Marine killed at Evacuation Port in Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo AP Dominican snipers killed a U S marine at the Haina evacuation port nine miles west of here. Three U S paratroopers were wounded in the capital as sniper groups infiltrated by land and sea. U S forces in the Dominican Republic numbered 21 800, up about 2 500. A military civilian ruling body named General Antonio Imbert Barrera president.
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Here
U.S
Washington
Defense Department
Dominican Republic
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Antonio Imbert
Barrerra
Imbert
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Toledo mix up leads Waldruff band concert mix up
The Waldruff high school band from Peoria Ill was scheduled to perform at a Toledo Iowa school after Pat Mullen's call to officials at the Iowa Juvenile home. The plan unraveled when Mullen later said the band was in Toledo Ohio, 500 miles away, forcing cancellation of the Friday concert for 250 attendees.
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Toledo
Iowa
Ohio
Waldruff
Peoria
Ill
Pat Mullen
Mullen
Towa
Quick Thinking Daughter Saves Father from Fire
In Cedar Rapids a 47-year-old man survived a mattress fire started by a lit cigarette. His daughter Lory nine and neighbor Dorothy Von Stein 41 helped rescue him from the smoke filled home on Ninth Street SE. Firefighters assisted with oxygen after freeing him and his wife.
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Cedar Rapids
Woodrow Johnson
Nineteenth Street
Lory
Dorothy von Stein
Town City
Steven
von Stein
Seven still missing after Mackinaw City ship collision
Boats and planes hunted for survivors of the Friday freighter crash in the Straits of Mackinac. Rescue workers believed the seven missing seamen had perished. Three men were confirmed dead.
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Mackinaw City
Mich
Straits of Mackinac
Salinger to Wed French Writer Nicole Gillman in Paris
Pierre Salinger announced plans to marry Nicole Gillman, a 26 year old French feature writer for Realize, in Paris this summer. The 39 year old former presidential press secretary and California senator met Gillman in 1960 when she interviewed him. the couple had denied engagement rumors earlier.
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London
UPN
Pierre Salinger
California
Kennedy
Salinger
Miss Gillman
Planes Hit Red North in Heavy North Vietnam Air Blitz
More than 240 U S air force and navy planes attacked targets in North Vietnam in the heaviest incident to date. Two Navy Crusaders were downed by anti aircraft fire. one pilot rescued at sea. Marines face casualties near Da Nang and Le My village as Viet Cong fire and mines injure Americans amid psychological warfare efforts.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Kommunist
Vinh
Hanoi
U.S
Two Soviet Officials Expelled From Canada Over Espionage
Canada expelled two Soviet embassy officials, A. E. Bytchkov of the commercial section and V. N. Poluchkin, a chancery clerk, for espionage. They paid thousands of dollars to a government employee and a naturalized Canadian to obtain technical data. RCMP says they thwarted the approach before any damage occurred.
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Ottawa
Canada
Foreign Office
A. E. Bytchkov
V. N. Poluchkin
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Demonstrators Halt Columbia Naval Reserve Awards Ceremony
In New York some 200 antiwar demonstrators halted the Columbia university naval reserve unit awards ceremony by staging a stand-in. In Berlin East German and Soviet troops joined for a parade marking the 20th anniversary of Nazi defeat, but no new military hardware was shown.
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Columbia University
Naval Reserve
Training Corps
Berlin
Crest Reaches St Louis Area
The Mississippi River's high water reached the St Louis area on Saturday, easing from an all time record flood but remaining dangerously high and verging on flood stage with related concerns in the East St Louis region.
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Crest
St. Louis
East ST. Louis
Firings Reported Across Widely Separated India Pakistan Border
New Delhi AP reports gunfire Saturday across the India Pakistan border in several distant sectors. No details on casualties or exact locations were provided. Security forces were on alert as tensions remained high along the frontier.
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New Delhi
India-Pakistan
Yank Seeks Brother in Jungle Captured by Viet Cong
Donald Dawson 25 a merchant marine officer from Costa Mesa California is a prisoner of the Viet Cong in communist territory while searching jungles for his brother U S Army Lt Daniel Dawson 27 shot down months ago His Vietnamese interpreter Collette Embarger 21 and priest Father Doan accompanied him to a jungle rendezvous but were reportedly arrested The sister of Embarger and US officials urged action but a general Saigon said military steps could risk their lives The Dawsons are a family with four children and a wife in Costa Mesa awaiting news
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Donald Dawson
Dawson
U. S. Army
Daniel Dawson
Daniel
Donald
Costa Mesa
Calif
Collette Embarger
Miss Embarper
Coslette
Mr. Dawson
U. S
Heavy Rain Deluges Estherville Tops Iowa Totals
The Associated Press reports over three inches of rain fell in western Iowa towns overnight with Estherville recording 3.25 inches and Osceola 2.58 inches. Davenport saw gusts to 48 mph and a half inch of rain in 15 minutes amid thunderstorms. Weather officials forecast further showers and warm highs in the 80s through the weekend.
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Prospect
Estherville
Osceola
Ida Grove
Sac City
Glenwood
Spencer
Sioux City
Davenport
Council Bluffs
Carroll
Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Mason City
G R Man Killed in Motorcycle Mishap Near Anamosa
Frank Anthony Schatz, 22, of Cedar Rapids, died when his motorcycle left Highway 151 three miles southwest of Anamosa and struck a utility pole. Passenger Elvin Clifford Mastain, 22, of Central City, is hospitalized in Cedar Rapids with a broken leg and injuries. Schatz had worked at W. Truss Co. of Marion and was born in Bismarck, North Dakota.
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Gazette
Anamosa
Frank Anthony Schatz
Briarwood Street
Cedar Rapids
Highway 15
Elvin Clifford Mastain
Central City
St. Luke’s Hospital
Monticello
Jones County
Schatz
W. Truss Co
Marion
Bismarck
N. D
Truman Marks 81st Birthday Observed in Kansas City
More than 160 friends gathered for a luncheon honoring former President Harry Truman on his 81st birthday in Kansas City. The anonymous sponsor, a local manufacturer, funded the tab for the annual event.
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Kansas City
Harry Truman
Zhukov Appears to Rousing Kremlin Audience
In Moscow a Kremlin crowd of about 6,000 applauded the wartime leaders Stalin and Georgi Zhukov at a V E day anniversary event. Brezhnev listed Allied figures and Mao’s Chinese forces, prompting applause despite a policy of historical objectivity.
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Kremlin
Russia
Josef Stalin
Georgi Zhukov
Zhukov
Stalin
Khrushchev
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
North Vietnam
U.S
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Japan
Mao Tze-tung
Mao
Jury still split in Alabama Klansman murder trial
Alabama Atty Gen Richmond Flowers says Col lie Wil kins will be tried again in the fall after a deadlocked jury failed to convict him in the killing of Viola Liuzzo. Two other Klansmen await trial, and all three face federal civil rights charges. An FBI plant witness implicated Wilkins, raising deterrence concerns for Klan members.
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Hayneville
Ala
Alabama Atty
Richmond Flowers
Rug
Collie Wilkins
Alabama
Flowers
Wilkins
Viola Liuzzo
Detroit
Eugene Thomas
William Eaton
FBI
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