Marines crush Communist regiment near Da Nang
U S Marines smashed a Communist regiment about 25 miles southwest of Da Nang, reporting 570 enemy killed and 73 Marines dead with 139 wounded after two days of heavy combat. The foe, once about 3,000 strong, slipped away north as two U S planes were downed. U S pilots claimed 74 MIGs shot down to date.
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Saigon
U.S
da Nang
Leatherneck
North Vietnam
North
Air Force
Hanoi
China
Guerrilla Attacks Repelled in Mekong Delta Calm Afterming
In the Mekong Delta Sunday night and Monday morning Communist guerrillas mounted a dozen small raids on isolated posts. US helicopter gunships and Puff the Magic Dragon transports supported local militiamen to repel the assaults. TheDestroyer Berkeley took shellfire offshore with no damage or casualties reported.
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Saigon
Mekong Delta
U.S
Berkeley
Demilitarized Zone
U.S. Military and Economic Aid Split in Middle East
Government records show Israel receiving 27.6 million in military aid, mostly tanks and jets, while Jordan, allied with Egypt and Syria, has 66 million in military support. Saudi Arabia gets 161.7 million. Egypt receives none. Over 20 years, U.S. peaceful aid to five Arab nations exceeds 2 billion, and Israel has 1.1 billion in peaceful aid.
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Israel
Jordan
Egypt
Syria
U.S
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Don Knotts Wins Fifth Emmy Award in 1967
Don Knotts collected his fifth Emmy as deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show. Lucille Ball won her first Emmy in 12 years, and The Monkees took outstanding comedy series. Mission: Impossible led drama with four statues. Death of a Salesman and Brigadoon claimed single-category wins. CRBS led overall with 17 Emmys. ABC 12. NBC 10. CBS 8.
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Hollywood
Don Knotts
Lucille Ball
Television Academy
NBC
Los Angeles
New York
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Andy Williams
Martin Landau
Bill Cosby
Cosby
Robert Culp
Barney Fife
Andy Griffith
Knotts
Emmies
Frances Bavier
Beas
Carl Reiner
Sid Caesar
CRBS
ABC
Laws
CBS
Official quits in protest over Vietnam policy
Roger Hilsman former assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs resigns from the Johnson administration claiming the United States adopted a military path to victory in Vietnam that Kennedy would have avoided. He says regular bombing began before Hanoi mass infiltration and that the move aimed to force Hanoi to its knees despite administration claims of retaliation.
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Washington
State Department
Johnson
Vietnam
John F. Kennedy
Roger Hilsman
North Vietnam
Hanoi
U N Cease Fire Debate Delays Israeli Arab Troop Withdrawals
At United Nations News desk a Security Council delay centers on a Indian backed cease fire proposal with parties urged to pull back to pre Gulf of Aqaba positions. U S and Soviet reps discuss wordings while Jordanian forces seize and then lose UN Jerusalem HQ.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N
Israel
Security Council
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
Gulf of Aqaba
U S 6th Fleet Warplanes Not Near Arab Israeli Conflict
Washington says all 6th Fleet warplanes are and have been hundreds of miles from the Arab Israeli conflict area. Reports claimed aircraft from the carriers attacked in or near the Middle East. The fleet, including the America and Saratoga, is concentrated in the eastern Mediterranean with two carriers, cruisers and submarines plus a Marine battalion afloat.
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Defense Department
U.S. 6Th Fleet
Pentagon
U.S
Middle East
6Th Fleet
Mediterranean
War brief from Cairo and U S neutrality stance
Israeli jets bombed Cairo area including near the airport but avoided downtown. Crowds rejoiced after news Egypt had joined the war with Israel. A spokesman said 73 Israeli planes were shot down and three Israeli jets were downed in the Cairo raids with pilots captured. The United States declared neutrality in the Middle East conflict and limited American travel to 14 countries including 13 Arab states and Israel.
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Egypt
Israel
High Command
Washington
United States
State Department
Ford accuses Johnson admin of mideast UN inaction
Rep. Gerald Ford, House Minority Leader, says the Johnson administration is asleep at the switch in the mideast and United Nations. He asserts the administration has failed to avert another crisis that could trigger World War III.
U Thant Seeks Cease Fire as Jerusalem Tension Surges
United Nations Secretary General U Thant told an emergency Security Council session that Jordanian forces seized the U N truce supervision HQ in Jerusalem and urged King Husain to withdraw. He reported Israeli planes strafed an Indian UNEF convoy, killing three soldiers, and UNEF contact was lost as withdrawals from Gaza and parts of Egypt continued.
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U.N. Truce Supervision Organization
Jerusalem
U.S
United Nations, N.Y
U Thant
Hussein
Thant
U.N. Security Council
Israel
U.N
U.N. Observer Organization
Government House
UNEF
Gaza
Egypt
White House urges United Nations cease fire in Middle East war
The White House called on all parties to back the UN Security Council in an immediate cease fire. Press secretary George Christian warned tragic consequences will follow if fighting does not stop at once and said the United States will devote all efforts to ending the conflict and starting peace efforts.
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Washington
White House
United Nations Security Council
Middle East
George Christian
Man seeks return home from Vietnam after enlistment bid
Ernest Estrada 22 wrote his mother in Los Angeles saying he is stranded in Saigon without means to return. He appealed to the U S consulate for help and hopes to sail home on a merchant ship within a week. Estrada tried to enlist in the United States but was barred due to a juvenile court record.
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Saigon
Ernest Estrada
Los Angeles
U.S
Estrada
Vietnam
David
Ernest
United States
Hernando Estrada
Egyptians claim Israeli assault zones near Gaza
Israeli headquarters announced tonight the capture of Khan Younis on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli column reportedly crossed the old border and moved into the area of a prior 1956 Sinai battle. Occupation of the sector appeared to cut off Egyptian forces in the northern Gaza, unless they break into Israel.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Gaza Strip
Peared
Gaza
Rioters Attack U S British Embassies In Tunis
Demonstrators set fire to the British Embassy in Tunis and damaged the U S Information Agency building. The American embassy shutters were broken by stones as offices of Trans World Airlines were set afire amid rioting tied to Middle East fighting.
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Tunis
Tunisia
U.s.information Agency
Trans World Airlines
Middle East
Bimbo the whale causes chaos at Palos Verdes park
During a regular show Bimbo the giant pilot whale charged a porthole shattering panes and spilling nearly a quarter million gallons from a four story tank. The whale suffered ten gashes but no serious injuries. Three spectators were treated for cuts at the hospital as staff moved other whales to quieter quarters.
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Bimbo
San Pedro Community Hospital
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