Huge Safety Net Of Men And Machines Awaits Return
A vast helper force surrounds Gemini 4 with 15 600 people 58 airplanes and 22 ships ready to aid the astronauts. Recovery centers on the carrier Wasp in the Atlantic with pararescue teams nurses doctors and technicians poised worldwide for a watery return in about 98 hours.
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U.S
Houston
Tex
American
Earth
Department of Defense
Wasp
Atlantic Ocean
Is Weather Office
Gemini
Astronaus
James AL McDivitt
Edward H White II
Bermda
Alantic
Adm
Ben William Sarver
Minnesota
North Dakota
Naval Academy
Pacific
Pararescuemen
Air Rescue Service
Azores
Canaries
Pago Pago
Johnnesburg
Mauritius
Singapore
Lima
Rio de Janeiro
Asencion
Bermuda
Riots In Saigon As Catholics Clash With Police
Crowds of Roman Catholics in Saigon demonstrated against the government as police fired in the air and a patrol car was overturned and burned. Officials warned of possible new violence. Catholics accuse the government of bias toward Buddhists and neutrality in the war.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Phan Viny Quat
Rebels Seek Restoration of 1963 Constitution in Interim Plan
Mediators including the papal nuncio and US and OAS representatives met with rebels who reiterated their aim to restore the 1963 constitution before elections. At rebel headquarters President Caamuno and top ministers, along with the armed forces chief, outlined plans for an interim government and a 60 day window for elections or a plebiscite after installation.
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Dors Ramon de Clairmont Duen
el Salvador
Ilmar
Penha Marinho
Brazil
Msgr
Emanuele Clarizio
United States
OAS
High Command
Caamuno
Hector Avisty
Jottin Cury
Armed Forces
Manuel Ramon Montes Arache
Tragic Virginia wrecks raise toll. several killed
A string of Virginia crashes leaves four dead and others injured. Henry Spradlin, 24, his wife Mary, 21, and children Danny Thompson, 4, plus Patricia, 14, die in a Rockingham County tractor collision near Harrisonburg. Harrisonburg farmer Ralph Downey, 21, and Clyde Presley, 21, also among the dead, boosting the year toll to 406. In Blowing Rock, Roy Widner, 17, of Abingdon, is killed when his car hits a soft drink stand on U.S. 221 321. Two other riders, Kenneth Adams and Dewey Morrison, are injured and hospitalized.
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Henry R. Spradlin
Mary
Danny Thompson
Patricia
Ralph Downey
Clyde Presley
Virginia
Harrisonburg
David Abraham Phillips
Ay Broadway
Rockingham County
Blowing Rock
N.C
Abingdon
W. J. Teem
Roy Widner
U.S. 221
Kenneth L. Adams
Nowack
Del
Dewey Lee Morrison
Holston, Va
Blowing Rack Hospital
Adamis
Pilot recounts crash landing and rescue near Crystal River
The pilot describes choosing to ditch in water at dusk with gear up, radioing an emergency and mayday to Gainesville. After the impact the plane sank slightly, they slept aboard a suitcase and later woke as a crab fisherman found them three miles offshore. Coast Guard helicopters arrived soon after.
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FAA
Gainesville
Crystal River
Matt
EF. D. Fletcher
French
Coast Guard
Sudan Faithful to Tues Constituent Assembly Start
Sudan's five member Supreme Council keeps Khalifa in place until Tuesday when the first constituent assembly meets. Umma Nationa and National United brace to form a coalition with the Moslem Brothers after a February bid to widen leftist and Communist seats faltered. The 18 member cabinet, which resigned Friday, includes three seats for both Umma party and National United and one for the Moslem Brothers, with Communists kept in the cabinet and fewer other leftists.
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Supreme Council
Sudan
Khalifa
Umma — Nationa
National United
Ithree
Urama Party
Astronauts Live Four Days in Front Seat of Small Car
Houston AP reports James McDivitt and Edward White endure a 97 hour earth orbit in a Gemini craft. They eat sleep and exercise in a tightly fitted cockpit while NASA notes the spacecraft stability and long mission potential. The crew remain sealed in customized seats as officials discuss costs and future Apollo plans.
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Houston
Tex
James McDivitt
Edward White
Normen Shyken
McNonnell Aircraft Corp
Gemini
Jim
John Hodge
Manned Spacecraft Center Flight
Hodge
Tobacco Supports Set At 57.7 Cents Average
Washington AP reports 1965 flue cured tobacco price supports set at an average 57.7 cents per pound, up about one percent from last year. Emphasis will favor higher quality leaf with higher grades supported, while certain poor grades and unsafe orders receive no support.
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Washington (Ap
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Department
USDA
Gemini 4 wives relay capsule duties amid spaceflight
Wives of Gemini 4 astronauts took over capsule communicators duties relaying flight officials instructions. The crew faced 18 hours of radio silence and rest periods while observers noted a mystery object sighted above the United States. The mission marked 48 hours of flight on its 32nd orbit as Pegasus was suspected. the second stage booster reentered and burned.
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Bonnie Lynn
North American
White
Pat White
Roger
Pat McDivitt
Gemini Mission Control Center
Eddie White
United States
Pegasus
MacDivitt
Air Force
L. Gordon Cooper
Houston
Virgil T. Grissom
McDivitt
Grissom
McDivith
Submarines join Western Polaris force in Pacific move
Four submarines Daniel Boone Tecumseh Ulysses S. Grant and Stonewall Jackson deployed to the western Pacific. Two more subs Kamehameha and Mariano G Vallejo expected to join later, shifting attack carrier duties from strategic to tactical bombing of North Vietnamese targets under Joint Chiefs command.
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Red China
Daniel Boone
Tecumseh
Ulysses S. Grant
Stonewall Jackson
Polaris
Kamehameha Land
Mariano G. Vallejo
7Th Fleet
Western Pacific
Russia
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Washington
Astronauts Track Earth Quietly as Gemini 4 Spends Days in Space
Grissom and McDivitt discuss distance estimates while Pegasus and the second stage drift in space. They chart landmarks, stars, and cloud patterns for navigation as Gemini 4 nears splashdown in the Atlantic. Mission Control reports calories and water intake for McDivitt and White after 48 hours aloft.
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Grissom
McDivitt
Pegasus
Bermuda
Earth
Point Jiguera
Point Asnilla
Puerto Rico
el Dorado
Bogota
Colombia
Point Loma
San Diego
Calif
Lake Titicaca
Lake de Poppa
Bolivia
Blue Nile
White Nile
Africa
Mission Control Center
White
Governor Offers 25000 Reward In Deputy Moore Slaying
Louisiana Governor McKeithen announced a $25000 cash reward for information leading to arrests and conviction in the ambush killing of Washington Parish Deputy Sheriff O Neal Moore. He said names will be kept secret unless essential to prosecution and praised investigators.
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Bogalusa
John J. McKeithen
McKeithen
Washington Parish
O'Neal Moore
Louisiana
Moore
Hubert H. Humphrey
Tizens
Gemini 4 astronauts plan sleep schedule amid dehydration concerns
Audio from Gemini 4 shows Wives Grissom and McDivitt coordinating rest periods for 18 hours and checking hydration. McDivitt confirms plans to sleep five to six hours after finishing the T-9 experiment, while Mrs. McDivitt urges drinking water as medics note low intake.
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Grissom
Jim
McDivitt
Roger
Coast Guard detains Wakaship Maru near Adak in Pacific waters
Under the North Pacific salmon fisheries treaty a signatory nation can seize and detain vessels and crews sighted in closed waters. Rear Adm. George Synon reported three vessels 76 miles east of the line, two 28 miles east, and six from three to four miles east. The Wakaship Maru was intercepted about 125 miles southwest of Adak and not expected to reach the naval station until early Sunday.
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George Synon
Coast Guard District
Adak
Peter Rabbit Author Burgess Dies at 91 in Hampden Mass
Thornton W. Burgess creator of Peter Rabbit and Old Briar Patch tales died Saturday night at 91. He wrote about 15 000 stories for children, selling millions of copies and becoming a national institution. Born in Sandwich Massachusetts on Cape Cod, he began nightly bedtime stories for his son before submitting 14 tales leading to Old Mother West Wind in 1910.
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Hampden
Mass
Thornton W. Burgess
Peter Rabbit
Old Briar Patch
Burgess
Sandwich
Cape Cod
Chicago
Reddy Fox
Little, Brown and Co
Weather shift brings heavy rain across central plains
A storm dumped heavy rainfall across Kansas Nebraska Colorado and Iowa. Matfield Green Kansas recorded 7.78 inches while several areas saw around 5 inches. Neighboring Nebraska measured up to 9 inches near David City. Denver reported 2 2 3 inches as Iowa totals neared 2 inches Grinnell. Illinois saw 4 ½ inches in 18 minutes and highways across Kansas and Missouri closed from high water.
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Kansas
Matfield Green
Nebraska
David City
Leity
Colorado
Denver
Iowa
Grinnell
Quincy
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Ponchatoula
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Kale An
Thanh Hoa Friay
Shyken
McDonnell
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Wile
Epoch Jewelr Diamol
Deacons of
Defense Land Justice
Dorman Crowe
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
Crowe
James Farmer
Cade
Thomas Burebank
State Highway Patrol
FBI
Baton Rouge
Doyle Holliday
Holliday
Trust Department
Isi
American National
Renean
Nationa Bank and Trust Company
Danville
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
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