Viet Cong Aims at Vietnam Election with Rising Attacks
South Vietnamese and U.S. forces report 98 Viet Cong killed in two clashes in the Mekong Delta and north of Saigon. One U.S. soldier died. eight Marines wounded by booby traps near Da Nang. Election security cited as a concern with Sept. 3 presidential vote.
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da Nangi
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Hanoi
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Slayings At Canadian Farm Leave Nine Dead
Royal Canadian Mounted Police hunted for a killer after a family massacre at the James Peterson farm near Shell Lake Saskatchewan. Seven children died along with the parents. a 4-year-old girl survived. Police reported no clear motive and searched with bloodhounds as a 250 man search team prepared to sweep the surrounding bush.
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Earl Callan
Calvin Lambert
Leoville
Brian Sawyer
Sawyer
W. J. Lange
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Lange
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Lambert
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Mary
Dorothy
Pearl
William
Colin
Larry
U Thant Sees Guinea Ivory Coast Reject Prisoner Exchange
U.N. Secretary-General U Thant says both Guinea and the Ivory Coast refused his proposal to swap political prisoners. Ivory Coast holds Guinean officials and a U.N. official with families. Guinea detains Ivory Coast officials, KLM staff, and 22 fishermen amid regional tensions.
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U Thant
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Marof Achkar
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Francois Kamona
KLM
All Iowa Fair closes after seven day run at Hawkeye Downs
Attendance totaled 125 834 up 8000 from last year and highest since 1963. The All Iowa Fair Horse Show marked the main attraction with western classes and a total grandstand attendance around 1400 for two shows. Rebecca Lynn Moore crowned Miss All Iowa Fair after a controversial pageant in the Teen Center.
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Hawkeye Downs
Rebecca Lynn Moore
Hillard D. Moore
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Miss Moore
Linda Wessale
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Jeannette Maureen ‘Gaumon
Second Street
Kathryn Lee ‘Orton
Wiley Boulevard
Lucy Ginkens
Marion
Missi Moore
Miss Wessale
Miss Gaumon
Teen Center
Des Moines
Record Drains Hit Over Five Hundred Million in Q2
The United States ran a large dollar drain in the April through June quarter, with seasonally adjusted figures showing a $513 million drain and unadjusted at $536 million. The six month total reached over a billion, the largest in more than two years, prompting Treasury review and potential new curbs.
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Months To Correct Army Error At Fort Bragg
Leslie E. Brown a Pennsylvania guard member was drafted by error and placed on a five month run of basic training as a clerk. Rep Richard Schweiker led a public push prompting Brown’s release from the army with Brown likely to be discharged this week. The mistake stemmed from a guard list of men who missed training sessions.
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Washington
Army Training Center
G O P Gains California Senate After Special Election
In San Francisco Republican Milton Marks won a special election to fill the seat left by the death of Eugene McAteer, defeating Democrat John Burton. Final tally Marks 106 407 Burton 100 736, leaving the chamber tied 20 20 with Lt. Gov. Finch as tiebreaker. Also mentions H H Kung death in New York.
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California
Senate
Milton Marks
Ronald Reagan
Marks
John Burton
Eugene McAteer
Burton
Robert Finch
Detroit officer says he shot in self defense at Algiers motel
Detroit Police Patrolman Ronald August testified at a pre trial hearing that he killed a youth with his shotgun at the Algiers motel during the July riot after the man allegedly grabbed the officer's gun. The statement described players lined up and pleas to spare lives.
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UPI
Elmer Reed
Ronald August
August
Algiers
Flooded Fairbanks Faces Large Evacuation Demand
Alaska Governor Hickel and Fairbanks Mayor Boucher described the disaster as surpassing the 1964 Good Friday quake. About 15,000 residents fled rising floodwaters nine feet deep as helicopters and river craft evacuated people and ferried in rations, medicine, and Red Cross personnel.
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Walter Hickel
Fairbanks
H. A. “Red” Boucher
Chena
Red Cross
Army
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Johnson
Nickel
Nenana
Tanana
Anchorage
Bethel
Nome
Income rise marks largest six month gain in J
The commerce department reported the biggest gain in personal income in six months rising $4.5 billion to a record annual rate of $627.1 billion. Wages and salaries increased $3 billion at an annual rate, driving the broad advance across the economy with farm income also improving after a prior decline.
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Commerce Ai Tment
Runoff Defeat Leaves Ruth Harvey Unsure of Challenge
Ruth Harvey 42, first Black woman in Virginia general assembly runoff history, trails George Anderson by over two to one after 68 precincts report 17 849 to 7 904 in Danville Pittsylvania district. Harvey had led a four way July 11 primary before runoff order.
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Virginia General Assembly
Ruth Harvey
Pittsylvania County
George Anderson
House of Delegates
Anderson
Miss Harvey
Cars Offer Five Year Guarantee Boost
The ad notes that some cars now come with a five year guarantee. The claim contrasts this with typical guarantees available to the average consumer and hints at longer protection than usual.
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