McCain Leaves Europe to Lead Pacific Forces
Admiral John McCain relinquishes command in Europe to head U S forces in the Pacific including Vietnam where his son is held prisoner. He notes indications that his son is alive and receives the Distinguished Service Medal from General Lemnitzer with Johnson’s regard.
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U.S
John McCain
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Vietnam
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Europe
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John Sydney McCain III
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U.S. Grant Sharp
Pearl Harbor
Lyman Lemnitzer
Johnson
Lemnitzer
Middle East
Cyprus
Negroes Propose 50Man Neighborhood Security Patrol
In Kansas City East 12th Street, residents propose a 50 member patrol to aid police after disturbances Wednesday night. Police report stoning of cars and two crowds dispersed with police dogs. six arrests including two burglaries. one man bitten and treated at hospital. city offers no action yet.
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Kansas City
East 12Th Street
Wayne Miner Court
General Hospital
Brown Says He Signed Reagan Recall Petition
Edmund G. Brown, former governor and current Los Angeles lawyer, acknowledged signing a recall petition for Ronald Reagan in Sacramento, though he lived outside the signing county. He said he would sign again if given the chance and criticized Reagan's national fundraising travel.
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Los Angeles
Ronald Reagan
Edmund G. Brown
Brown
California
Sacramento
Reagan
Hughes Avoids Testimony as Judge Dismisses Court Order
New York AP reports federal judge Dudley Bonsal declined ABCs bid to compel Howard Hughes to appear. Hughes, valued around 1 billion, has avoided public sighting for years while his Hughes Tool Co. pursues a 43 percent ABC stake for 148.8 million.
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Howard Hughes
ABC
Dudley B. Bonsal
American Broadcasting Co., Inc
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Hughes Tool Co
Bonsal
California
Gregson Bautzer
Chester C. Davis
Bautzer
David Hartfield, Jr
Survivor Girf Rae Anne Wood Reunites With Gifts After Crash
Six year old Rae Anne Wood, the sole survivor of a family air crash near Denver, smiles over money from an unknown admirer as her brothers and parents perished in the wreck. Her aunt from Sacramento says Rae Anne understands some loss but not full meaning yet as doctors plan to remove casts and she hopes to go home soon.
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Michaeline Sheridan
Sacramento
Calif
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Jamie
Stephen
Gered
Roger Wood
Colorado Mountain
Denver
Miss Sheridan
Carry Papers in Your Swim Suit
Washington reports advise swimmers heading for the Soviet Union to carry proper papers. Two Jersey City men plan a 20 hour Alaska to Little Diomede swim and may extend to Big Diomede in Soviet territory, for which passports with Soviet visas are required.
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State Department
Soviet Union
Jersey City
Nwt
Steven Friedland
Ben Schlossberg
Bering Strait
Alaska
Little Diomede Island
Little Diomede
U.S. Territory
Schlossberg
FBI Agents Ordered Not to Impersonate Newsmen
Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark said the FBI director ordered all agents to stop posing as news media in investigations. The directive follows complaints from NBC ABC and CBS after agents allegedly posed as television reporters during a June 17 draft card burning incident in Washington.
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New York
Ramsey Clark
FBI
Clark
Bill Small
CBS News
Washington
ABC News
Irv Chapman
Floods Threaten English West Country as Victims Growl
In Britain the flood zone's anger turns on tourists as villagers clash with sightseers. Police warn visitors while bridges collapse and only one road remains to Devon and Cornwall. The army airlift aids reach the scene as seven deaths are confirmed and Midlands rivers rise toward Leicester and Northampton.
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London
England
Somerset
Devon
Cornwall
Army
West Country
Midlands
Trent
Leicester
Northampton
King Case Witness In Police Custody
Charles Q. Stevens, the elusive witness in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. s assassination, is in police custody in Memphis. He was seen with officers in the central police headquarters corridors after dropping from sight last month and had testified he saw a man run from a rooming house bath where the fatal shot was fired. He had a public drunkenness charge dismissed on June 17 and has been in protective custody since.
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Memphis
A. D. King urges boycott and vote drive in St. Petersburg
The Rev. A. D. King calls an economic boycott and voter registration push to force rehiring of 190 sanitation workers, most of them Black, who were fired after a May walkout. He aims at wealthy white merchants and Negro officials not aiding the Black poor.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
A. D. King
King
Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church
Louisville
Catholics Elected to World Council Faith Commission
In Upsala Sweden the World Council of Churches general assembly unanimously elected nine Roman Catholic theologians to the Faith and Order Commission. Approved in advance by the Vatican they gain voice and vote on fundamental Christian faith deliberations. The move marks the first time Catholics join the council in full commission membership.
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Sweden
General Assembly of the
World Council of Churches
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Vatican
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