Paris Leaders Call Back Workers Amid Large Student Rally
Tens of thousands of students protested against President de Gaulle in Paris urging support for strikers. Gasoline supplies normalized as Parisians fled the unrest for Pentecost weekend. The cabinet backed union settlements including wage rises and a June 23 30 election schedule for a new national assembly.
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Charles de Gaulle
France
de Gaulle
National Assembly
Gas and
National Students Union
Montparnasse
Seine
Yves Guena
Helen Keller Dies at 87 in Connecticut Home
Helen Keller, the blind and deaf author and advocate, died at her estate near Westport Connecticut after a mild heart attack. Born in Tuscumbia Alabama she graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904 and later aided countless disabled people while writing The Story of My Life and other works. Her life inspired The Miracle Worker and she received the Medal of Freedom among numerous honors.
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Westport
American Foundation of the Blind
Miss Keller
Radcliffe College
Conditions for Scorpion Survival Told
Admiral Thomas Moore outlined conditions that could allow crew members of the missing submarine USS Scorpion to survive for days. He said ample food and air-purification systems could sustain those aboard if the vessel remains intact in relatively shallow water. Navy search forces, including the rescue ship Kittywake and the Gato, plus salvage ships Preserver and Hoist, were sent to the Azores region about 360 miles south of San.
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Scorpion
Chief of Naval Operations
Adm
Thomas Moore
Navy
Kittiwake
Gato
Azores
Preserver
Irving Banks
San
Soviets Charge Mao With Pushing Nuclear War Risk
The Soviet Communist Party accuses Mao Tse tung of dragging the USSR and the United States toward a nuclear war over Vietnam. Kommunist says China seeks to protract the war and force global collision to expand its domination. It condemns Maoist aims and questions China’s regard for Vietnam and the international socialist movement.
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Moscow
Soviet Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Soviet Union
United States
Vietnam
Kommunist
Central Committee
China
Mao
Ussr
Socialists Walk Out of Italian Government Prompting Instability
The Socialist party left the government in Rome, signaling a five year center-left coalition's collapse. Premier Aldo Moro's resignation seemed likely, with a Christian Democrat minority government possible until a Socialist congress. The Socialists demand social and economic reforms in exchange for support.
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Rome
Socialist Party
Aldo Moro
Christian Democrats
Chamber of Deputies
McCarthy and Kennedy Clash Lightly on Key Issues
In a California televised event, Senators Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy found only minor policy differences as they debated domestic matters and the Vietnam dilemma. They criticized President Johnson's response to urban rioting and discussed coalition roles for communists in Saigon and steps to aid urban Negroes.
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San Francisco
Eugene McCarthy
Robert Kennedy
California
Johnson
Humphrey
Vietnam
White House
State Rusk
United States
South Vietnam
Kennedy
McCarthy
Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Last Cavalry Horse Chief Buried At Ft. Riley Memorial
The U S army bids farewell to Chief the last cavalry horse as 500 mourners including retired soldiers gather at Ft. Riley Kansas for a memorial and burial. Chief died May 24 at age 36 after 18 years in semi retirement. a brass plaque notes his service and status as the last cavalry mount.
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FT. Riley
Kan
U.S. Army Cavalry
American Legion
Col
Joseph Plassmeyer
Westphalia
Plassmeyer
Army
Herman Kuethe
Junction City
Frederick Remington
Three Heart Transplants Die On Same Day Worldwide
Three heart transplant patients died within hours of each other in Montreal New York and Richmond marking history’s worst day for transplant deaths. The 10:40 p.m. New York patient on the operating table was the 20th worldwide. Albert Murphy 58 died in Montreal 41 hours after receiving a heart, and Joseph Klett 54 died in Richmond one week after his operation. Six patients survived globally, with two in the United States and others in England France South Africa and South America. In Houston at St Luke’s, American patients were reported in good condition.
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New York
United States
Canada
Montreal
Richmond
New York Hospital
C. Walton Lillehei
Christiaan Barnard
Albert Murphy
Montreal Institute of Cardiology
Joseph Klett
Orange
Medical College of Virginia
England
France
South Africa
South America
St. Luke's Hospital
Houston
Shells Hit City as Toll Rises in Saigon Fighting
Saigon endured fresh shelling as Viet Cong attacked and civilians were killed and wounded. Allied forces reported heavy combat across the capital area, with Marinese lines forming north of Saigon and U S backed Viet fighters clearing guerrilla pockets in Cholon.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Tan Son Nhut Air Base
Cholon
Gia Dinh
Paris
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