Saigon Battle Deepens as North Viet Namese Enter City
In Saigon the July fighting escalated with North Vietnamese forces engaging South Vietnamese troops near Tan Son Nhut airport and inside the city. U.S. and South Vietnamese units pressed operations to cut off infiltrators while reporting enemy casualties and cautious advances around key districts.
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Saigon
Tan Son Nhut
U.S
South Vietnam
Hanoi
William Westmoreland
U.S. 199Th Light
Phu Tho
North Vietnam
Panhandle
Navy
Vinh
Hue
Paris
Luu Kim Cuong
The More Times You Win An Argument Chuckle
A concise humorous line notes that winning arguments repeatedly reduces one’s circle of friends. The quip implies social cost to frequent victory in debates.
Water Traps 30 Coal Miners in West Virginia Mine
In Richwood West Virginia surface crews reached 20 trapped miners by telephone and sent pumps to the scene after water burst from a wall as crews punched through. The state department of mines reported 10 men remained unaccounted.
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Richwood
W. Va
State Department of Miness
Hayden 90 to retire from Senate after term end
Senator Carl Hayden, 90, of Arizona, announces retirement at end of his term on January 2. He endorses administrative aide Roy Elson, 37, to succeed him. former Senator Barry Goldwater remains the only announced Republican candidate. Hayden notes his long service and influence as appropriations chair.
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Washington
Carl Hayden
Arizona
Congress
Roy Elson
Hayden
Senate
Barry Goldwater
Appropriations Committee
New Houston Transplant Returns at Heart-Stopping Pace
Surgeons in Houston report their second heart transplant in three days as James Cobb, 48, from Alexandria, La., receives the heart of a 15-year-old boy, while Rizor of Salinas Calif dies after his transplanted heart stops briefly. Donor Brannon, 15, from Conroe Texas, also contributes a kidney to Kaiser, Odessa Texas. Rizor’s death is blamed on oxygen shortage to his new heart.
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Houston
Joseph Rizor
Stanford
Calif
London
Frederick West
St. Luke’s Hospital
James Cobb
Cobb
Everett Thomas
Thomas
Rizer
Rizor
Salinas
Alexandria
William Brannon
Conroe
Texas
Ray
Brannon
William Kaiser
Odessa
Six Missing on Mountain Found on Mt Hood
Six Portland climbers missing on Mt Hood since Saturday were found Monday about 1100 feet below the peak. No condition report was available and rescue operations continued.
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Timberline Lodge
Ore
UPI
Portland
Mt. Hood
General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Wounded in Saigon Shootout
Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam police chief, was reported recovering satisfactorily from a Sunday bullet wound incurred while he led police against Viet Cong snipers near the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.
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Saigon
Nguyen Ngoc Loan
South Vietnam
U.S
Court Sets Rules for Tax Quiz
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 3 that federal tax agents must give in custody suspects the same warnings as police. The decision reverses Robert Mathis's federal tax conviction, with Justice Black delivering the majority opinion and Justices White Harlan and Stewart dissenting. Marshall did not participate.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Justice Black
Marshall
White
Harlan
Stewart
Robert Mathis
Florida
Mathis
Justice Department
Black
Picket Lines At Columbia Sur Scuffles
NEW YORK UPI Columbia University reopened classrooms after near two weeks while striking students formed picket lines and scuffled briefly with entering undergraduates. Faculty voted to cancel formal classes through May 15. instructors will decide how to use remaining time.
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New York
UPI
Columbia University
Iearly
Columbia College
University
Butler Library
Hamilton Hall
Butler
Belgian Premier-Designate Fails to Form Government
In Brussels Premier-Designate Leo Collard a Socialist asked King Baudouin to relieve him of the task of forming a new government The king agreed ending Collard’s attempt to assemble a ruling coalition in Belgium.
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Brussels
Belgium
Leo Collard
Baudouin
Gasoline Fire Kills Eight at Fort Worth Club
A disturbance with a waitress at an integrated Fort Worth nightclub ended in a blaze that killed eight people, seven of them Black. A witness says a man splashed gasoline inside the front door, then vanished. Six men and two women died from smoke inhalation while seeking a back exit. Police have a description but no name yet.
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Fort Worth
West Side
L. V. Lewils
House Committee Endorses 10 Billion Tax Hike Plan
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a spending ceiling yielding about 10 billion dollars in new taxes for a full year. The panel endorsed at least a four billion dollar cut compared with Johnson budget, sending a position to the Senate-House conference on a combined tax-economy measure.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Appropriations Committee
Johnson
Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
Senate-House
Mills
Congress
McCormack
Rancher Attacked by Two Grizzly Bears in Chilcotin Country
Connie King, 58, a rancher from northern British Columbia, was mauled after encountering two grizzlies about a mile from his ranch. He sought refuge in a tree, was knocked down, dragged himself back to the ranch, then flown to Vancouver hospital in fair condition in ICU.
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Vancouver
B.C
British Columbia
Chilcotin
Here
Connie King
King
Vancouver Hospital
Socialist Labor picks Henning Bremen for President
The Socialist Labor party selects 57 year old Henning Bremen a Cambridge Massachusetts machine assembler as its Presidential candidate in New York.
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New York
Socialist Labor Party
Henning Bremen
Cambridge, Mass
Ten Die in Argentine Tanker Explosion and Fire
An explosion and subsequent fire destroyed three Argentine tankers in La Plata. Unofficial reports indicate ten fatalities and twenty six injuries among the crew and workers.
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LA Plata
Argentina
Bible collection valued at over five million shown at Brandeis
A Bible collection valued at more than 5 million dollars opened Sunday at Brandeis University. The exhibit titled In Remembrance of Creation traces evolution of art and scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance Bibles.
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Waltham, Mass
Brandeis University
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