Napalm Mistake Hits U S Troops In Vietnam Battle
U S air force jets dropped napalm by error on American infantry near Saigon. First Division casualties included a battalion commander and two company leaders with seven reported dead and 20 plus wounded. Major General De Puy visited Saigon denying blame and noting Viet Cong losses at 53, with more casualties expected as evacuations continued.
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Lai Khe
Vietnam
Saigon
William de Puy
de Puy
First Division
Phu Lai
U. S
De Gaulle Speech Canceled Amid Djibouti Riots
In Djibouti on the Red Sea, police and troops fought angry crowds with clubs gas and grenades as a planned De Gaulle speech was canceled. Blood flowed as security forced the square clear. De Gaulle later spoke briefly to Somali officials about possible independence through democratic means.
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Djibouti
Territorial Assembly
France
de Gaulle
Two Young Cedar Rapids Residents Die in Motorcycle Crash
Two Cedar Rapids residents were killed Thursday evening in a motorcycle crash at the Crabapple bridge on highway 64 two miles west of Springville. Victims were Virgil W. Loomis 21 and Ramah Sue Brackett 17. Loomis driver attempted to pass a car when the cycle hit the bridge abutment. Loomis born May 30 1945 in Van Buren county had resided in Cedar Rapids five years and worked at Fox garage. He is survived by his mother Mrs. Charles D. Brown and stepfather, plus a brother Harold Loomis Jr and sister Alice. Services set for Monday at 1 30 p.m. at Turner chapel. Burial in Rogers Grove cemetery. Brackett born November 15 1948 in Chillicothe Missouri had lived in Cedar Rapids 16 years. (Continued)
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Cedar Rapids
Crabapple Bridge
Springville
Highway
Virgil W. Loomis
Third Street
Ramah Sue Brackett
Highway Patrol
Loomis
Fox Garage
van Buren County
Charles D. Brown
Harold Loomis, Jr
Alice
Turner Chapel
Donald T. Caspers
Rogers Grove Cemetery
Johnson Plea for Soviet Cooperation Against Nuclear Threat
President Johnson urged Soviet cooperation to reduce nuclear war risk and extended the appeal to global unity. He warned that peace requires gradual gains and restraint, citing Arco and Denver as settings for his messaging.
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Johnson
Arco, Idaho
Flirting Fiasco Ends in Unlikely Romance
A humorous tale follows a man who courts a girl he fears to marry and discovers he ends up marrying the girl who never flirted back. The reversal yields a lighthearted, small-town romance with a playful moral.
Titan 3 rocket explodes over Atlantic near Cape Kennedy
A Titan 3 rocket failed during a planned eight satellite mission. Officials cited a possible early shroud separation and an off course pitch leading to automatic destruct. Debris fell into the sea about 120 miles off Florida as the 12 story rocket valued at $20 million disintegrated.
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Cape Kennedy
Atlantic
Air Force
Florida
Air Force Arsenal
Defense Department
Washington
Saigon
Faith Hurricane Near Seeding Hope In Tropics
Miami reports Hurricane Faith moving toward a target area for seeding with silver iodide. Forecasters note a less than 50 percent chance the storm eye will cross into the region for cloud seeding as scientists seek a controlled tropical storm or milder impact. Separately in New York, stocks fell amid market jitters as a House vote on a housing bill proceeded and the Dow slipped.
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Miami
Faith
Leeward Islands
Tropics
New York
Lees
Johnson
Ward Islands
Dow Jones
Puerto Rico
Mortgage Fund Bill Advances to Johnson for Signature
Congress completed action Friday on legislation to make available funds for a mortgage program. The bill sets financing and regulatory steps, enabling the government to support housing loans and stabilize the mortgage market as part of broader 1966 fiscal measures.
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Johnson
Washington
UPI
Congress
Agreement On Housing In Chicago Delays Cicero March
Civil rights leaders led by Martin Luther King Jr reach open housing agreement with Mayor Daley and others in Chicago area. The march to Cicero is postponed to show good faith while demonstrations cease during implementation. National guard had been called to Cicero amid prior tensions.
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Chicago
Cicero
Martin Luther King
Illinois National Guard
King
Richard Daley
Ben Heineman
North Western Railroad
Amish School Plans Clash With Oelwein Monitors
Amish leader Borntreger challenges Oelwein board by hiring two teachers and Amish books for two schools. Principal Snively meets them at No. 1 as boards insist monitors and district supplied textbooks will be used when school opens.
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Hazleton
Dan Borntreger
Owen Snively
Sornteecer
Snively
Borntreger
Lavina Hirschberger
No. 2
Oelwein
Harold Hughes
Juanita Gamm
Arlington
Elda Strubhar
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George Wallace
Charlottesville
Ike
Eisenhower
Eisenhower College
Seneca Falls
N. Y
White House
By Denois Neel
C.R
Miss Brackett
Chillicothe
America
Denver
Des Moines
Moscow
Peking
Hanoi
Arco
Restraint
U.S
Russia
Soviet Union
Southeast Asia
Thana
We Ek
Ing
French Somaliland
Somali Republic
Sudan
Ethiopia
Yemen
Commission On Human Relations
Chicago Real Estate Board
Chicago Housing Authority
Cook County Department of Public Aid
Department of Urban Renewal
Vopyright
Titan
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