Seat-of-Pants Pilot Faces Mig Threat in Vietnam Air War
Navy Cmdr. Harold Marr recounts a high speed dogfight with four Soviet Migs over Hai Phong area. He says he downed one jet and winged another while his wingman Lt. Phil Vampatella supported from the Hancock carrier group in an F8 Crusader.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Navy
Harold Marr
Roseburg
Ore
Phil. Vampatella
Islip Terrace
N. Y
Hancock
Haiphong
Marr
Harold Mary
Qre
North Viet Nam
Moves Seek To Avoid Pact Split
Soviet leaders hold secret talks with at least three Eastern European foreign ministers to avert a possible split in the Warsaw Pact. Chou En-lai reportedly to visit Bucharest for talks on the Moscow Beijing ideological feud as Kosygin travels to Finland and Kadar to East Berlin.
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Moscow
Europe
Romania
Red China
Chou En-lai
Bucharest
Alexei Kosygin
Communist Party
Janos Kadar
Kosygin
Finland
Viet Nam
Kadar
East Berlin
Kosygin Begins Finnish Talks in Helsinki Visit
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin arrived in Helsinki and opened talks likely touching on Vietnam. He gave a banquet speech urging opposition to U S policy in Vietnam, while Finland sought to balance ties with Moscow and the United States during the five day visit led by President Urho Kekkonen.
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Helsinki
Finland
Alexei Kosygin
Finlana
Viet Nam
Kosygin
Soviet Union
U. S
Urho Kekkonen
Kekkonen
Rafael Paasio
Ahti Karjalainen
United States
Asia Pacific conference may endorse Viet Nam stance
U S and other powers expect some form of communique endorsement of the American position on Viet Nam at the Asian and Pacific conference opening in Seoul. Nine participants condemn Communist aggression in South Viet Nam, while Laos attends as an observer and will not sign the communique.
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New York Times
Seoul
South Korea
United States
Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Laos
Riots in Saigon Burn US and Viet Jeeps
In Saigon an unruly crowd of about 300 Buddhist led youths burned a U S military jeep and a Vietnamese jeep and attacked the occupants during the daytime protest.
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Andrew Borowiec
Saigon
Buddhist Institute
Riots in Saigon and Supreme Court police ruling
Rioters in Saigon battled police with tear gas and overturned Jeeps while monks led the protests. In Washington the Supreme Court limited police questioning of suspects in custody, detailing safeguards against self incrimination and requiring warnings and access to counsel.
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Fred P. Graham
New York Times
Washington
Supreme Court
Earl Warren
Ruby Legally Sane Jury Finds Ruby Legally Sane
A seven man five woman Dallas jury took ten minutes to declare Jack Ruby legally sane in a Texas sanity trial related to his 1963 murder conviction of Lee Harvey Oswald. The defense did not present witnesses or arguments.
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Dallas
Tex
Jack Ruby
Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Sol Dann
Detroit
Dann
U. S. Supreme Court
Texas Criminal
John Calshan
Paratroopers seize positions after air strike in central highlands
U S paratroopers of the 101st Airborne moved into zones previously held by North Vietnamese regulars in the central highlands after a B52 strike. They found 37 enemy dead and noted the bulk of the regiment had withdrawn. Two U S planes were reported missing. The operation Hawthorne targeted Kontum about 35 miles away. Intelligence linked the 8th North Vietnamese regiment to Laos and Cambodia with aims to reinforce the 24th regiment or seize Kontum.
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Robert Tackman
Saigon
U. S
Guam
101St Airborne Division
North
Viet Nam
Central Highlands
Kontum
Laos
Highlands
Cambodia
88Th
Dien Bien Phu
Kontum Highlands
South Vietam
Kontum City
Cop Hurt In Chicago As Puerto Ricans Clash
A policeman was injured by a brick and two Puerto Ricans were shot during a Monday night disturbance in a Puerto Rican neighborhood of Chicago. More than 1,000 people clashed, throwing bombs and shattering windows as helmeted police closed businesses and restored order by midnight.
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Chicago
Northwest Side
Rain Slows Marchers in Grenada Civil Rights Walk
In light rain a small group of civil rights marchers pressed down U S 57 while others sheltered. Trucks ferried 125 marchers back to Eid Dam as plans shifted from a 20 mile night trek toward Jackson. James Meredith had been wounded during a prior march and Aubry Norvell faced a hearing on pretrial release.
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Grenada
Miss
U.S. 57
Eid Dam
Jackson
U. S. 51
James H. Meredith
Hernando
Memphis
Meredith
Aubry James Norvell
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Jackie Buchanan
Birmingham
Ala
Giance
U.S
Gazette
Gazetteer
Warren
Tom Clark
John M. Harlan
Potter Stewart
Byron R. White
Harlan
White
Clark
da Nang
Hue
Nguyen Cao Ky
James Letherer
Saginaw
Mich
Oakland
Letherer
Ruby Legally Sane
Texas
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