Marines in Night Push Suffer Heavy Losses
UPI reports 450 North Vietnamese killed in a daring night assault by U.S. Marines near Hiep Duc valley 30 miles south of Da Nang. Officials tally 174 Marine casualties including 54 dead as battalions press toward a headquarters complex. night actions continue with air strikes and helicopter lifts.
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Eugene Risher
Saigon
UPI
U.S
Virgil Kret
Fifth Marine Regiment
Hiep Duc
da Nang
Leatherneck
Kenneth Houghton
Arlington
Ly Ly River
Quang Tri
North Vietnam
New York Gets Landlord Writ
The city secures a writ restraining owners of rent controlled buildings from withholding essential services to tenants amid a strike. Signed Friday night by State Supreme Court Justice Saul Streit the order targets landlords whose apartment houses were struck May 26 by Building Service Employees union Local.
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New York
State Supreme Court
Saul Streit
Building Service
Army Medic Is Dismissed and Sentenced to Three Years
Army doctor Captain Howard Levy was dismissed from the service and sentenced to three years in prison for disloyalty and disobedience after refusing to train Viet Nam bound Green Beret medics. He faced a two-hour tribunal at Fort Jackson, with custody in handcuffs. The case involved disloyal statements and disobedience tied to Viet Nam policy and Green Beret operations. Pope Paul VI led mass marking the fourth anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s death.
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Fort Jackson
8.C
Howard Levy
Levy
Brooklyn
N.Y
Charles Morgan
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Earl Brown
Brown
Gines Perez
U.S
Vietnam
Army
Richard Shusterman
Jeoffrey Hancock
Shusterman
Green Beret
Vatican City
Paul VI
John XXIII
Melrose students claim top percentile test scores spark dispute
Memphis AP report says Melrose High School students scored to place in the nations top 1 percent on a standardized test for beginning Spanish. Superintendent J C Saimbert praises the scores while the board orders retesting. Students protest through the Memphis NAACP youth council alleging racial discrimination.
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Memphis
Melrose High School
Supt. J. C. Saimbert
Youth Council of
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Melrose
Stimbert
Iowa Senate Votes 34 to 12 on Amish School Exemption
DES MOINES AP Iowa senators approved a bill to exempt some Amish from state school laws. The 34 to 12 vote on the 145th day of the legislature sets up a house debate. The measure would allow a two year initial exemption with possible one year renewals if tests are passed. The proposal aims to resolve conflict over one room schools near Delwell and religious freedom versus universal public education.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Jasin
Andrew Frommelt
D-Dubuque
Senate
House
Harold Hughes
Delwell
State Board of Public Instruction
Donald McGill
D-Melrose
David Stanley
Muscatine
Adolph Elvers
D-Elkader
Eugene Hill
Newton
Hill
U S Denies Raid on Soviet Ship in Vietnam Port
Washington says no U S aircraft bombed or strafed the Soviet ship Turkestan as Moscow alleged. Tass reports a crewman Rybachuk died from injuries and another Zeta stev in critical condition after a raid near Haiphong, with five crew wounded and the ship damaged while docked at Cam Pha, Hanoi cargo suspected.
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Washington
Defense Department
U.S
Moscow
UPS
Cam Pha
Tass
Viet’nam
Turkestan
Rybachuk
Haiphong
Viktor Sokalov
Zetastev
Hanoi
Kremlin
Communist Party
Pravda
Oleg Ignatiev
Israel Presses Free Gulf Passage Amid Suez Crisis
Israel told the U N Security Council it will not accept interference with free and innocent passage through the Gulf of Aqaba and warned of a stand that could spark war. Moshe Dayan said Israelis would fight alone if necessary, and Wilson urged a calm, honorable settlement as tensions mount with Egypt and the blockade actions.
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U.N. Security Council
Gulf of Aqaba
Gideon Rafaels
Gulf
Danzig
Middle East
Tel Aviv
Moshe Dayan
Harold Wilson
Washington
Humphrey
Wilson
United Arab Republic
Nasser
TAI Ahram
Johnson
Egypt
Riad
U.A.R
Moscow
Istanbul
Bosporus
Mediterranean
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
Dyess
Port Said
Suez Canal
Tedder Dies at 76. Ike's Deputy WWII Commander passes
BANSTEAD England AP Royal Air Force Marshal Lord Tedder 76 who served in World War II as deputy supreme allied commander under General Eisenhower died Saturday in England.
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Banstead
England
Royal Air Force
Lord Tedder
Eisenhower
Riots in Grove Hall Blame Police and Race Tension
In Boston a night of looting and rock throwing in Grove Hall sparked by a welfare sit in led to 1,700 police deployed and 33 men and 11 women arrested. A 15 year old girl suffered a fractured skull amid the violence as authorities blamed snipers and a furniture store arson as major incidents. The Rev Virgil Wood described it as war on black people and urged a policy shift.
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Boston (Ap
Grove Hall
Boston
John Collins
Virgil Wood
Joseph Kilduff
Mothers For Adequate Welfare
James Breedan
Massachusetts Commission On Church and Race
City Commissioner of Welfare
FBI Clearance Of Shaw Denied
Attorney General Ramsey Clark said he erred in claiming the FBI cleared Clay Shaw in the Kennedy assassination. The Justice Department stated the FBI had not investigated Shaw, a retired businessman indicted in New Orleans on conspiring to assassinate Kennedy.
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Washington
Ramsey Clark
FBI
Clay Shaw
Kennedy
Justice Department
Shaw
New Orleans
Billie Sol Estes Sentenced to More Prison Time
Billie Sol Estes was sentenced in Tyler Texas to two to three more years in prison after pleading no contest to swindling charges. The term runs concurrently with a 15 year federal sentence for mail fraud. Estes built a multi million dollar agriculture empire in west Texas before facing state and federal charges.
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Tyler
Texas
UPI
Billie
Sol Estes
Sandstone
Minn
Estes
Yonkers fire death killer convicted in arson case
Thomas Ruppert, 18, was found guilty Friday of murder and arson in the Yonkers Jewish community center fire that killed nine children and three adults on December 20, 1965 in White Plains New York.
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White Plains
N. J
Thomas Ruppert
Yonkers Jewfish Community Center
Space Team Tests Tough on Mom
Space Team tests a difficult round on mother figure Dolly Darr, with a lighthearted yet competitive tone. The segment highlights Dolly Darr navigating a challenging space themed event, showcasing resilience and team spirit.
Pacolet boys endure 48 hours in home space test
In Pacolet South Carolina on June 2 1987 two brothers Randy 10 and Mark 8 portrayed astronauts in a 48 hour simulated space mission conducted in a downstairs bathroom Their survival kit included soft drinks eggs peanut butter sandwiches and canned spaghetti and applesauce They studied space a lot and kept notes during isolation while their father a personnel manager at Pacolet Mills was asked to photograph their exit Lorraine their mother said the test was timed between school let out and the neighborhood pool opening.
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Pacolet
S.C
Moon
Victor Park
Randy
Mark
Edwards
Pacolet Mills
Lorraine
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