J. Mackie
Mackie
Licensed
Practical Nurses Association
Gladys Guyton
LPNA
Cook County School of Nursing
Nursing School Board
Cook County Board of Commissioners
Mammoth Hospital
United States
Mayor Laments Loss of 12 Firemen in City Inferno
New York mourns as 12 firefighters die in a Brooklyn and Manhattan blaze that started in a brownstone basement and spread to nearby buildings. Mayor Lindsay orders flags at half staff while fire crews battle remnants of a catastrophic collapse.
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Broadway
23Rd Street
New York City
Fire Department
Ritz Towers
John V. Lindsay
Alan
22Nd
Herbert Brown
Chikiwtn
Wonder Drug Store
East 23Rd Street
Manuel Fernandez
Fernandez
Bome
Johnsons NZ schedule outlines Wellington visit and Australia leg
President Johnson arrives at Ohakea airbase and meets Prime Minister Holyoake then attends a state dinner in Wellington. wreath laying and talks at Parliament House follow before a motorcade to Wellington airport and departure for Australia via Canberra arrival and reception by Holt and Casey.
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Ohakra
Keith J. Holyoake
Wellington
Governor General
Hall of Memories
Parliament House
Holyoake
Ohakea
Visfits Wilson Farm
Australia
Canberra
Harold Holt
Richard Casey
Government House
New Zealand
Kinsey to join D. C. Peace Corps Staff
Kinsey Jr., a Peace Corps volunteer acquitted of murdering his wife in Tanzania, will become a staff member at the corps headquarters in Washington, D.C., starting November 1. He had previously taught with his wife near Maswa and contends she died from a 20 foot fall during a picnic.
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Washington
UPJ
Bill Haywood Kinsey Jr
Peace Corps
Tanzania
Kinsey
N. C
Maswa
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Isles
Pago Pago
American Samoa
Hollyoake
Joze Briley
Baltimore and Ohio
Jersey Central
Chesapeake and Ohio
Norfolk and Western
Reading
Maryland
Erie-Lackawanna
Delware and Hudson
N.Y
Robert Lowery
Jinth Ritz Towers
Lowery
D. C. Peace Corps
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