Taylor Welcomes 101st Paratroopers to Viet Nam at Cam Ranh Bay
Gen Maxwell D Taylor, retiring ambassador, greets 3,700 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne at Cam Ranh Bay as they begin a new phase of the war. He notes their predecessors at Bastogne and Normandy, and mentions his son among the brigade officers. Westmoreland attends as the unit arrives to bolster security and base construction.
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Cam Ranh Bay
South Viet Nam
Maxwell D. Taylor
U.S
101St Airborne
101St
Taylor
Normandy
Bastogne
Saigon
South
Viet Nam
Thomas F. Tay- Inv
Washington, D.C
Henry Cabot Lodge
William C. Westmoreland
Barrier Leroy JL. Eltinge
Governors Endorse Viet Nam Policy After White House Meeting
Presidents notes and governors report support for Vietnam policy after a briefing with Johnson McNamara Rusk and Wheeler. Hatfield Scranton Rockefeller Reed Connally and Goldberg attended as Johnson vows more information and UN efforts while troop levels rise to 125000 and draft calls increase to 37000 monthly.
Contempt hearing unfolds in Bogalusa courtroom
Judge Christenberry criticized local police for siding with demonstrators after July picket incidents at a shopping center. He freed two officers on civil contempt while barring related actions against others, citing a core group resisting U.S. law. CORE targeted state police head and force but was denied.
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New
Christenberry
Bogalusa
Reuben Sumrall
Penton
Spiers
Knight
Doar
Washington Parish
United States
Monay
Robert Vertrees Adams
John Riley
Haynes Wascom
Tom Burbank
Dorman Crane
Adams
Col. Burbank
Set
Sumrall
Harber Ray Risner
Judge Christenberry
Escape Continues From Page One Amidrilings and Risk
The account describes a dangerous escape as the group, including Holzapfel and his wife, use a bicycle wheel axle pulley to descend a cable from a building near East Berlin. The wife is bruised but not seriously harmed. A pursuer, Heinz, crosses into East Berlin after dropping papers, while West Berlin patrols rush to the scene and hospitalize mother and son. The escape was aided by a nearly invisible cable setup that avoided guards until dawn when police circled the building.
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Guenler
Mo O
Heinz
East Berlin
West Berlin
Mother
Viet Nam peace talks urged by mutual consultation
The speaker thanks the president for praise of past efforts to shift the Viet Nam dispute from the battlefield to negotiation. He expresses determination to continue pursuing this path and to communicate further suggestions through Ambassador Goldberg if the president desires.
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Viet Nam
Goldberg
Southeast Asia
Plane Crash Near Aqualand Skypark Claims Two Couples
Charles County Sheriff Fran cis C. Garner said the plane struck nose down about a quarter mile beyond Aqualand Skypark after flying over the lighted strip at low altitude around 1 am. The crash occurred in a field about 300 feet from U S Route 301 and a half mile from the Potomac River toll bridge, roughly 50 miles south of Washington.
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Charles County
Francis C. Garner
Aqualand Skypark
Aqualand
Potomac River Toll Bridge
Washington
Viet Nam raid reports and allied losses in debris filled fronts
Viet Nam area missile sites were hit by 46 aircraft on Tuesday with one companion plane escaping. North Vietnamese claims of a casualty list included five F105s lost from ground fire and in-flight collision, with pilots killed in northeast Thailand. U.S. and allied actions included raids on Thanh Hoa power facilities and multiple sorties across South Vietnam. Casualties and captures were reported across several operations near Chu Lai Chuong Thien Tra Vinh and Kontum with various aircraft losses. Ambassador Taylor prepared for departure and mid August credentials for Henry Cabot Lodge as new ambassador with Westmoreland present.
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Thailand
Hanoi
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le van Phung
Health Ministry
Thanh Hoa
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da Nang
Kontum
Highlands
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William C. Westmoreland
Viet Nam
101St Airborne
Thomas F. Taylor
Ft. Campbell, Ky
Oakland
Calif
le Ray L. Eltinge
Pay hike proposed for military pay amid Senate push
Senators push a larger raise than the administrations 2 for 3 plan, aiming to lift rookie pay above 78 dollars monthly. Russell to convene a Senate committee to draft the bill, with increases projected for about 2.5 million service members and other uniformed Federal employees including the Public Health Service, Coast Guard, and Geodetic Survey. Former Army secretary Stevens urged a raise at least as large as proposed, while Air Force and Navy leaders view the hike as an interim measure to align with civilian wage growth.
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Senate
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Navy
Air Force
Marine Corps
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Coast Guard
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Robert T. Stevens
Eisenhower
Eugene M. Zuckert
Paul H. Nitze
Swedish quintuplets born in world second this week
A Swedish wife gave birth to quintuplets, the world's second such birth this week, but four died within hours. The mother, infertile after prior children, received a fertility hormone treatment similar to that used in New Zealand where Mrs Samuel Lawson gave birth to a boy and four girls eleven weeks premature.
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Falun
Sweden
Ray
New Zealand
Samuel Lawson
Uppsala
Gemzell
Hoffa Conspiracy Trial Ends in Hung Jury in Nashville
The Nashville Test Fleet conspiracy case ended with a hung jury on Hoffa related charges. An appeals court rejected the defense claim that the sole link witness was government planted, upholding ruling that Partin acted with a defendant’s invitation. The court found evidence of attempts to tamper with jurors by several participants.
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Tenn
Hoffa
Edward G. Partin
Teamsters
Baton Rouge
Partin
Living Costs In June Rise Tells Mixed Picture
The June report shows an average factory wage rising 50 cents a week to a record high of 97.35 after tax for a worker with three dependents. Purchasing power gains were wiped out by price gains. Food prices are expected to plateau by late summer, while major commodities stayed steady. Housing unchanged, clothing up slightly, transportation down. About 36,000 workers will receive hourly pay raises of 1 to 3.7 cents based on quarterly national index increases.
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Chase
Governors End Conference in Turmoil Over New Chairman
Nation's governors wrapped up the 57th annual meeting in Minneapolis with a dispute over the new chairman. John H. Reed of Maine won the post amid Republican protests that party pledges were violated. Reed’s backing for Johnson’s Viet Nam polices shaped support. Republicans had refused to endorse a nominee, backing John A. Love of Colorado or Mark O. Warfield of Oregon, but Reed was elected after a rolling vote amid party tensions. The episode highlighted a long-standing Democratic-Republican chair rotation and regional considerations.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Washington
Viet Nam
John H. Reed
Maine
Republiican
Reed
Johnson
Grant Sawyer
Nevada
John A. Love
Colorado
Mark O. Warfield
Oregon
Love
Gove
Association of Republican Goveernors
Robert E. Smylie
Idaeho
Edmund G. Brown
California
John W. King
New Jampshire
King
Couns
Mars Craters Shaped by Cosmic Fireballs Revealed
White House ceremony honors top Mariner project directors with President Johnson present. NASA news conference expands on 18 newly released photographs taken July 14 showing 70 craters within a small area, suggesting Earth’s uniqueness in the solar system and hinting at up to 10,000 total craters on Mars. A mysterious bright triangle of peaks topped by frost is also noted.
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White House
Project
Johnson
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mariner
Planet Earth
Solar System
Solar
Space Agency
Senate Rejects Poll Tax Language In Voting Bill
Civil rights leaders press for a poll tax ban but the Senate blocks its inclusion on constitutional doubts. House conferees yield after a week long dispute over the measure. A separate provision would exempt non English language schooling from literacy testing, widening voter eligibility for some Spanish speaking Puerto Ricans in New York City. A mother recalls a shooting incident and comments on the tense environment as authorities seek to clarify what happened to Andy.
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House
New York City
Andy
Litera- Williams
Voter proxy violence shocks Americus as suspects held
Negro leaders call 24 hour pause after a shooting that killed a white youth at a courthouse vigil. Police say two Americus men, Lamar Mopkins and Eddie Will, are charged with first degree murder. two officers chased a fleeing car. A Marine recruit, Andrew Whatley Jr., 21, was killed in the same context as racial demonstrations persist.
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Ross M. Chambliss
Sumter County
Eddie Will
Lamar
Charlie Lee Mopkins
Americus
Justice of the Peace
J. W. Southwell
Emeritus Cleveland Rees
Superior Court
Andrew Aultman Whatley Jr
Lyda Whatley
Tepoti
Cnet
Chambliss
Hopkins Iy
Whatley
Marine Corps
Hosea Wil
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