MP's Chase Terrorists. Curfew Imposed Amid Viet Cong Attacks
American MPs pursued a terrorists' car near the Manor officers quarters but the assailants escaped. A 7 p.m. curfew for US service members was ordered in Saigon to curb Viet Cong activity, with raids in Laos and heavy fighting in the Mekong Delta. Rebels seized three Special Forces camps causing hostage fears.
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BOQ
Viet Cong National Liberation Front
Saigon
United States
Nerebborine
Laos
North Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
U.S
Pricade
Mekong
Delta
South Vietnam
U. S
Plei Djereng
Plei Mrong
Pleiku
Gianghia
Quang Duc
United Front For the Struggle of the Oppressed Peoples
FULKO
CIGARS TO CELEBRATE SPACE CENTER
Flight controllers who completed the Gemini 7 endurance flight lit cigars to mark the end. Flight Director Christopher C. Kraft was among the first to light, filling mission control with smoke. Navy ships involved in Gemini 7 recovery will dock at Jacksonville by December 23, agency officials said.
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Space Center
Houston
UPI
Christopher C. Kraft
Home For Holidays Space Center
Jacksonville
Fla
Space Agency
Pace
Borman-Lovell
United States
Cape Kennedy
Neil Armstrong
David Scott
Mission Control
Borman
Atlantic
J.G. Christopher O Bent
Los Angeles
Bent
Schirra
Stafford
One Is Killed In Train Crash Near Columbus
A Newark Central Railroad passenger train carrying 121 people struck a large earth moving vehicle at an unmarked crossing in Worthington Ohio. The operator of the earth mover was killed and about 30 aboard the train were injured, with at least two seriously. The crossing flagman was not at his post. Engineer Harold E. Conus, 62, of Cleveland, was among the seriously injured.
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Worthington, Ohio
UPT
Newark Central Railroad
Franklin County
Harold E. Conus
Cleveland
Vietnam Peace Talks Mystery Stirs Washington and Hanoi
Hanoi denied new peace hints as British Prime Minister Wilson met President Johnson in Washington. Observers question whether Hanoi seeks talks or is constrained by its Red Chinese backers, while denials and rumors pass between private hints and public rejection.
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Viet Nam
Hanoi
Harold Wilson
Washington
Johnson
Britain
U.S
Cochairman
Geneva
Southeast Asia
De Gaulle Leads First Round With Clear Margin Over Opponents
De Gaulle won 10,828,521 votes or 44.635 percent from 24,254,556 valid ballots while Mitterrand trailed with 7,694,005 votes or 31.740 percent. The result set a left versus right runoff with youth and republican power as factors, though Mitterrand faced an uphill race.
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Mitterrand
de Gaulle
France
Rhodesia oil supply framework amid sanctions
The United States backed Britain by urging American firms to join the Rhodesia boycott. The two nations will supply Zambia with oil via a special airlift, after Rhodesia violated Wilson's pledge against punishing Rhodesians for Smith government actions.
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Wilson
Gemini 7 ends historic 14 day spaceflight with splashdown
Gemini 7 concluded a record breaking mission as Borman and Lovell returned to the USS Wasp after 14 days aloft. Recovery crews aided the astronauts with medical checks and the crew prepared for post flight analysis and plant return to Cape Kennedy and McDonnell.
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Borman
Lovell
Weather notes for Brownsville and Texas regional outlook
In Brownsville the low dipped to 70 marking the warmest early morning reading. The U S Weather Bureau forecast pockets of rain or drizzle across Southeast Texas through Sunday while cool air should clear clouds over the northwest portion by Saturday night into Sunday.
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Brownsville
U.S. Weather Bureau
Texas
Soviet Cosmonette Valentina Tereshkova Orbits Space
Col. P L Belyayev notes Voskhod 2 last March as Russia keeps the record for the first woman in space. Valentina Tereshkova logged 70 hours 50 minutes aloft as the United States has yet to send a woman into orbit.
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P.L. Belyayev
Voskhod
United States
Valentina Tereshkova
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Chuck) Stucka
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McDonnell
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