More men needed to keep U S ahead in Vietnam
Military sources say the joint chiefs urged Secretary McNamara to approve General Westmoreland’s request for two combat divisions and supporting units by mid 1968. Administration delayed action citing partial mobilization and budget constraints, with experts doubting full deployment could occur without mobilization.
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Vietnam
General Westmoreland
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Forwa
25 Year Stay Possible in South Vietnam
Washington reports Henry Cabot Lodge, ex US ambassador in Saigon, urged that American troops could stay in South Vietnam for up to 25 years. He warned of a major military revolt within one to two years and said pacification has been the least successful war phase, though progress has improved. He praised Premier Ky and projected orderly elections, while citing rising government control of the population.
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Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge
Saigon
South Vietnam
West Germany
Korea
Premier Ky
Clarke
Marshal Ky
Msdge
Thieu Tops In Quiet Coup In Saigon Politics
In Saigon the military backed Thieu for president after a calm Army shift. Ky, ousted from the race, called for an impartial election advance. The Thieu Ky ticket leads among 18 candidates as civilian rule to be restored by September 3.
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Saigon
Armed Forces Council
Thieu-Ky
Thieu
Tshombe faces extradition to Congo
Former Congolese Prime Minister Tshombe, held for questioning in Algiers after a reported hijack flight, may be extradited to the Congo to face execution as a traitor for common law offences. Kinshasa sources say Diaka will press the case while diplomatic efforts seek details on other party members and the hijack incident.
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Algiers
Tshombe
Congo
Kinshasa
Diaka
Mediterranean
Algeria
Mr Tshombe
David Taylor
Trevor Coppleston
Ambush in Korea Leaves Soldiers Dead in DMZ
In the demilitarized zone 70 miles northeast of Seoul, seven South Korean soldiers were killed and five wounded in a North Korean ambush on Saturday. The Army said ten North Korean intruders were killed in separate encounters on Saturday, Sunday and today.
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Seoul
Word booze origin debate reported in Buenos Aires
A Buenos Aires reader declined to bet that booze was coined in Glassboro New Jersey by F C Booz during the 1840 campaign. Dr Robert Bole of Glassboro State College argued for the origin in America citing Oxford English Dictionary quotations stretching back to 1300, with reader K S challenging established facts.
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Glassboro
New Jersey
Johnson
Koaygin
Robert Bole
Glassboro State College
Philadelphia
F. C. Booz
Bole
Bose
Booze
Skelton, Spencer
Horace Walpole
Protest over expulsion of Kimberley Anglican bishop
AFRICA Protest over expulsion of the Anglican Bishop of Kimberley Edward Crowther from South Africa is denounced as intimidation. Johannesburg Finglish daily cites the action as authoritarian and warns that injustice persists while protests grow weaker. Crowther was ordered out and boarded a London flight, having resisted apartheid policies.
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Johannesburg
Sion
Kimberley
South Africa
Nuncio in Anglican cathedral interjected during service
A 70 year old man was removed from Coventry's Anglican Cathedral after shouting anti Catholic during Archbishop Cardinale's pulpit address. The Papal delegate spoke as part of Europe Week, first by a Papal envoy in a non Catholic UK cathedral since the Reformation. The intruder, Thomas Gillespie Manly, said he held holy orders 39 years and took part in Saturday's Protestant march, calling the service a betrayal of the Reformation.
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Hughn Cardinale
Europe
Britain
Thomas Gillespie Manly
East Tuddenham
Norfolk
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