Marines Battle Large North Vietnamese Division Near Demilitarized Zone
U S marines fought through Thursday night against a major North Vietnamese division near the demilitarized zone. The clash involved the 324 B division with 8 000 to 10 000 men led by a noted mountain commander. US jets hit nine oil depots in the north as the battle pushed the enemy toll past 1 000 in eight days.
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Saigon
U.S
17Th Parallel Frontier
Laos
Marine Command
USS
U S
Washington
North Vietnam
Martial Law Sought as Cleveland Riots Enter Fourth Day
Cleveland confronts four days of violence with shootings looting and arson. Negro councilman M Morris Jackson urges Mayor Locher to seek martial law while National Guard patrols the riot zone. An uneasy calm settles in the Hough area as a man dies from gunfire reported by Samuel Winchester who said a white driver shot him.
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Cleveland
M. Morris Jackson
Ralph Locher
James Rhodes
Johnson
Jackson
Hough
Hough Negro
Samuel Winchester
Eric Dean
John Lindsay
Howard Leary
Lindsay
Society For the Prevention of
Deaney
Cau
Arnold Shepherd
Bertram Gardner
Harresso
Cleveland Community Relations Board
James Stanton
Stanton
Hope, Inc
Hough Area
Morse Seeks Federal Action to End Airline Strike
Senator Morse introduces a joint resolution authorizing the president to seek a federal court order to operate the struck airlines via a receiver for up to two years, pushing Congress for immediate action to curb the dispute.
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Washington
UPI
Morse
D-Ore
Congress
Johnson
Freeman Plans Major Iowa Speech During Midwest Tour
Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman will deliver a major address in Harlan Iowa as part of a Midwest tour that includes Nebraska Wisconsin Indiana and North Dakota. Rep John R Hansen says the Iowa talk will be significant to southwest Iowa and the Midwest. The trip features farm hearings church visits at Stanton the Wearin farm Hastings a watershed project near Macedonia and a Shelby county barbecue rally in Harlan. A TV crew from NBC will film the Iowa leg for nationwide airings.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Iowa
Midwest
John R. Hansen
iHarlan
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Indiana
North Dakota
Freeman
Stanton
Otha Wearin
Hastings
Macedonia
Shelby County Fairground
Harlan
Hansen
Iowa Agriculture
Kenneth Owen
Agriculture
National Broadcasting Co
Shelby County
Astronauts Return to Cape Kennedy After Space Flight
Gemini 10 crew John Young and Michael Collins landed at Cape Kennedy after a 70 hour 47 minute mission docking with an Agena satellite. They praised launch crews, described two spacewalks and a standup maneuver, and planned eight days of debriefings in Houston.
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Cape Kennedy
John Young
Michael Collins
Guadalcanal
Young
Columbus
Collins
Mike
Agena
Atlantic
Capel Kennedy
U.S
Yollins
Kenneth Beers
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
NATO defense college to move from Paris to Rome
The NATO defense college in Paris is closing its doors and relocating to Rome. The institution trained high officials from member nations in global strategy and defense study.
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Paris
NATO Defense College
Rome
French explorer braves Death Valley heat on 100 mile trek
Jean Pierre Marquant, 28, begins a 100 mile attempt across Death Valley in July heat. Park officials will not send a search party if he misses a checkpoint, offering only helicopter spotting if needed. A daily truck-supported resupply and water plan is in place.
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Death Valley
Calif
Jean Pierre Marquant
Marquant
Homer Leach
Edwards
George Air Bases
France and West Germany Agree on French Forces in Germany
In Bonn France and West Germany near agreement to keep 72,000 French soldiers and airmen in West Germany while Britain may withdraw some or all of its 60,000 Rhine troops. De Gaulle and Erhard discussed the 1954 treaty under which French forces stay with Bonn’s approval. Britain’s Callaghan warned Bonn to cover full currency costs of keeping Allied forces overseas. A joint commission will study the issue.
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Bonn
France
West Germany
Britain
Rhine
de Gaulle
Erhard
Germany
James Callaghan
NATO
Plane crash kills three Waterloo residents near Lorimor
A private plane crashed on a farm near Lorimor on Friday killing Les Young 39 pilot Charles Bunting farmer of near Waterloo and Bunting's son Jim 12. Jerry Lynn Bunting 17 was injured and taken to Methodist Hospital Des Moines in serious condition with head and pelvic injuries.
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Lorimor
Here
Waterloo Area
Les Young
Charles Bunting
Waterloo
Bunting
Jim
Methodist Hospital
Des Moines
Jerry Lynn Bunting
Young
Jim Bunting
Winterset
Iowa
Jerry King
Lorimet
Creston
Governor forgives fines for 14 Amish fathers in Iowa
Gov Harold Hughes announced remission of 4360 in fines against 14 Old Order Amish fathers in northeast Iowa for refusing state certified schooling. Court costs of 2943 remain to be paid. attorney W W Sindlinger said arrangements to cover them are being made. The move follows a three year dispute and aims at a peaceable solution to Amish schooling.
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Harold Hughes
Iowa
W. W. Sindlinger
Cedar Falls
Sindlinger
Abe J. Yoder
Daniel B. Beachy
Joni L. Petersbiem
Christ C. Raber
Henry Yoder
William [Schmucker
Harry Miller
Dan Kurtz
William E. Bontrager
Abner Schwartz
Andy J. Kauffman
Joe E. Bontrager
Adin G. Yutzy
Ben M. Borntreger
Oelwein
Buchanan County
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